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Steinlager 2
''Steinlager 2'' is a Bruce Farr-designed yacht. Skippered by Peter Blake, she won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race and line honours in the 1989 Fastnet Race. She was the only yacht to ever win all six legs of the Whitbread Round the World Race. The crew included Brad Butterworth, Tony Rae, Kevin Shoebridge, Godfrey Cray, Ross Field, Graham Fleury, Barry McKay, Mark Orams, Dean Phipps Dean Phipps is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in eight America's Cups. Phipps was a part of the Victory ’83 challenge for the 1983 Louis Vuitton Cup and sailed on '' Australia IV'' during the 1987 Defender Selection Series. He was the ..., Mike Quilter, Cole Sheehan, Glen Sowry, Craig Watson and Donald Wright. References {{Fastnet Race winning yachts (line honours) Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of New Zealand Fastnet Race yachts Sailboat type designs by Bruce Farr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Farr
Bruce Kenneth Farr (born 1949 in Auckland) is a New Zealand designer of racing and cruising yachts. Farrdesigned boats have won, challenged for, or placed highly in the Whitbread Round the World Race, America's Cup, and Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, among others. Farr's services to yacht design were recognised in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, when he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He currently lives near Annapolis, Maryland, USA. Early boats Farr began building boats at the age of 13 near Warkworth north of Auckland. His first boats were plywood hard chine Moth class designs. He later designed and built variants of Cherubs and especially Flying 18s. His early designs were built in plywood with a focus on light weight and good planing shapes. By his late teens he was designing small lightweight keel boats that were successful on the race course. He first achieved acclaim as a sailboat designer in the highly competitive 18ft Skiff class, pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry McKay
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Sailing Yachts Of New Zealand
Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation. From prehistory until the second half of the 19th century, sailing craft were the primary means of maritime trade and transportation; exploration across the seas and oceans was reliant on sail for anything other than the shortest distances. Naval power in this period used sail to varying degrees depending on the current technology, culminating in the gun-armed sailing warships of the Age of Sail. Sail was slowly replaced by steam as the method of propulsion for ships over the latter part of the 19th century – seeing a gradual improvement in the technology of steam through a number of stepwise developments. Steam allowed scheduled services that ran at higher average speeds than sail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Ocean Race Yachts
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Glen Sowry
Glen Sowry (born 24 April 1962) is a New Zealand sailor. He competed in the Tornado event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1962 births Living people New Zealand male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for New Zealand Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Tornado Sportspeople from Lower Hutt {{NewZealand-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Quilter
Mike Quilter is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in six America's Cup and five Volvo Ocean Races. During the 1983 America's Cup, Quilter worked as a sail maker under sail co-ordinator Tom Schnackenberg on ''Australia II's'' successful campaign. He sailed on board ''Lion New Zealand'' in the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race before joining the New Zealand Challenge as the navigator for ''KZ 7'' at the 1987 America's Cup. He later sailed as navigator on ''Steinlager 2'' in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, '' NZ Endeavour'' in 1993–94, ''Merit Cup'' in 1997–98 and '' Team Tyco'' in the renamed 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race. He was involved as a designer with Team New Zealand when they won the 1995 America's Cup. He also sailed on board ''Club Med Club Med SAS, commonly known as Club Med and previously known as Club Méditerranée SA, is a French travel and tourism operator headquartered in Paris, specializing in all-inclusive holidays. Founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Phipps
Dean Phipps is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in eight America's Cups. Phipps was a part of the Victory ’83 challenge for the 1983 Louis Vuitton Cup and sailed on '' Australia IV'' during the 1987 Defender Selection Series. He was the backup bowman for New Zealand Challenge in the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup. He sailed on '' Steinlager 2'' during the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race and also competed in the 1993-94 edition, on board '' Winston''. He sailed with Team New Zealand on '' NZL 32'' during the 1995 America's Cup victory and 2000 America's Cup defence. Phipps then joined Alinghi, and was part of their 2003 and 2007 America's Cup victories and their 2010 America's Cup loss, although he was not on board the boat. He sailed the 2010 Louis Vuitton Trophy Dubai with Oracle Racing. He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2010. He has also sailed in four Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, four Fastnet Race, and two Newport Bermuda Race The N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Orams
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Graham Fleury
Graham Fleury (born: 28 June 1959) is a sailor from Otahuhu, New Zealand. who represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain as crew member in the Soling. With helmsman Russell Coutts and fellow crew member Simon Daubney Simon Leslie Daubney (born 17 July 1959) is a New Zealand sailor (sport), sailor who has sailed in the Olympics and is a member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame. Early life Daubney was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1959. Olympic career ... they took the 8th place. References Living people 1959 births New Zealand male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Soling Olympic sailors for New Zealand Sailors (sport) from Auckland {{NewZealand-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Blake (sailor)
Sir Peter James Blake (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001) was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race, held the Jules Verne Trophy from 1994 to 1997 by setting the around the world sailing record as co-skipper of ''ENZA New Zealand'', and led New Zealand to successive victories in the America's Cup. Blake was shot and killed by pirates while monitoring environment change on the Amazon River on 5 December 2001. He was 53 years old. Early life and education Blake was born in 1948 in Auckland, New Zealand, to artist and art director Brian Blake and photography engraver Joyce Wilson. He was the second of their four children. He grew up in the suburb of Bayswater and attended school at Bayswater School, Belmont Intermediate and Takapuna Grammar School. Blake was passionate about sailing from an early age; he began sailing at the age of five in the family dinghy. At age 18, he and his brother built a keel yacht and won the 1967/68 Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Field (sailor)
Ross Field (born 1949) is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in multiple Whitbread Round the World Races. Field, a former police detective from Wanganui, started sailing full time in 1985. He first sailed a Round the World Race on '' NZI Enterprise'' under skipper Digby Taylor. The boat did not finish the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race. He was then on ''Steinlager 2'' when it won the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race. For the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race, Field skippered ''Yamaha''. ''Yamaha'' won the Whitbread 60 class and finished second overall. Field won the 1997 Fastnet Race on ''BIL''. He skippered '' America's Challenge'' during the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race. His son, Campbell, also sailed with the boat, but he lost his index finger during an onboard accident. The team struggled for funding and withdrew from the race in Cape Town. Field next won the 1999 Fastnet Race on '' RF Yachting'' before joining skipper Jez Fanstone o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Shoebridge
Kevin Shoebridge is a New Zealand sailor who has sailed in multiple Volvo Ocean Races and America's Cups. In the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race, Shoebridge sailed on board ''Lion New Zealand''. In 1987, Shoebridge joined the New Zealand Challenge for the America's Cup and sailed on board ''KZ 7'' in the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup. He then returned to sail the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race as a watch leader, on eventual winner ''Steinlager 2'', before winning the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race on '' NZ Endeavour''. Shoebridge then joined Team New Zealand and was part of the crew on ''NZL 32'' when it won the 1995 America's Cup. He later sailed the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race as a watch captain on ''Merit Cup''. He skippered '' Team Tyco'' in the 2000 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race, placing fourth in both races. He joined America's OneWorld challenge in the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup as a trimmer before re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
