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Vol. XlIX • No. 11
“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your New England States Connection • Amanda Hogeboom-merritt 1-800-988-1203
‘The Volvo’ Stops in Newport, R.I., for Seventh Leg of Worldwide Race By Jay Adams
tiating sponsor, British Whitbread brewing company, it today carries the name of its current sponsor, The event has a longer Swedish automobile, truck official title, but to the nine and construction manufaccountries on five continents turer Volvo. with seven boats and the bilThough the route is lions of fans following their changed to accommodate crews over the world it is various ports of call, the race known simply as “The typically departs Europe in Volvo.” October, and in recent ediThe Volvo Ocean Race tions has had either nine or was a success during its May 10 legs, with in-port races at 5 to 17 layover in Newport, many of the stopover cities. R.I., the end of the journey’s The 2015 race, with nearseventh leg from Brazil to ly 39,000 mi. (62,764 km), Rhode Island, then onto took nine months to comLisbon, Portugal, before the plete, and reached a cumulafinish in Volvo’s own tive TV audience of 2 billion Gothenburg, Sweden. people worldwide. The race, held every three Each of the entries have a years, began in Alicante, sailing team of nine profesSpain. sional crew who race day “It is really important to and night for more than 20 them and it is really important to us,” said Dave Foster, Bowman Dave Swete of Avimedica, the American boat, days at a time on some of the vice president of marketing speaks with Volvo’s guests about life aboard the boat legs. They each have different jobs on board the boat, and corporate communica- during difficult ocean racing conditions. and on top of these sailing tions of the racers to assemroles, there are two sailors bled media before a May 15 press junket that included a tour aboard Alvimedica, the that have had medical training, as well as a sailmaker, an American boat that was chasing Dongfeng of China, which engineer and a dedicated media crew member who sends out videos, emails and other messages. edged Abu Dhabi by a mere boat length. No fresh food is taken on board, so the crew lives off The race was as close a finish as the race has seen over any freeze-dried fare; they will experience temperature variations leg. from 23 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 5 to 40 degrees Celsius) and will only take one change of clothes. There are A Village for Thousands Fort Adams in Newport was turned into a 30-building vil- no showers allowed on board. Rain is a Godsend. lage where tens of thousands of visitors, many of them A Volvo Tour of Alvimedica school children on field trips, arrived from all over America Media members got to speak to two members of the to learn, explore, tour, follow and photograph the racers who endure the hardest conditions in an ocean race around the American boat, Alvimedica, as part of a magnificent day sponsored by Volvo in the Fort Adams Village. This village world. For the uninitiated, the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the was set up in a week from kits in carriers sailed into port two Whitbread Round the World Race) is a yacht race around the see VOlVO page 4 world, held every three years. Originally named after its ini-
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