LORIENT GRAND LARGE
Volvo Ocean Race 'legends' gathering at Lorient - June 2012
You may be aware that at the start of the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) at Alicante, Spain in November 2011, the VOR organised a magnificent Legends Regatta. Anyone who had participated in a previous Volvo Ocean Race or Whitbread Round the World Race was eligible to enter. 630 people attended the Legends Regatta dinner.
At the Regatta, the French organisers of the VOR Lorient
stopover decided that they would hold an equivalent event when the VOR reached
Lorient in June this year. That is the last stop before the end of the race
in Ireland.
It
is called Lorient Grand Large.
VOR Lorient stopover dates: 16 June - 1 July 2012
Provisional Lorient Grand Large dates are 20 - 24 June 2012.
(Note that this gathering is not being organised by the VOR.)
Your committee is in touch with the organisers of the Lorient Grand Large and will post more information here as it becomes available.
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Draft proprosals from the Directeur Lorient Grand Large.
"We, as Lorient Volvo Ocean Race Stopover
organizers, are proud to invite the
legends to come in Lorient for the stopover.
We will organize regattas for you
in our beautiful area the 20-21-22-23-24 of
June,
Berthing is of course offered
Crepes and Cider "Breton" Party the 23rd Big official Party
and Prize Giving
Ceremony the 26th of June Full accreditation Access to the Corporate
hospitality area
The berthing will be offered of course until the start of Leg to Galway
the
1st of July so that you can enjoy the region, quality of the life in
Brittany (Good food and wine, etc...)
We would like also to emphasize your former involvement in Whitbread- Volvo
Ocean Race by producing some features to be present on our main stage and
on
a local TV show. That means to make, with material you may have (photos,
videos), some short videos and making some shows on the main stage to
explain to our public, that you know in France is huge, what was the
Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Race in the early years.
To go further: just send us an email to confirm intention to participate
with boats or on the docks.
If you're coming with boats, I would need soon draft and length as well
as
dates of arrival/ departure that you think relevant for you.
I promise you good time in Bretagne !"
