Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006

   Check out the latest VO70 at
http://www.volvooceanrace.org/pages/news/news124.htm
That is going to be some boat.

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Contender443 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 01 Oct 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1211	Post Options Post Reply Quote Contender443 Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Volvo Ocean Race 2005-2006 Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 10:33am
	Check out the latest VO70 at http://www.volvooceanrace.org/pages/news/news124.htm That is going to be some boat.
	Bonnie Lass Contender 1764

KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 2:26pm
	classic but it will bring the profile of the VOR up significantly.


redback Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Tunbridge Wells Online Status: Offline Posts: 1502	Post Options Post Reply Quote redback Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 6:59pm
	Less than 200 days to go. I'm looking forward to it such a lot because you can sail the race vitually on the site. Its tremendous fun and I think forum members interested sould have a go and if they could use their forum user names we could have quite a good competition.

stickthin Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Newbie Joined: 26 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 17	Post Options Post Reply Quote stickthin Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 7:23pm
	could you put the link on the forum because i am having trouble finding it??
	Laser Radial 154747

redback Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Tunbridge Wells Online Status: Offline Posts: 1502	Post Options Post Reply Quote redback Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 10:23pm
	Here's the home page. http://www.volvooceanrace.org/index.htm

redback Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Tunbridge Wells Online Status: Offline Posts: 1502	Post Options Post Reply Quote redback Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Oct 05 at 6:26pm
	I can't find any reference to a virtual race on the Volvo site. I hope this doesn't mean they aren't going to do it. If they don't they will have missed a great marketing opportunity. Last time they have a few thousand people logging on several times a day to adjust their virtual boats.

DiscoBall Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 03 Jan 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 305	Post Options Post Reply Quote DiscoBall Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Oct 05 at 6:43pm
	Does anyone know what the TV schedule is for the Volvo? I can't find any info about this on their site either...

redback Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Tunbridge Wells Online Status: Offline Posts: 1502	Post Options Post Reply Quote redback Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 13 Oct 05 at 7:36pm
	There's nothing about the schedule that I can find but it does say thet ITV is covering it for the UK.

Mark Jardine Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 04 Location: Milford-on-Sea, United King Online Status: Offline Posts: 1028	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mark Jardine Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 14 Oct 05 at 11:17am
	Currently this is what I have on TV coverage: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=19322 Should be good as they've really wired up the boats. BTW: We're still struggling with the speed of the forum at the moment - my apologies as at the moment I really can't work out what it is... I think we're going to have to do yet another server upgrade over the winter. Something to do with 330,000 unique users on the Y&Y site and 240,000 on the Boards site...

49erGBR735HSC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991	Post Options Post Reply Quote 49erGBR735HSC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 09 Nov 05 at 4:21am
	From what I've seen of the V0 70s, they look like great boats, to quote from one source, they can leap off waves, which might be a major problem when the waves are over 6 storeys high........... I'd love to be sailing boats like that!
	Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 Helensburgh S.C Boat Insurance from Noble Marine