Volvo Ocean Race Auckland Stopover News 21 - The next generation?
by VOR Auckland Stopover on 16 Mar 2012
Volvo Ocean Racers back in the water at the Viaduct ready for In Port Racing Richard Gladwell
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Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race finished on Saturday night, and the Race Village is open in the Viaduct.
The Global Party is underway with twelve hours of entertainment every day from 9am to 9pm. Today's line up includes five live bands as well as race highlights and action on the big screens. Then there's the Volvo Experience with the Grinding Challenge, the Race simulator and Air Balls on water plus movies in the 3D cinema and the Dome. And it's all free
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Issue 21
14 March 2012
Five of the yachts are now back in the water - just Team Sanya remains
hauled-out and is due to return to the water Thursday morning, ready for the
practice race.
Read the latest Volvo Ocean Race news here
Thursday is Brazil day at the Global Party. Check our website for full details of the
day's entertainment. See you there!
The 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race
The Race features nine Legs with Stopovers in Cape Town (South Africa), Abu
Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Sanya (China), Auckland (New Zealand), Itajai
(Brazil), Miami (USA), Lisbon (Portugal) and Lorient (France) with the finish in
Galway (Ireland) in July 2012.
Six teams have entered the Race, including CAMPER with Emirates Team New
Zealand.
News from CAMPER
Keep up to date with the latest news direct from Emirates Team New Zealand
entry CAMPER by reading the ETNZ blog. Read more [Sorry, this link had a problem]s" href="http://etnzblog.com/#%21news" target="_blank">here.
Follow the Race
The organisers of the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race have made it easy to follow
the live action from the Race every minute of the day. There's live video
streaming, a Race Tracker, blogs, daily updates on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
in addition to global media coverage. Find all the links here
The Auckland Stopover
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is now scheduled to arrive in Auckland at the end
of Leg 4 from Sanya (China) on Saturday 10 March 2012 (subject to change). The
Pro-Am Race is on Friday 16 March and the In-Port Race on Saturday 17 March. The
Start of Leg 5 will take place on Sunday 18 March.
Coming down to the Race Village
Check out isitbusy.co.nz to find out about any transport
delays and to see what's going on in the Race Village.
Website
Keep up to date with all the news from the Auckland Stopover on our website . We are on Facebook and Twitter
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The next generation? |
Look around the Race Village this week and you’ll see big groups of
excited schoolchildren. By Thursday, some 650 pupils will have visited the
Village as part of a Schools Programme carefully planned by volunteer schools
coordinator Meredith Graham and marketing coordinator Sam Henry.
The first day was a little disrupted by the inclement weather. “Monday was
challenging but amazing in the way the team pulled together to get the children
on the water,” said Graham. “Many thanks to Explore NZ who donated the Dolphin
Explorer at short notice when it wasn’t possible to use Lion NZ. The skipper was
very knowledgeable and informative & gave the children a great insight to
what’s out there.”
Art Workshops are being held with João Parrhina, Sea Skeleton sculptor,
creating portions of the Whale’s Tail sculpture out of the rubbish collected
last Saturday from Motuihi Island. The children also view the “Keep the Oceans
Clean!!” six minute film in the Dome cinema to set the scene.
“Our big picture for the whole term has been challenge and we figure you
couldn’t get a bigger challenge than going to sea on an ocean yacht!” said
Rangeview Intermediate School Team Leader Olwyn Grant. “The kids were very
impressed with the video that showed how some of the animals died. We heard
comments ‘that was really sad’ and they just hadn’t thought about it to the same
extent.”
The exuberance around the tables in the Voyager NZ Maritime Museum workshop
with hands reaching rapidly for bits of rubbish showed the enthusiasm of the
Rangeview pupils wanting to create their piece of whale tail.
The Try-Sailing experience inside the Viaduct Harbour was another big hit and
a first chance for many to get up close to the water. The wind obliged and the
Ludic yachts skimmed across the inner Viaduct harbour to great delight of the
new young sailors.
The NZ Sailing Trust has made the 80 foot maxi yacht Lion NZ available for a
30 minute harbour sail. The children from Karaka School had lessons on using the
grinder before the girls’ team hoisted the genoa sail and Skipper Tom turned off
the engine.
The Trust, inspired by Sir Peter Blake, provides a fantastic experience for
school children with the chance to learn about different aspects of sailing from
chart work, night watches and boat safety.
During their visit, each school also visits the Voyager NZ Maritime Museum
for a tour covering the maritime history of New Zealand, the Volvo Pavilion
displaying state of the art vehicles and technology and a walk through the
Village. | | |
Back to school! |
Rob Salthouse has been back to school - his old primary school.
Hundreds of children at Greenhithe Primary School sat enthralled as Salty
told stories of life onboard a Volvo Ocean 70 - the world's fastest
monohull.
It was the first time that Salty has had the chance to go back to visit the
school since he
left. | | | | |
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