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Coolest Yachts: Volvo Open 70 Camper
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- March 3, 2022
Chris Nicholson nominates the Volvo Open 70, Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, as his Coolest Yacht. This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011/12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 565 miles along the way...
“I’ve been fortunate to race on board and race against a great many boats I could nominate for my Coolest Yacht, but for me it would have to be the Volvo Open 70. And I if I had to narrow it down to one boat, it would have to be Camper , which I skippered in the 2011/12 Volvo Ocean Race .
“I first raced in the Volvo Ocean Race at the end of the Volvo 60 era, and then it was a quantum leap to the new Volvo Open 70. It started out with all the issues – with boats breaking and sinking and destroying themselves – to where we finally finally ended up with Camper in our last Volvo Open 70, where we had a boat where everybody on board needed to be at the highest level and at the top of their game to sail them safely and round the world. They were now the biggest challenge, and the most fun.
“Like in the Whitbread/Volvo 60s, the Volvo 70s had a rule where the more weight you could strip out, the more weight you had on the bulb. We thought that was ‘interesting’, even at the time.
“I’d come from the Olympic side of things, and I didn’t feel we actually needed to go to such extremes. Even on the 60s, some of the living conditions on board were quite barbaric – with zero comfort just because you could get an extra couple of grams on the bulb. It didn’t make sense, because you couldn’t sleep properly, because your bunks were so terrible. Your galley setup was so poor, you didn’t eat properly, and so it wasn’t faster. I’m grateful that we’ve reached a point where a bit more common sense has come through now.
“But by the third generation, with Camper , the VO70s were starting to make more sense in terms of how they were put together.
“Trying to keep them in one piece was still a challenge, and there were still breakages, but that was down to how powerful and how fast they were. Sailing them in the Southern Ocean , that was amazing. I remember seeing the footage afterwards and just going ‘wow!’. There were a real handful and we had some huge moments, but the thing was they just demanded the best people you can find on the on the planet, at the top of their game, and that was that was such a cool, cool group of people to be part of. Camper brought out the best in us.
“VO70s were an influential design in terms of creating this accelerated learning curve, bringing improvements that have found their way into other offshore boats, in terms of how to build them lighter and still keep them in one piece, and a lot of the ergonomics of how you would set them up down below for more comfort in harsh conditions.
“The knowledge and experience from Camper and those other big Volvo teams has spread out through the industry. You don’t realise until after it’s all over, just how good it was.”
Volvo Open 70 Camper stats rating:
Top speed: 39 knots LOA: 70ft 6in / 21.5m Launched: 2011 Berths: 6 Price: $8m Adrenalin factor: 85%
Chris Nicholson
Australian Chris Nicholson has competed in six Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Races, as well as two Olympics. In 2011/12 he skippered the Botin-designed Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand to 2nd, also setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 565 miles.
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Offshore Log: The Volvo Open 70
This new class of round-the-world racers has just been introduced. the boats will be designed for even more speed than their 60-foot predecessors, but also engineered for more safety..
by Nick Nicholson
PS editor at large Nick Nicholson is part of the Rule Management Group for the Volvo Ocean Race. In this article, he discusses safety features of the new Volvo Open 70, the carbon fiber, can’ting-keel hotrod that will be used for the 2005 Volvo Ocean Race.
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In November 5, 2005, an elite fleet of racing sailboats will depart a southern Mediterranean port, bound on a 31,000-mile odyssey, racing around the world in the Volvo Ocean Race. These 70-foot sloops—the Volvo Open 70s—will be the fastest offshore monohulls of their size ever built.
At about 26,000 pounds, they will also be among the lightest big ocean racers ever conceived. With their huge sail plans—a masthead 100 feet off the water, mainsails of 1,880 square feet, masthead spinnakers of 5,380 square feet—these can’ting-keel boats will have power-to-weight ratios more like racing motorcycles than oceangoing sailboats.
The nine to eleven men and women who make up each crew will be the best and toughest sailors on earth. And ironically, the thought and planning that have gone into the development of this class will make them some of the safest sailors on the planet.
Ocean racing is always a risky endeavor, and that will not change for the Volvo Ocean Race. What is different about the Volvo Open 70 is that an inordinate amount of effort has gone into creating a boat that is not only blindingly fast, but as safe as an ocean racer can be.
Volvo is an inherently conservative company whose success as an automaker is irrevocably linked to safety issues. The concept of a boat with cutting-edge performance may not seem to fit in with a company known for preoccupation with safety. A closer look at the Volvo Open 70 rule, however, reveals an underlying theme: creating an ocean racer that is as safe as it is fast. This is a significant difference when compared to other high-performance sailing craft. How designers reconcile the safety requirements of the rule with the demand for high performance will be a key to the success of the Volvo 70.
There are two basic elements to safety for any offshore boat: the ability to stay afloat in the event of serious damage to the hull, and resistance to capsize (plus its concomitant: the ability to self-right in the event of capsize).
Watertight Integrity Oceangoing boats run a perpetual risk of collision with floating objects: trees, shipping containers, and ice. On our voyage around the world in Calypso, we stayed in temperate and tropical waters, with no risk of collision with ice. Shipping containers were a constant concern, however, as were other forms of floating debris.
While we were sailing from French Polynesia to Tonga, a ship lost several hundred containers overboard—a more common occurrence than you may imagine—a few days ahead of us, almost directly in our path. There was no way to know how many of these were still afloat (even a full shipping container is usually buoyant if it’s watertight) along our route.
Likewise, in the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles south of Bangladesh, we passed huge floating trees and logs, some 40 feet or more in length and two feet in diameter, which could sink almost any normal cruising boat. These had washed down rivers during flooding, and could survive, just awash and almost invisible, for years.
It’s one thing to nudge up against a floating object at a knot or so (think of impacts you may have had during poorly executed landings alongside a dock), and quite another to hit the same object head-on while traveling 25 knots.
It’s pretty much impossible to design a high-performance sailboat that will survive major impacts without damage. After all, even the steel, “unsinkable” Titanic proved no match for an iceberg. The Volvo 70s will, almost inevitably, encounter ice in high latitudes. The risk of collision is real.
