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Volvo Ocean Race: 45,000 miles of extreme testing
by North Sails 24 Oct 2018 04:00 PDT
Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 © North Sails
45,000 Miles of Extreme Testing
Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 Debrief
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“This is the toughest race in the world, where fully professional crews push the boats, the rigs, the sails and themselves beyond what was considered to be the limit,” says North Sails President Ken Read, a skipper in two previous editions of the race. “And it’s not just for a day or two or a few hundred miles, it’s all the way around the world, over eight months of racing."
The Volvo Ocean Race has long been considered a proving ground for the best offshore sailors in the world. But the industry leading marine companies who supply the equipment on the VO65 race boats also find the race to be the platform where they get pushed the hardest to find solutions for the extreme conditions the crews encounter in relentless conditions. Such is the case for North Sails, who designed, built and maintained the one-design sail inventory for the fleet in the 2017-18 edition of the race.
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