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1997–1998 Whitbread Round The World Race
The 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race was the seventh edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. The Whitbread Round the World Race ran for the first time with all W60 boats and to a "points vs time" (instead of aggregate leg time) scoring system to enhance the value of the shorter race legs. Also, in an effort to attract additional media coverage, the Whitbread race committee divided the race into no less than 9 legs for the 1997 to 1998 race, therefore increasing the number of ports visited. Volvo had its first major association with the race in 1997 to 1998 by sponsoring the trophy (thus the race was officially known as the Whitbread 'round the world race for the Volvo Trophy) and some of the media coverage. For the first time running to W60-only specification, this year's Whitbread attracted just 10 entries—the fewest to date. Participants America's Challenge Led by Neil Barth and skippered by Ross Field, the team bought ''Yam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitbread 60
The Whitbread 60 (W60), later known as the Volvo Ocean 60 (VO60), was a class of ocean racing yacht built to a " box rule" specifying key design parameters of the 10 smaller yachts which took part the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race. The class raced with such success that the following race was restricted to Whitbread 60s only. Its design was used for the last time in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race, replaced thereafter by the sophisticated, canting keel Volvo Open 70 The Volvo Open 70 (sometimes referred to as a Volvo Ocean 70) is the former class of racing yachts designed for the Volvo Ocean Race. It was first used in the 2005–06 race (replacing the Volvo Ocean 60 yachts which were first used in 1993). ..., built to a new box rule. Box Rule specifications Yachts A total of 32 Volvo Ocean 60s were built for the three editions the class was used by the race. 28 of these competed in the race with 4 boats being built as training boats for two boat testing alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Humphries
Matthew "Matt" Humphries (born 21 July 1971) is a British sailor. He participated in the Volvo Ocean Race five times: in 1989–90 with ''With Integrity'', 1993–94 as skipper of ''Reebok/Dolphin & Youth'', 1997–98 with '' America's Challenge'' and ''Swedish Match'', 2001–02 with ''Team SEB'' and ''Team News Corp'', and 2005–06 with ''Brunel''. He was 18 when he sailed ''With Integrity ''Great Britain II'' (also ''United Friendly'', ''Norsk Data GB'', ''With Integrity'', ''Whitbread Heritage'') is a Maxi racing yacht launched by Anne, Princess Royal, Princess Anne on 21 May 1973 named after the , built by Isambard Kingdom Brune ...'', becoming the youngest ever person to sail in the race. In 2002, due to a conflict with skipper Gurra Krantz, Humphries was forced to resign the VOR Yacht team SOB. References External links * British male sailors (sport) Volvo Ocean Race sailors Volvo Ocean 60 class sailors 1971 births Living people {{England-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Olsson (sailor)
Magnus Olsson (4 January 1949 in Bromma, Stockholm – 20 April 2013 in Spain) was a Swedish competitive sailor. He took part in six Whitbread/Volvo Ocean races between 1985 and 2009. He won the 1997–98 race with the ''EF Language''. Magnus Olsson was a coach of Volvo Ocean Race Team SCA until April 2013, when he suffered a stroke and died at a hospital in Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi .... Achievements References External links * 1949 births 2013 deaths Swedish male sailors (sport) Volvo Ocean Race sailors 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Erickson
Steven Richard Erickson (born August 14, 1961) is an American sailor and Olympic champion in the Star class. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won a gold medal in the Star together with William Earl Buchan. Career Olympic sailing in the Star class Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and just finished with studies at University of Washington, Erickson won the gold medal in the Star event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Steve Erickson continued in the Star class and won the Star World Championship two times: in 1985 with William Earl Buchan; and, in 1988 with Paul Cayard. America's Cup and Whitbread Round the World Race Erickson's first America's Cup was with Tom Blackaller, on the 12 Metre US 61 ''USA R-1'' from San Francisco. He served as the mainsail trimmer during the 1987 America's Cup in Perth, Western Australia. At the 1992 America's Cup, Erickson was one of the coaches for the '' Il Moro Challenge''. At the 1995 America's Cup, Erickson was a tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Smith
Lawrie Smith (born 19 February 1956) is a British sailor. He won a bronze medal in the soling class at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ... with Robert Cruikshank and Ossie Stewart. He was the skipper of various yachts at the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989–90, 1993–94 and 1997–98. He was the Overall Winner of the Henri Lloyd 'Outstanding Act of Seamanship' Award at the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race . References External links * * * 1956 births Living people British male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Soling Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Soling Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 America's Cup
The 30th America's Cup was won by Team New Zealand, who swept the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup winner Prada Challenge in all five races. It was the first America's Cup without an American challenger or defender. Races Crew Team New Zealand * Sailed in Race 5 The crew included Rick Dodson, Hamish Pepper, Jeremy Scantlebury, Murray Jones, Matthew Mason, Jeremy Lomas, Craig Monk, Chris Ward, Grant Loretz, Mike Drummond, Jono Macbeth, Barry McKay, Joe Allen, Nick Heron, Tony Rae, Dean Phipps, Warwick Fleury and Simon Daubney. Peter Blake did not sail with the team in 2000, acting as the on-shore manager. Peter Evans was the backup tactician and ran the weather programme. Prada Challenge References ultimatesail.com {{America'sCup 2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Cayard
