Oceanyachting Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 www.VolvoOceanRace.org zurück zur Hauptseite To: Dr. Krumnacker Irvin At: SEGEL.DE Deutscher Segelsport-Server Volvo Ocean Race News Room - August 8th - 2001 To keep you abreast of the fast moving developments in the Volvo Ocean Race, this short news update is issued monthly by email. Don't forget to check out our website at www.VolvoOceanRace.org The new race ready Volvo Ocean Race website was posted live on Wednesday 1st August. www.VolvoOceanRace.org will retain all the information on the former site but will offer a significant number of new features including the ability to register for SMS/WAP updates, a new gallery of Volvo Ocean 60 images from the eight syndicates plus regular features from the MadforSport editorial team. All the latest news and views, go to www.VolvoOceanRace.org Days to the start of the VOLVO OCEAN RACE: 47 SYNDICATE DETAILS ASSA ABLOY Racing Team (www.assaabloyracingteam.com) Skipper: Roy Heiner - NED Co-Skipper/Navigator : Mark Rudiger - USA Flag: Sweden Designer: Farr Yacht Design Press Contact: Josefine Lemmel josefine.lemmel@atlant.org Swedish Mobile: +46 73 3472449 Photographer: Thierry Martinez illbruck Challenge (www.illbruck-pinta.com) Skipper: John Kostecki - USA Navigator: Juan Vila -ESP/ Ian Moore - GBR Flag: Germany Designer: Farr Yacht Design Press Contact: Jane Eagleson - jeagleson@illbruckchallenge.com Tel: +49 2171 391 265 Mobile: +49 174 9785 273 Photographer Daniel Forster Djuice Dragon (www.djuice.com/dragons) Skipper: Knut Frostad - NOR Navigator: Jean-Yves Bernot - FRA Flag Norway Designer: Laurie Davidson - NZL Press Contact: Emma-Jane Sutcliffe - emma@djuicedragons.com Mobile: +47 97 698840 Photographer Jon Nash Nautor Challenge (www.nautorchallenge.com) Skipper Male Boat: Grant Dalton - NZL Co-Skipper: Bouwe Bekking - NED Navigator: Roger Nilson - SWE Skipper female boat: Lisa McDonald - GBR Navigator: Marie Claude Heyes - GBR Flag: Finland/Italy Designers: German Frers and Farr Yacht Design (one design each) Press Contact: Katarina Bonde - katarina@nautorchallenge.com Mobile: +46 733 844 337 Photographer TBC Team News Corp (www.teamnewscorp.com) Skipper: Jez Fanstone - GBR Navigator: Nick White- NZL/Ross Field - NZL Flag: Australia Designer: Farr Yacht Design Press Contact: Ashley Abbott - ashl016@attglobal.net Photographer Richard Langdon Team SEB (www.teamseb.com) Skipper: Gurra Krantz - SWE Navigator: Marcel van Triest - NED Flag: Sweden Designer: Farr Yacht Design Press Contact: Fredrik Trahn - fredrik.trahn@teamseb.com Tel: +46 8601 2676 Mobile: +46 7 913 6796 Photographer: Oskar Kihlborg TEAM TYCO (www.teamtyco.com) Skipper: Kevin Shoebridge - NZL Navigator: Steve Hayles - GBR Flag: Bermuda Designer: Farr Yacht Design Press Contact: Elsa Butler - ebutler@tyco.com Tel: 001 561 866 4885 Photographer: Jens Fisher NEWS FROM ASSA ABLOY The ASSA ABLOY Racing Team is continuing its sail-testing programme off Gothenburg with the two new identical Farr designed Volvo Ocean 60's. The team have been blessed with ideal wind and weather conditions with the two boats reaching top speeds of over 30 knots during some intensive sail testing during the last week. Alongside the sail testing, crew testing has been an important issue during the summer although the team have strengthened further this week this the news that Neal McDonald, who competed in the last race on Silk Cut and in The Race aboard Club Med will join the crew, starting with the Rolex Fastnet Race. There are still two crewmembers to be decided upon, who will be selected in the near future. In the coming week, the ASSA ABLOY team will be sail testing both yachts over a longer passage, sailing from Sweden to England, which will also serve as the 2000 nautical mile qualification sail for the Volvo Ocean Race. The team will contest the Rolex Fastnet Race in mid August with only one of the boats and then sail test back to Gothenburg with both boats. The ASSA ABLOY Racing Team included a dummy run of the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race Gothenburg to Kiel in June to get familiar with the conditions that can be expected for the race finale. The team sailed the 250 nautical miles in 31 hours. Skipper Roy Heiner reported from Kiel, "This will be an interesting leg, we had a lot of wind changes and unexpected conditions. It will be very challenging to race the other boats here. The battle will be close to the finish line". NEWS FROM djuice dragons To ensure enough training and preparation time for the Volvo Ocean Race, djuice dragons has decided not to participate in the Rolex Fastnet Race. The team will stay in Norwegian waters until closer to the race start. Over the last week, the race boat, djuice, has been on shore being modified and fitted entirely into race mode. The team has been working day and night to ensure the boat is truly "race ready" (right down to the eating utensils) enabling them to concentrate solely on sailing for the next month. The non-race boat has been sailing, mostly with sponsors and press. The race boat will be re-launched this week, and the two-boat racing will resume. Tim Dean (UK) the team's rigger will be starting full time in the beginning of August. Erle Williams (Team New Zealand) is assisting djuice dragons as part of the afterguard, and will race some legs with them. The final race crew of 16 will be announced soon. djuice's new official supplier, BonAqua, is on board, providing the team with limitless sparkling mineral water while BonAqua, a Coca Cola company, is currently filming three TV commercials starring skipper, Knut Frostad. NEWS FROM Team SEB The last couple of weeks have been very intense for Team SEB. Firstly, the race against djuice from Göteborg to Stockholm was the syndicate's first start with the new boat, SEB. While starting with confidence, unfortunately the wind gradually died leaving the team to motor a majority of the way to Stockholm. The next race start was the Gotland Runt. Again, the team felt confident at the start and had a good race against djuice the whole way round and were very happy to take first place in the Volvo Ocean 60 class at the finish. NEWS FROM Nautor Challenge Following the christening of Nautor Challenge's two Volvo Ocean 60's, Amer Sports One and Amer Sports Too, at the end of July in the picturesque Porto Cervo yacht harbour, Sardinia, the syndicate immediately relocated to North West Spain for their final work up period before the race start. The trip through the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic completes the 2000nm qualifying passage for both Grant Dalton and Lisa McDonald. They have elected not to compete in the Fastnet Race but will relocate to Portsmouth, England, in late August. NEWS FROM Team Tyco Team Tyco arrived in Hamble at August 3 following their Transatlantic sail and have set up their base at Hamble Point Marina. The yacht is due to measured in within the next few days but will compete in the Rolex Fastnet Race. During the America's Cup Jubilee Regatta, the Tyco crew will race the J-Class yacht, Endeavour. NEWS FROM illbruck Challenge Having just completed, and won, the informal transatlantic race last week, most of the activity in the illbruck camp over the coming days will be overhauling and preparing the boat and crew for the Rolex Fastnet Race, when , uniquely, illbruck Syndicate Chairman Michael Illbruck plans to join the crew. Following the Fastnet, the team will be based from Hamble until the start of the Volvo Ocean Race. NEWS FROM Team News Corporation Team News Corp's Farr designed race yacht made her public debut in July, as she was christened in New York prior to a transatlantic qualifying passage that emulated leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race. Fox News anchorwoman Paula Zahn did the honours and cracked the traditional bottle of champagne alongside News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, watched by 500 company employees. Her 13 crew, which include some of yachting most experienced players plus a novice, were also unveiled to the world. Backing up British skipper Jez Fanstone will be double race winner Ross Field (New Zealand), America's Cup sailor Peter Isler (USA) plus 1993-1994 and 1997-1998 Whitbread sailors Nick White (NZL), Steve Cotton (AUS), Jeff Scott (NZL) and Gordon Maguire (IRE). Yet, the star member of the crew will be Bart Simpson, the misunderstood under-achiever of television longest running sitcom, "The Simpsons". Bart will represent Team News Corps sponsor in the Volvo Ocean Race, News Corporation, whose affiliate, 20th Century Fox, holds "The Simpsons" copyright. Bart's image features on both Team News Corp's hull & spinnaker's. In close consultation with "The Simpsons" creator and executive consultant Matt Groening, Bart was brought to life. "This is the first time I've let Bart venture this far from the Simpson's family," said Groening. "But I love sailing and think Bart will do a good job, encouraging people of all ages to get behind this great sport". www.TeamNewsCorp.com, the official website, was also launched alongside the yacht. The site, developed by leading New Zealand web development company Terabyte, a key player in the development of Virtual Spectator, has been designed to create a truly on board experience. Emails, video footage and photos direct from the boat at sea will be uploaded regularly and an interactive boat model strips a Volvo Ocean 60 layer by layer, exposing information and photos about each aspect of the boat. QUOTE (S) OF THE MONTH: "The owners, designers and builders of these boats must be shaking their collective heads wondering why they poured so much time, effort and of course money into these projects only for the boats to be performing closer than most one design fleets around the world". Stu Bannatyne - illbruck Challenge "The Farr boat's a stock Farr boat-fine in the front and big bumps at the waterline tanks. It's a skinny-waterline, lots-of-rocker boat. The Frers boat is a boat designed around the beams of the tank so it's fatter on the waterline and shallower on the rocker. There's definitely a lot more power in the hull itself. A lot more. When they're sitting next to each other, the Frers boat is stable in the water and the Farr boat's jumping all around. So, in any type of power sailing I would guess that the Frers boat will kick the Farr boats around. It's going to be a lot easier to sail in a big breeze on any point of sail-especially in breeze downwind. I like the bulb design a lot better, too. It's longer, more like an America's Cup bulb." Dee Smith - Nautor Challenge QUALIFYING SAIL "A light