10 host cities around the world
The next edition of The Ocean Race will take place in 2012-2022 around the planet. We now know the 10 stopovers that will welcome the participants between each leg.
- Departure from Alicante
- Cape Verde
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Shenzhen, China
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Itajaí, Brazil
- Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Aarhus, Denmark
- The Hague, The Netherlands
- Arrival Genoa, Italy
Note that Cape Verde, Shenzhen and Genoa will be host cities for the first time. This 38?000 mile course has two fewer stops than the last race, but still offers two important stages in the Deep South.
"This new course is in keeping with our heritage as a race across all oceans, leaving the great Southern Hemisphere Capes to port and plunging into the Deep South as we approach the famous Cape Horn," explains Richard Brisius, the President of The Ocean Race.
A decisive path for new projects
This new edition has the particularity of race each other on two different types of boats . The Volvo Ocean 65 - one-designs specially designed for this round-the-world race - and IMOCA boats. Indeed, for increase the international dimension of 60-foot monohulls and for The Ocean Race to integrate French ocean racing, a national institution, the two organisations have decided to bring the two together.
"As we reintegrate the purely design and innovation aspects with the IMOCA class boats, validating the course is all the more important for our teams as the designers will be able to study the performance optimisations according to the conditions," he says says Johan Salén, General Manager of The Ocean Race.
