Crew space on Volvo 70 – Green Dragon for Rolex Middle Sea Race 2025

Cost

€4,500

Event dates

18th Oct 2025 - 25th Oct 2025

What's included

The price includes; 2 training days and a preparation days before the race, the guidance of 3 professional crew, provisioning for the race, all boat and race costs.

Additional costs include flights, transfers, onshore accommodation and meals and personal insurance

What to expect

The Mediterranean’s Quintessential Offshore Race. The Rolex Middle Sea Race encompasses one of the most scenic and tactically challenging courses in the world.
Starting from the Grand Harbour in Valletta, beneath Fort St Angelo and the Saluting Battery, the fleet heads northeast along the coast of Sicily, towards the Straits of Messina. You can usually spot Mount Etna and hear the Volcano rumble.
The course heads north from the Straits in the direction of Stromboli, another active volcano, where the yachts then turn west to the Egadi Islands. After reaching Favignana the fleet heads south towards the island of Lampedusa with the island of Pantelleria on their port side. Once they have passed Lampedusa the fleet is on the home straight towards Malta and the finish at Marsamxett Harbour.
Join the crew of Volvo 70, Green Dragon to take on the challenge of this 606 nautical mile race, where the demanding and often changeable conditions means that everyone has to be on their A Game

Itinerary

Monday: Crew arrive
Tuesday: Training Day
Wednesday: Training Day / Coastal Race
Thursday: Training Day
Friday: Boat Preparation
Saturday: Race Start
Saturday: Prize giving

Crew information

Coming Soon!

Prerequisite experience

Previous offshore experience is required and at least 30% of the crew must have completed training to Section 6 of the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations. We would therefore strongly encourage you to have completed your ISAF Offshore safety and sea survival

Where

The race starts and ends in Valetta, Malta. The nearest airport is Malta International Airport, which is approximately a 20 minute drive to Valetta. Scheduled flights are available with Malta’s national carrier Air Malta, as well as other airlines including Air France, KLM, Swissair, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Easyjet and WizzAir.

Accommodation

Accommodation ashore will be needed in the days before the race. Good options in Malta can be found on Airbnb

Crew space on Volvo 70 – Green Dragon for Rolex Middle Sea Race 2025

Volvo 70 – Green Dragon

Green Dragon competed in the 2008 – 2009 Volvo Ocean Race with Ian Walker, British Olympic silver medallist, making his debut as skipper. Green Dragon finished 5th. Ian Walker later won the 2015 race with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. At the launch the Volvo Open 70 was not a singular yacht design but a set of design rules to which...