VOR Comes to Newport
by Adam Cort
Apr 11, 2018
3 minutes
more than 131,000 people made the trip out to Fort Adams for the last VOR
It was the evening of May 6, 2015, and the Volvo Ocean Race was coming to town—eventually. As the sun went down over a placid Atlantic, Chinese-flagged Dongfeng and eventual overall race winner Abu Dhabi, were locked in battle, chasing zephyrs literally a stone’s throw away from one another as they fought for the Leg 6 win.
Meanwhile, out on Fort Adams, in Newport,
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