The Volvo Ocean Race

The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 is the world's premier yacht race for professional racing crews and will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain the race spans some 37,000 nautical miles, stopping at 11 ports and taking nine months to complete.

The first race - originally known as The Whitbread Round the World Race - left England in September 1973 and was a name conceived over a pint of beer.

Galway Taxis is here for your destination around Galway City during the Volvo Ocean Race StopOver.

Each leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 re-starts from the following ports on the following dates:

 


 

- Alicante, 11 October 2008
- Cape Town, 15 November 2008
- Kochi (India), 13 December 2008
- Singapore, 18 January 2009
- Qingdao, 14 February 2009
- Rio De Janeiro, 11 April 2009
- Boston, 16 May 2009

- Galway, 6 June 2009

- Göteborg, 14 June 2009
- Stockholm, 25 June 2009
- St Petersburg, 27 June 2009.


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