2011-12 Official Film | Volvo Ocean Race

The 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race is remembered for brutal conditions which dismasted or otherwise damaged large portions of the six boat fleet from the start, with half the boats retiring on Leg 1 from Alicante to Cape Town. 🇪🇸👉🇿🇦
Franck Cammas and Groupama would go on to win the race, making Cammas only the second French skipper to take victory in the race’s history after Lionel Péan in 1985-86.🇫🇷🥇
Groupama did it the hard way though after Spanish boat Telefónica had dominated the first few legs.
Groupama then dismasted on Leg 5 from Auckland to Itajaí, diverting to Punta Del Este in Uruguay for improvised repairs. However consistency over the remaining stages gave the French team the overall win with one leg remaining, and Cammas finally lifted the trophy at the finale in Galway.🇮🇪
The 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race was also the last showing of the Volvo Open 70 class before the introduction of the one-design Volvo Ocean 65 for the 2014-15 race. ⛵️🌍
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[@ChicagoCrew]

thank you for making my shelter in place a little brighter with this amazing video

[@R00RAL]

1:10:00 Fastnet Rock, did crews have charts or looked at maps prior ?

[@davidefischer7192]

nice video but it's quite hard to follow without a leaderbord

[@michaeledwards-us7nd]

Did it seem this year that the boats were extra fragile?

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

It's kind of meta that I think this was the first edition in which the VOR had a CZcams channel. (Unless 2008 was?)

[@TheOceanRace]

Hi Zoe, 2008-09 was indeed the first edition with our CZcams channel!
Our first video was uploaded to the channel on the 16th of July 2008, featuring future Race Chairman Richard Brisius! Thanks for watching ⛵️🌍

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

@@TheOceanRace That was when CZcams was still pretty new, you guys were really on the forefront!

[@moorec1053]

Good Grief, who built these things.?
Laurel and Hardy.............
I have watched 18 minutes and i have seen.....
THREE broken masts
A broken wheel
And a a broken rudder that was shivved all the way through the F'ing hull

[@jesmarina]

Have watched all the previous videos, and this one is by far the worst produced. No leaderboards??

[@johnlewis1251]

What the f is meta