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The Race (yachting Race)
The Race was a round-the-world sailing race that started in Barcelona, Spain, on December 31, 2000. The race was created by Bruno Peyron, and it was the first ever non-stop, no-rules, no-limits, round-the-world sailing event, with a $2 million US prize. The stated objectives of this race were: * to unite the different maritime cultures of the world * to gather together the world's premiere yachtsmen and women in a common event * to promote creativity in ocean sailing * to ally high technology and the environment * to create the most spectacular and most prestigious fleet of offshore racers that sailing has ever seen A second race was planned for 2004, but was cancelled amid controversy that Tracy Edwards had organised a competing event called Oryx Quest. Results The 2000–01 race was won by ''Club Med'', skippered by Grant Dalton in 62d 6h 56' 33". See also * Jules Verne Trophy The Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Adventure
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal". A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Naresh Jain (2009) claims: Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. While academic research on teams and teamwork has grown consistently and has shown a sharp increase over the past recent 40 years, the societal diffusion of teams and teamwork actually follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Verne Trophy
The Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee. A vessel holding the Jules Verne trophy will not necessarily hold the absolute round the world record. The trophy was first awarded to the first yacht which sailed around the world in less than 80 days. The name of the award is a reference to the Jules Verne novel ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' in which Phileas Fogg traverses the planet (albeit by railroad and steamboat) in 80 days. The current holder is ''IDEC Sport'' skippered by Francis Joyon in 40 days 23 hours 30 minutes 30 seconds. Route *The Jules Verne Trophy's starting point is defined by an imaginary line between the Créac'h lighthouse on Ouessant (Ushant) Island, France, and the Lizard Lighthouse, UK. The boats have to circumnavigate the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Philips
''Team Philips'' was a catamaran sailing vessel built to try to take Pete Goss around the world in record time. The design consisted of two thin, wave piercing hulls, each with its own sail, connected by high placed bridges between the hulls to minimise wave drag. It was built in Totnes Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-so ..., England to compete in The Race, a no-holds-barred drag race around the world. It was the biggest ocean racing yacht ever built, and there was enough space between the hulls to park 80 cars. Overall dimensions were , and . It pushed the boundaries and challenged the norms of ocean racing yachts in three main ways: # unsupported wave-piercing bow sections. # huge unstayed windsurfer-style rig. # two masts mounted abeam of each other (side by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation (yacht)
''Cheyenne'', formerly known as ''PlayStation'' is a large catamaran created for the 2000 around the world race known as The Race. Like its competitors, ''Cheyenne'' was created for sheer speed, pushing the state of the art in materials, construction, and operation. ''PlayStation'' was skippered and owned by Steve Fossett. It is owned by and operated by Virgin Oceanic's co-founder Chris Welsh. Career Construction of the boat was by Mick Cookson of Cookson Boatworks in Auckland, New Zealand in 1998 to 1999. The boats construction was made from pre-preg carbon fiber laminates in various orientations, with a 38 mm aluminum honeycomb core. After breaking the 24-hour distance record (583 NM), PlayStation suffered a fire while being prepared to be shipped to the US. The cause of the fire was the over-charging of the NiMH batteries, and the damage from the fire required that 26' of the starboard hull be replaced. A portion of the hull was created at the builders which was grafte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Legato
