SLAM Foul Weather Gear and Groupama.
10 countries, 9 stages, and 8 months of racing all add up to a victory for one lucky and determined crew.
Congratulations to Cammas-Groupama - winner of the 2011 - 2012 Volvo Ocean Race. Formerly known as the Whitbread, the Volvo Ocean Race is said to have begun over a beer in a Portsmouth pub in 1973. The first journeys of the race were unlike anything that the races have evolved in to today. Experienced skippers, adventurous crews, bottles of wine, and comfortable boats were replaced with world and Olympic champions, vessels made of space shuttle materials, desalinated water, and protein bars. Thanks to modern technology, we no longer have to imagine what these crews encounter in between each leg of the races. We can follow along with the 24-hour surveillance on board each vessel. The race began on the 5th of November, 2011 in Alicante, Spain and ended on the 7th of July, 2012 in Galway, Ireland.
SLAM was the official technical sailing gear supplier for the 2011 - 2012 Groupama 4 crew. New materials and designs were developed to meet the standards of the Groupama 4 Skipper, Franck Cammas, and his crew. SLAM had its work cut out for them when taking on the task of clothing the sailing crew. They had to take in to account all of the different weather elements that the crew was sure to encounter - from the strong winds and choppy waves of the Mediterranean Sea to the heat and humidity of the equator among all of the other weather conditions present while on their 8 month journey around the world. Despite the task at hand, SLAM was pleased to be the only Italian technical clothing company present at this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race.
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