Paul Pierre Cayard (born May 19, 1959) is an American yachtsman and professional sailor. He has competed at multiple world championship level sailing events, including the America's Cup, the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Volvo Ocean Race and the Olympic Games. In 1998 he was selected as the US Rolex Yachtsmen of the Year. He has won seven world championships, twice participated in the Olympic Games and seven times in the America's Cup. In 2011 he was elected into the US Sailing Hall of Fame. Biography Paul Cayard was born in San Francisco, California. He began sailing in 1967, at the age of eight. He graduated in 1981, with a degree in Business Management from San Francisco State University. He speaks three languages: English, French and Italian. He enjoys flying and holds a pilots certification with instrument rating for both single and multi engine aircraft. Of all his sailing accomplishments, he counts his 1988 Star Class World Championship as his most prized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Read (sailor)
Kenneth Read (born June 24, 1961) is an American yachtsman who is considered one of the world's most accomplished and celebrated sailors. He was named United States Rolex Yachtsman of the Year twice (1985 and 1995), and has won more than 50 world, North American, and national championships in a variety of classes, with eleven of those being World Championships titles in the J/24, Etchells 22 and yacht classes. College While sailing at Boston University (Boston, MA. USA), Read was a three-time collegiate All American (1981, 1982 and 1983) and is now a member of the Boston University Hall of Fame. He won the 1982 ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship and the ICSA Match Racing National Championship, receiving the "Everett B. Morris Trophy", awarded to the ICSA College Sailor of the Year. America's Cup Read was helmsman aboard two (2000, 2003) of Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes America's Cup campaigns. He also served as strategist and coach with America's Cup entry '' Youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Brady
Gavin Brady (born 1 November 1973 in Timaru) is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in the Summer Olympics and multiple America's Cups. After sailing the sponsor boat for New Zealand Challenge at the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup, Brady was the tactician for Tag Heuer Challenge at the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup. He then sailed the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race as the helmsman on ''Chessie Racing''. Brady was third at the 1999 ISAF Open Match Racing World Championship. He then joined AmericaOne for the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup. In 1999 he was helming inshore races in the winning Dutch , Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup Team. Alongside Jamie Gale, Brady competed at the 2000 Star World Championships and finished 7th. Gale and Brady then sailed for New Zealand at the 2000 Summer Olympics. They placed ninth in the Star class. He competed in the 2001 Star World Championships with George Iverson and the pair finished second. He then competed in his second Round the World Race, sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Vila
Juan Vila (12 November 1961) is a Spanish sailor who has competed in multiple America's Cups and Whitbread Round the World Races. Born in Barcelona, Vila sailed in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race on the Spanish entry, '' Fortuna Extra Lights''. He then competed in the 1993–94 event on '' Galicia '93 Pescanova'', the 1997–98 event with '' Chessie Racing'', and the 2001–02 event on ''Illbruck Challenge''. ''Illbruck Challenge'' won the event, now renamed as the Volvo Ocean Race. He was the first Spanish sailor to win the trophy. He then joined Alinghi and was their navigator during the successful defence of the 2007 America's Cup. He sailed as navigator on ''Alinghi 5'' when it lost the 2010 America's Cup. He sailed with ''Banque Populaire V'' when it won the Jules Verne Trophy in 2012. The team had to abandon an earlier attempt at the record in 2011. He sailed in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on ''Giacomo'' and on ''Wild Oats XI'' in the 2016 Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kostecki
John Paul Kostecki (born July 7, 1964) is an American competitive sailor of Polish descent. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started his sailing career in the San Francisco Bay, California. Events World Championships Kostecki won a number of world champion titles in different sailing classes. Olympics At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Busan, South Korea, he finished in 2nd place in the Soling class along with his partners William Baylis and Robert Billingham. Volvo Ocean Race He also sailed the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1997/1998. In the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race he led Illbruck Challenge that was based in Leverkusen to an overwhelming victory in the arguably toughest sailing race around the world. Of notable interest was the fact that Illbruck set the world 24 hours speed record for monohulls. The record of 484 nautical miles was completed at 20:02 on April 30 during Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race and was confirmed by the World Sailing Speed Record Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Collins (sailor)
George Collins may refer to: Politics * George Collins (Nova Scotia politician) (1771–1813), Canadian mariner, merchant, and politician * George Collins (Australian politician) (1839–1926), Tasmanian politician * George W. Collins (1925–1972), U.S. Representative from Illinois Sports * George Collins (cricketer, born 1851) (1851–1905), English cricketer * George Collins (cricketer, born 1889) (1889–1949), English cricketer * George Collins (footballer) (fl. 1919–1936), English football manager from 1919 to 1936 * George Collins (baseball) (fl. 1923–1925), American Negro league baseball player * George Collins (American football) (born 1955), American football player Others * G. Pat Collins (1895–1959), American actor, also known as George Pat Collins * George R. Collins (1917–1993), American art historian * George E. Collins George E. Collins (born on January 10, 1928 in Stuart, Iowa – and died on November 21, 2017 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |