Oceanyachting - Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 Leg 9 - Göteborg - Kiel zur Gesamtübersicht - Fotogalerie 2002 Leg-9 10. Juni 2002 „illbruck“ als Sieger in Kiel enthusiatisch gefeiert Noch nie erlebte Kiel ein so grandioses Segelereignis Kiel-9.Juni 2002 – Die Kieler Förde kochte, als die grün-weiße Rennyacht „illbruck“ am Sonntag Nachmittag vor weit mehr als 200.000 Zuschauern die Ziellinie an der Blücherbrücke überquerte. Die Leverkusener Hochseeyacht hatte um Punkt 18.17 Uhr und 45 Sekunden nach hartem und erbittertem Kampf das Volvo Ocean Race Round the World 2001-2002 gewonnen. Der Etappensieg des letzten Streckenabschnitts von Göteborg nach Kiel ging überraschend an die norwegische „djuice“. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der härtesten Segelregatta einmal um die Welt hat damit ein deutschen Schiff diesen Hochseeklassiker gewonnen. Das gesamte illbruck Challenge-Team um Chef Michael Illbruck und Skipper John Kostecki mit dem Münchener Vorschiffsmann Tony Kolb als einzigem Deutschen im Rennen genoss den grenzenlos überschäumenden Jubel in vollen Zügen. Gesamt-Berichterstattung Michael Illbruck mit Gattin und John Kostecki Kiel, Germany, June 10th, 2002 High-tech high-speed Germany’s illbruck crossed the finish line of the final leg from Gothenburg to Kiel on Sunday June 9th to win the Volvo Ocean Race. On their way around the world, illbruck Challenge won four of nine legs, and set a world sailing speed record. All with high-tech high-speed support from satellite based communications. Imagine that you are sailing your yacht offshore, trying to find the best winds and weather conditions. Anyone who has steered or navigated a yacht knows how difficult this is. Weather conditions may change at a second, and winds may vary considerably. You are desperate to know as much as possible about where the wind is. Decisive strategic choices Information about wind and weather conditions is certainly even more important to the competitors participating in the Volvo Ocean Race. Partly based on weather information, the navigator suggests the route and the skipper decides the strategy. The Volvo Ocean Race has been very tight on several occasions, at the finish of the eighth leg, five boats crossed the line within seven minutes. Needless to say, strategic choices may decide who goes to the podium as winners, and who’s left behind. Race winners illbruck have made the correct strategic choices. There are several reasons to why Illbruck won this race, but certainly their strategic choices have been one of the most important. Thanks to excellent navigating, illbruck have been able to use weather conditions to their advantage. illbruck carries state-of-the-art communications equipment, and the navigators have had Internet access to continuous update on weather. High-tech sailors The boats participating at the Volvo Ocean Race are equipped with the satellite based communication system Saturn B, from Norwegian provider Nera Satcom. The system provides each boat with a high-speed data connection enabling boats to have office like communication possibilities, used among other things to transfer TV-quality video to the shore. Also important for the sailors is access to regular office tools like the Internet, mail andphonecalls . Each navigator may use weather information from a long list of Internet sites to route the yacht on its optimum course. “We are totally dependent on the Inmarsat Satellite channels and the Nera Saturn Bm terminal,” Technical Equipment Manager, Andy Hindley, of Volvo Ocean Race comments: “All the yachts need access to high-speed data connections in order to transmit media material and update us with information from the race course – no matter where they are on the planet.” Next race – next generation? When the race started in 2001, Saturn Bm was the very best equipment available. Today however, Inmarsat and Nera have launched an even better system: the Inmarsat Fleet F77 communications system, operated by a Nera F77 terminal. This terminal allows continuous high-speed availability for all office equipment, allowing the boat to act just like another office at sea. One of the new features of this system is the MPDS (Mobile Packet Data System), allowing the user to stay continuously online, paying only for data transmitted rather than time spent online. Nera F77 is already available for commercial shipping, and has attracted considerable interest among leisure yacht sailors. Volvo Ocean Race and Nera have addressed the interest for using the system in the next race: “We are always looking for ways to further improve our event. Using Nera F77 in the next race with the MPDS solution, providing continuous access to the internet and allowing easier sending of media material, will increase the quality even further,” Andy Hindley adds. Southampton, England, Leg 9 Illbruck Victorious In Volvo Ocean Race The day for the final restart in the Volvo Ocean Race 2001 – 2002 from Gothenburg to Kiel, dawned fair and clear, and the normally huge crowd seen in the race village every day since the arrival of the fleet in Gothenburg on the 29th May was depleted. The locals headed instead for the islands of the archipelago or down to their boats, picnic baskets loaded, and intent on having the time of their lives watching the eight V.O. 60s line up to do battle for the last time. The start line was established ¼ mile to the south east of the island of Alvsborgson, which is approximately two miles from the bridge marking the entrance to Gothenburg Harbour. The start gun was fired from the ramparts of the island fort at 1400 local time. The fleet set starboard pole spinnakers early for a clean downwind start in a patchy eight to 12-knot easterly breeze, illbruck setting themselves up directly to windward of ASSA ABLOY. After crossing the line, Amer Sports One gybed immediately onto port, followed by teammates Amer Sports Too. The very narrow channel, with banks of spectator boats on both sides, forced Amer Sports One to gybe back after ten boat lengths. As the fleet made their way towards the Trubaduren light, at the outer limit of the archipelago, it was illbruck just over a mile ahead of SEB, the rest of the fleet bunched together in a tight group, but all struggling for wind, sails slatting in the hot sun, the crews searching for whispers, or ‘cat’s paws’ of breeze. Once clear of Trubaduren light, the fleet will head south-southwest towards Storebaelt, which is the channel between the Danish island of Sjaelland, where the city of Copenhagen is located, and the island of Fyen. The course of 220 nautical miles was lengthened by a further nine miles at 1100 local time today, although the Race Committee could decide shorten the course again once the lead boat reaches Kiel light tomorrow. The fleet got into a tense gibing duel straight after the gun. The dying easterly wind was slowly replaced by a weak westerly sea breeze, creating