The Volvo Open 70 rule requires subdivision of the hull into a series of at least six watertight compartments, on the theory that impact damage is likely to be localized in a collision.
Four of the watertight compartments are in the forward part of the boat—the area most likely to be damaged. A diagonal collision bulkhead is the first line of defense, creating a sacrificial bow section outside the main structural part of the hull. In the last Volvo Ocean Race, a collision between two of the boats while racing, during an inexplicable port/starboard incident, showed that a collision chamber could provide some degree of protection.
Each movable appendage—including the can’ting ballast keel—must be in its own watertight compartment, so that damage to the appendage will not compromise the watertight integrity of the hull. In the case of sliding foils such as daggerboards, the appendages are likely to be housed in open-top trunks which go all the way to the deck, similar to those seen in Open 60 class boats (see photo, next page).
Within the hull, the watertight bulkheads must have hinged doors that can be shut within five seconds, and fully dogged in less than a minute. To prevent crewmembers from being trapped below, there must be direct access to the deck from inside most watertight compartments.
There are other unusual characteristics related to watertight integrity. The first is the requirement for a watertight cover plate for the mast opening in the event the mast goes over the side. This collar must be capable of being installed from the interior, so that in the event of mast and keel loss—certainly a worst-case scenario—you can block off the mast opening from inside an inverted, keel-less hull.
Just try to imagine yourself in this nightmare scenario: The mast has snapped in an uncontrolled broach at 30 knots, and the keel is wrenched off in the capsize that follows. You now have a boat that is in “stable two” position, and has a big hole in the deck where the mast used to be. (In practice, masts usually break well above deck, so the original mast boot is likely to still be in place.)
In the chaos below, you have to find and install the “mast hatch.” At least you have a dedicated cover for the mast hole, and you know where it is and how it works.
Interestingly, there must also be at least one deck hatch that is at least six inches above the inverted waterplane for emergency exit in the event of capsize without having to force a hatch open against a head of water. We don’t like to think about this kind of scenario, either, but it doesn’t go away by ignoring the possibility.
Stability Resistance to capsize has always been a major concern for any oceangoing sailboat, and the Volvo 70 is no exception. Resistance to capsize is also one of the more controversial subjects you can bring up, whether discussing racing boats or cruisers. How far should a boat be able to be knocked down and still come up on the same side?
For cruising boats, Practical Sailor has traditionally recommended a range of positive stability of 120 degrees for offshore boats. The problem for many cruising boats is that the designed range of positive stability is usually compromised by the time a boat heads to sea. Weight added to most cruising boats tends to reduce the range of positive stability by raising the center of gravity. Think of dinghies on deck or on davits, outboard motors on the stern rail, biminis, radars, wind generators—all these are well above the vertical center of gravity of the boat, and will reduce the range of positive stability as well as reducing initial stability. You may start out with a boat with a perfectly acceptable range of positive stability, but have a dangerously top-heavy boat by the time you actually leave the dock.
Racers are keenly aware of this problem, and avoid weight up high like the plague. Cruisers would do well to think a little more about it.
There is a perpetual conflict in the design of offshore racing boats: the desire for sail-carrying power in a breeze—which requires a fair amount of stability from some combination of hull shape and ballast in some form—and the desire for minimum wetted surface and lighter displacement both to reduce total resistance in lighter conditions and speed up acceleration in all wind conditions.
The Volvo 60s used in the last Volvo Ocean Race derived much of their sail-carrying power from water ballast, which has a function similar to putting a lot of crew weight on the rail. Of course, in a fairly shorthanded ocean race it isn’t practical to have a lot of crew sitting on the rail—people have to eat, sleep, and sail the boat in shifts.
The downside of water ballast is that it increases the boat’s displacement when in use, which can have the effect of slowing acceleration. Big water ballast systems also require heavy, fairly complex transfer systems.
The new Volvo 70s will derive a lot of their sailing stability from a can’ting keel. To put it simply, the keel fin and bulb may swing through an 80-degree arc (40 degrees each side of centerline). This is done with big hydraulic rams which are capable of holding the 9,900-pound keel bulb (plus fin) at any angle. Canted 40 degrees to windward, the bulb will give incredible righting moment to the boat. Canted slightly to leeward in extremely light air, the boat can be heeled to keep the sails full.
For safety reasons, two independent methods of can’ting the keel are required, each capable of holding the bulb at any position throughout its arc. In addition, there must be a quick-release system which allows the keel to swing back into its normal position.
A huge amount of thought has gone into the redundancy requirements for can’ting keels. These will not be inexpensive bits of engineering, but a lot of that effort will go directly into structural engineering applicable to other offshore racers and high-performance cruising boats. It will not be wasted money.
The Volvo Open 70 rule requires a minimum angle of vanishing stability of 115 degrees. This angle will be calculated with all appendages in their worst possible positions—the ballast keel fully can’ted to leeward, for example.
It will be interesting to see exactly what hull forms develop to meet this difficult requirement. Although 115 degrees may not sound like a big deal, it’s going to be a lot for a light-displacement boat with a can’ting keel.
Self-Righting Test Here’s a scary one for you. Before certification as a Volvo Open 70, a boat must pass a self-righting test. This is not as innocuous as it sounds, and it’s bloody important.
This is what we’re going to do: First, we’ll pull the rig out of the boat, and seal off all openings in the deck. Then we’re going to turn the boat over. Not just heel the boat, but capsize it to a fully inverted position. This will probably be done with a crane and straps to roll the boat over. Now we have a fully inverted boat with the keel and rudder sticking up in the air.
Then the fun begins. The skipper and two members of the crew have to enter the boat (remember the hatch that’s above the inverted waterline?), and from the inside, turn the boat right-side up. The only device they can use for this exercise is the movement of appendages, primarily by can’ting the keel to one side to tip the boat. They can’t flood compartments to heel the boat to assist in this exercise.
Obviously, this is going to be a test of the skills of the designers and engineers, as well as the resolve of the crew.
While writing this portion of the rule, we half-seriously discussed requiring the designer to be part of the self-righting crew, but decided that it was more important to have someone who was going to sail the boat do the hard work.
