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1973–1974 Whitbread Round The World Race
The 1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race, the first edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race, started off from Portsmouth, England on 8 September 1973. Seventeen yachts of various sizes and rigs took part. During the race three sailors were swept over board and died: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking. Waterhouse and Guillet were never to be seen again. The crew of the Mexican yacht ''Sayula II'', a brand new Swan 65 The Swan 65 is a large fibreglass fin+keeled Masthead rig, masthead ketch- or sloop-rigged sailing yacht design, manufactured by Nautor's Swan. It was introduced as the new flagship of Nautor in 1973. At the time of its launch it was the largest ... owned and skippered by Mexican Captain Ramón Carlin, won the overall race in 133 days and 13 hours. Her actual time was 152 days. In 2016, this adventure was presented in a documentary film called ''The Weekend Sailor''. Legs Results References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayula II
''Sayula II'' is a Swan 65 yacht designed by Sparkman & Stephens Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with offices in Newport, Rhode Island and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new and existing vessels for pleasure, commercial, and milit .... She won the 1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Ramón Carlin. In 2016, the race was featured in a documentary film called ''The Weekend Sailor''. 1973–74 ''Sayula II'' crew The race crew was: Ramon Carlin, Francisca “Paquita” Larios, Enrique Carlin, Adolfo “Cantis” Orenday, Roberto Cubas Carlin, Francisco Reyes Carlin, Butch Darylmple-Smith, Keith Lorence, David Bowen, Bob Martin, Ray Conrady, and Tjerk Romke de Vries. References {{Volvo Ocean Race winning yachts Individual sailing vessels Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of Mexico Sailing yachts built in Finland Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan Sailboat type designs b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chay Blyth
Sir Charles Blyth (born 14 May 1940), known as Chay Blyth, is a Scottish yachtsman and rower. He was the first person to sail single-handed non-stop westwards around the world (1971), on a 59-foot boat called ''British Steel (yacht), British Steel''. Early life Blyth was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He joined the Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Parachute Regiment when he was 18 and was promoted to Sergeant at the age of 21. Rowing and sailing career Business career Blyth founded a company named Challenge Business to organise the 1992/1993 Global Challenge, British Steel Challenge in 1989. This event allowed novices to sail around the world in a professionally organised race. After the British Steel Challenge, Global Challenge organized other Round the World yacht races. The British Steel Challenge was followed by two successive BT Global Challenge races in 1996/97 and 2000/01. However, a downturn in the sponsorship market meant that the 2004/2005 Global Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, and in 2019 it was renamed The Ocean Race. Each of the entries has a sailing crew who race day and night for more than 20 days at a time on some of the legs. Since the 2008–2009 race there has also been a dedicated media crew member called the On Board Reporter (OBR), who does not contribute to the sailing of the boat, but is responsible for sending images and video to race headquarters via satellite from the middle of the ocean. In the 2017–2018 race, the number of crew ranged between 7 and 10 (plus the OBR) depending on the gender ratio, with the rules providing an incentive to having women sailors on board. To minimize weight, crews overwhelmingly rely on f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Duick
''Pen Duick'' is the name best known for a series of ocean racing yachts sailed by French yachtsman Eric Tabarly. Meaning coal tit in Breton, it was the name Tabarly's father gave to the 1898 Fife gaff cutter he purchased, and that his son learned to sail. He thereafter used the name for a series of successful racing yachts through the '60s and '70s. *The YRA 36 ft linear rater ''Pen Duick'' (formerly ''Yum'') was designed by William Fife III and built in 1898 by Gridiron & Marine Motor Works at Carrigaloe in Cork Harbour, Ireland for Cork yachtsman W. J. C. Cummins. The gaff-rigged cutter was quickly noted as a successful racer in Irish, British and French waters. Tabarly's father acquired her when Éric was seven years old, and the boy learnt to sail on her. After World War II, she was put on sale, but finding no takers, Éric convinced his father in giving her to him. Years later, he was told her wooden hull was rotten, and being unable to hire a yard to salvage her, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygfryd Perlicki
Zygfryd Perlicki (26 January 1932, in Gdynia – 10 August 2017) was a sailor from Poland. He represented his country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel. He took 8th place in the Soling with Józef Błaszczyk and Stanisław Stefański as fellow crew members. Perlicki sailed on ''Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...'' during the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74. References External links * * * * 1932 births 2017 deaths Polish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Poland Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling Volvo Ocean Race sailors Sportspeople from Gdynia People from Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939) 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copernicus (yacht)
