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In the News (Tue 1 Dec 09)

  
  THE WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD SAILING RACE HISTORY INTERNATIONAL YACHTING EVENTS VOLVO OCEAN RACE
It would be a race that pushed the endurance of the crews and boats to the outer limits as they navigated sweltering Doldrums, freezing oceans filled with icebergs, and gales that blew unabated for weeks on end -- a race that would be considered the Mt. Everest of ocean racing.
The RNSA and Whitbread provided race organisers with the administrative and financial critical mass they needed to push the event from the drawing boards to the oceans.
The Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race is now known as the Volvo Ocean Race, and is the world's most prestigious yacht race.
www.solarnavigator.net /history/whitbread_round_the_world_race.htm   (1452 words)

  
  Volvo Ocean Race 2005/6
Although a 'round the world yacht race' had been considered throughout the last century, it needed the financial support and organisational expertise which Whitbread and the RNSA were able to put together.
During the first race, communication between the fleet and organisers was based on a weekly position report to a local coast guard, but from 1993-94, satellite equipment enabled the yachts to file their position every six hours.
Tragedies apart, the race was a huge success, and one of the main lessons learnt for the next race was that survival in these most exacting conditions were just as important as speed.
www.travelplaces.co.uk /yacht-volvo-ocean-race-info.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Volvo Ocean Race History
The 1993-94 race is notable for many reasons - not least for the battle between the Maxis and the new Whitbread 60s, for the professionalism shown by the crews, and for the high tech equipment on board which so altered the face of ocean racing.
With the Whitbread 60 being the only class of yacht for the next race and with certain sail restrictions being lifted, there was every expectation that 1997-98 would see even more records broken as the crews drove their boats to ever higher achievements.
As predicted pre-race, these Whitbread 60s provided some thrilling and close racing, but due to the similarities of the class, once a boat managed to break away from the pack, she proved to be hard to catch.
www.boatingoz.com.au /articles/volvooceanrace.htm   (4229 words)

  
 Volvo Ocean Race,VOR Round the World Yacht Race, 2008 Alicante   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Volvo Ocean Race,VOR Round the World Yacht Race, 2008 Alicante
The Volvo Ocean Race, VOR, formerly known as the Whitbread Round The World Race, takes place about every 4 years.
The VOR is a team event which takes place in stages and involves in-port races.
www.volvoroundworld.com   (194 words)

  
 Noonsite: Details of New Round the World Race Announced
The Corinthian Challenge 2006/7 is an exciting new Round the World Yacht Race inspired by Sir Chay Blyth’s participation in the original Whitbread of 1974.
Few opportunities exist for non professional sailors to race around the world and most are for grand prix designs, requiring grand prix budgets or with the emphasis on the extreme, such as single handed.
Racing for the pride of winning, the Corinthian Challenge is aimed at racing yachts within a TCC rating band of 1.140 and 1.450, with a minimum length overall of 58ft (17.66m).
www.noonsite.com /Members/doina/R2004-01-27-1   (317 words)

  
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As the Race approached New Zealand, the public's awareness of the event was increased by media coverage.
This is the first time in the history of the Whitbread that two yachts have been sponsored by the same organisation in one race.
Race rules allow crew changes up to 42 miles from the start and Dennis Conner was intending to leave then and return to the USA.
www.waikato.ac.nz /film/NAME/script/whitbread.html   (6160 words)

  
 Icebergs, Port and Starboard: The Whitbread Round the World Race by John Jourdane ... Cape Horn Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Icebergs, Port and Starboard: The Whitbread Round the World Race by John Jourdane...
This is John Jourdane's extraordinary true-life adventure of the 1989/90 Race on the New Zealand ketch, "Fisher and Paykel".
He was the sole American racing with a boatload of Kiwis for nine months and 33,000 miles, right around the world.
www.atlasbooks.com /marktplc/10167.htm   (399 words)

