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The
event will start on November 5, 2005, with an inport
race in Sanxenxo, Galicia, Spain followed by the start
of leg one from the neighbouring port of Vigo, on
November 12, 2005.
The
race track will continue to follow the traditional route
of the old clipper ships, sailing around the world with
the prevailing winds.
An exciting new feature introduced for this event is a
number of scoring gates and pit stops around the world,
where the fleet will be able to score points, which will
count towards the final score.
COMPETING TEAMS :
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ABN
AMRO BOAT 1
(Netherlands)
Skipper Mike Sanderson (NZ)
Designer Juan Kouyoumdjian
ABN AMRO BOAT 2
(Youth Team)
Skipper TBA
Designer Juan Kouyoumdjian
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ABN
AMRO : (The Netherlands) has entered two boats
into the Volvo Ocean Race. Both boats are
designed by Argentinean, Juan Kouyoumdjian.
Irishman, Killian Bushe, builder of illbruck,
the winner in 2001-02, is constructing both
boats. It is a three year project, with a
budget of approx. EUR 20 million.
The crew of the first boat are professionals,
but the second boat will have an international
crew of promising young men and women aged
between 21 and 30. Applications are
exclusively being accepted via a dedicated
website: www.abnamro.com/team
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ATLANT
OCEAN RACING
Skipper TBA
Designer Farr Yacht Design
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Race
veterans, Richard Brisius and Johan Salén
from Sweden, who have achieved three podium
finishes in the last three races, will
manage this project. Sweden’s Magnus
Olsson will also be involved, bringing his
experience of five round the world races to
the campaign. Construction will begin
immediately at Green Marine in Lymington UK,
overseen by Britain’s Jason Carrington who
carried out a similar role with the Assa
Abloy team for the last race.
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ATLANT
OCEAN RACING (USA)
Skipper TBA
Designer Farr Yacht Design
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The
'Pirates of the Caribbean II' campaign will
be headed by Atlant Ocean Racing, the
syndicate company of Richard Brisius and
Johan Salen. The boat will be built in Green
Marine, Lymington, Hampshire. |
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Race
veterans, Richard Brisius and Johan
Salén from Sweden, who have achieved
three podium finishes in the last
three races, will manage this project.
Sweden's Magnus Olsson will also be
involved, bringing his experience of
five round the world races to the
campaign. Construction will begin
immediately at Green Marine in
Lymington UK, overseen by Britain's
Jason Carrington who carried out a
similar role with the Assa Abloy team
for the last race. |
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BRAZIL
1 : (Brazil) Brazilian Star Class
World Champion Alan Adler will lead
Brasil 1 with Torben Grael as
helmsman. The team has secured the
majority of its funding and plans to
announce its designers and builders
once discussions with sponsors are
concluded in due course.
Designers under consideration are
Farr Yacht Design and Mani Frers. |
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PREMIER
CHALLENGE : (Australia) The
Australian team, Premier Challenge,
headed by Grant Wharington, has been
joined by ING Real Estate as
Construction Sponsor. This
sponsorship alleviated any financial
concerns during design and
construction phase. Don Jones, has
been appointed as Chief Designer and
construction of the boat began in
October 2004, with a planned launch
date of early June 2005. |
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TELEFÓNICA
MOVISTAR: (Spain) will take part in
the race by entering a team from
Galicia. Telefónica MoviStar,
the leading Spanish telecoms company,
is the major sponsor of the syndicate,
with additional funding coming from
other companies. Telefónica
MoviStar has been supporting former
America's Cup skipper Pedro Campos
with his IMS race boat campaigns for
several seasons. |
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RACE
TRACK
| SANXENXO |
In-port
race |
05-Nov-05 |
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| VIGO |
Leg
1 START |
12-Nov-05 |
Distance
6,400 nm |
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| CAPE
TOWN |
Leg
1 FINISH |
04-Dec-05 |
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In-port
race |
26-Dec-05 |
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Leg
2 START |
02-Jan-06 |
Distance
6,100 nm |
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| MELBOURNE |
Leg
2 FINISH |
19-Jan-06 |
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In-port
race |
04-Feb-06 |
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Leg
3 START |
12-Feb-06 |
Distance
1,450 nm |
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| WELLINGTON
(Pitstop) |
Leg
3 FINISH |
17-Feb-06 |
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Leg
4 START |
19-Feb-06 |
Distance
6,700 nm |
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| RIO
DE JANEIRO |
Leg
4 FINISH |
13-Mar-06 |
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In-port
race |
25-Mar-06 |
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Leg
5 START |
02-Apr-06 |
Distance
5,000 nm |
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| BALTIMORE/ANNAPOLIS |
Leg
5 FINISH |
20-Apr-06 |
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In-port
race |
29-Apr-06 |
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Leg
6 START |
07-May-06 |
Distance
400 nm |
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| NEW
YORK (Pitstop) |
Leg
6 FINISH |
09-May-06 |
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Leg
7 START |
11-May-06 |
Distance
3,200 nm |
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| PORTSMOUTH |
Leg
7 FINISH |
23-May-06 |
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In-port
race |
29-May-06 |
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Leg
8 START |
03-Jun-06 |
Distance
1,500 nm |
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| ROTTERDAM |
Leg
8 FINISH |
09-Jun-06 |
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In-port
race |
11-Jun-06 |
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Leg
9 START |
15-Jun-06 |
Distance
500 nm |
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| GOTHENBURG |
Leg
9 FINISH |
17-Jun-06 |
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PORT AND LEGS
Traditionally the race has
always begun in the UK, and the first change comes with
the inclusion of Vigo as the start port, details of
which will be published nearer to the start of the
event.
