VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2017-2018

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VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2017-2018

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:28 pm

About Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018 - Alicante port of departure.
Alicante has been the Port of Exit of the World Tour to Vela in the last four editions of what is considered the longest and toughest competition of professional sport. On October 22, 2017 the city fired the fleet that traveled more than 45,000 nautical miles around the planet with stops in eleven cities to finish in The Hague (Holland), where it ended on June 30, 2018.
Alicante has also hosted the regatta since 2010 and since 2012 the only World Museum dedicated to the Volvo Ocean Race, one of the three major events in the world of sailing together with the Olympic Games and the Copa America.
For more than 40 years, the race has exerted an almost mythical influence on some of the best navigators in history, many of whom have spent years, and even decades, trying to win it.
The regatta is located at the exact intersection between the human adventure and the pure and hard competition, which turns out to be extreme and does not forgive mistakes. In the current era, in which you compete on board of monotypes (equal boats), the only way to win is sailing with more tenacity and intelligence than your rivals. The race is won in the water, not in the design phase.
There is no economic prize for the winners, but seeing your name engraved on one of the silver rings that make up the Volvo Ocean Race trophy is a reward that is unmatched by sportsmen who grew up dreaming of emulating the feats of the legends of the regatta Heroic figures who dedicated their lives to pursue victory, such as Blake, Eric Tabarly, Conny van Rietschoten, Magnus Olsson, Grant Dalton or Ian Walker.
The concept of the regatta is simple: it is the definitive ocean marathon, a race around the world in the anti-clockwise direction in constant pursuit of your rivals in which the best sailors in the world measure their forces across the oceans wildest of the globe.
The stamp shows a photograph of a moment of the competition where several boats appear on the high seas.
Source Spain Post.

The stamp shows three yachts from astern, the yacht in the left foreground is the TURN THE TIDE ON PLASTIC.
The yacht on the right is the BRUNEL.
The other yacht depict I could not identify.

The yachts for the Volvo Ocean race were designed by Farr Yacht Design as Volvo Ocean 65 yachts, and built by a consortium of shipyards and built for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race.
It are monohull racing yachts
Dim. 22.14 x 5.60 x 4.78m. (draught), hull length 20.37m, lengt on waterline 20.00. Weight of boat 12,500 kg.
Upwind sail area 468m² mainsail and 296m² mainsail and working jib. Downwind 578m²’
Auxiliary engine: Volvo Penta D2-75 diesel engine.
Crew 10.

TURN THE TIDE ON PLASTIC was launched in 2014 as VESTA WIND and is a Volvo Ocean 65 yacht.
As Team Vestas Wind, she finished seventh in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race skippered by Chris Nicholson.

On November 30th 2014, during a night navigation, the yacht grounded on a coral atoll of St. Brandon. This happened 10 days after leaving Cape Town, on the way to Abu Dhabi. The yacht was damaged and repaired the race for the last 2 legs. The grounding was because the atoll was not visible on the low scale chart. The crew was rescued by the Mauritius coast guard the next morning. The cause of the grounding was a combination of human error and the features of the navigation software. The software did not show the atoll on the route planning display at low or medium zoom levels, while the atoll would have been shown in the navigation chart display at those zoom levels. The crew on watch did not notice there was a wrong chart display on.

Following the race, the boat was refitted for the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race and renamed in TURN THE TIDE ON PLASTIC. Sailing under the flag of the United Naties.
She finished under skipper Dee Caffari 6th in the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_the_Tide_on_Plastic

The BRUNEL was built by the consortium in 2014 as a “Volvo Ocean 65” yacht. Sails under Dutch flag.
Same details as the VESTA WIND.
She took part in the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean Race under skipper Bouwe Bekking and finished second.
Took also part in the 2017-18 race, under skipper Bouwe Bekking and finished as third in this race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Brunel
Spain 2018 1.35 Euro sg?, scott?
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