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<h1>TEAM ABN AMRO | VOLVO OCEAN RACE | TEAM ABN AMRO Latest News </h1>
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:00:00 UTC <br>
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The Dutch syndicate Team Delta Lloyd has been confirmed as the eighth entry in the 2008-09 race. <br>
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The team will campaign ABN AMRO ONE, the winning boat from the 2005-06 race. The Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed first generation Volvo Open 70 has been re-fitted to comply with the new race rule. <br>
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On leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race, between Galway and Goteborg-Marstrand, the race course will include a rounding mark outside Rotterdam which will be bring the fleet into Dutch waters, giving the spectators from the Netherlands an opportunity to see something of the fleet as it passes by. <br>
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Sailing under a Dutch flag and with the sail number NED 1, the international crew will be skippered by Ireland’s Ger O’Rourke, and the team will comprise a blend of Dutch sailors and O’Rourke’s Chieftain Racing Team, which won the Fastnet Race. <br>
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“I am very excited that we have an eighth entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, and I am particularly pleased that the latest entry is Dutch. The Netherlands has played a big part in this event since the first race in 1973 and we are very pleased that we continue to attract entries from this country,” said Volvo Ocean Race Chief Executive, Knut Frostad. <br>
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Frostad also added that he has long been a fan of boats being capable of doing more than one race. “The spirit of this campaign is one that I admire. The team has a good boat, the winning boat from the 2005-06 race, and I am looking forward to watching their performance throughout the duration of the event,” he said. <br>
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The boat is currently completing its 2,000 mile race qualifier and will be in Alicante to join the rest of the fleet at the weekend. <br>
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The full crew will be announced once the boat has arrived in Alicante and the team has gone through its full survival training course. <br>
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<H1>Official Supporter of TEAM ABN AMRO </H1>
You can find reports and view the spectacular images and movies of the two boats of TEAM ABN AMRO in the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006's. <br>
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The challenging Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006 is finished, but the ABN AMRO boats will continue sailing and racing the coming 18 months. <br>
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<H1>ABN AMRO not to enter next Volvo Ocean Race</H1>
<b>18 October 2006</b>
ABN AMRO today announced that it will not enter the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009. ABN AMRO’s participation with two boats in the 2005-2006 round-the-world race was a huge sporting and marketing success. This was ABN AMRO’s first global sponsorship project aimed at uniting the worldwide territories of the bank, raising global awareness of the brand and introducing the global tagline ‘Making more possible’. <br>
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ABN AMRO ONE achieved overall race victory when it arrived in Gothenburg on 17 June 2006 with six offshore leg wins out of nine, and five out of seven in-port race victories. This was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding performances in the history of the Volvo Ocean Race. ABN AMRO TWO finished in an impressive fourth place overall, as well as breaking the world 24 hour speed record during the event. <br>
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ABN AMRO ONE and ABN AMRO TWO <br>
The campaign’s primary objectives were to involve employees from all key territories around the world, achieve worldwide brand exposure, create a platform for client hospitality, communicate the core values of the bank to a global audience, and win the race. All objectives were achieved during the race. <br>
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Jan Berent Heukensfeldt Jansen, Managing Director of TEAM ABN AMRO commented: “The Volvo Ocean Race has been a great marketing platform for us and its impact will continue long into the future. We entered the Volvo Ocean Race as a three year, one-off campaign to meet specific objectives, promoting the unity and strength of the ABN AMRO brand to a global audience. We did everything we could to win the race, and with a combination of teamwork and professionalism TEAM ABN AMRO travelled the world reflecting all that the bank stands for. The results of the campaign confirm that all our objectives have been met, which is largely thanks to the outstanding effort made by the large number of people involved. The Volvo Ocean Race is a unique event with a global following, and one which we are very proud to have been part of.” <br>
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<H1>Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race</H1>
Sydney/Hobart, AUS <br>
December 26, 2006 - January 1, 2007 <br>
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Press Release December 18th, 2006 from www.regattanews.com <br>
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Field is complete as last boats arrive in Sydney <br>