After an inshore race in Sanxenxo, Galicia, the
first leg will start from the
neighbouring port of Vigo and take the fleet south, via
a scoring gate at Fernando
da Noronha, on the Brazilian
coast, to Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town has been a
natural part of previous races given its geographical
location where two of the world's great oceans meet, and
thereby a logical destination for leg one.
Leg two
will be the first test of the Southern Ocean.
Historically, the event has always been known and
respected for its long ocean legs, taking the event far
south into the Southern Ocean. It is racing across this
lonely ocean that allows the sailors to use their
experience and push their boats to the limit and it is
generally considered to provide the most exciting ocean
racing in the world. To make it even more exciting, we
have introduced a scoring
gate at the Kerguelen Islands
and another at Eclipse
Island, off Albany on the west
coast of Australia. The leg finish will be in Melbourne,
Australia.
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Leg three
will take the fleet to Wellington for a pit-stop.
Instead of the rolling start as seen in the Hobart
pit-stop in the last edition of the race, the boats will
start from Wellington as a fleet, beginning leg
four, which takes them back
into the Southern Ocean and around the infamous Cape
Horn, which will also be a scoring gate,
before the hot slog up to the leg finish in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. South America has been a part of the
race since its conception in 1973, and we are pleased to
continue the tradition of stopping in this important
world market place.
Leg five
will go direct to Baltimore, missing out a stopover in
Florida, but with the inclusion of a scoring
gate at Fernando da Noronha. Leg
six will start from Annapolis
as in previous years and take the fleet on a short leg
to New York, which is another new port for the Volvo
Ocean Race 2005-2006. Leg
seven will start from New York
and will set the fleet up for a crack at the Blue Riband
transatlantic record from the Ambrose Light to
the Lizard off the south western coast of England
(which will also be a scoring gate), before finishing
the leg in Portsmouth.
Leg eight
will send the fleet westwards through the English
Channel and around Irland and the north of the UK to
finish in Rotterdam, Holland.
And finally the fleet will sail the
ninth leg from Rotterdam to
Gothenburg in Sweden , the home of Volvo and the scene
of huge support during the last event.
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Leg
one Vigo, Galicia to Cape
Town
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Leg
two Cape Town to Melbourne
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Leg
three Melbourne to
Wellington
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Leg
four Wellington to Rio de
Janeiro
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Leg
five Rio to
Baltimore/Annapolis
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Leg
six Baltimore/Annapolis to
New York
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Leg
seven New York to
Portsmouth
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Leg
eight Portsmouth to
Rotterdam
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Leg
nine Rotterdam to
Gothenburg FINISH
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PIT
STOPS
Following the huge success of the very first ocean
racing pit stop, in Hobart, Tasmania, during the
previous event, we have decided to include two pit stops
for this edition of the race. The first will be in
Wellington and the second will be in New York. Pit stops
not only provide a marvellous media opportunity, but
also a grandstand for the public, enabling them to get
up close and personal with the crews when they are in
full-on racing mode and find out what really goes on
when the pressure is high. Teams will also collect full
points for their finishing positions at pit stops, which
will be between 24 hours and 48 hours in duration. After
each pit stop, the race will restart as a fleet.
| In
Port Races |
DATE
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| SANXENXO
(GALICIA) |
5-Nov-05 |
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| CAPE
TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA) |
26-Dec-05 |
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| MELBOURNE
(AUSTRALIA) |
4-Feb-06 |
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| RIO
DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) |
25-Mar-06 |
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| BALITMORE/ANNAPOLIS
(USA) |
29-Apr-06 |
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| PORTSMOUTH
(UK) |
29-May-06 |
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| ROTTERDAM
(NED) |
11-Jun-06 |
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| Scoring
Gates |
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| Archipelago
of Fernando de Noronha |
LEG
1
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| Kerguelen
and Eclipse Islands |
LEG
2
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| Cape
Horn |
LEG
4
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| Archipelago
of Fernando de Noronha |
LEG
5
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| Lizard
Point |
LEG
7
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THE VOLVO
OCEAN RACE 2005-2006