Volvo Ocean Race – Newport
Checking out the hood …
10. May 2015
Electric Skateboarding
20. June 2015
An exiting day in Newport, Rhode Island watching the Volvo Ocean In-Port Race.
Only 4 hours drive from my new home, a trip I did delightfully. The race itself actually wasn’t the most exiting event of the day; reaching race with a lot less details and close ups compared to the live-stream. The action in the race village, the boats, the sailors made it worthwhile!
Seeing the boats, that I have seen so often on TV in real life sets things into perspective. We couldn’t get on-board a Volvo but Vestas had build a model – casted in the original mold with just different materials that one could get onto. Amazing boats. I was really surprised about the bunks – a lot more comfy than I envisioned; but poor on-board reporter. He really got one of the worst places in the boat; rather a cave where even a bear wouldn’t prefer to spent the wintertime.
Being there made me anxious to get back onto the water. If someone had asked, I would have joined any of the teams for the next leg to Lisbon. … who wouldn’t!
I got some pretty colorful shots from the sailors parade and around the area before race start. Unfortunately the sun died on us later the day, basically with start of the race.
Race Village
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- Volvo exhibition hall
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- VO 2015 Route
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- Massive bow sprits
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- In-Port Race Newport
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- All teams lined up
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- Volvo Digger Challenge
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- Volvo Digger Challenge
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- Fans supporting SCA
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- SCA campaigning for a cleaner world
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- Lego VO65
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- Lego VO65
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- Epic
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- Vestas Model
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- Scoreboard
Sailors Parade
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- Sailors’ Terrace
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- Delivering high class footage as we not it
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- Birdy bird
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- Leading the way to the boats
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- Live music …
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- Why is he looking at me like that?!
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- Announcing the teams
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- Team SCA
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- Sam Davis – Skipper
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- The youngest team – Alvimedica
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- Team MAPFRE
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- Team Brunel with Skipper Bouwe Bekking
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- Team Dongfeng with Skipper Charles Chaudrelier
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- Dongfeng – bringing sailing to China
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- Overall leader – Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing
Getting Ready To Race
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- Team Abu Dhabi
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- SCA first to depart
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- Volvo Ocean Race Banners
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- Team Brunel – last minute preparations
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- Team Brunel – last minute preparations
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- Look at those fenders
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- The Home Team
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- Taking the banners down
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- Hooking up the main
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- Alivmedica on its way
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- Nice camera dude, almost as big as mine 😉
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- Brunel on its way
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- Dongfeng on its way
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- Abu Dhabi on its way
In-Port Race
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- Reaching conditions, no up-wind leg
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- 5 minutes to start
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- Fly by
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- Abu Dhabi overtaking Brunel
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- About 11.000 spectators
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- Left, right?! I’m confused 😉
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- Pre-start phase, the code-zero will be the only foresail used in the race
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- MAPFRE secured their lead start through the entire race
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- Brunel in bad air of SCA
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- Against the incoming tide
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- Reaching
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- Reaching … just the other direction
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- Reaching … just the other direction
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- Reaching … just the other direction
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- Two contenders
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- Payoff …
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- Jibing
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- Concentration!
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- SCA still ahead of Abu Dhabi
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- Taking around the windward buoy … bold move
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- Jibing
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- Last leg
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- Another contender trying to sneak onto the race course
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- And the winner is …
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- … not him
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- Buoy back to base …
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- MAPFRE 1st!
Teams preparing their boats for Lisbon
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- Checking … something
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- Loading the boat
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- Drinks and suits
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- … for the girls
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- Alvimedica cockpit
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- Preparing for the leg to Lisbon
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- Preparing for the leg to Lisbon
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- Preparing for the leg to Lisbon
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- Cloth for the ladies
Fair winds!
