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Turn the Tide on Plastic have announced two more female sailors for their Volvo Ocean Race campaign \u2013 Irish Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy and New Zealand\u2019s Bianca Cook (full story below)<\/p>\n
Turn the Tide on Plastic have announced two more female sailors for their Volvo Ocean Race campaign \u2013 Irish Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy and New Zealand\u2019s Bianca Cook.<\/p>\n
Both under 30, the pair join skipper Dee Caffari\u2019s mixed and youth-focused campaign after successful trials, and take the total number of confirmed sailors in their squad to 10 with just 44 days to go until the start of the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnnalise and Bianca both add strength to the squad and are developing quickly,\u201d said Caffari. \u201cComing from an Olympic background, Annalise\u2019s strength and racing skills are obvious, but she is still learning about life offshore, whereas Bianca has lots of big boat experience and is very comfortable offshore.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThe Volvo Ocean Race will certainly offer a challenge, but it\u2019s one that they\u2019re certainly up for. It\u2019s a pleasure to see them loving every day on the boat.”<\/p>\n
Dublin-born Murphy, 27, took silver in the Laser Radial class at Rio 2016, and was recently named Irish Times\/Sport Ireland\u2019s Sportswoman of the Year.<\/p>\n
“The jump from Olympic inshore sailing to professional offshore sailing is a big one,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cI am expecting this race to be the toughest thing I have ever done both mentally and physically but I also can’t wait for it to start.”<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s Cook, 28, has accumulated over 70,000 offshore miles in the last few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing from Auckland, I\u2019ve grown up watching the Volvo Ocean Race teams and I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019ll get to be one of those sailors,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cTo be given this chance and to have earned my place is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turn the Tide on Plastic will amplify UN Environment\u2019s Clean Seas campaign in 2017-18. The new recruits join a multinational squad led by Caffari (GBR) and featuring Australia\u2019s Liz Wardley and Lucas Chapman; Italy\u2019s Francesca Clapcich; Britons Bleddyn Mon and Henry Bomby, and Portuguese sailors Frederico Pinheiro de Melo and Bernardo Freitas.<\/p>\n
The team are currently making their final preparations in Cascais, Portugal. All boats will head to the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard in Lisbon by 18 September 2017 for final maintenance checks ahead of a non-scoring Prologue stage from Lisbon to Alicante ahead of the start of the 83,000 km race.<\/p>\n
The race begins from Alicante, Spain on 22 October and will visit a further 11 Host Cities around the world \u2013 stopping at Lisbon, Cape Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Auckland, Itaja\u00ed, Newport, Cardiff and Gothenburg \u2013 before a big finish in The Hague in summer 2018.<\/p>\n
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