  
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In 2001 Bufab Stainless was chosen as the deliverer of fasteners for one of the boats in the Volvo Ocean Race, formerly known as the Whitbread Around the World Race.
Volvo Ocean Race, formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race, is the sailor's Mount Everest and the world's toughest and longest sailing race.
The rewards were great: victory for the EF Language boat in the Whitbread Round the World Race and the attention of the whole world.
www.bufab-stainless.se /eng/withbread.htm   (747 words)

  
 Sailing World, Fisher, Grand Mistral
His five campaigns in the Whitbread Round the World Race ran like clockwork, and resulted in an elapsed-time victory in the 1985-'86 circumnavigation.
Since the Whitbread Race has eliminated the maxi fleet from its next edition, there is little surprise that the Swiss ocean racer has decided to swap tactics for targets to conduct his own round-the-world race beginning this September -- the Grand Mistral.
Sweden's Ludde Ingvall, who trounced the fleet en route to a dominant win in last summer's Fastnet Race with the ultra-light maxi Nicorette, was among the first to show interest in the Grand Mistral, and became the first to place a deposit on a boat for the race.
old.cruisingworld.com /ingramis.htm   (1277 words)

  
 Whitbread Home
Whitbread PLC will today report a positive start to the year at its Annual General Meeting.
Whitbread is delighted to announce the appointment of Reas Kondraschow as Group Development Director.
Reas, who is joining from Wyndham Hotel Group based in the United States where he was Executive Vice President of International Development, will be charged with helping to deliver Whitbread’s aggressive growth plans in the UK and internationally.
www.whitbread.co.uk   (96 words)

  
 ESPN.com - ESPNINC/PRODUCTS - '97-'98 Whitbread Round the World race
Hosted by ESPN sailing analyst Gary Jobson, viewers will see first-hand what it is like to race 32,000 miles around the world in the harshest, most extreme weather conditions on the planet.
The competitors in The Whitbread 1997-1998 were accustomed to the presence of video cameras as each crew member was given one and instructed to keep it running during emotional and pressure-filled moments in the heat of competition.
According to ESPN sailing analyst Gary Jobson, a world class sailor who has authored 11 books on sailing, "The Whitbread 1997-1998 was the most competitive race in history, because all of the boats involved were nearly identical and, often, as little as 48 seconds separated competitors at the end of a 3,000-mile leg.
espn.go.com /espninc/products/whitbreadvideo.html   (413 words)

  
 Sailing World, McNeill Whitbread Reports
As is typical of a Whitbread start, the placid harbor was quickly churned into a frothing mess after the start gun sounded as the television and journalist media boats maneuvered for close positions.
Whitbread PLC feels it has gotten enough mileage out of the race over its 20-year involvement, and feels it doesn't need to promote as heavily as in the past since Volvo has already bought the race rights.
Nevertheless, the nine teams participating in the Whitbread Round the World Race for the Volvo Trophy are finalizing preparations for Leg 4.
old.cruisingworld.com /whitbred/smwhits.htm   (7925 words)

  
 The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Whitbread Sailboat Race
A Whitbread 60 boat can rapidly accelerate to 20 mph under spinnaker (the usually large and colorful sail out front) and are limited to the channel by their 12 ft keels; involvement with spectator boats can be hazardous.
One sailor was thrown 15 across the cockpit by the force of a spinnaker sheet and suffered a clinical 5th metatarsal fracture and a large gastrocnemius hematoma that required therapy on shore to regain full range of motion.
The Whitbread Round the World Race could be described as the Olympics of ocean sailing.
www.physsportsmed.com /issues/1998/sailing/sailing.htm   (4213 words)

  
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The EF Language, winner of the Whitbread round-the-world yacht race, used a Munters dehumidifier to give it a competitive advantage.
The EF team used the equipment to pump air into the interior of the boat to remove moisture when she was in dock, reducing over-all weight.
The same procedure is used by the EF Education with the only all-women crew in the race.
www.munters.com /www/uk/home.nsf/ByKey/ABRL-56VGXJ   (197 words)

