Southampton, England, June 9, 2002 2220 GMT
See You In 2005
Passing the island of Anholt in the west proved to be the decisive mistake
for three yachts.
SEB lost sixth place to djuice, who overtook the green Swedish yacht in
the overall standing with the eight points awarded for the first place on
this leg. Tyco and News Corp lost Amer Sports One and the chance for third
in the final result. Once Tyco was in last position, News Corp held her
firmly, until this afternoon Tyco managed to escape in the fluky condition
between the island of Langeland and the Kieler Foerde.
The last mile into Kiel took forever as the surface of the Foerde was flat
as a mirror and not even the huge Code 0 spinnaker managed to give Tyco or
News Corp more than one knot of boat speed. Tyco finishing this leg
eventually in seventh position is fourth over all while News Corp has to
accept the fifth as the final result in the Volvo Ocean Race.
When News Corp crossed the finish line in the centre of Kiel, she brought
the Volvo Ocean Race 2001 - 2002 to a final close. The Lord Mayor of Kiel,
Mr. Norbert Gansel said an emotional good bye to the sailors and invited
the race and the sailors back for 2005.
Overall position after nine legs pending protests
PS Yacht Leg 3 points Arrival Time Elapsed Time Combined Time PO Overall
Pos.
1 DJCE 8 09 JUN 02 15:42:30 001d 03h 42m 30s 132d 06h 24m 15s 33 6
2 ILBK 7 09 JUN 02 16:17:45 001d 04h 17m 45s 123d 05h 11m 24s 61 1
3 AART 6 09 JUN 02 18:13:40 001d 06h 18m 10s 127d 11h 14m 46s 55 2
4 ATOO 5 09 JUN 02 18:18:10 001d 06h 18m 10s ----- 16 8
5 AONE 4 09 JUN 02 18:19:30 001d 06h 19m 30s 124d 10h 44m 35s 44 3
6 TSEB 3 09 JUN 02 20:01:00 001d 08h 01m 00s ----- 32 7
7 TYCO 2 09 JUN 02 21:27:10 001d 09h 27m 10s ----- 42 4
8 NEWS 1 09 JUN 02 22:11:50 001d 10h 11m 50s 126d 23h 48m 54s 41 5
Leaderboard
PS Yacht Points
1 illbruck 61
2 ASSA ABLOY 55
3 Amer Sports One 44
4 Tyco 42
5 News Corp 41
6 Djuice 33
7 Team SEB 32
8 Amer Sports Too 16
Southampton, England, June 9, 2002 2030 GMT
ASSA ABLOY Secures Second In Kiel
ASSA ABLOY’s performance indicator over the duration of the race shows a
clear direction for the team: straight to the top. After a disappointing
Fastnet race, in the first and second leg the team showed great
flexibility and the ability to manage change in their approach to the
ultimate goal in the Volvo Ocean Race: to get to the top three. Bringing
short course racing tactician Chris Larson on board and later, his close
sailing friend Mike Howard, looked like the key to success as they
complemented the long-range brilliance of skipper Neal McDonald and
previous race-winning navigator Mark Rudiger.
>From leg three onwards the campaign was under control and going into the
right direction. First, line honours in the Sydney - Hobart race and then
a convincing victory on the leg to Auckland brought them back in
contention with the leading group.
Leg five to Miami and leg eight to Gothenburg showed that the first
victory was not an accident but the beginning of the most consistent
performance in the whole fleet.
Meticulous preparation has spared them major technical failures, a credit
that goes indexly to bowman and ASSA ABLOY boat builder Jason Carrington
from Lymington (UK).
One of the key factors was the highly advanced boat building technique
that was employed by ASSA ABLOY. While everybody else opted for the
conventional race boat building technique of a male plug over which the
final boat is being built, ASSA ABLOY didn’t spare time and money to build
a perfect female mould into which two identical yachts were built. Apart
from the perfectly finished hull without adding any filler, the lessons
learnt from the first boat helped the second boat to eventually become
even more advanced.