{{Infobox Sailing yacht , title = Copernicus , image =Copernicus zdjecie.jpg , caption = ''Copernicus'' , othernames = , club = , nat = {{flagcountry, POL, state , class = Opal III , sailno =PZ–30 , designer = Edmund Rejewski, Wacław Liskiewicz & Zygfryd Perlicki , builder =Gdansk Boatyard StogiGdańsk, Poland , launched = , owner = Yacht Club Stal , fate = , skip = Zygfryd Perlicki , wins = , ac_year = , lc_year = , cc_year = , og_year = , rr_year = , type = , crew = , length={{Convert, 14.11, m, ft, abbr=on , beam={{Convert, 3.72, m, ft, abbr=on , draft = , height = , displacement={{Convert, 14,500, kg, lb, abbr=on , sail={{Convert, 80, m2, sqft, abbr=on ''Copernicus'' is a Polish yacht of Opal Class. The owner is Yacht Club Stal Gdynia, Poland. History and cruises The yacht ''Copernicus'' was built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vallings
Vice-Admiral Sir George Montague Francis Vallings KCB (31 May 1932 – 25 December 2007) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Naval career Educated at Belhaven Hill School in Dunbar and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Vallings joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1950 and took part in the Korean War.Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir George Vallings The Times, 19 January 2009 He also saw action in the in 1956. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Carlin
''Sayula II'' is a Swan 65 yacht designed by Sparkman & Stephens Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with offices in Newport, Rhode Island and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new and existing vessels for pleasure, commercial, and milit .... She won the 1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Ramón Carlin. In 2016, the race was featured in a documentary film called ''The Weekend Sailor''. 1973–74 ''Sayula II'' crew The race crew was: Ramon Carlin, Francisca “Paquita” Larios, Enrique Carlin, Adolfo “Cantis” Orenday, Roberto Cubas Carlin, Francisco Reyes Carlin, Butch Darylmple-Smith, Keith Lorence, David Bowen, Bob Martin, Ray Conrady, and Tjerk Romke de Vries. References {{Volvo Ocean Race winning yachts Individual sailing vessels Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of Mexico Sailing yachts built in Finland Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan Sailboat type designs by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain II
''Great Britain II'' (also ''United Friendly'', ''Norsk Data GB'', ''With Integrity'', ''Whitbread Heritage'') is a Maxi racing yacht launched by Princess Anne on 21 May 1973 named after the , built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which was the world's first "iron clad" steam ship and whose salvage from the Falklands was underwritten by Sir Jack Hayward, who also funded the building of GB II. Background She was originally designed to compete in the inaugural "Whitbread Round the World Race", by Alan Gurney, and was specifically built for Chay Blyth and a group of paratroopers, who would serve as the crew for the race. She constructed as a 77 ft sloop, and made of fiberglass and foam sandwich to achieve the lightest possible displacement. Intended to be the fastest yacht in the world, she ultimately finished in second place on handicap, following behind the Mexican Swan 65 named ''Sayula II'' – which clinched the victory as the first winner of the Whitbread Round the World Race in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977–1978 Whitbread Round The World Race
The 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race was the second edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. On 27 August 1977, 15 boats started out from Portsmouth for the Whitbread Round the World Race under a moderate Northerly breeze and light patchy rain. Most of the second Whitbread Race was dominated by a tight race between Swan 65 '' King's Legend'' and '' Flyer'', the latter eventually winning the race. All 15 boats finished the race. ''Great Britain II'' was winner on elapsed time for the second race in succession. This race was notable for the fact that Clare Francis became the first woman to skipper a Whitbread entry, the Swan 65 The Swan 65 is a large fibreglass fin+keeled Masthead rig, masthead ketch- or sloop-rigged sailing yacht design, manufactured by Nautor's Swan. It was introduced as the new flagship of Nautor in 1973. At the time of its launch it was the largest ... ADC Accutrac. Legs Results References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the Americas, sixth-most-populous city in the Americas. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese people, Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a List of states of the Portuguese Empire, state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent John VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Tabarly
Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly (24 July 1931 – 13 June 1998) was a French naval officer and yachtsman. He developed a passion for offshore racing very early on and won several ocean races such as the Ostar in 1964 and 1976, ending English domination in this specialty. Several of his wins broke long standing records. He owed his successes to his exceptional mastery of sailing and of each one of his boats, to both physical and mental stamina and, in some cases, to technological improvements built into his boats. Through his victories, Tabarly inspired an entire generation of ocean racers and contributed to the development of nautical activities in France. Although very attached to the boat given to him early on by his parents – the ''Pen Duick'' — he played a pioneering role in successive innovations in naval architecture, including the development of the multihull via the design of his trimaran, ''Pen Duick IV'' (1968). His was one of the first offshore racing multihulls and confi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