Virtually everyone has seen photos of inverted ocean racers, keels pointed to the sky. This is not the kind of image Volvo wants to project. Proving that a boat can be righted by the crew from complete inversion is consistent with Volvo’s concept that the boats can be both very fast and very safe.
Personal Safety Most sailors who die in the ocean are lost after falling overboard. Anyone who has sailed offshore realizes just how difficult it would be to recover a crewmember lost overboard, even in the best of conditions.
Unfortunately, people usually go overboard in the worst conditions, not the best. Recovery is a hard enough job in a cruising boat going six knots. Imagine falling overboard from an ocean racer going 30 knots in 20-foot seas.
The International Sailing Federation’s Special Regulations governing offshore and oceanic racing have for years been the offshore sailor’s guide to boat preparation and personal safety. For the Volvo Ocean Race, these regulations have been taken even further, with modifications to the Special Regs designed to further enhance personal safety. Here are some examples.
Safety harnesses used in the Volvo race must be equipped with crotch straps and reflective tape, and both ends of tethers must be equipped with snap hooks for quick release under load. Spare tethers for 30% of the crew must be carried, as well as one complete spare harness.
Life jackets must be inflatables—no rigid flotation—and must be equipped with crotch straps. Inflatable life jackets are required in recognition of the fact that they are more likely to be worn in extreme conditions than more bulky units with rigid flotation.
One of the more interesting personal safety requirements is a “constant wear” survival suit for each member of the crew. These are intended as a cross between offshore foul weather gear and conventional immersion survival suits.
Conventional survival suits provide good protection when you’re in the water, but are awkward to don and severely limit mobility. The constant wear survival suit is intended as a set of working foul weather gear as well as an immersion suit. It will almost certainly be equipped with a high-performance inflatable life jacket.
These suits may be fitted with secondary closures that convert it from foul weather gear to survival suit. They must have large areas of reflective tape, and may integrate other items of equipment such as safety harnesses, life jackets, whistles, and lights into the design.
There is not much available at this time that exactly meets this specification. Volvo hopes that foul weather gear manufacturers will come up with a new type of survival clothing to solve the problem—a solution that will be available to offshore sailors in general, not just elite offshore racers.
Another personal safety solution that has immediate implications for offshore cruisers is the requirement for man-overboard locator beacons, with on-boat direction-finding equipment. These were first required during the last Volvo Ocean Race, but we expect that more sophisticated solutions will appear for the next race.
Essentially, each crew member will wear a small radio transmitter which will be activated either manually or by immersion to a certain pressure. Permanently-mounted direction finding equipment on board will lead the boat back to the man or woman in the water.
While this equipment already exists, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Both the transmitting and receiving antennas can be functionally limited by high seas—just when the equipment is likely to be needed.
For the typical cruising couple, refinement of this type of location system would be a huge relief. Sailing double-handed offshore, only one person is on deck a large percentage of the time. If that person goes overboard while the other is asleep, it could be hours before the off-watch crew knows there is a problem. By then, it may be too late.
Another required piece of personal emergency gear is a remotely-operated man-overboard button at the helm station. This button will activate an instant waypoint on the belowdecks GPS, saving invaluable seconds in an emergency. No one will have to rush to the nav station to hit the button on the GPS.
The huge advantage of this for cruising sailors is obvious. Rule number one in a man-overboard situation is to keep the victim in sight. Running below for even a few seconds to hit the MOB button can take you a hundred yards away from the person in the water. One wave of separation from the boat is all it takes in severe conditions to lose sight of someone in the water.
Personal Training To makes sure that every boat in the Volvo Ocean Race is properly equipped, the race organizers will supply an extensive medical kit. It is required that at least two members of the crew for each leg of the race have current certification sufficient for first-provider care for accidents or other medical emergencies.
Very few cruising boats have properly thought-out medical kits, and disappointingly few cruisers—other than medical professionals—have the skills to properly use what medical supplies are on board.
The Volvo Race requires two trained persons on board in case one of them is the person injured or sick. If only one half of a cruising couple has any medical training, you have a 50-50 chance that the trained person will be the one requiring attention in a medical emergency. These are bad odds.
Throughout the US, the American Red Cross and other organizations offer low-cost medical emergency training such as CPR, first aid, and first responder care. If you and your significant other are headed offshore, first head for a few days of emergency medical training. It’s just as important as learning to sail.
Conclusions Sailing offshore at speeds of 25 knots, pushing a boat as hard as possible no matter how bad the conditions, is about as risky as offshore sailing can get. For Volvo, meeting the seemingly contradictory goals of high levels of performance and high levels of safety is seen as a challenge, not as an obstacle. In the design of the new Volvo Open 70, Volvo has upped the ante to a level meant to be the ultimate challenge for designers, builders, and sailors.
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Published on May 10th, 2022 | by Editor
Volvo Open 70 Camper: World’s coolest yachts
Published on May 10th, 2022 by Editor -->
Yachting World has been asking top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times, and Chris Nicholson nominates the Volvo Open 70, Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, as his Coolest Yacht.
This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011-12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 565 miles along the way. Here’s the report :
I’ve been fortunate to race on board and race against a great many boats I could nominate for my Coolest Yacht, but for me it would have to be the Volvo Open 70. And I if I had to narrow it down to one boat, it would have to be Camper, which I skippered in the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race.
I first raced in the Volvo Ocean Race at the end of the Volvo 60 era, and then it was a quantum leap to the new Volvo Open 70. It started out with all the issues – with boats breaking and sinking and destroying themselves – to where we finally finally ended up with Camper in our last Volvo Open 70, where we had a boat where everybody on board needed to be at the highest level and at the top of their game to sail them safely and round the world. They were now the biggest challenge, and the most fun.
Like in the Whitbread/Volvo 60s, the Volvo 70s had a rule where the more weight you could strip out, the more weight you had on the bulb. We thought that was ‘interesting’, even at the time.
I’d come from the Olympic side of things, and I didn’t feel we actually needed to go to such extremes. Even on the 60s, some of the living conditions on board were quite barbaric – with zero comfort just because you could get an extra couple of grams on the bulb.
It didn’t make sense, because you couldn’t sleep properly, because your bunks were so terrible. Your galley setup was so poor, you didn’t eat properly, and so it wasn’t faster. I’m grateful that we’ve reached a point where a bit more common sense has come through now. But by the third generation, with Camper, the VO70s were starting to make more sense in terms of how they were put together.
Trying to keep them in one piece was still a challenge, and there were still breakages, but that was down to how powerful and how fast they were. Sailing them in the Southern Ocean, that was amazing. I remember seeing the footage afterwards and just going ‘wow!’.
They were a real handful and we had some huge moments, but the thing was they just demanded the best people you can find on the on the planet, at the top of their game, and that was that was such a cool, cool group of people to be part of. Camper brought out the best in us.
VO70s were an influential design in terms of creating this accelerated learning curve, bringing improvements that have found their way into other offshore boats, in terms of how to build them lighter and still keep them in one piece, and a lot of the ergonomics of how you would set them up down below for more comfort in harsh conditions.
The knowledge and experience from Camper and those other big Volvo teams has spread out through the industry. You don’t realize until after it’s all over, just how good it was.
Volvo Open 70 Camper stats rating: Top speed: 39 knots LOA: 70ft 6in / 21.5m Launched: 2011 Berths: 6 Price: $8m Adrenalin factor: 85%
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The transition from Volvo Ocean 60 to Volvo Ocean 70
The Volvo Open 70 has set the standard for monohull racing yachts since it replaced the previous Volvo Ocean 60 design for the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race.
The Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 features five of the latest iterations of this modern design classic and it will be a surprise if the 24-hour monohull distance record is not obliterated by at least one of them during the eleventh edition of the race.
The Volvo Ocean 60 design rule, known originally as the Whitbread 60 rule, was introduced in 1993 in an effort to reduce campaign costs whilst maintaining the high-performance nature of the yachts.
This move was the beginning of the end for the popular but hugely more expensive maxi yachts. A fleet of 10 Whitbread 60s took part in the 1993-94 race, dwarfing the four-boat maxi fleet in what was their final round the world race appearance.
To some degree, the new rule was an attempt to level the playing field, by placing tight constraints on the boats' physical dimensions and equipment, while leaving room for individual designer creativity within a "box" of maximum length, width, and depth.
To reduce build costs, the new boats were built from Kevlar and foam. The use of carbon was limited to the spinnaker pole, sail battens, and rudder stock. Large water ballast tanks were allowed to help the sailors balance the boats and deliver maximum performance from the huge rigs and sail plans.
Nine years and three race cycles later it was decided that the evolution and refinement of the Volvo Ocean 60 design had been taken as far as possible and with the arrival of new technology and construction techniques, a bigger and better design rule was commissioned to be used from the 2005-2006 race onward.
Known as the Volvo Open 70, this time the "box" of parameters defined maximum overall length and depth, minimum and maximum width, and imposed a weight range restriction of between 12.5 and 14.5 tons.
The allowance of carbon fiber as a construction material meant that although two meters longer than its predecessor, remarkably, a Volvo Open 70 weighed around 1,000 kilograms less.
A four-meter increase to the height of the mast allowed the Volvo Open 70s to carry up to 60 percent more downwind sail area than a Volvo Ocean 60. The Volvo Open 70 mainsail is also around 28 percent larger in area.
A carbon mast and boom and the replacement of heavy metal rigging with lighter, high-tech rope to support the mast, resulting in significant weight savings in the rig.
Already more powerful than the Volvo Ocean 60s, Volvo Open 70s were given another major performance boost from the use of a canting mechanism on their keels, rather than the water ballast used on the previous generation boats.
Driven by a pair of powerful hydraulic rams, the entire keel, and its large lead-filled bulb can be swung out to 40 degrees on either side of the boat to counteract the force of the wind on the sails, dramatically increasing the boats' performance and enabling them to reach speeds as high as 40 knots in the right weather conditions.
The use of a canting keel necessitated the addition of a pair of long retractable daggerboards to help prevent the boat from slipping sideways when the keel was fully canted.
Two rudders rather than one, gives the crews more control at high speed, allowing them to push the boats much harder, particularly in windy offshore conditions.
In total, the estimated performance improvement of a Volvo Open 70 over the Volvo Ocean 60 is around 18 percent. Put another way, the Volvo Open 70s boats are estimated to be approximately three weeks faster around the world.
The distance record for a Volvo Ocean 60 was set by Illbruck during the 2001-02 race when they traveled 484 nautical miles in a 24-hour period.
Volvo Open 70 Ericsson 4 broke the World Sailing Speed Record for the greatest distance covered by a monohull in a single a 24-hour period. On Leg 1 from Alicante to Cape Town, Ericsson 4 sailed 596.6 nautical miles (1104.9 km) in the day, at an average speed of 24.85 knots (46.02 kilometers per hour).
Confidence is high that the 600 nautical mile barrier will be broken during the 2011-12 race.
Volvo Ocean Race measurer Shaun Ritzen believes that after three races worth of development, there is now little design evolution left around the Volvo Open 70 rule.
"The latest generation boats are very similar to each other and the only areas the designers don't seem to agree on is the deck layout and the position and angle of the daggerboards. Consequently, the teams are having to resort to looking closely at actual the wording of the rule to try to gain some advantage from the way it can be interpreted."
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Since the 1981-1982 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race), Farr Yacht Design has been designing competitive boats that race in the toughest sailing race in the world. We have designed a total of 36 different designs. In the 2014-15 and 2017-18 editions, the race has changed into a one design format, using the Volvo Ocean 65 (design № 757).
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Design № 757 (2012)
Design № 715 (2010)
VOLVO OPEN 70 "AZZAM"
Design № 635 (2007)
VOLVO OPEN 70 "TELEFONICA BLACK"
VOLVO OPEN 70 "TELEFONICA BLUE"
Design № 550 (2003)
VOLVO OPEN 70 "MOVISTAR"
Design № 545 (2003)
VOLVO OPEN 70 "BRASIL 1," "BLACK PEARL," "ERICSSON"
Design № 476 (2001)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "AMER SPORTS TOO"
Design № 476 (2000)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "ASSA ABLOY"
Design № 474 (2003)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "TEAM NEWS CORP."
Design № 473 (2000)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "TEAM SEB"
Design № 472 (2000)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "TEAM TYCO"
Design № 471 (2000)
VOLVO OCEAN 60 "ILLBRUCK CHALLENGE"
Design № 396 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "SILK CUT"
Design № 394 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "SWEDISH MATCH"
Design № 392 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "KVAERNER INNOVATION"
Design № 390 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "MERIT CUP"
Design № 388 (1996)
Design № 386 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "CHESSIE RACING"
Design № 384 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "ELLE RACING"
Design № 382 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "TOSHIBA"
Design № 378 (1996)
WHITBREAD 60 "EF LANGUAGE," "EF EDUCATION"
Design № 293 (1991)
WHITBREAD 60 "YAMAHA"
Design № 292 (1992)
WHITBREAD 60 "INTRUM JUSTITIA"
Design № 287 (1992)
WHITBREAD 60 "WINSTON"
Design № 286 (1992)
WHITBREAD 60 "TOKIO"
Design № 284 (1993)
WHITBREAD 60 "GALICIA PESCANOVA 93"
Design № 282 (1991)
WHITBREAD 60 "HEINEKEN" (EX-"YAMAHA" & "HETMAN SAHAIDACHNY")
Design № 278 (1992)
WHITBREAD MAXI "MERIT CUP," "LA POSTE"
Design № 274 (1992)
WHITBREAD MAXI "NEW ZEALAND ENDEAVOUR"
Design № 195 (1988)
WHITBREAD MAXI "THE CARD"
Design № 191 (1987)
WHITBREAD MAXI "FISHER & PAYKEL"
Design № 190 (1987)
WHITBREAD MAXI "STEINLAGER II"
Design № 183 (1985)
WHITBREAD MAXI "MERIT"
Design № 144 (1981)
WHITBREAD MAXI "ATLANTIC PRIVATEER"
Design № 131 (1983)
WHITBREAD MAXI "UBS SWITZERLAND"
Design № 90 (1980)
WHITBREAD MAXI "CERAMCO NEW ZEALAND"
Design № 81 (1981)
WHITBREAD MAXI "DISQUE D'OR"
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TORONTO (November 1, 2005) – When the seven competing boats begin their first in-port race to kick off the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race on November 5 in Sanxenxo, Spain, it will mark the culmination of more than three years of hectic practice, preparation and yacht development -- with some definitive Canadian input.
The Volvo Ocean Race is a grueling eight month, around-the-world race aboard sleek sailing sloops manned by 10-person crews. The boats will travel 31,250 nautical miles over nine legs, stopping at 10 ports around the world, as well as taking part in seven in-shore races. The crew, sustaining themselves on freeze dried food and up to 20 vitamin pills per day, must endure impossibly rough seas, strong winds and temperature variations from -5ºC to +40ºC. Past Ocean Race participants have been known to lose up to 11 kg (25 lbs.) in one sailing leg alone.
The boats, called Volvo Open 70 yachts, must endure the unrelenting elements, support the crew and travel at the fastest possible speed every minute they are underway. To optimize performance, the hull design is a feat of engineering wizardry. But before the crew is ready to entrust their lives to a new boat, highly trained engineers are brought in to test the hull design in a secure environment that simulates some of the harshest and most extreme conditions imaginable.
For Farr Yacht Design, commissioned to design four of the seven boats, it meant a journey from their Annapolis, Maryland, home base to Canada’s east coast. Oceanic Consulting Corporation and the Institute for Ocean Technology (IOT), both based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, was the site of the prototype testing in a model ocean environment. Oceanic Consulting Corporation works in partnership with IOT and specializes in ocean engineering and marine performance evaluation.
“We went to the Institute in St. John’s to test our designs for the Volvo 60’s used in the last race,” says Britt Ward, lead research naval architect from Farr Yacht Design. “We have good relationships with the folks at the IOT facility through our America’s Cup tank testing program and our Volvo 60 test work for the last race, so it made sense for us to continue a winning strategy.”
“We can simulate a range of severe conditions, from a calm blue ocean to the frigid arctic to extreme seas,” says Lee Hedd, Senior Naval Architect and Principal Consultant, Ships and Yachts, from Oceanic Consulting Corporation. “By putting an accurate scale model of a vessel into this kind of environment, we can gather invaluable data about how it will perform in the real world. For the VO70, we isolated the fine force and moment details acting on the hull in order to understand the performance envelope of the new design with a wide assortment of configurations and various conditions.”
Oceanic used IOT’s 200 metre (656 ft.) state-of-the-art towing tank with a capacity of more than 16,000 litres and a custom force and moment dynamometer to test the forces acting on the 7 m scale model VO70. This yacht dynamometer was specifically designed and developed by IOT for the sole purpose of providing the most accurate sailing yacht test data in the world.
Hedd and his team were interested in measuring the lift and drag experienced by the boat. The model is suspended from the dynamometer using a vertically mounted post on the overhead carriage and fitted with load sensors to measure the magnitude and direction of the forces exerted on it as the boat is towed through the water. Over multiple runs, where the model is set up in different configurations, the relative lift and drag measurements are collected, from which a full picture of the hull’s performance becomes clear.
“The volume of data we gather can be staggering sometimes, and it’s also a time consuming process,” says Hedd. “Once we complete one test, it takes time to set up the model again and wait for the wash from the previous run die down. That translates to roughly four or five runs per hour. For the Volvo Open 70 design, we completed hundreds of different tests across several weeks.”
For Farr Yacht Design, choosing to do tank testing was virtually a non-issue. Teams movistar, Brasil 1, The Black Pearl – Pirates of the Caribbean II and Ericsson will enter with boats from the Farr design team’s pen. “Prior to receiving any commissions for the design of Volvo 70’s, we commenced our research program and booked time with Oceanic for the important tank testing work,” says Ward. “We have a long and fruitful relationship with Oceanic and the Institute for Ocean Technology in Newfoundland and know they take the necessary care in their work to produce results for the experiments that provide reliable design guidance.”
Following the Sanxenxo in-port race, the Volvo Ocean Race will officially begin off the coast of Spain on November 12, ending in Sweden nearly eight months later. Split into nine legs, the Volvo Ocean Race will meet spectators at ports in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, two in the U.S. followed by one in England and the Netherlands.
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Specifications:Builder: McConaghy Boats Hull Designer: Reichel Puch Model: Volvo 70 Year Built: 2007 LOA: 21.5m / 70.5ft Beam: 5.70m / 18.70ft Draft: 4.50m / 14.76ft Displacement: 14500kg / 31967lbs Engine: 1 Volvo D2 (75hp) Diesel Top speed: +30 knots Sail area: up to 770m2 consisting of a 3Di main and J2 In 2016 the underwater ship was completely stripped down to the original hull filler and was built up with a new system of Veneziani’s Speedy Carbonium. In 2018 she was repainted got new hydro turf in the cockpit and a new mast in 2018. In 2019 she got a new vinyl wrap. Hull: Carbon composite Superstructure: Carbon composite Deck: Carbon composite Keel: canting keel with hydraulic rams Dagger boards : 2 (+ 2 spares) Volvo 70 HistoryThe radical Volvo Open 70 Ocean Race Yacht was first used in the 2005 – 2006 Volvo Ocean Race. It was also the first time a boat with a canting keel was used. The Volvo 70’s replaced the Volvo Ocean 60 Yachts, which were first raced in 1993. The canting keel is capable of canting transversely up to an angle of 40 degrees. Numerous sets of sailsSail area *upwind: 375 m² *downwind: 675 m² Mainsail max.: 175m² Code-0 max.: 350m² Genoa 1 max. 200m² Gennaker max.: 500m² Sails inventory
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The maximum crew for offshore racing is 20 and for inshore racing 25. The boat comes with a professional skipper, and up to 2 or 3 crew members depending on your needs. The aim is to deliver a great experience to everybody onboard, first-time sailors or more experienced sailors and not too win in spite of everything. Johannes is happy to let you do anything on board and he is there to assist you. You will be an active team member and not just a passenger. When day racing there will be two days of training. The first day consists of familiarisation with the boat and during the second day, you will go trough sailing manoeuvres and procedures. For a longer offshore race ideally there are 4 days of training and preparation. On day 1 there is a briefing for half a day. On the second day, you will go through manoeuvres and procedures. On day 3 there will we some serious training and the day before the race there will be no sailing but the boat will be prepared for the race. While racing we have prepared or freeze-dried food on board so we are suited for all conditions and can focus on performance. Watch SystemDuring a longer offshore race, there will be a watch system of two watches consisting of 4 hours during the day and 3 hours during the night. The maximum crew for offshore sailing is 20 and for inshore sailing 25. The boat comes with a professional skipper, and up to 2 or 3 crew members depending on your needs. You will be an active crew member and not just a passenger. We usually cook onboard unless you want to have the Ocean Race experience with freeze-dried food. During a longer distance voyage, there will be two watches of 2×6 hours during the day and 3×4 hours during the night. In demanding conditions we switch to a watch system of 3×4 during the day and 3×4 during the night. But we try to avoid demanding conditions and we will use the engine to escape from wind shadows around island capes for example. Johannes SchwarzJohannes Schwarz is a very experienced Volvo 60 and 70 skipper and sail trainer and logged more than 250000 NM offshore. He flourishes in guiding and training young talents and is very patient. Johannes is a great motivator for sailors and teams and is leading them safely across oceans and race courses. Johannes is also a promotor of women in sailing. In the first Volvo Legend Race in 2011, he raced on Volvo 60 Cuba Libre with an all-female team consisting of former Volvo Ocean Race competitors. Johannes logged more than 250.000 offshore miles on 50-footers, Volvo 60’s and Volvo 70s. He started his career running his own sailing and windsurfing school. In 1990 he initiated the first Austrian Whitbread Challenge project and run that for 8 years as technical director. He competed as skipper in the Hongkong Challenge Round the World Race (first participation of an Austrian team at a round-the-world race). From 2006 Johannes owned and skippered several Volvo 60’s and 70’s, starting with VO60 ASSA ABLOY (2005-2008), additionally running and racing VO60 Tokio2 (2007-2010), VO60 Cuba Libre (ex Heineken) (2010-2015), and VO70 Green Dragon from 2015. From 2018 on he is additionally running and racing Volvo 70 E1 ex Ericsson and from 2019 Volvo 70 Monster Project, ex Kosatka. Skills besides sailing
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GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR S/Y GREEN DRAGON An agreement between The Charterer: (PRINT) The Charter Company: representing Solvis GmbH THE PACKAGE Event or Cruise: Package Dates: Maximum Crew Number: 20 for offshore and 25 for inshore sailing Joining Port: Disembarkation Port: Package Price: THE BOOKING The booking is binding and applicable to the Charterer. Transfer of the booking to another person is only possible following written consent of the Charter Company and receipt of a completed Conditions of Booking Contract from the transferee. A charter is secured upon receipt of a deposit of 50% of the Package Price. The balance due date will be not later than 6 weeks prior to the commencement of the Package. CANCELLATION In case of cancellation by the Charterer the following charges are made:
If the Charterer fails to wholly or partly complete the Package, there is no pro-rata refund given. Participation in the Package is not possible until all payments have been received. THE CHARTER COMPANY Is entitled to withdraw from this agreement if its implementation is impossible by special circumstances, such as unavoidable unavailability of the intended vessel or a replacement vessel, by the unavailability of the planned number of participants of 7 people, strikes, natural disasters, epidemics, war, civil unrest sovereign assemblies, damage, heavy weather or similar serious events. In case of cancellation by the Charter Company for any of these reasons, the Charterer will be refunded a pro-rata daily rate without interest for that proportion of the Package Dates outstanding after the date and time on which the loss or disablement occurred without any deduction of a processing fee. Further claims against the Charter Company and/or Charter Agent, for whatever reason, are excluded. The Charter Company has a yacht and P&I insurance and is insured against all liabilities. However, the Charter Company will not accept any liability in case of damage or injury, due to whatever cause. There is no insurance coverage on board for baggage and valuables. The Charterer is required to provide their own insurance for travel and accident (including emergency transport evacuation) that covers yacht racing. In the case of delay by weather or accident, no liability is assumed by the Charter Company and/or Charter Agent. In departure and arrival ports not specified in the Package, claims against the Charter Company and/or Charter Agent are excluded. THE CHARTERER The Charterer may invite up to 18 additional guests to operate as crew for the event. The Charterer represents their guests as a single entity for the purposes of this agreement and signs on their behalf. For insurance purposes, each guest is insured for at least 15 minutes with clothing to swim in deep water without a flotation device, providing the Charterer agrees by signing this agreement that they are in good health and do not suffer from contagious diseases, and do not suffer seizures. ALL health conditions MUST BE NOTIFIED in writing to the Charter Company prior to joining the Yacht. The Charterer is participating in a sporting event and has no agreement for either carriage or a package holiday. The Charterer’s guests are on board as Crew Members, not passengers and participate at their own risk in all sailing and related activities, and each is fully responsible for himself/herself. The Charterer’s guests shall take all necessary precautions for his/her own person, for example, putting on the life vest, clipping on above and below deck, transfer from the vessel to shore, etc. The Charterer commits to comply with all applicable regulations on board and accepts that animals, weapons and illegal substances are not allowed on board. Furthermore, the Charterer agrees that there is no consumption of alcohol on board during navigation, neither the Charterer and his guests may be alcoholised when departing for navigation. The Charterer’s guests accept that in all ship manoeuvres and the usual work onboard a yacht they will take part to the best of their ability. It is agreed that at all times during the Package they will be helpful and considerate to all Crew Members. In the event of malfunctions, the Charterer’s guests are obliged to do everything reasonable to help rectify the problem and to minimize possible damages. All costs and damages arising from the non-observance of passport, visa, customs, currency and health regulations, shall be borne by the Charterer who is advised to establish the implications of local regulations. Acceptance of the Yacht shall imply the Yacht, its equipment, fixtures and fittings and sail wardrobe are in proper working order. THE CHARTER COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE The task of the Representative is to sail the yacht with the help of the Charterers, as well as to take sole responsibility for the navigation and seamanship. The Representative alone has the responsibility to make decisions that affect the safety of the charterers and yacht. The Representative has all rights and obligations in accordance with the valid law of the sea. All Package destinations may be changed due to weather conditions at the discretion of the Representative. THE PACKAGE PRICE Is inclusive of:
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All costs incurred on land are for the account of the Charterer. THE AGREEMENT The invalidity of any provision of this Agreement shall not invalidate the entire Agreement. The correction of mistakes, misprints and miscalculations reserved. Verbal offers or agreements are only valid if confirmed in writing. Claims under this Agreement must be made within one month of the last day of the Package. Any right to make claims beyond this period is forfeit. This agreement is governed by the substantive and procedural laws of Austria. I agree to the Conditions of thisAgreement: The Charterer (SIGN) (PRINT) Name dated _ For and on behalf of the Charter Company (SIGN) JOHANNES SCHWARZ, CEO dated _ Download the Terms & Conditions of SY Green Dragon There are no reviews yet. You must be logged in to post a review. Related Products Volvo 70 Ocean BreezeJavascript seems to be disabled in your browser The quickest way of navigating our site with javascript disabled is to use our sitemap . COVID-19 Update . Charters currently suspended due to lockdown, still taking post lockdown bookings. 
 Round the World YachtSolent Events are delighted to be able to offer you one of the most exciting 'high octane' racing yachts available for charter anywhere in the world. The Volvo Open '70 is the stuff of legend and this recently retired world girdling racing machine is still set up in its full battle configuration.  Volvo Open '70 Racing Yacht CharterBlistering speed. Designed by Rob Humphries and built entirely of carbon fibre by Green Marine, this immensely powerful racing yacht is capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots - truly extraordinary!! Built to weather the storms of the Southern Ocean on the Volvo Ocean Race circumnavigation, you’ll be hoping for bad weather to really feel this boat’s potential… Take the HelmWith a professional crew to guide you, we often see speeds in excess of 20 knots even in the sheltered waters of the Solent. You will have the opportunity to helm this blistering behemoth and take part in as much rope pulling with the aid of immensely powerful 'coffee grinder' pedestal winches as you can manage. No electric winches on this boat! Expect few home comforts. If you bought a toothbrush on board the skipper would be likely to saw the handle off to save weight. We have however persuaded him to allow us to pack a delicious lunch. Incredible EventPlease contact us to see how you can take part in this incredible event and entertain your guests with a truly unique experience. This is the marine equivalent of being allowed to drive a Formula 1 car! AvailabilityThis season the Volvo 70 is in the Caribbean, watch this space for events booking upon its return. Get in touch with Solent Events Do you have an event in mind? Send us your details using the form below or have a quick chat with one of our experts on. 01590 674900 . Our privacy policy Call us now on 01590 674900 to discuss your next exhilarating water based event Solent Events (SE) is a wholly owned division of Solent Rib Charters Ltd (SRC) who own and operate Europe’s largest fleet of commercial Rigid Inflatable Boats (Rib). Unit 6a Dell Buildings, Milford Road, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 0ED Site by Clear Signal  This website uses cookies. By continuing to use the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies . Close I agree ENG Menu (mob)
Taalkeuze (mob) adventure & traveling OCEAN BREEZE explore - experience - remember  Ocean Breeze NED 70 Unique experienceAlways wanted to be a part of a professional crew on an ocean racer? The Ocean Breeze offers you the opportunity to make a delivery . This means you can sail with the crew from one port to the next port. The Ocean Breeze is available for Regattas with your own Team (max 12 people). The Ocean Breeze can also be part of a complete Incentive program , we can make a tailor-made program for you together with our partners. In one complete day, you and your guests will be engaged in the sailing race world. About Ocean Breeze VO70 - NED70Specifications. * Name : Ocean Breeze * Type : Volvo open 70 * Year of construction : 2008 (total refit in 2011 & 2018) * Designer : Farr Yacht Design #634 * ‘Volvo Ocean Race’ participation : 2008-2009 Telefonica Blue overall rating : 3rd. 2011 - 2012 Sanya Lan overall rating : 6th.  Her racing potential is proven by her numerous accolades. She is made to achieve a speed of over 30 knots, and she delivers the most incredible sensations, as one would expect from a sailing machine of her calibre. Technical specifications* Length over all : 21,50 m / 70 ft * Draft : 4,5 m / 14,8 ft (canting keel) * Widest width : 4,50 m * Mast Height : 31,50 m * Engine : 75 HP * Number of sails : 25 * Surface largest sail : 675 m2 * Theoretical hull speed : 14 knots * Top speed : 37,0 knots * Maximum sleeping capacity : 14 * Displacement : 14.000 kg / 30.870 lb * Home Town : Scheveningen (NL) * Flag : NL * Yacht Club : Jachtclub Scheveningen (NL) Partners and FriendsLead partner.  Terms and conditions Privacy Declaration 
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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). According to the VO70 rule, the yachts can be made from glass fibres, aramid fibres, or carbon fibres ...