With the Nautor Challenge campaign Grant Dalton broke one of his own
golden rules: Enough time and preparation if you want to do well. Just
three months before the start in Southampton, the first of the two Amer
Sports sponsored yachts was wetted for the first time. Crew selection,
sail program and training were left to the last moment.
During assembly week in Southampton, Nautor’s CEO Leonardo Ferragamo and
skipper Grant Dalton both emphasised that they are there to participate,
wouldn’t have any expectations on the result and will try to be up to
speed in the second half of the race.
Despite the late start, the line-up of stars was impressive right from the
beginning. Skipper Grant Dalton - on his sixth lap around the world - and
veteran race navigator Roger Nilson were supported by multiple dinghy
world champions Freddy Loof and Chris Nicholson.
The surprise was perfect when Amer Sports One sneaked into the lead on the
last two thousand miles to Cape Town on leg one. Just a day away from the
finish line they had to return the lead to pre-race favourite illbruck and
finished second, way above what they expected in their most ambitious
dreams.
The Frers designed boat was always thought to have the best performance in
medium to heavy conditions, expectations Amer Sports One couldn’t live up
to on leg two where they struggled with the boat in the heavy running and
reaching conditions, culminating in a Chinese gybe in front of Sydney. A
second to Auckland on the successive leg confirmed the second overall
position that then came under threat from News Corp.
On leg four another one of sailing’s rock stars joined the yacht: previous
race-winning skipper Paul Cayard joined for the second of the long
Southern Ocean legs. Lying second from Cape Horn, the breeze died in sight
of Sugar Loaf Mountain and the podium place in Rio de Janeiro was
converted to a disappointing fifth.
Finally up to speed, the women of Amer Sports Too were rewarded for their
endurance in the Volvo Ocean Race with a late, but hard-earned and
well-deserved triumph in leg 9. What this fourth place result shows at
last is that the all-female team is not lacking brainpower and that they
know how to sail the boat but just lack the physical assets. On the light
but demanding leg from Gothenburg to Kiel they often showed brilliance in
positioning their yacht, making the most of the light and fluky conditions
and keeping their nerve in the battle against a fleet of male powered
yachts that all wanted to be spared the humiliation of carrying the wooden
spoon into the final port of Kiel.
After a disastrous series of breakages that started with rudder damage and
a headstay failure on leg three and a mast break on leg seven, the girls
finally fought back and taught everyone who doubted their skills a lesson
by demonstrating their finely-tuned skills.
“We can do it”, was the girl’s motto on the all-women crew on Bill Koch’s
America’s Cup yacht America3. Since then these words were used as a
guideline for many women sailors.
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 2, 1858 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PO
6 TSEB 54 25.96N 010 12.92E 6 208 10.5 148 6 0 09/06/02 19:47 32
7 TYCO 54 27.04N 010 14.00E 7 213 10.4 148 7 -1 09/06/02 19:56 42
8 NEWS 54 28.08N 010 14.84E 9 217 9.9 146 9 0 09/06/02 20:07 41
Overall position after nine legs pending protests
PS Yacht Leg 3 points Arrival Time Elapsed Time Combined Time PO Overall
Pos.
1 DJCE 8 09 JUN 02 15:42:30 001d 03h 42m 30s 132d 06h 24m 15s 33 6
2 ILBK 7 09 JUN 02 16:17:45 001d 04h 17m 45s 123d 05h 11m 24s 61 1
3 AART 6 09 JUN 02 18:13:40 001d 06h 18m 10s 127d 11h 14m 46s 55 2
4 ATOO 5 09 JUN 02 18:18:10 001d 06h 18m 10s ----- 16 8
5 AONE 4 09 JUN 02 18:19:30 001d 06h 19m 30s 124d 10h 44m 35s 44 3
Southampton, England, June 9, 2002 1700 GMT
Illbruck Victorious in Volvo Ocean Race
An ocean race of epic proportions reached its final conclusion today,
after 32,700 miles of racing. Winners, losers, glory and defeat, this
race has seen it all. A script for an ending such as this could not have
been written better. Djuice, the boat that struggled all the way around
the planet claimed victory in the leg while illbruck took the race in a
convincing manner.
