2021 Volvo Ocean Race Engine.

The abutting copy of The Ocean Chase will affection the longest Southern Ocean leg within the 50-year historical past of the occasion, an absurd 12,750 abyssal mile chase amid Cape City, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil.

That is aloof one of many highlights of the tailored chase course, accepted this week.

The chase avenue for the 14th copy of the accident has been rationalised in acknowledgment to the logistical realities of an concerning the apple chase in a COVID-19 ambiance and can alpha from Alicante, Spain in backward December / aboriginal January, with the ultimate date to be introduced.

From there the IMOCA and VO65 fleets will dart out of the Mediterranean Sea to Cabo Verde, visiting this African island nation for the precise aboriginal time, afore antagonism bottomward to a abiding favorite amid stopovers, in Cape City, South Africa.

Then, a acknowledgment to the roots of the Race, with an enormous layover via the Southern Ocean, over 30 canicule of racing, to Itajaí, Brazil, host of the completed three stopovers in South America.

“This amend to the chase avenue makes it evocative of the aboriginal Ocean Race’s of the previous, and I achievement the adjournment of the alpha till afterwards the Avenue du Rhum will appeal to added groups to accompany us on the alpha line,” stated Charlie Enright, skipper of eleventh Hour Antagonism Staff.

“Not alone is it a less complicated chase from a acumen and organisation perspective, it ought to moreover be added cost-effective and added attainable for added IMOCA