south westerly guided the electric lime green illbruck Challenge across the line off the Royal Yacht Squadron in the early hours on last Friday morning. As an indication of what we may come to expect in the Volvo Ocean Race, illbruck Challenge was first home in an informal race across the Atlantic with Team Tyco and Team News Corp. Team Tyco finished just 11 minutes behind the German boat after 12 days and 3,500 miles of racing with Team News Corp a few more minutes behind". For the complete story please go to www.VolvoOceanRace.org VOLVO OCEAN RACE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME This 128-page colour magazine is nearing completion and will be published on September 1st with a cover price in the UK of GBP7.50. It contains in-depth details on all the syndicates, profiles of the skippers, and a preview of each leg, together with features on each of the ports of call. Advanced orders are being taken now by Graeme Beeson at graemeb@zoom.co.uk . WHO WILL BE THE FASTEST BY FARR IN THE FASTNET? The Rolex Fastnet Race, one of the three classic offshore sailing events in the world, will start at 16.00hrs on Sunday 12 August off Cowes, Isle of Wight. England. With six weeks to the start of the Volvo Ocean Race, the lions share of attention will go to the four Farr designed and race ready Volvo Ocean 60's, representing Team SEB, News Corporation, illbruck Challenge and ASSA ABLOY, who will join the 240 boat fleet that will contest the 610 nm race. The course takes the fleet out of the Western Solent towards Lands End, into the Irish Sea and around the famous Fastnet Rock off Southern Ireland before racing back to Plymouth in Devon. Should the Fastnet fleet encounter the kind of strong idealic downwind conditions that propelled the Volvo Ocean 60 Nokia to a course record in the 2000 Sydney to Hobart race, the race record for the Volvo 60 fleet set by illbruck 2 in 1999 with an average speed of 11.36 knots may tumble. The index overall competition for line and record honours will come from the 90 footers, Mike Slade's Skandia Leopard and Giovanni Ignelli's Stealth. With no substitute for waterline length amongst monohulls in light conditions, should it be a light wind race the interest will purely centre on the private battle between the four Volvo Ocean Race syndicates. While the class winner of the last two races has not gone on to win the round the world race, the performance divide between the latest generation of Volvo Ocean 60's is smaller than ever with advantages measured by inches and seconds, and not by the calendar. The winning crew of the Rolex Fastnet race will carry an important psychological advantage the next time the Volvo Ocean 60 fleet lines up proper, on the afternoon of September 23rd. Follow the Fastnet progress on www.VolvoOceanRace.org THE START OF THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE The Volvo Ocean Race will start at 15.00hrs (local time) on 23rd September 2001, off Cowes, Isle of Wight. The start will be from the Royal Yacht Squadron line and the fleet will leave the Solent to the west, via Hurst Castle and the Needles Channel. The index shipping channel will be closed for the period of the start (14.00hrs-15.15hrs) by kind permission of Associated British Ports. Spectator vessels must reindex outside the corridor until the competing yachts have passed and under no circumstances travel in front. The competing yachts can travel at 9.5 knots to windward, 15 knots on a reach and at over 20 knots downwind and should be given plenty of room to manoeuvre. A complete Mariners Guide to the start of the Volvo Ocean Race will be available on www.VolvoOceanRace.org from September 1st. Commercial Partners of the Volvo Ocean Race Sjoo Sandstrom Official Time Keeper Wallenius Wilhelmsen Official Shipping Line Kinnarps Official Sponsor of the Volvo Ocean Race HQ ACR Electronics Official Supplier of Marine Safety Electronics Dubarry of Ireland Official Supplier of Marine Footwear Musto Official Supplier of Performance Clothing Nera SatCom Official Supplier of Satcom Equipment Peters & May Official Freight Coordinator Pilotfish Networks Official Supplier of Marine Wireless Gateways Volvo Penta Official Supplier of Marine Engines Waterford Crystal Official Trophy Supplier Virtual Spectator Official Event Tracker ABOUT THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE The Volvo Ocean Race will start from Southampton, England on September 23rd 2001. This professionally crewed event will cover 32,700 nm in approximately ten months, circumnavigating the world with the prevailing winds. The nine-leg race will visit 10 ports, racing through four oceans, and finish in Kiel, Germany in June 2002. The race is jointly owned and sponsored by Volvo Car Corporation and The Volvo Group. Regattakalender Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 Starthafen Start Zielhafen Ankunft SM Southhampton 23.09.01 Kapstadt 23.10.01 7.350 Kapstadt 11.11.01 Sydney 01.12.01 6.100 Sydney/via Hobart) 26.12.01 Auckland 03.01.02 2.050 Auckland 27.01.02 Rio de Jan. 19.02.02 2.050 Rio de Jan. 09.03.02 Miami 14.04.02 4.450 Miami 14.04.02 Baltimore 17.04.02 875 Baltimore 28.04.02 La Rochelle 11.05.02 3.400 La Rochelle 25.05.02 Göteborg 31.05.02 1.075 Göteborg 08.06.02 Kiel 09.06.02 250 Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE