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1985–1986 Whitbread Round The World Race
The 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race was the fourth edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race (now known as the Volvo Ocean Race). Fifteen boats started out from Southampton on 28 September 1985 for the around-the-world race. '' L'Esprit d'Équipe'', skippered by Lionel Péan, won the race in a corrected time of 111 days 23 hours. ''Philips Innovator ''Philips Innovator'' (also ''Equity & Law II'') is a 63 foot aluminium racing yacht designed by Rolf Vrolijk and built by Aluboot. She finished second in the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Dirk Nauta. After an extensive ...'' was second, and Swan 651 ''Fazer Finland'' third. ''UBS Switzerland'' was named first on elapsed time, with ''Lion New Zealand'' as runner-up. '' Drum'' (carrying its owner, the pop star Simon Le Bon) finished just a breath behind. Route Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:1985-86 Whitbread Round The World Race The Ocean Race Sport in Southampton Punta d ...
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L'Esprit D'équipe
''L'Esprit d'équipe'' (also ''33 Export'', ''Esprit de Liberté'') is a yacht. She won her class in the 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Lionel Péan Lionel Péan (born 17 September 1956 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) is a French sailor who won the Whitbread Round the World Race. He won the 1983 Solitaire du Figaro The Solitaire du Figaro, previously called the Course de l'Aurore, is a solo mult .... She had earlier competed in the 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race as ''33 Export'' but lost her mast in the Southern Ocean and did not finish the race. References {{DEFAULTSORT:L'Esprit d'equipe Volvo Ocean Race yachts Sailing yachts of France ...
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Farr Yacht Design
Farr Yacht Design, founded by Bruce Farr in Auckland, New Zealand, is a racing yacht design firm based in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. The firm is led by Patrick Shaughnessy. Its yachts measure from to . Farr develops custom and production yachts, including interiors, sails, and hull design. Farr uses outside research and development with tank testing and wind tunnels. Farr-designed yachts have won and placed well in a broad range of races. History Bruce Farr first achieved acclaim as a sailboat designer in the highly competitive 18 ft Skiff class, popular in Australia and New Zealand. Farr designs won the 18 ft Skiff Giltinan World title several times in the early 1970s. Starting in 1973, Bruce was able to focus full-time on designing sailboats. Another New Zealander active as both a designer and sailor in the 18 ft fleet, Russel Bowler, a civil engineer by training, introduced the fibreglass-foam sandwich construction technique to the 18 f ...
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Sports Competitions In Cape Town
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a r ...
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1986 In Sailing
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ...
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1985 In Sailing
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa. February * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain r ...
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Sport In Southampton
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a r ...
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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. Though the route changes to accommodate various ports of call, the race typically departs Europe in October, and in recent editions has had either 9 or 10 legs, with in-port races at many of the stopover cities. The most recent race, the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race started in Alicante, Spain, and concluded in The Hague, Netherlands, with stopovers in Lisbon, Cape Town, Melbourne, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport, Cardiff, and Gothenburg. 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 ...
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Whitbread 1985-1986
Whitbread plc is a multinational British hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742, and had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1780s. Its largest division is currently Premier Inn, which is the largest hotel brand in the UK with over 785 hotels and 72,000 rooms. Until January 2019 it owned Costa Coffee but sold it to The Coca-Cola Company. Whitbread's brands include the restaurant chains Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Table Table. Whitbread is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History Origins The business was formed in 1742 when Samuel Whitbread formed a partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell and acquired a small brewery at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street and another brewhouse for pale and amber beers in Brick Lane, Spitalfields. Godfrey Shewell withdrew from the partnership as Thomas Shewell and Samuel Wh ...
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Digby Taylor
Digby Fergusson Taylor (24 October 1941 – 18 April 2017) was a New Zealand sailor who skippered yachts in both the 1981–82 and 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Races. Taylor built and skippered the 51-foot sloop ''Outward Bound'', designed by Laurie Davidson, which competed in the 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race. In that race, ''Outward Bound'' won the trophy for best small yacht, and finished fifth overall. In 1982, Taylor sailed in the Whangarei to Nouméa yacht race, winning handicap honours. Taylor was awarded the Blue Water Medal for outstanding seamanship by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club in 1982. In the 1983 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to ocean yacht racing. For the 1985–86 Whitbread, Taylor built and skippered the 80-foot, Bruce Farr-designed, maxi yacht, ''NZI Enterprise'' (originally called ''Enterprise New Zealand''). After finishing fourth and second on the first two legs, ''NZI ...
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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 designed to take part in the first " Whitbread Round the World Race", designed by Alan Gurney, and built for Chay Blyth and a group of paratroopers, who went on to be the crew for the race. The 77 ft sloop is constructed of fibreglass and foam sandwich to give the lightest possible displacement. Designed to be the fastest yacht in the world and finished in second place on handicap after the Mexican Swan 65 named ''Sayula II ''Sayula II'' is a Swan 65 yacht designed by Sparkman & Stephens Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with ...
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Sparkman & Stephens
Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with offices in Newport, Rhode Island and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs design and engineering of new and existing vessels for pleasure, commercial, and military use. Sparkman & Stephens also acts as a yacht and ship brokerage. The firm offers similar design and engineering services for the performance optimization of existing yachts. Their designs have won most of the major international yacht races such as the America's Cup, for several decades, including a string of victories in the Fastnet and Sydney to Hobart as well as winning twice the Whitbread Round the World Race by ''Sayula II'' in 1974 and '' Flyer'' in 1978. S&S has a number of custom yacht design projects as well as being designers for boat builders such as Nautor's Swan, Grand Banks Yachts, and Morris Yachts. With more than 100 units built, the S&S design #1710 also known as Swan 36 became the most utilized design in the hi ...
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Éric Tabarly
Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly was a French Navy officer and yachtsman, born 24 July 1931 in Nantes and died 13 June 1998 of drowning in the Irish Sea. 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 o ...
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