tricky and patchy conditions. Roughly every two minutes the teams had to gybe to clear the channel, boats with the right of way or to clear the spectator crafts. The crew on ASSA ABLOY experienced near disaster when they almost collided with a spectator boat after the team gybed away into the fleet of sailing fans to make up some distance. The situation was chaotic. With that move in to the spectator boats, Neal McDonald and his men made up some distance. But before reaching ‘Trubaduren light’, at the end of the shipping lane, ASSA ABLOY was plagued by a number of wind holes and dropped back to sixth. After some hours into the race the fleet has split in two groups with Tyco, SEB, News Corp in the west and illbruck, ASSA ABLOY, djuice, Amer Sports One and Amer Sports Too in the east. The navigators on the yachts had to decide on the side they wanted to leave the island of Anholt, by that time 30 miles to the south of their positions. If the westerly breeze had staid for the next couple of hours, the westerly route was shorter towards the entrance into the Great Belt. If the forecast easterlies were due to set in, the easterly fleet would pick it up first and could gain a big advantage. As the island of Anholt is very flat, the wind shouldn’t get changed too heavily. Djuice passed 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 has accelerated the yacht to 10 knots. In this stable reaching conditions with the long island of Langeland covering one side of the course, it was easy for them to hold the lead unchallenged, bringing them much closer to their first leg victory. 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 were 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 was 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. ASSA ABLOY’s performance indicator over the duration of the race showed a clear direction for the team: straight to the podium. 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. 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, Tyco managed to escape in the fluky conditions 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. THE SECOND VOLVO OCEAN RACE WILL START FROM EUROPE IN THE AUTUMN OF 2005 Following the enormous success of the inaugural Volvo Ocean Race, it was announced today that the next Volvo Ocean Race will start in Europe in the autumn of 2005. This was confirmed by Mr Hans-Olov Olsson, President of Volvo Car Corporation, Mr Jorma Halonen, President of Volvo Trucks and representing the Volvo Group, and Mr Helge Alten, current Chief Executive of the Volvo Ocean Race. Mr Jorma Halonen commented, “We within the Volvo Group found it very easy to make the decision to support the continuation of this race. The media returns have been overwhelming, and the response within the Volvo Group has been very positive. We are looking forward to another successful event starting in 2005, and I can assure you that we, within Volvo, feel a strong commitment to develop the race to even higher levels of success.” The current edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, currently in the middle of the Gothenburg stopover, has been the most successful round the world race to date. On the water, the event has featured closer racing than ever before, new world speed records, and a successful mix of shorter course and long ocean racing legs. In terms of media coverage, this Volvo Ocean Race has exceeded every expectation, with unprecedented television, radio, print and Internet coverage for a round the world sailing event. Through the first six (of nine) stopovers, the race had reached a cumulative television audience of over 650-million viewers, across major markets in Europe, the United States, South America, Australasia and Africa. Radio distribution through the BBC World Service, and Voice of America has brought the Volvo Ocean Race to millions of listeners while the event has resulted in nearly 13,000 press cuttings in monitored territories, through to the end of leg six. Finally, the event website, www.volvooceanrace.org has reached nearly three-million unique visitors, making it the most widely viewed sailing Internet site. Hans-Olov Olsson confirmed, “To be an owner of such a great event as this, has proven to be a really valuable asset. It works as a communicator both internally and externally, and just the pure TV and press coverage will give us our money back”. With the 2001 – 2002 Volvo Ocean Race scheduled to finish in Kiel, Germany on the 9th June, thoughts are naturally turning to the next event, and Volvo has been evaluating the future direction the race should take, and what changes should be made to achieve this. It is expected that the route will include stopovers in South Africa, Australasia, South America, the USA, and Europe. Details of the final course will be announced in the spring of 2003. Also currently under consideration is the possibility of including fleet racing whilst in port with points to count towards the final score. Innovation has always been a signature of this event and discussions are now underway for the design of a new monohull race boat with decisions expected later this year. One of the major objectives of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006 is to reduce the entry-level cost of a competitive campaign. Reducing the length of the event and the number of stopovers will significantly contribute to this. Another area where costs can be decreased is in the design, construction and sail plan of the race-boat and Volvo is considering a number of options. The event will continue to be managed by Volvo Event Management from the race head Quarters in the UK. Information will be distributed at the time decisions are made, and the Preliminary Notice of Race will be published in Spring 2003. Overall results: 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 ILBK illbruck Challenge AONE Amer Sports One ATOO Amer Sports Two AART ASSA ABLOY Racing Team NEWS News Corporation TYCO Team Tyco TSEB Team SEB DJCE djuice dragons Volvo and Volvo Ocean Race Background The Volvo Car Corporation has its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. 27,400 people worldwide are employed by Volvo Cars and in the year 2001, the company sold 420,500 cars. Volvo is one of the world’s leading suppliers of commercial transport solutions. The group manufactures trucks, buses, and construction equipment, power systems for marine and industrial use, and aircraft engine components. Founded in 1927, Volvo currently has about 79.000 employees, manufacturing operations in 30 countries and a worldwide market and service organisation. The Volvo Ocean Race is run every four years. It starts in Southampton on September 23rd 2001 and finishes in Kiel, Germany, on June 9th 2002. Over a period lasting some nine months, the Volvo Ocean Race will reach a broad audience around the world via modern communication technology. Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE