#Volvo Ocean Race

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Interview with Liz Wardley, 2 December 2023

This was really such an incredible experience, I'm mutuals with offshore sailor Liz Wardley on LinkedIn and we'd talked in DMs a few times and met IRL at the Ocean Race Newport stopover in 2018 and accidentally when Maiden was at Mystic Seaport last year. I worked up the courage to ask her if she'd be interested in being interviewed for this blog while I'm home on sabbatical this winter and she said yes! We had some trouble working out the time difference because Liz is currently in the Canary Islands getting ready to leave for the World's Toughest Row, a 3000-mile transatlantic rowing race to Antigua, on 12 December. But she took almost an hour to chat with me about childhood jungle adventures, the lucky moment that got her into the Ocean Race, pesto, rubber duckies, and what she has over Jimmy Spithill.

Timestamps:

0:54: Early Days

5:10: The Sydney-Hobart Race

15:32: The Volvo Ocean Race 2001, Amer Sports Two

20:07: Offshore sailing in France

26:03: VOR 2014, Team SCA

29:40: VOR 2017, Turn the Tide on Plastic

32:25: Liz in lockdown

34:44: The Maiden Project

36:30: The Ocean Race 2023, WindWhisper

41:37: The World's Toughest Row

47:06: (Not) Getting Philosophical

[daziechane]

I would hope that everyone at some point gets to have a Magnus in their life. That one person who thinks you're the best thing in the world and who lives life to the absolute fullest.

I worked with him for just a few weeks, but TO THIS DAY when I'm feeling down I say to myself "Magnus thinks you can do it." Because he would tell me that, if he was here.

[aerik-kylo]

Super summer vibes ☀️

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500 agentes de policía velan a diario por la seguridad en la ‘Ocean Race’

500 agentes de policía velan a diario por la seguridad en la ‘Ocean Race’

Policía Nacional y la Policía Local han organizado un amplio dispositivo de seguridad con motivo de la celebración en Alicante como Puerto de Salida de la Vuelta al Mundo a Vela The Ocean Race, en el que van a intervenir más de medio millar de agentes diarios junto con un retén de los Bomberos del Servicio de Prevención Extinción de Incendios y Seguridad – SPEIS – para poder disfrutar de una de…

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Through the Years → Felipe VI of Spain (1,160/∞)

7 October 2011 | Crown Prince Felipe of Spain meets competitors as he visits the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 fleet prior to the start of the Alicante qualifying race, in Alicante, Spain. Princess Letizia was declared godmother of Team Telefonica during a christening ceremony at the Alicante Race Village. (Photo by Ian Roman /Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Images)

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There’s this quote about the sea which I’ve never been able to track down the origin of but it slaps and maybe you’ll like it. If I remember rightly it was talking about the seas between South America and the Antarctic which are known for having hellish conditions. Anyway, it goes:

“50 degrees south there is no law, 60 degrees south there is no god”

Don’t feel like you have to reply I know it’s a weird message to send out of the blue but given all the ocean content I figured you might like it

OK SO!!! Funny enough I have seen that phrase before!! It's quoted in a nautical museum where i live dedicated to showcasing some of the info from the volvo ocean race :]

Trying to look up the quote itself brings up the names of the winds, and searching for that pulls this up

Which I believe is partly the reason for that quote OR they might have been named after it, one of the two?

The full quote in the museum is "Under 40 degrees there is no law, under 50 degrees there is no God, and under 60 degrees there is no mercy."

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Dream Notes

(Transcribed from the notes I took after waking up.)

I took a nap and dreamed I was on a platform in the middle of the sky, with metal ladder-staircases stretching a long way up above me beyond where I could see, and then below me a long way to the ground. There were other platforms at intervals and sort of a tube or pipe in the middle running the whole way, like a spiral staircase with a central support or like an oil rig, I guess.

I wasn't in danger of falling off the platform because there were walls around the edge up to about my neck's height. There were crates all over the platform, full of potatoes and radishes and turnips and other vegetables.

Then I was in my own house and this structure that looked like a giant ceramic jug with a conical top landed in the yard. It was as tall as the house and it looked like it was made of teal (?) glazed ceramic, but somehow I knew it was a balloon gondola. It was connected to the tube/pipe going up into the sky and I could see the staircases starting from the gondola, but when I looked up, I couldn't see the balloon itself, just the tube and platforms.

