[Zeilen] Volvo Ocean Race (#10) - Melbourne's inport race

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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:15:00 UTC

For the fourth, or is it the fifth, but we are assured, the final, time that white Australian boat has changed it’s name. Now it’s Brunel. Just Brunel.

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Op dinsdag 31 januari 2006 16:47 schreef JandeHoop het volgende:
Dat zou niet goed zijn. Volgens mij is hij gisteren al aangekomen in Sydney .....
Maar wel via schiphol dat klopt.

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Op woensdag 1 februari 2006 16:58 schreef bLuB76 het volgende:

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Is dit niet op Schiphol?

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Op dinsdag 31 januari 2006 16:23 schreef Farr40 het volgende:
Overigens is vannacht op Schiphol de nieuwe mast van de brasil in een vliegtuig geladen en richting melbourne vertrokken.

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Op woensdag 1 februari 2006 17:19 schreef hermandeperman het volgende:

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Op woensdag 1 februari 2006 18:20 schreef komrad het volgende:
ik heb het ook met name over de andere teams

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Brasil 1’s spare mast was in the UK when the boat was dismasted on 18 January in the last part of Leg 2 from Cape Town to Melbourne. Shifting a 32 metre long mast from one end of the world to the other is not a simple task. With their first mast broken in three pieces, it was essential that the replacement should meet the boat when it finally arrived in Melbourne after being trucked from Fremantle.

Finding a method of transport for something so long was always going to be a problem, but Martinair Cargo were able to fit the package down the middle of one of their Boeing 747 cargo planes.

To get the mast on board the aircraft the nose was hinged open and a space the equivalent of ten pallets long – virtually the whole length of the cargo space – was cleared down the centre. Then the package was carefully inserted using a crane and a high-loader to support the carbon fibre spar.

Once in and the door shut, the plane few to Sydney where the mast was off loaded and prepared for the next stage of the trip, to Melbourne by road.

Now that the boat itself is in Melbourne and being refitted to its keel, the mast will arrive on 2 February to complete the picture and allow the boat to take part in the In Port race on Saturday. Obligatory midnight oil burning will be undertaken by all Brasil 1 team members so that everything will be ready for leaving the dock at 0930 local time on Saturday.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:15:00 UTC

The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is reunited in Melbourne with the arrival this morning, Australian time, of Brasil 1, rebadged by the people of the Outback as “Brasilia, Queen of the Desert” after crossing the Nullarbor Plain on the back of a truck to continue in the race.

The yacht, dismasted in the Southern Ocean, sailed to Fremantle in Western Australia under jury rig and then was road freighted 4,000 kilometres west to east across the continent.

Emotions were running close to the surface when driver Charlie Mills drew Brasil 1 to a halt inside the boat compound just after 1100 local time, more than 11 days after ABN AMRO ONE took line honours for the Cape Town-Melbourne leg.

Though it was 11 days of lost time, the story of Brasil 1’s journey across the Australian desert will live in the annals of round-the-world yacht racing.

Mills, with outrider drivers shepherding him all the way, made the trip in three hours under five days – an amazing feat, given that he was not allowed to drive at night, given the size of his load and the windage it presented. His petrol bill alone was $3,000.

The symbolism within the image of Brasil 1 piercing the stark desert landscape is dramatic - a state of the art carbon fibre racing yacht in deep blue and yellow livery, an orange bulbed keel as modern and radical as tomorrow laying impotent beneath her, she was a wounded thoroughbred stretchered through the ancient, timeless, rusting terrain of Australia’s outback.

At journey’s end, her sailing and shore crew were there to meet her. Members of other crews downed tools to watch the last of the seven brought into the stockade. There was a quite apparent sense of awe at the lengths the Brazilians had gone to in order to stay in this race.

For the shore crew, the moment of emotion was quickly set aside as they swarmed over the hull and its trailer to undo the straps that had secured her for the journey. After an hour, she had been lifted from the trailer and sen in her cradle.

Team boss Alan Adler, skipper Torben Grael and shore boss Horacio Carabelli individually thanked Mills and his offsiders Chris Large and Neil McCubbin for safely delivering the boat. Grael presented them all with team shirts.

“I am happy that the boat is here,” Grael said. “We are now going to have to work hard to get it ready to go.”

The In Port Race begins at 1400 local time on Saturday. There is an 0800 deadline for the boats to be race-ready.

“That’s what the rules say, but the rules have been broken here very often. Let’s see how it goes,” Grael said.

If necessary, he would ask for a dispensation to continue work on the boat. He claimed other teams had been granted them in the first In Port race in Sanxenxo, Spain.

“I cannot believe that they will not let us race because we are not ready at eight o’clock in the morning,” he said.

Race director Andy Hindley said they had not granted dispensations in the past, but he said the boats would begin leaving the dock, one by one, at 0900 on Saturday, so the question of a dispensation was irrelevant unless Grael was talking about a delayed departure.

Brasil 1 is scheduled to leave the dock at 0930.

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Op woensdag 1 februari 2006 20:45 schreef komrad het volgende:
The In Port Race begins at 1400 local time on Saturday. There is an 0800 deadline for the boats to be race-ready

heb je zelf gepost

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Op woensdag 1 februari 2006 21:18 schreef komrad het volgende:
zenden ze dat live uit

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Op donderdag 2 februari 2006 14:23 schreef Sandworm het volgende:
Is er een mogelijkheid dat iemand het live commentaar opneemt? Ik weet dat het technisch mogelijk is, maar ik heb geen idee hoe....