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Oceans ahead

The 2021-22 edition of The Ocean Race will stop in 10 cities including for the first time the Cape Verde islands, Shenzhen and Genoa.

The event, previously the Volvo Ocean Race, will start from Alicante in Spain in October 2021 with professional crews racing two classes of boat, the ‘traditional’ VO65s and the IMOCA 60s that are normally seen in the Vendée Globe. The 38,000 mile route will finish in Genoa in the summer of 2022.

Newport, Rhode Island, is one destination that the race has visited many times since its Whitbread days and there to support the Newport announcement was local man Charlie Enright, who has announced his plans to skipper the 11th Hour Racing Team in the event. “In some places

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