The Volvo Open 70 race rules are similar to those of a Formula One race team, as there is not a specific yacht design but a set of rules which competing yachts need to adhere to. ... History Volvo 70. The Volvo 70 Ocean Race Yacht is a class of racing yachts designed for the Volvo Ocean Race. It was first used in the 2005-06 race and replaced ...
Chris Nicholson nominates the Volvo Open 70, Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, as his Coolest Yacht. This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011/12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race ...
The Volvo Ocean 70 is the state-of-the-art yacht used in the Volvo Ocean Race. The VO70 'ABN AMRO TWO' skippered by Sebastien Josse holds the monohull 24 hour record at 562.96 nautical miles averaging 23.45 knots. ... RORC has announced that the Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 is the overall winner of the 2024 Roschier Baltic Sea Race Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 ...
In November 5, 2005, an elite fleet of racing sailboats will depart a southern Mediterranean port, bound on a 31,000-mile odyssey, racing around the world in the Volvo Ocean Race. These 70-foot sloops—the Volvo Open 70s—will be the fastest offshore monohulls of their size ever built. At about 26,000 pounds, they will also be among the ...
The Volvo 70's were designed and built for high performance, long distance offshore racing at the highest level. They are pure-bred racing machine, ready to endure the toughest of conditions. Cockatoo is a great boat for offshore race charter. She is ideal for a team looking to experience racing and an iconic Grand Prix Class Zero yacht.
This is the yacht he skippered to 2nd place in the 2011-12 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, setting a new 24-hour monohull record of 565 miles along the way. ... in our last Volvo Open 70, where ...
The Volvo Open 70 has set the standard for monohull racing yachts since it replaced the previous Volvo Ocean 60 design for the 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race. The Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 features five of the latest iterations of this modern design classic and it will be a surprise if the 24-hour monohull distance record is not obliterated by at ...
Back in 2008-09, it was the second time the notorious Volvo Open 70 was used for the Volvo Ocean Race. Green Dragon was a modestly budgeted campaign, led by first-time skipper, Britain's Ian Walker. ... In total the Legends fleet will be around 12 yachts. Former race winner, illbruck will join other V.O.60s SEB, Assa Abloy and Amer Sports One ...
Since the 1981-1982 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race), Farr Yacht Design has been designing competitive boats that race in the toughest sailing race in the world. We have designed a total of 36 different designs. ... VOLVO OPEN 70 "BRASIL 1," "BLACK PEARL," "ERICSSON" Design № 476 (2001)
Past Ocean Race participants have been known to lose up to 11 kg (25 lbs.) in one sailing leg alone. The boats, called Volvo Open 70 yachts, must endure the unrelenting elements, support the crew and travel at the fastest possible speed every minute they are underway. To optimize performance, the hull design is a feat of engineering wizardry.
Volvo Open 70: Perrotti Performance Design and Van Gorkom Yacht Design have teamed up to create a new Volvo 70 for the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race. Together, we have helped sculpt the new Volvo 70 Rule, and have created a first generation design with promising performance.
The radical Volvo Open 70 Ocean Race Yacht was first used in the 2005 - 2006 Volvo Ocean Race. It was also the first time a boat with a canting keel was used. The Volvo 70's replaced the Volvo Ocean 60 Yachts, which were first raced in 1993. The canting keel is capable of canting transversely up to an angle of 40 degrees.
Volvo 70 Ocean Breeze, formerly Telefonica Blue and Sanya Lan, competed in the 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race Round the World. At the launch the Volvo Open 70 was not a singular yacht design but a set of design rules to which competing boats must adhere. Competing teams design and build boats within the scope of this rule to try and ...
The Volvo Open '70 is the stuff of legend and this recently retired world girdling racing machine is still set up in its full battle configuration. Blistering Speed Designed by Rob Humphries and built entirely of carbon fibre by Green Marine, this immensely powerful racing yacht is capable of speeds in excess of 30 knots - truly extraordinary!!
* Type: Volvo open 70 * Year of construction: 2008 (total refit in 2011 & 2018) * Designer: Farr Yacht Design #634 * 'Volvo Ocean Race' participation: 2008-2009 Telefonica Blue overall rating: 3rd. 2011 - 2012 Sanya Lan overall rating: 6th. Her racing potential is proven by her numerous accolades.
Volvo 70 - Green Dragon. Volvo 70 - Green Dragon. Green Dragon competed in the 2008 - 2009 Volvo Ocean Race with Ian Walker, British Olympic silver medallist, making his debut as skipper. Green Dragon finished 5th. Ian Walker later won the 2015 race with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. At the launch the Volvo Open 70 was not a singular yacht ...
Volvo Open 70 "Telefonica Black" and "Telefonica Blue" are yachts designed for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race by Farr Yacht Design. ... Designs № 634 & 635. VOLVO OPEN 70 "TELEFONICA BLACK" & "TELEFONICA BLUE" < Back to all designs. CONTACT. SALES. NEWS. RACE RESULTS. FARR MAGAZINE. GET UPDATES . ABOUT US. AWARDS. OUR TEAM. SERVICES ...
Racing Sail Boat Design. Adjustable side stabilisers. Length: 960mm =37.7952756 inches. Height: 1550mm. Weight: 3050g. Sail Area: 4100 cm2. Requires 12x AA Batteries (not included)
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