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National Geographic: Team Adventure—The Race www.nationalgeographic.com/teamrace
Relive the 2001 nonstop, round-the-world catamaran race.

National Geographic Webcast: Photography and Adventure at Sea
www.nationalgeographic.com/lectures/98spring/whitbread.html
Race veteran and National Geographic photographer Rick Tomlinson discusses life at sea—and on assignment—in the 1997 Whitbread Round the World Race, now called the Volvo Ocean Race.

National Geographic: The Whitbread—A Race Around the World
www.nationalgeographic.com/whitbread
A National Geographic photographer hitches a harrowing ride through the southern Indian Ocean during the Whitbread Round the World Race—the precursor to the Volvo Ocean Race.

Volvo Ocean Adventure (for kids)
www.volvooceanadventure.org
Interactive games and assignments put a kid-friendly spin on the sail.

Volvo Ocean Race
www.volvooceanrace.org
Get in-depth, daily race coverage from the official Web site of the Volvo Ocean Race.

OFFICIAL RACE TEAM SITES

Assa Abloy
www.assaabloyracingteam.com

djuice dragons
vor.djuice.com

illbruck Challenge
www.illbruck-pinta.com/start_e.html

Nautor Challenge
www.nautorchallenge.com

Team News Corp
www.teamnewscorp.com/home/homepage/0,,,00.html

Team SEB
www.teamseb.com

Team Tyco
www.teamtyco.com
 
 
National Geographic Resources

Vaillant, John. “Fast Sled to Maui.” National Geographic Adventure, May/June 2001. (Interview with author.)

Bowermaster, Jon. “Alone Against the Sea.” National Geographic Adventure, November/December 2000. (Preview.)

Phillips, Angus. “The Whitbread—Race Into Danger.” National Geographic, May 1998. (Summary.)

 
 
Additional Resources

Jourdane, John. Icebergs, Port and Starboard: The Whitbread Round the World Race. Cape Horn Press, 1992.

Knecht, G. Bruce. The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race. Little, Brown and Company, 2001.

Lundy, Derek. Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World’s Most Dangerous Waters. Anchor Books, 2000.

Rousmaniere, John. Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing. W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.

The Visual Dictionary of Ships and Sailing. Dorling Kindersley, 1991.

www.whitbread.org/book: The 1997-98 Whitbread Round the World Race for the Volvo Trophy. Universe Publishing, 1999.

 
 



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