Starting a race as the clear favourite was a heavy burden, but illbruck
lived up to the highest expectations right from the start. With a
conservative approach illbruck took the early lead in the race even though
disaster struck on the first day of leg two as the bow section filled with
water and for some dramatic hours it was unclear whether the yacht was in
danger of sinking. In an impressive team effort the crew around John
Kostecki got the yacht going again in last place, but it took them just a
few days to sail straight through the whole fleet on a middle course to
reclaim dominance on the fleet. They were rewarded with a spectacular
victory in Sydney end never returned the lead on the overall table.
The extremely well organized and developed sail program allowed illbruck
to save four new sails for the ultimate leg and they went well armed into
the final battle they won against Swedish archrival ASSA ABLOY.
The illbruck Challenge crew finished in Kiel to an enthusiastic reception
from friends, family, illbruck employees and customers and the thousands
of German sailing fans who have been following the team since the
around-the-world race started on September 23, 2001. Sail trimmer and sail
designer Ross Halcrow from New Zealand, the only crew member on board
illbruck who ever won the America’s Cup (1995 with Team NZL) exclaimed
enthusiastically: “This welcome has been huge and double as big as
whatever I have seen in the America’s Cup.”
Illbruck was the first German yacht to secure victory in a leg and in the
overall race, but they are just continuing a strong German tradition in
this race. Peter von Danzig sailed the first race in 1973/74 finishing
14th, followed by Walross III in 1981/82 and Schluessel von Bremen in the
1989/90 race. Inspired from the early competitors, professional sailor
Timmy Kroeger sailed the 1993/94 race on Intrum Justitia (second) and
1997/98 on Swedish Match (third).
The first place on this ultimate leg of the Volvo Ocean Race is a big
reward for the endurance djuice has shown in their difficult sail around
the world. Stricken by gear failure on the first leg and slow boat speed
in spite of endless hours of two boat sail testing in the reindexing legs
djuice managed a second place on the fourth leg to Rio as their second top
result. Finally they have overtaken Scandinavian rival SEB, who they put
to seventh place in the eight-strong fleet after the disastrous losses of
their rudder and mast in the Southern Ocean.
Figures about the number of spectators vary from 50000 to 100000 and the
boats on the Kieler Foerde were so tightly packed that one could have
crossed the water on dry feet.
Interview transcripts will be available upon request and will be published
on www.volvooceanrace.org
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 2, 1708 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL ETA PO
3 AART 54 31.12N 010 17.84E 12 229 11 158 12 09/06/02 18:22 55
4 ATOO 54 31.68N 010 18.88E 13 230 10.9 158 13 09/06/02 18:27 16
5 AONE 54 31.84N 010 19.16E 13 230 11.1 157 13 09/06/02 18:31 44
6 TSEB 54 39.84N 010 36.40E 26 223 11.1 145 26 09/06/02 19:56 32
7 TYCO 54 40.68N 010 38.12E 27 226 11 146 27 09/06/02 20:02 42
8 NEWS 54 41.12N 010 39.32E 28 227 11.1 144 28 09/06/02 20:08 41
PS – Position; DTF – Distance to Finish; CMG – Course made good; SMG –
Speed made good; TFHR – 24 hours run; DTL – Distance to leader; DTL-C –
Distance to leader change; ETA – Estimated time of arrival; PO –
accumulated Points
Overall position after five legs pending protests
PS Yacht Leg 3 points Arrival Time Elapsed Time Combined Time PO Overall
Pos.
