Volvo Ocean Race

The Dubai-born Adil beat 120 aspiring Emirati sailors for the role on Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. The 23-year-old has impeccable credentials, having sailed in the Olympics in 2008 in Beijing and in the Laser world championships the same year. Adil has a young son so he should be used to the sleepless nights on board Azzam.

Satterthwaite is a former America’s Cup winner with Alinghi in 2007 and finished second in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2005 with Pirates of the Caribbean. The 38-year-old Kiwi has taken on the mentor role to Adil Khalid, the 23-year-old Emirati sailor on board, as well as his countryman Butti Ahmed Al Muhairi, currently part of the shore crew.

Born on the Isle of Wight, Salter was a runner-up in his first Volvo Ocean Race campaign with Pirates of the Caribbean in 2005-06 and went one better last time out as navigator with the Ericsson 4 team who stormed to victory. In what was doubtless a great loss to the legal world, Salter, a father of two, trained as a solicitor before giving up the briefcase for the nav station.

Born in the Bay of Islands, Ferris has a decade’s Volvo Ocean Race experience, starting with his time as a sail-maker with Illbruck Challenge in 2001. He went on to sail with Pirates of the Caribbean in 2005-06 and with PUMA in the last race, meaning he has two second places under his belt. 

One of three members of the team with experience of a winning campaign in the Volvo Ocean Racing, having helped ABN AMRO ONE to victory in 2005-06 under Mike Sanderson. Was also bowman on Steve Fossett’s record-breaking round the world effort in 2004 and sailed with Ian Walker on Green Dragon in the last Volvo Ocean Race.

Dana grew up in Newport, Rhode Island, and is an avid surfer and photographer. He was part of the PUMA shorecrew team during the last Volvo Ocean Race and provides the eyes and ears for the outside world as he sends back multimedia reports from Azzam in this race.

Gained experience of the Volvo Ocean Race as a reserve and shore crew member with Team Russia last time out. Born in Johannesburg, he started sailing at the age of six in an optimist and honed his skills out on the lakes before relocating to Cape Town.

Born in Brighton on Britain’s south coast, Greenhalgh has sailed everything from small dinghies to round-the-world yachts. He is another Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing sailor with Volvo Ocean Race success behind him, having joined Slattery on ABN AMRO ONE in 2005-06. In the last race he was second, this time with PUMA, meaning he will be gunning for his third successive podium.

Nicknamed SiFi, Fisher graduated in Law and Chemistry and sailed in the America’s Cup with GBR Challenge as far back as 2001 and again in 2006 with Victory Challenge before making his Volvo Ocean Race debut in 2005-06 with ABN AMRO TWO. He stepped up to take the navigator’s role with Telefónica Blue last time out and had the satisfaction of gaining two leg wins.

Nicknamed Bubs, the 6ft 4in Morgan from Lake Macquarie in New South Wales fills one of the three under-30 slots on board yet he already has an impressive resume, having appeared in two America’s Cup campaigns and with victories in the Sydney Hobart Race and the Fastnet Race under his belt. Morgan heroically jumped into the water to cut Abu Dhabi’s mast free when it came crashing down on Leg 1 of the 2011-12 edition.

Hawaiian sailor Lewis just missed out on a place in the U.S. team for the Olympics in 2004 but he put that disappointment behind him to make it on to the young ABN AMRO TWO team for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2005-06. There, he experienced the tragic death of Hans Horrevoets first hand. "Hans and I were on watch together," Lewis recalled in a recent interview with The National, "so I was right next to him when it happened."