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Another line honours contender joined the ranks of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet this week. Offshore race veteran Ludde Ingvall was first to Hobart two years ago on his maxi Nicorette; this time he returns to the race course fighting for a new cause. Known for his numerous Whitbread Round the World Race campaigns, the Sydney-based Finn was diagnosed as being diabetic earlier this year and coupled with this the loss of his long term sponsor Nicorette, he has renamed his boat, Diabetics. He will be co-skippering her, in this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart, with Adrian Dunphy. <br>
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Among the 80-strong fleet racing south on Boxing Day from Sydney, across the legendary Bass Strait and on to Hobart on the south side of Tasmania, the tally of line honours contenders now stands at six with Diabetes, plus last year's winner and this year's race favourite Bob Oatley's Wild Oats XI, Grant Wharington's Skandia and Matt Allen's Volvo Open 70 Ichi Ban. While these boats represent Australia there is also the New Zealand-owned 98 footer Maximus and the 2005-6 Volvo Ocean Race winner, the Volvo 70 ABN AMRO ONE in the hands of skipper Mike Sanderson. <br>
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At present the Australian maxis are all ready to go, while Maximus only arrived in Australia by ship from the Mediterranean last week. Charles St Clair Brown, co-owner of the boat with Bill Buckley, says he is looking forward to the Rolex Sydney Hobart race. After a Northern hemisphere season of races inshore or in light airs, this may finally be the occasion Maximus gets to show her real pace. <br>
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“We have done regattas in the Med around the buoys in 10 knots,” says Brown, who will be sailing in his fifth Hobart race. “We have done a lot of things to improve our performance in that. But she is an ocean racing yacht, not a round the buoys boat.” Compared to the other 100 footers taking part, Maximus is more stable, heavier and has a smaller rig. This will leave her at a disadvantage if conditions are moderate. Like ABN AMRO ONE, her best prospects are in reaching conditions when the larger, lighter weight boats are forced to throttle back. <br>
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“We have got higher topsides and I think we can have a sustained period of higher speed reaching or broad reaching,” Brown continues, adding a warning. “The big thing is how to get through the seaway and no matter how strong your boat is, if you hit waves hard enough anything will break. We still have 40m of mast, strung up there with little bits of PBO [hi-tech composite rigging]. Fly off a wave and you are putting enormous shock loading on the gear and equipment. And then there is a huge canting keel system. Nobody can be terribly confident in this race. You always have to expect the worst kind of extreme conditions you can get in that nasty stretch of water.” <br>
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Also arriving at the eleventh hour from Europe is Italian Danilo Salsi's Swan 45, DSK Comifin. The Swan 45 is best known as an inshore one design race boat, yet Salsi and his crew, including Whitbread Round the World Race and America's Cup veteran Pietro d'Ali, are one of the few in the class to include an extensive offshore part to their sailing program. To date they have done exceedingly well in round the buoys races, winning this year's Rolex Swan Cup in Porto Cervo ahead of stiff American opposition and finishing second at Key West Race Week. <br>
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Sadly, to date Salsi and his team have not managed to duplicate this success offshore, having already sailed in this year's Newport Bermuda and Rolex Middle Sea races, without a great result in either. Next year they will round off their program with the Rolex Fastnet Race, but in the meantime there is what helmsman and trimmer Andrea Casale describes as the big one. “We are really enthusiastic to go to the Rolex Sydney Hobart. For the Italians it is a kind of Everest, for offshore sailing is the toughest race you can do apart from the Volvo Ocean Race.” <br>
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While Italy has three America's Cup teams and are one of the top nations when it comes to inshore one-design racing, they are poorly represented in offshore racing. DSK Comifin will be the first Italian boat to enter the Rolex Sydney Hobart in almost a decade. Only one of the DSK Comifin crew, Stefano Geradi, has competed in the Hobart race before. Otherwise her crew for the Hobart race are mostly professional and in addition to d'Ali, who now mostly concentrates on racing singlehanded offshore in the French Figaro class, is Andrea Caracci another singlehanded offshore sailor. Their input has gone into re-equipping DSK Comifin to make her better suited for racing offshore and, as an example, she now carries a spare rudder. <br>
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An Italian Swan 45 team, one might imagine would be hoping for light conditions like they typically get at home, but Casale says this could not be further from the truth. “To be honest we would be upset if we got to Hobart and we just had light winds. We want tough weather, we do offshore racing to have a hard time, to prove to ourselves we can do it. If it is mild we can stay at home and don't need to go all this way. The Newport Bermuda was like a Med delivery. So we want to taste the tough Tasmanian Sea and the Bass Strait.” <br>
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Unfortunately for the Italians, the long term forecast is indicating a light start to this typically gruelling offshore race. The race start is on Dec 26 at 1pm in Sydney Harbour. <br>
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