I was able to enter the gondola and inside it was kind of like a living room. There were futons with pillows and blankets up against a wall, all neatly made. There was a bookshelf with books and some toys/games (I think a Rubik's cube?) around on tables, some sculptures and maybe paintings, and a wooden plaque from the Whitbread Race. There were portholes in the walls to see out (some near the futons) and possibly a kitchenette. I couldn't see any food, but I remembered the platform with the crates and thought "That must be their provisions."

I couldn't see any sign of people inside the gondola, but when I stepped back outside, they were descending from the sky on rectangular parachutes (parasails? paragliders?). They were wearing dark blue jumpsuits. Most of the people were unconscious when they landed, one young man was coherent enough to tell me his name was Vlad (?). I think it was a family of four-- mother, father, and an adult daughter and son.

They were unconscious, I somehow realized, because they'd parachuted out at a high altitude with thin air (for some reason, even though nothing was wrong with the gondola), but pretty soon they woke up. They were Australians on an expedition around the world, with a Fossett sort of sailing-ballooning meteorology background. The line from (I think?) Piccard and Jones' book about having a meteorologist who had worked for the Volvo Ocean Race helping them with navigation on their balloon flight around the world was either something I remembered in the dream or quoted outright to the balloon travelers. Our family welcomed them as houseguests.

A shift, maybe partially woken up by someone else's noises. I was living in a leafy, walkable city neighborhood in a dorm, more like Comm Ave or Woodley Park than Charlestown or Arlington. It was most like Woodley Park as we were near a zoo. There were tennis courts next door with high fences (part of the zoo? That feels familiar as if from another dream.)

A bookshelf in the sleeping area of the dorm (it was an open space, with everyone's bed in a sort of cubicle with artificial walls) had a lot of sailing books on a shelf I couldn't reach. I tried climbing on the bookshelf to get one and the top half of the bookshelf separated and fell forwards with me holding on. I somehow let go and landed clear of it, so I wasn't crushed or hurt. Nobody considered it a problem, we all reassembled the bookshelf.

Another shift (maybe?), wandering around a mall area near an airport (with my family?). There was a sort of kids' science museum in one section, possibly like one from an earlier dream. Also pull-out beds you could rent to sleep (read on Reddit about airports that have these a few days before). I stepped outside the enclosed mall space, and the terrain was like the library town in Connecticut we visited in the fall, hills alongside a river. There were small religious buildings of various types around a pond, I think these were for travelers as this was an airport area. Wandered around the Eastern Orthodox one, I think it was Georgian (the country) specifically. It seemed familiar but somehow off (I don't mean just that things were in Georgian and not Greek) I tried to talk to a nun, perhaps to tell her about the balloonists, but she wouldn't talk to me. Wandered back out to the pond area following her and woke up.

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Ridiculous. Not satisfied with the planet earth. Now we want to plunder our planet oceans, The list of countries calling for a pause on deep-sea mining continued to grow this week ahead of a key moment that mining companies hope will launch the fledgling industry, and its opponents hope could clip its wings, perhaps for good. Ireland and Sweden became the latest developed economies to join critics, including scientists, environmental organisations and multinationals such as BMW, Volvo and Samsung. The carmakers have committed not to use minerals mined from the seabed in their electric vehicles.No deep-sea mining contracts have yet been authorised, but efforts by the industry and some states, including Norway, have accelerated the race to mine for metals in the planet’s last unexplored frontier. The Guardian #timeforchange

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Volvo Ocean Racing

[corpsoir]

i dont care for football or sports in the slightest (well except for sweden rally. and sailing but i havent even seen the volvo ocean race yet so im a fake fan. next year!!!) but tonight im going to the pub to see england vs france with my friends and im actually so excited for the chaos of that lol

beers and football what could go wrong 😔😔😔

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Malizia-Sea Explorer enters the Ocean Race

Yacht Club de Monaco returns to legendary fully crewed offshore race At 04:10pm sharp on Sunday, January 15, 2023, the gun fired for the start of The Ocean Race from Alicante, Spain, for the 5 IMOCA boats and 6 Volvo 65s including the 5 team members sailing on Malizia-Seaexplorer helmed by Boris Herrmann from Yacht Club de Monaco. The former Whitbread Round The World Race continues to thrill 50…

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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: October 7th

