Volvo Ocean Race Legends latest ambassador is American Skip Novak

11:27 AM Mon 23 May 2011 GMT

'Volvo Ocean Race Legends latest ambassador Skip Novak' Volvo Ocean Race Legends

Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta and Reunion is to be held in Alicante, Spain, 1st to 5th November 2011. The American skipper of Drum, raced by British rock star, Simon Le Bon (Whitbread 1985-86), is now onboard as an Ambassador. Novak has completed The Whitbread (forerunner of the Volvo Ocean Race) race four times, finishing second as navigator with King's Legend at the age of 25 in 1977-78. Novak is the fourth Ambassador to the event, joining Lady Pippa Blake, Magnus Olsson and Sir Chay Blyth CBE, BEM. 'I admit to becoming an 'addict' back in the early Whitbread era ...

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by Volvo Ocean Race Legends