Volvo Ocean Race

Although this website is dedicated to the America's Cup as well as all races related to the America's Cup teams and their sailors, we'll make an exception and mention a very nice and easy tool to follow the Volvo Ocean Yacht Race.

Laust Ladefoged, ABN AMRO employee from Denmark, has created a great Google Map to track the current standings in the Volvo Ocean Yacht Race. The race is currently in its first leg which runs from the west coast of Spain to Cape Town in South Africa, and is what the map is currently showing boat positions for. Links take you to zoomed in positions on the map for the leaders, fleet and the current leg to make viewing easier.

Without any doubt, the map is not as pecise and as powerful as the Virtual Spectator application on the official website, yet it is very simple, doesn't require anything more than an Internet browser and loads very fast.

Maybe in the 33rd America's Cup, technology will have evolved in such a way to allow almost real-time tracking of the races with such a simple and free tool.