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Team SEB
''Team SEB'' (also ''RS'') is a Swedish Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. Career She competed in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race and finished 7th skippered by Gunnar Krantz. The boat was renamed ''RS'' and participated in the 2003 Volvo Baltic Race skippered by Erle Williams Erle may refer to: Places * Erle, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia * Erle, California, a former settlement in the United States *Erle (river), a river of Thuringia, Germany *, a borough of the German city of Gelsenkirchen *, a village in the German muni .... ''RS'' won the competition. References {{Reflist Sailing yachts of Sweden Volvo Ocean 60 yachts Volvo Ocean Race yachts 2000s sailing yachts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Tyco
''Team Tyco'' is a Bermudian Volvo Ocean 60 yacht, designed by Farr Yacht Design in 2000, and built by Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats in Rhode Island. She competed in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race and finished fourth overall, skippered by Kevin Shoebridge. The yacht is currently owned by Roy Heiner and has been brought back into racing condition, and now has the name "Team Heiner One". It is usually located in Den Helder (Netherlands), or Portimão (South Portugal). Team Heiner mostly uses the boat for corporate events and management training, but also for competitions such as the Antwerp Race or a spectacular round around Ireland. Team ABN AMRO ABN or abn may refer to: Companies * ABN AMRO Group, a Dutch bank group * ABN AMRO, sometimes referred to as "ABN" in shorthand, is a Dutch state-owned bank * Algemene Bank Nederland, a now-defunct Dutch bank Radio, news and television organizat ... used the VO60 for training and preparations for the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006. Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team News Corp
''Team News Corp'' (also ''Challenge of Netsurvey'', ''Team Elanders'') is an Australian Volvo Ocean 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. ... yacht. She competed in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race and finished 5th skippered by Jez Fanstone. References {{Reflist Sailing yachts of Australia Volvo Ocean 60 yachts Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race yachts 2000s sailing yachts Sailing yachts of Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Ocean 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). A ..., 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] |
Gunnar Krantz (sailor)
Gunnar "Gurra" Krantz is a Swedish sailor. He skippered the Swedish America's Cup Challenge at the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup, ''Swedish Match'' in the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race and ''Team SEB ''Team SEB'' (also ''RS'') is a Swedish Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. Career She competed in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race and finished 7th skippered by Gunnar Krantz. The boat was renamed ''RS'' and participated in the 2003 Volvo Baltic Race skippe ...'' in the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race Achievements References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krantz, Gunnar Swedish male sailors (sport) Volvo Ocean Race sailors Volvo Ocean 60 class sailors 1992 America's Cup sailors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Baltic Race
Volvo Baltic Race was a yacht race held in the Baltic Sea, sponsored by Volvo. It has been held in 2003 and 2004 as training series for VO60 yachts, targeting the Volvo Ocean Race. 2003 Seven yachts participated: ''Atea'' ( 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race ''Innovation Kvaerner''), '' Challenge of Netsurvey'' ( 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race ''Team News Corp''), '' Elanders/Ten Celsius'' ( 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race ''Silk Cut''), '' Nilörn'' ( 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race '' Winston''), '' Pontona Youth'' ( 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race ''Heineken''), '' RS'' ( 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race ''Team SEB''), ''SonyEricsson'' (''Assa Abloy'' trial boat). Legs Results 2004 The 2004 Volvo Baltic Race, for the SEB Trophy was a three-week sprint version of Volvo Ocean Race. It was either taking part in, or be in port at the same time, as three of Northern Europe's biggest events: Kiel Week, Germany, the Swedish Match Cup in Marstra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erle Williams
Erle may refer to: Places * Erle, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia * Erle, California, a former settlement in the United States *Erle (river), a river of Thuringia, Germany *, a borough of the German city of Gelsenkirchen *, a village in the German municipality of Raesfeld Given name * Erle Bartley (1922–1983), American agricultural scientist * Erle C. Ellis, American scientist * Erle Elsworth Clippinger (1864–1933), writer of children's literature, educator, and a grammaticist * Erle Cocke Jr. (1921–2000), American businessman *Erle Cox (1873–1950), Australian journalist and science fiction writer *Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970), American lawyer and author of detective stories * Erle P. Halliburton (1892–1957), American businessman * Erle Harstad (born 1990), Norwegian figure skater * Erle C. Kenton (1896–1980), American film director * Erle V. Painter (1881–1968), American chiropractor and athletic trainer * Erle Reiter (1916–2008), American figure skater *Erle Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing Yachts Of Sweden
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 60 Yachts
The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it was the world's second-largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks. Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 Volvo Cars has been owned by the automotive company Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden. The corporation was first listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was on the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007. Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Ocean Race Yachts
The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it was the world's second-largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks. Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 Volvo Cars has been owned by the automotive company Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden. The corporation was first listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was on the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007. Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
