Coming back to Newport, May 13-21, 2023
NEWPORT, RI (March 10, 2020) – Sail Newport and The Ocean Race announced today that for the third consecutive edition of the competition, The Ocean Race will make its only North American stopover in Newport May 13-21, 2023.
The Rhode Island event will be the only North American Stopover during the six-month 38,000 nautical-mile race around the world, which begins in Alicante, Spain, in January of 2023 and finishes in Genoa, Italy in June of 2023.
Sail Newport, Rhode Island’s Public Sailing Center, will organize the event and Executive Director Brad Read says, “This is the pinnacle event of the sport of ocean racing. These athletes are spending 24 hours a day for weeks on end transiting oceans in storms and calms and as a community we have the privilege of welcoming them to the only stop in North America. Our entire community will greet them as we have greeted seafarers for generations. We will welcome them and celebrate the human victory of overcoming monumental challenge.”
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The Ocean Race Newport
Since 1973, The Ocean Race has been the toughest test of a team in sport. A grueling 38,000 nautical miles around the world is the race course with stops in ten host ports.The world is the arena. The world’s best sailors – champions, record breakers, pioneers – duel, with everything at stake.
This is an ocean endurance test like no other. A true feat of human ambition in one of sport’s greatest challenges with sailors pushing the limits of pursuit. With each edition, the tools evolve – but the racetrack remains as unforgiving as ever.
The Race Village at Fort Adams State Park will be a festival of race boats, team bases, interactive exhibits, educational activities, entertainment, food and drink, racing within yards of the shore and the backdrop is historic Fort Adams and a panoramic view of Narragansett Bay, and Newport Harbor.
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