  
 Sailing with Scoundrels and Kings: A Lifetime of Boating by John Jourdane ... Cape Horn Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Hop aboard for a wild sail across the oceans of the world with John Jourdane, author of Icebergs Port and Starboard.
You will travel from sailing sabots in California to sailing with Kings in Europe; from sailing the trade winds of Hawaii and Tahiti to racing around the world in the icy Roaring Forties near Antarctica; from cruising the beautiful atolls of Micronesia to visiting the wild game parks of South Africa.
John is one of the world’s most experienced offshore sailors, having sailed over 300,000 miles.
www.atlasbooks.com /marktplc/01559.htm   (436 words)

  
 Volvo Ocean Race 2008 - 2009
World Champion female Yngling champions Ayton, Webb and Wilson talk about their win at the World Championships in Cascais, plus a preview of the Volvo Youth Worlds ISAF World Championship from Kingston in Canada.
Also, from the World Championships in Cascais, we hear from rival pairings in the 49ers - current European champions Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes and also reigning World Champions Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks.
Paul Cayard, former Star World Champion, winning Whitbread skipper and a world sailor of the year, talks about the America's Cup, the TP-52 circuit, the World Sailing League and the new look Volvo Ocean Race.
www.volvooceanrace.org /podcast   (1189 words)

  
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The Whitbread is a sailing race that spans the globe.
The first Whitbread Round The World Race was held in 1973-74 and has been held every four years since then.
In early Whitbread Races, the racing fleet was made up of a hodgepodge of different classes of boats.
artemis.crosslink.net /~rhiannon/whitbread.html   (552 words)

  
 Mariners Weather Log Vol. 50, No. 1, April 2006
Since no contact was allowed between the shore and the ship while they were in the race at sea, we set up a system where KNMI put several forecasts on the web.
Additionally, all yachts received general analyses and forecasts from the race committee during the race.
Already days before the start, which was at noon on Sunday 19 April 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, the midwest and southern regions of the USA suffered from various tornados; the national television paid lots of attention to that.
www.knmi.nl /~koek/Publicaties/whitbread_race.shtml.htm   (2076 words)

  
 Second Story Interactive Studios: The Volvo Ocean Race: Round the World
ormerly known as the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Volvo Ocean Race 2001-2002 sends eight superfast sloops on an incredible round-the-world, round-the-clock race to the finish.
The Interactives allow sailing enthusiasts to explore the anatomy of one of the VO Class 60 sloop boats or use a Sailing Simulator to test their skills against basic variables of wind and sail.
The Race Dispatches share insider stories from the race with correspondent Tracy Edwards, who joins various boats during the 9-month journey from September 2001 through June 2002.
www.secondstory.com /collection.php?id=39   (211 words)

  
 Round-the-World Volvo Ocean Race Comes to Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Summary The round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race is one of sailing's greatest challenges.
It was the first victory of the race for the boat backed by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, which boasts e-mail writing wise-guy Bart Simpson as an unofficial thirteenth member.
Every four years the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly known as the Whitbread Round the World Race) takes sailors on the journey of a lifetime, following prevailing winds around the world and through four oceans.
news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/04/0419_020419_volvorace.html   (588 words)

  
 Peter Blake (yachtsman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He previously won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, and the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza.
In 1974, Blake competed in his first Whitbread race as a watch officer on Les Williams' and Alan Smith's damage-riddled Burton Cutter.
Blake returned to the Whitbread Round the World race in 1985 with one of the race favourites, Lion New Zealand, sponsored by the Lion Brewery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Blake_(yachtsman)   (663 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00008232
Publisher description for Chessie racing : the story of Maryland's entry in the 1997-1998 Whitbread Round the World Race / George J. Collins and Kathy Alexander ; with a foreword by Gary Jobson.
During the stopover, over a half-million visitors came to the Whitbread Race Village in Baltimore and an additional sixty thousand toured the Race Village in Annapolis, giving Baltimore-Annapolis the highest attendance of any of the nine ports visited by the race.
While racing, the boat also served an educational purpose through a two-part curriculum developed by the Living Classrooms Foundation, a Baltimore nonprofit educational organization for at-risk children.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/jhu051/00008232.html   (413 words)

