A few years ago they posted a commercial from the 90s as an April Fools thing. It would be fun to see an April Fools vid next year of modern race footage in fake-retro style with an appropriate soundtrack.
That soundtrack is just incredible, probably the best of these yet. It’s so great to have these, especially restored, because I’m writing a story about a fictitious Whitbread team in one of the 80s editions and the old documentaries are amazing for research! Does the Race Museum also have online archives or anything like that?
Hi Zoe, glad that you’re enjoying our uploads! It’s amazing to see what’s changed and what’s remained the same. Unfortunately The Ocean Race Museum doesn’t have an online archive but we do have a library of books in our HQ in Alicante. Please feel free to reach out if we can help you with any specific resources. We don’t have a team dedicated to the archive, but some things might be easy to find.
Aw shucks, Social Media Rep, that’s so generous! Is there a bibliography of books published about the Race over the years like Steve Tsuchiya’s America’s Cup Bibliography that I could use to hunt down copies of older books in local libraries and used bookstores? Or at least a listing of important English-language books that are about 1981 through 1990? I’ve already read “Blake’s Odyssey” and Skip Novak’s “One Day at a Time”, and I think van Reitschoten had at least one memoir published in English translation. I’m going to look for Blake’s 1985 and 1989 books over the winter. The online History articles on the Race site itself are pretty good, but I found it a little frustrating that the *departure* dates of every leg were listed but not the first *arrivals* at a stopover. I had to go to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper archives to find out the date of the first arrivals in Auckland in 1986, for example. (The first week of January, IIRC?) Do you know of any sources that discuss controversies around Cape Town being a stopover during the Apartheid Era? Both Blake and Novak mention in passing that there were people in the UK and NZ who objected.
This is a a great video, hope you keep uploading these.
That 80s music really hits different. Bring the synths back! Can really see how the race evolved between editions too
A few years ago they posted a commercial from the 90s as an April Fools thing. It would be fun to see an April Fools vid next year of modern race footage in fake-retro style with an appropriate soundtrack.
Love it !
That soundtrack is just incredible, probably the best of these yet.
It’s so great to have these, especially restored, because I’m writing a story about a fictitious Whitbread team in one of the 80s editions and the old documentaries are amazing for research! Does the Race Museum also have online archives or anything like that?
Hi Zoe, glad that you’re enjoying our uploads! It’s amazing to see what’s changed and what’s remained the same.
Unfortunately The Ocean Race Museum doesn’t have an online archive but we do have a library of books in our HQ in Alicante. Please feel free to reach out if we can help you with any specific resources. We don’t have a team dedicated to the archive, but some things might be easy to find.
Aw shucks, Social Media Rep, that’s so generous!
Is there a bibliography of books published about the Race over the years like Steve Tsuchiya’s America’s Cup Bibliography that I could use to hunt down copies of older books in local libraries and used bookstores?
Or at least a listing of important English-language books that are about 1981 through 1990? I’ve already read “Blake’s Odyssey” and Skip Novak’s “One Day at a Time”, and I think van Reitschoten had at least one memoir published in English translation. I’m going to look for Blake’s 1985 and 1989 books over the winter.
The online History articles on the Race site itself are pretty good, but I found it a little frustrating that the *departure* dates of every leg were listed but not the first *arrivals* at a stopover. I had to go to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper archives to find out the date of the first arrivals in Auckland in 1986, for example. (The first week of January, IIRC?)
Do you know of any sources that discuss controversies around Cape Town being a stopover during the Apartheid Era? Both Blake and Novak mention in passing that there were people in the UK and NZ who objected.
Un video muy bonito. Saludos.
1989-90 is next
classic!
Can you buy the music or is it on the web anywhere
race should be renamed to whitbread again and open to any willing yacht like in the 80s, or sweet talking volvo back onboard
I don’t know if breweries really have the kind of money the Race needs anymore, drinking isn’t as widespread nowadays.
LOL “there’s only 15 boats, is it worth it?” That doesn’t age well.