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- VIDEO: Vendée Globe Week 3 Highlights from HUGO BOSS
- Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015.- Poco a poco el one-design va cogiendo forma
- New champions for 2014-15 Race
- Alpari WMRT: Williams Crowned Four-Time World Champion
| VIDEO: Vendée Globe Week 3 Highlights from HUGO BOSS Posted: 07 Dec 2012 11:00 AM PST Vendée Globe Week 4 highlights from Alex Thomson aboard HUGO BOSS. Vendée Globe Links Website Rankings Tracking Alex Thomson Racing Website Facebook Twitter YouTube | ||
| Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015.- Poco a poco el one-design va cogiendo forma Posted: 07 Dec 2012 09:18 AM PST  Se han cumplido objetivos importantes en el proceso de construcción de los Volvo Ocean 65. En el astillero de Persico en Italia se ha comenzado con el laminado de la capa exterior del primer casco mientras que en Mutliplast en Francia se ha completado la primera capa de fibra de carbono.
"Tenemos alrededor de 20 personas trabajando en el proyecto", explica el manager del proyecto Mark Sommerville. ¨El último recubrimiento de la capa exterior se puso el pasado miércoles y también tenemos un equipo para el Termoconformado del cartón pluma." El molde de 12,5mm de grosor, para el que se han empleado alrededor de 1.400 kilos de resina, se corta longitudinalmente para facilitar su separación del contramolde. Se ha producido por un sistema de infusión para que el laminado sea menos poroso, absorba menos aire y sea más estable durante más tiempo. La estructura gigante se curará con cuidado y con la ayuda de varias placas que subirán la temperatura interna a 80/90ºC. "El proceso de curado debe ser tratado con mucho cuidado", dice Sommerville, un experto de Nueva Zelanda que lleva trabajando con la plantilla internacional en Persico desde hace varios años. "La temperatura dentro del horno debe aumentar y después reducirse a un ritmo moderado de 12º por hora, porque cualquier cambio brusco podría poner en peligro el proceso. La resina podría reblandecerse sin catalizar correctamente. Se tarda entre 6 y 7 horas para conseguir la temperatura adecuada y volver a reducirla. Durante esta fase trabajamos por turnos para asegurar que el proceso esté controlado constantemente". Mientras tanto, en Multiplast en Francia ya se ha realizado la primera capa de carbono del casco del Volvo Ocean 65. El primer casco estará terminado hacia mediados de febrero y se enviará a Green Marine para el montaje. "Hemos terminado la primera cocción de la primera capa de la primera cubierta. Cada cubierta se someterá a cuatro cocciones", confirma el director Yann Penfornis, entusiasmado por el proyecto. "Estamos a cuatro semanas del desmoldado de la primera capa. Después seguirán seis o siete semanas de pre-perforación del acastillaje y la instalación de los pedestals, las cajas de cambio de los winches, y los rigidizadores de cubierta. La primera cubierta saldrá del astillero de Green Marine a mediados de febrero cuando ya se habrá comenzado la segunda cubierta. A partir de este momento, una cubierta estará terminada cada siete semanas". Multiplast se enfrenta a este desafío tecnológico con un equipo de 30 personas dedicadas al proyecto. El horno de 200ºC permite que la cocción del carbón y los componentes base de la cubierta sea más eficiente. "La dificultad de un proyecto como este es garantizar la homogeneidad", explica Penfornis. "En Multiplast sabemos hacer barcos de 20m. Pero hacer ocho barcos perfectamente idénticos con diferencias en masa de muy pocos kilos exige procedimientos y estrategias, pesar cada placa de cartón pluma y también tener una enorme trazabilidad. ¡Los navegantes no pueden tener excusas - competirán con las mismas armas! No queremos que digan que el barco número 3 es más rápido que el barco número 5". "Hay que construir ocho barcos en dos años y este es el poder del consorcio: los cuatro astilleros son seguros y de confianza. Hay que convencerse de que llegaremos a tiempo, pero sabemos que lo haremos. Para entregar el octavo barco a tiempo, primero tendremos que entregar el primer barco en las fechas previstas". El primer barco completado saldrá del astillero hacia finales de junio del 2013 y se espera que los nuevos barcos saldrán a navegar a los 3 o 4 días de salir del astillero. Pero antes de llegar a ese momento, primero habrá que cumplir con los muchos plazos y objetivos que influyen en el proyecto del nuevo monotipo. Más info en la web oficial. Saludos y buenos vientos  | ||
| New champions for 2014-15 Race Posted: 07 Dec 2012 12:41 PM PST  A new team will hoist the Volvo Ocean Race trophy in 2014-15 after Groupama announced they would not be back to attempt a repeat victory. | ||
| Alpari WMRT: Williams Crowned Four-Time World Champion Posted: 07 Dec 2012 05:45 AM PST