1 DJCE 8 09 JUN 02 15:42:30 001d 03h 42m 30s 132d 06h 24m 15s 33 6
2 ILBK 7 09 JUN 02 16:17:45 001d 04h 17m 45s 123d 05h 11m 24s 61 1
Southampton, England, June 9, 2002 1000 GMT
Djuice Leads Procession At Langeland
Djuice is currently passing Langeland, the Danish island just 40 miles
from the finish line in Kiel in just 0.3 nautical mile distance to the
shore line in about 10 meters of water under the boat. They picked up a
fresh easterly breeze of around 11 knots, which have accelerated the yacht
to 10 knots. In this stable reaching conditions with the long island of
Langeland covering one side of the course, it should be easy for them to
hold the lead unchallenged for another two hours, bringing them much
closer to their first leg victory.
Illbruck is still on course for a clean overall victory with the current
second place in front of ASSA ABLOY. Still they are fighting to claim back
the lead from djuice on the leg to their home country Germany.
The battle for third is looking quite save for Amer Sports One, who are
neck and neck with their sister team Amer Sports Too nine miles in front
of News Corp. News Corp themselves are holding a tight cover on Tyco a
mile behind on last place.
In order to have the yachts finishing during the afternoon, the race
committee has informed the boats that the course is shortened and the
yachts will go from Kiel Lighthouse straight to the finish line at
Bluecherbrucke in the centre of Kiel.
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 2, 1006 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG DTL DTL-C ETA PO
1 DJCE 55 00.28N 010 54.72E 57 192 10.5 0 0 09/06/02 17:31 3
3
2 ILBK 55 05.96N 010 57.27E 63 188 9.7 6 +1 09/06/02 18:18 61
3 AART 55 11.48N 010 58.84E 68 189 8.2 11 +2 09/06/02 19:02 55
4 AONE 55 17.04N 010 59.80E 74 178 3.8 17 +6 09/06/02 19:46 45
5 ATOO 55 17.16N 011 00.00E 74 185 4.3 17 +6 09/06/02 19:47 15
6 TSEB 55 24.84N 010 56.76E 82 195 2.9 25 +7 09/06/02 20:53 32
7 NEWS 55 26.56N 010 58.84E 83 185 2.2 26 +7 09/06/02 21:03 42
8 TYCO 55 28.08N 010 58.24E 85 186 3.7 28 +6 09/06/02 21:15 41
Southampton, England, June 9th, 2002 0400 GMT
A Quiet Anchorage
There will be no speed records broken on this leg of the Volvo Ocean Race.
The 3 boats who traversed to the west of Anholt Island, closed to within 6
miles of the Danish indexland, and there they reindexed for what must have
been a very frustrating 2-3 hours. They were forced to break out the
anchors to stem a north flowing current, and SEB, Tyco and News Corp
finally started making tracks in the right direction at about 0130 GMT,
only to find themselves a good 20 miles behind the rest of the fleet.
Meanwhile, the leading pack of 5 has made consistent progress, albeit not
at a dashing pace! Djuice has held on to the lead for most of the night,
and is now 4 miles ahead of Illbruck`, and 29 miles ahead of Tyco at the
back of the fleet. The girls in Amer Sport Too are currently sampling the
heady delights of 4th place, and must be daring to hope that the wooden
spoon will be stirring someone else’s pot for a change!
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 2, 0404 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PO
1 DJCE 55 49.68N 010 54.04E 108 205 11.3 - 0 0 09/06/02 18:18 33
2 ILBK 55 53.56N 010 57.48E 112 201 11.7 - 4 0 09/06/02 18:52 61
3 AART 55 55.92N 010 59.68E 115 198 11.4 - 7 0 09/06/02 19:14 55
4 ATOO 55 58.68N 011 02.72E 118 195 10.3 - 10 +1 09/06/02 19:39 16
5 AONE 55 59.64N 011 01.96E 118 197 10.8 - 10 0 09/06/02 19:45 44
6 TSEB 56 10.88N 011 00.84E 130 182 10.3 - 22 +1 09/06/02 21:14 32
7 NEWS 56 15.28N 011 01.36E 134 187 8.9 - 26 +2 09/06/02 21:50 42
8 TYCO 56 18.00N 011 04.80E 137 183 8.6 - 29 +3 09/06/02 22:12 41
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