{"id":20468,"date":"2014-06-11T20:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=20468"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:32:20","slug":"us-vor-entrant-team-alvimedica-arrives-in-newport-ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/06\/us-vor-entrant-team-alvimedica-arrives-in-newport-ri\/","title":{"rendered":"US VOR Entrant, Team Alvimedica, Arrives in Newport, RI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Alvimedica arrived safely in Newport Monday night and after a 10-day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean the talk was all about a good meal.<\/p>\n

The Volvo Ocean Race entrant led by Bristol\u2019s Charlie Enright completed the trip from Lisbon to Newport at about 8 p.m. The Volvo Ocean 65 was greeted by several friends and a flotilla of about 20 boats at Castle Hill and escorted into Newport Harbor in a steady rain.\u00a0The young team is preparing for its first Volvo Ocean Race, which starts in October. The team will continue its training and crew selection process this month in Newport.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s everything I could have hoped it to be on a rainy night, it was really nice for every one to come out,\u201d Enright said of the welcome. \u201cAfter 10 days on the open ocean, coming into Newport is an amazing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a Sail Newport twitter posting, members of the team were headed for burgers and beers as soon as they could Monday night. The crew will relax for a few days and then participate in the opening event of the New York Yacht Club\u2019s 160th Annual Regatta. Team Alvimedica\u2019s\u00a0Volvo Ocean 65<\/a>\u00a0will be a favorite in Friday\u2019s race around Conanicut Island.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s ocean crossing was an important milestone for the team. \u201cIt was a big step for Team Alvimedica,\u201d Enright said. \u201cWe had good weather all the way across. We\u2019re excited about what we achieved and what\u2019s to come. We\u2019re here doing some more raining before we head back across the Atlantic in July.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enright, 29, is joined at the helm by Mark Towill, a native of Hawaii who he teammed up on the sailing team at Brown University. Enright is a grandson of Clint Pearson, co-founder of Pearson Yachts, which helped launch the modern era of fiberglass boat construction. He raced eight- and 14-foot dinghies on Narragansett Bay as a teenager and earned All-American honors all four years for Brown\u2019s sailing team.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Volvo Ocean Race<\/a>\u00a0starts in October in Alicante, Spain and will stop in Newport next May before an expected June finish in Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of\u00a0www.providencejournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Team Alvimedica arrived safely in Newport Monday night and after a 10-day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean the talk was all about a good meal. The Volvo Ocean Race entrant led by Bristol\u2019s Charlie Enright completed the trip from Lisbon to Newport at about 8 p.m. The Volvo Ocean 65 was greeted by several friends and a flotilla of about 20 boats at Castle Hill and escorted into Newport Harbor in a steady rain.\u00a0The young team is preparing for its first Volvo Ocean Race, which starts in October. The team will continue its training and crew selection process this month in Newport. \u201cIt\u2019s everything I could have hoped it to be on a rainy night, it was really nice for every one to come out,\u201d Enright said of the welcome. \u201cAfter 10 days on the open ocean, coming into Newport is an amazing thing.\u201d According to a Sail Newport twitter posting, members of the team were headed for burgers and beers as soon as they could Monday night. The crew will relax for a few days and then participate in the opening event of the New York Yacht Club\u2019s 160th Annual Regatta. Team Alvimedica\u2019s\u00a0Volvo Ocean 65\u00a0will be a favorite in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}