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VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 5
ASSA ABLOY Group achieves objectives with Volvo Ocean Race
The ASSA ABLOY Group has achieved its main objectives with its participation in the Volvo Ocean Race. The race has supported and improved the integration process of more than 100 companies worldwide and strengthened the ASSA ABLOY corporate identity in an excellent way. The objectives are already realised before the other half of the globe (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 5
Green: Unlucky for some?
A number of countries in the world recognise that the colour Green is unlucky, although some would undoubtedly disagree. Right now, as they wrote back in a crew e-mail recently, SEB would wholeheartedly support the fact that Green is unlucky; up to a point maybe illbruck would too. However, thus far they have managed to convert their (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 5
Proof of the Pudding*
As the girls are showing very good racing these days, it is worth looking at some of the crewmembers that make Amer Sports Too go fast and be a real threat to male campaigns that have had ten times the preparation time. -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 5
Is there a boatbuilder on board?
For illbruck that was the six million dollar question. Luckily Tony Kolb, sailmaker and boatbuilder will have been able to come to the rescue. Unluckily for him, both skills were required as not long after their collision with SEB, the Code Zero was pulled out of the water in bits, also requiring substantial (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 5
Kostecki’s Yacht illbruck Hit In Collision
The incident occurred during a straightforward collision avoidance manoeuvre. "We had a port and starboard, us on port them on starboard," explained SEB skipper Gunnar Krantz. "We tried to duck them and missed the duck and touched them on the port aft corner with our bow. And made our 720 and continued (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Rio de Janeiro
Last minute crew change at start to Volvo Ocean Race leg five
In the searing heat of Rio de Janeiro, Lisa McDonald, the skipper of Amer Sports Too, made a last minute change to her crew for leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race. Bridget Suckling, one of the two crew working the bow, was already onboard the boat and intending to race, but medics recommended that she should stay ashore to recover from (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Rio
dragons well prepared for Volvo Ocean Race leg five
Djuice Dragons skipper Knut Frostad , and Navigator Jean Yeves Bernot - second into Rio on Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race. Photo: Rick Tomlinson.The Norwegian team, djuiuce dragons, who finished second in leg four of the Volvo Ocean Race from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro, is fit for a fight and ready for the start of leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race. After one week‚s holiday, well away from the world of sailing, the team has gathered back in Rio de Janeiro for final (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Crew changes on Assa Abloy: Skipper Neal McDonald looks ahead
For leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race, 4450 nautical miles from Rio de Janeiro to Miami, Assa Abloy Racing Team had planned only one crew change, bringing back Chris Larson from the USA, who sailed with the team on their victorious leg from Sydney to Auckland, winning the CYCA Sydney Hobart race en route. But now, in an unscheduled move, they (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Jon Gunderson joins Team SEB
Jon Gunderson, a 27-year old from Auckland, New Zealand will join Gurra Krantz and his team on Sweden’s SEB for the Volvo Ocean Race. -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Sail Away in the bay of Rio
It is very rare to have the opportunity of sailing onboard a racing boat such as a Volvo Ocean 60, and it is particularly special when it is race boat that is taking part in the world’s premier ocean race. For most casual sailors, just to take the helm and feel the responsiveness of these sleek ocean racers is a memorable experience in (...)
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