''Daedalus'' is a maxi-catamaran, that participated in numerous open-ocean races under various owners and names. History Originally named ''Formule Tag'', this maxi-catamaran was built by Canadair in Québec, Canada in 1983, under the supervision of Canadian skipper Mike Birch and British designer Nigel Irens. The yacht was built to compete in the inaugural Transat Québec-Saint-Malo—a trans-North Atlantic sailing race celebrating Jacques Cartier's 1534 voyage from Saint-Malo, France, to present day Québec City. It was the largest sailing catamaran of its time, with a length of 85 feet, and participated in a number of races. In 1984 Birch and crew sailed her to a new record for a Day's run, sailing 512 nautical miles in 24 hours. In 1993, ''Formule Tag'' was purchased by Robin Knox-Johnston and future two-time America's Cup winner Peter Blake. The two skippers renamed her ''ENZA New Zealand'' (ENZA an acronym for Eat New Zealand Apples). The two launched a 1993 att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warta Polpharma
''Warta Polpharma'' is a maxi-catamaran, that participated in many major offshore races. Its different names were : * ''Jet Service V'', skippered by Serge Madec * ''Commodore Explorer'', skippered by Bruno Peyron * ''Explorer'', skippered by Bruno Peyron * ''Warta Polpharma'', skippered by Roman Paszke for The Race. Records * Under the name ''Jet Service V'': Transatlantic sailing record for 11 years, between 1988 and 2001. * Under the name ''Commodore Explorer'' : Winner of the Jules Verne Trophy ( fastest round the world) in 1993 in 79 days 6 hours 15 minutes and 56 seconds, with skipper Bruno Peyron and router Pierre Lasnier, with an average speed of 11.35 knots. * Under the name ''Warta Polpharma'' : Finished 4th of The Race in 2000, with skipper Roman Paszke and crew: Robert Janecki Robert Janecki (born 27 June 1974) is a Polish yachtsman. He is an Ocean Yacht Master, Motorboat Master, navigator, routier. European champion class ILC 40 on the yacht ''MK Café'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innovation Explorer
The boat was initial launched "Code Zero" as it searched for sponsorship and soon renamed ''Innovation Explorer'' and is an ocean-racing catamaran. She was built for The Race, a no-limits nonstop crewed circumnavigation in which she took second place. Design and Development The boat was has two sister ship developed at the same time for ''Club Med'' and Team Adventure. Ownerhip She has had several owners and several names, including: 2000-Innovation Explorer The boat was skippered by Loïck Peyron and Skip Novak in The Race coming 2nd in a time 64d 22h 32m 38s. 2002 - Orange The boat was brought by Bruno Peyron in 2002 where she broke the Around the world sailing record and the Jules Verne Trophy. (Note to be confused with Orange II (boat) which broke the record in 2005) 2003 - Kingfisher 2 skippered by Ellen MacArthur. She broke her mast in 2003, south-east Kerguelen Islands, whilst competing for Jules Verne Trophy. 2006 - Gitana 13 with skipper Lionel Lemonchois 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doha 2006 (yacht)
''Doha 2006'' is a maxi-catamaran, that has participated in many offshore races under several names: * Club Med, skippered by Grant Dalton, for The Race, * Maiden 2, skippered by Tracy Edwards and Brian Thompson, * Doha 2006, skippered by Brian Thompson for the Oryx Quest. It is the sister-ship of Gitana 13, winner of the Jules Verne Trophy with Bruno Peyron. Records * Under the name ''Club Med'' in 2000 : Winner of The Race. * Under the names ''Club Med'' or ''Maiden 2'' 3 times between 2000 and 2002 : Winner of the 24 hours distance record, with, in 2002, {{convert, 694.78, nmi, km. * Under the name ''Doha 2006'' in 2004 : Winner of the Oryx Quest Oryx Quest was the name of the first round-the-world yacht race to start and finish in the Middle East and was held in February 2005 in Qatar. The race, organised by British sailor Tracy Edwards, was regarded as a follow-up to The Race of 2000 an .... References Individual catamarans Individual sailing vessels 2000s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Dalton
Grant Stanley Dalton (born 1 July 1957) is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in five Whitbread Round the World Races and currently manages Team New Zealand. Background Dalton is a professional sailor who started sailing at the age 8 in the P Class and soon started racing as a member of Maraetai Sailing Club. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 New Year Honours, for services to yachting. He was shortlisted in 2001 by the International Sailing Federation for the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards. His other passion away from sailing is motor racing; as an avid F1 fan and with life with Emirates Team New Zealand more settled than a round-the-world campaign, he can now race on the New Zealand motor racing circuit. Sailing career Offshore racing Grant Dalton has raced around the world seven times; the first five as part of the Whitbread Round the World Race later to be called the Volvo Ocean Race. This race has evolved through this t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
