How to follow The Ocean Race 2022-23
, 2023-01-10 00:23:29,
After a long wait, The Ocean Race will start in January 2023. Here’s how to follow all the action as the fleets race around the world
It’s taken a long time to get the latest fully crewed around the world race off the ground, but finally The Ocean Race will start from Alicante on 15 January 2023 five years after the last race was run (then the Volvo Ocean Race). The total fleet is expected to comprise 11 boats in two classes, including the VO65 one-designs from the previous two events and a fleet of five fully crewed IMOCA 60s.
It has been a long, hard slog to get the event up and running again with the Covid 19 pandemic taking it’s toll, but there have been many other challenges too. A reflection of the difficulty in getting the race underway is the change from the initial promise of two fleets sailing around the world down to a single fleet of 5 IMOCA 60s taking on the full course whereas the VO65s will sail just the first and last two legs in what the organisers have called The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint Cup.
Despite this disappointing outcome, racing fans will be excited by the thought of seeing five fully-crewed IMOCA 60s racing around the world, particularly when they take on a mammoth Southern Ocean leg of 12,750 miles from Cape Town, South Africa, to Itajai, Brazil passing south of all three Great Capes.
The 5 fully crewed IMOCA 60s will make a full lap of the planet. Photo: Sailing Energy / The Ocean Race
How to follow The Ocean Race
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