# The Ocean Race 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** racing-auto-boat\ **Created:** [May 7, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ocean-race-2023/983706 "2023-05-07T18:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ocean-race-2023/983706/1 "2023-05-07T18:53:33Z")
Anyone following along? > **[IMOCA Route](https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/route)** > > IMOCA - The Ocean Race 2022-23 visits nine iconic international cities over the six-month period, starting from Alicante, Spain in January 2023 and finishing in Genova, Italy at the end of June. Ocean going racing yachts identical in design with hydrofoils and carbon fiber hulls manned with mixed sex crews going full blast 24 hours a day. Inside the cabin it barely looks like a boat, more like a space ship crammed with equipment, monitors, levers and lines. The helmsman grips a joystick and stares at a monitor while the sails are also trimmed from inside the cabin and the hydrofoil lines snake and slither about it’s a like a speeding bouncing bullet train ride. No it does not look like fun at all, but it is exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ocean-race-2023/983706/2 "2023-05-09T06:31:18Z")
I’m not following it, but would if it was on TV. I sailed a little back in the day of lead keels and ropeburns. I saw a tid-bit of some race in the San Francisco Bay a while back … America’s Cup qualifier, maybe (I think) and my immediate reaction was, _“What WitchCraft is This???”_ Sailing ain’t what it used to be.