2004: Visit to the Hispanic Society of America museum in Harlem, New York & Gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York to celebrate the centennial of the Hispanic Society in the city (1, 2)

2008: Dinner offered to the King and Queen of Malaysia

2009: Inauguration of the new Cervantes Institute in Chicago, Illinois, USA

2010: Inaugurated “El Alma de Cordoba”

2011: Sponsorship by Princess Letizia of the “Telefónica” boat, which will participate in the “Volvo Ocean Race”

2013: Visited the official Spanish pavillion at the 32nd ANUGA trade fair for the world of food & beverages at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany (1, 2)

2014: Opening of the Vocational Training course at “Valle Del Cidacos” Institute in Calahorra (1, 2)

2015: Speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France

2016: Audiences at la Zarzuela

2019: Event to mark the start of the manufacturing of the new Opel Corsa 100% electric in Spain

2020: Opened the Professional Training Course 2020/2021 in A Coruña & Opened the Academic Course of the Royal Academies; Delivered the 1st la Barcelona New Economy Week-Bnew Awards & Visited the 3D Printing Business Incubator and the Dfactory

2021: Delivered the first Gold Medal of the Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel; Meeting of the Extraordinary Canary Islands Tourism Council; Videoconference with technical and scientific representatives of the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan & Closure of the first meeting of Ministers of Justice of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries (COMJIB and CMJPLOP)

F&L Through the Years: 845/??

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The Ocean Race cumple su 50 aniversario planteando un reto de 6 meses de navegación a los regatistas

The Ocean Race cumple su 50 aniversario planteando un reto de 6 meses de navegación a los regatistas

La consellera de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital, Josefina Bueno, ha visitado el Puerto de Alicante con motivo de la Salida de la Vuelta al Mundo que se desarrollará entre el 7 y el 15 de enero.  La consellera ha destacado el impulso económico, tecnológico y social que supone este evento para toda la Comunitat Valenciana en el 50 aniversario de esta regata en la que hombres…

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4 June 2015 | Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad visit the Volvo Ocean Race Village during the first day of her visit two day to Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. (c) Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images

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Monumentale, drijvende politiepost, thans kantoor havenmeester, uit 1910 (Scheepvaartkwartier)

De Veerhaven is een van de vele havens in Rotterdam, gelegen tussen Willemskade en Westerkade in het klassieke Scheepvaartkwartier van Rotterdam. Hij ligt aan de noordzijde van de Nieuwe Maas, niet ver van de Euromast.

De Veerhaven ontleent zijn naam aan de veerdienst naar Katendrecht aan de zuidzijde van de Nieuwe Maas, die al in de 15e eeuw werd gevestigd. Tot de ingebruikname van de Willemsbrug in 1878 was dit de enige verbinding tussen de noord- en zuidoever van de Nieuwe Maas. De veerdienst van de rederij Heen en Weer deed dienst tot 1968 toen de metro de noord-zuidverbinding overnam. Van 1911 tot de opening van de Maastunnel in 1942 was er hier naast een dienst voor personenvervoer ook een veerdienst voor voertuigen, het wagenveer.

Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilvereniging De Maas Bewerken

De Veerhaven was van 1900 tot circa 1980 onder beheer van Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilvereniging De Maas en werd ook door de leden gebruikt om hun jachten aan te meren. Langs de kade staan karakteristieke huizen zoals de voormalig kantoren van de Steenkolen Handels Vereniging (SHV) en van Van Uden. Ook van architectonisch belang is het in jugendstil uitgevoerde sociëteitsgebouw (1908) van de De Maas ontworpen door de architecten Barend Hooijkaas jr. en Michiel Brinkman. Vrijwel alle gebouwen rond en bij de Veerhaven zijn rijksmonument.

De haven doet, sinds 1990, onder beheer van de Stichting Veerhaven, dienst als ligplaats voor pleziervaart en is thuishaven van historische zeilschepen..

Sinds 2001 start jaarlijks de Race of the Classics vanuit de Veerhaven. Sinds 2002 vindt er 's zomers vanaf een ponton in de haven een klassiek openluchtconcert plaats: het Veerhavenconcert. In de zomer van 2006 was de Veerhaven de finish van een etappe van de Volvo Ocean Race, die in Portsmouth, Engeland was begonnen.

Foto komt uit de collectie van @stadsarchief010 en Informatie komt van wikipedia.