  
 QUIETLY, TEAM OF WORLD-CLASS SAILORS GETS READY TO RACE
This year's race also will include the Chesapeake Bay's first-ever entry, the Chessie, built in Bristol, R.I. Both the Chessie and Swedish Match were christened in Baltimore last week.
During Ardern's previous Whitbread, one crew member's leg caught a rope and snapped; another let go of the mast and swung back into it, smashing his face; and some, including Ardern, walked around with bloody hands from working with sharp objects in the icy wind.
Although the 1993-94 Whitbread is said to have been seen on television by 2.6 billion people in 177 countries, audiences tend to see more of the race's dangers than its drudgeries.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970509/05090686.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Cayard Sailing Inc - Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Starting with the legendary Whitbread Round the World Race, which began in 1973, to the present day Volvo Ocean Race - racing around the world is the Everest of sailing.
In 1997-98, Paul Cayard transformed the Whitbread, with his professional approach to racing around the world.
Paul was the first American to win this race and it was no surprise when he was selected by Disney to skipper and manage the Pirates of the Caribbean entry in the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race.
www.cayardsailing.com /cs_projectsGen.cfm?ProjID=4   (226 words)

  
 Barcelona World Race - TWO CREW ? NON-STOP - A NEW CONCEPT IN ROUND THE WORLD RACING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jourdain (also known with some affection as Bilou) brings the total number of high quality entries to seven, and is the 13th skipper to add his name to the roll call alongside many of the world’s leading solo and crewed professional sailors.
At the launch of the Barcelona World Race in October 2005, Jourdain stated: “The double-handed format is the ideal mix.
Veolia Environnement is a world leader in environmental services with more than 300,000 employees worldwide providing solutions to water, waste and energy management and freight and passenger transportation with a 2006 turnover of 28.6 billion euros.
www.barcelonaworldrace.com /nl/?s=6238   (497 words)

  
 Baird, Ed: World Match Racing Tour
Baird is the only American winner of the World Championship of Match Race Sailing, winning the title at the 1995 Steinlager Line 7 Cup in New Zealand.
On the World Match Racing Circuit, Baird has won 10 major international events and is the only American ever ranked no.1 on the ISAF World Match Race Rankings list.
Baird skippered the New York Yacht Club’s Young America syndicate, but the team’s legacy on the event was its near sinking during a Louis Vuitton Cup second round race.
www.worldmatchracingtour.com /?m=da&id=10928   (782 words)

  
 AmericaOne Challenge - Whitbread News - Leg 9 Finish
It goes without saying that Cayard is pleased with the win, although it didn't happen in the way he expected.
"My vision of how we would win the Whitbread Round the World Race is we would have struggled a lot in the beginning, being in the middle of the pack after four or five legs, and slowly climbed our way out of it and won on the last leg."
Sailing in the Whitbread was a risky decision on his part, he explains, but with the high visibility of not only competing in but winning the race, the round-the-world event was something of a booster rocket for the
www.americaone.org /whitbread/wbrace-980524.html   (598 words)

  
 PPL Photo Agency - The Specialist Media Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Paul Cayard, skipper of EF Language and crewman Magnus Olsson celebrate winning the 7th Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race back at Southampton on May 24.
Paul Cayard, skipper of Whitbread 60 EF Language.
Merit Cup skippered by Grant Dalton fights her way through a wall-to-wall spectator fleet to win the final leg back to Southampton and finish the race 2nd overall.
www.sailingsource.com /ppl/glywrwr.html   (128 words)

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