RSS FeedAbu Dhabi is set to enter a team and build a new boat for the 2011-12 edition of the Volvo around the world race in a $25-million partnership with Britain’s double Olympic silver medallist Ian Walker as skipper and his business partner Jamie Boag.
According to UK newspaper The Independent, the Britons are expected to invite a top US-based designer and to call on the boat building expertise of the Australian yacht builders McConaghy.
The Abu Dhabi team will be the fifth to be announced for the 2011-12 race, which starts from Alicante, Spain, on 5 November next year.
The emirate has already been confirmed as one of the race’s stopovers, with an option to extend that to the 2014-15 edition.
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