Gilmour's decision to retire gives Williams (GBR) GAC Pindar the opportunity to take the record next season with a fifth Tour title: "He's [Peter Gilmour] such a legend in the sport and now I really feel we can go on and win some more. We'll look forward the latter stages here then look at doing it all again in 2013." William's opponent, Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Mekonomen Sailing Team, came through the Qualifying stage in second and chose to face his fierce rival instead of several other, lower ranked options. Hansen held a superior head-to-head record against his British challenger in the knockout stages of the previous seven Tour events in 2012 but may not have accounted for the strength of Williams at the biggest event of the year. The World Championship defining match started well for the Swede as he recovered from an unforced error in the prestart by making the most of a big left shift in the first upwind. Having cleared his penalty on the second leg, Hansen maintained a six boat length lead to win the first match. The errors continued for Hansen in the second match as he failed to enter the prestart area correctly resulting in a penalty. That was compounded by a second infringement, when he touched the top mark which forced him to take an immediate penalty turn. Unable to recover in that match, and losing out in the third, left him 2-1 down, with Williams on World Championship point, and seemingly not feeling the pressure of the occasion. Williams led throughout the fourth and final match, although numerous spirited challenges by Hansen kept things close all the way to the finish line. A last throw of the dice by Hansen saw the Mekonomen Sailing Team split away to the left which had paid dividends for Williams earlier. It looked as though Hansen might have the boat speed to achieve an unlikely comeback, but ultimately Williams closed out the tie to progress to the event Semi Final and take the prestigious Alpari World Match Racing Tour title. Hansen reflected on the event and his closest ever World Championship campaign, saying: "There's never been a Swedish crew this close to the title so we're very proud of what we've achieved. "We didn't sail at the top of our skill level, we're disappointed about that. Ian was best over four matches and I just congratulate their team. "We took the decision to pick Ian and the crew agreed on that. I definitely don't regret that and we knew if we lost it we'd be out of the Championship race but we wanted to fight for the gold and felt good about it." In another twist of fate, David Gilmour (AUS) Team Gilmour managed to edge into the final eight, taking precious wins against Laurie Jury (NZL) Kiwi Match Sailing Team and Pierre-Antoine Morvan (FRA) Vannes Agglo Sailing Team. David Gilmour's reward was a match-up against top qualifier and father, Peter Gilmour, who dramatically picked his son and went on to knock him out of the competition at the Quarter Final stage. Peter Gilmour reacted to another exciting day of competition, saying: "It was a bitter sweet victory against David. We practiced together coming into the event and for them to end up in the Quarter Final is an achievement. "If he wasn't facing us in the Quarter Final, it would've been Bjorn or Ian so the idea was to try and engineer getting one of those knocked out as I knew Bjorn would pick Ian. That would allow us to hopefully get us higher up the tour rankings." Describing a manoeuvre in the second match prestart, Gilmour Senior suggests that things could have easily not gone as planned in the family battle. Aggressive luffing from the youngster earned him a penalty but also left his father stationary and head-to-wind. With a comprehensive lead, it was Gilmour Junior's for the taking but a tactical mistake opened the door for his father. Gilmour Senior was not going to miss it and seized the advantage to open up an unassailable lead and with it a second point. Peter Gilmour said: "At 1-0 up and with us going backwards in the second race they had a real opportunity but their inexperience came in. We got a great puff and mixed with some bad decisions on their part, we're suddenly back in it." Commenting on his recent announcement, he joked: "If we win the Monson Cup, I kind of wonder how you go about retiring!" Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing and Taylor Canfield (USVI) USone also progressed to the Monsoon Cup Semi Final after winning their respective Quarter Finals against Pierre-Antoine Morvan (3-1) and Keith Swinton (AUS) Black Swan Racing (3-1). The Semi Finals and Final will take place on Saturday 8th December. Monsoon Cup – Quarter Final Results: Monsoon Cup – Final Qualifying Table: Tags on NauticNews: WMRT – Match Racing - PR - |
Williams has equalled the record of Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing, who had earlier this week announced his intention to retire after this event. Reflecting on his feat, Williams, said: "It's incredible to match Peter Gilmour on four world titles… it's indescribable really. The knees were turned to jelly [in the first race] and it showed in our sailing. The guys did a great job of keeping me calm and re-focused. When we relaxed it was very hard for him to beat us. It's been a great season – we've made six of seven semi-finals in the regattas we've competed in."| You are subscribed to email updates from Sailing by Davis To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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