Guest Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I only just found out about the live stream that will happen at 10am French local time on Thursday the 28th. You can watch it live from www.livestream.com/volvooceanrace to find out about what the new design will be for the 2013-14 edition of the volvo. Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/news/6640_Volvo-Ocean-Race-introduces-new-boat-for-next-two-races.html Looks like a nice and neat design, and with a atleast 8 boats being built, should be exciting! Link to post Share on other sites
Richard2249 5 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Very cool looking. I'm guessing that they are not aiming for a drier boat with that reverse bow angle?! Only 7 sails, including stormsails - bit of design work there for the sailmakers to maximise the range of each sail. Best thing is that they will be on the water early so hopefully less breakages in the race itself. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 VOLVO OCEAN RACE INTRODUCES NEW BOAT FOR NEXT TWO RACES The Volvo Ocean Race has unveiled details of the high-performance new boat that will be used for the next two editions of the Race. The plans detailed by Race CEO Knut Frostad at a presentation in Lorient on Thursday will significantly reduce the cost of mounting a competitive campaign and are designed to bring the size of the fleet to 8-10 boats in future editions. The 65-foot (19.8-metre) monohull racing yacht will be strictly one-design. It will be designed by the United States-based Farr Yacht Design and constructed by a consortium of leading boatyards in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Switzerland. Under an agreement between Volvo Ocean Race and the consortium, a minimum of eight boats will be built to contest the next two races. Work will begin in July and the first of the racing yachts in the new class will be completed by June 2013, well over a year before the start of the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, leaving from Alicante, Spain in the second half of 2014. "This breathtaking new design, and the agreement to build at least eight yachts, will take the Volvo Ocean Race into an exciting new era," said Knut Frostad, the Race's Chief Executive Officer. "It represents another major milestone for a race that has never been afraid to move forward in our 39-year history. This move to a one-design gives us an enormous head start in our planning for the next two races and puts the Volvo Ocean Race in even better shape going forward." Despite being five feet (1.5 metres) shorter, the new boat will be almost as fast as the Volvo Open 70s that are contesting the current race. The boat will be designed and built with the latest video, satellite and content production facilities to further enhance the work being done in the unique Media Crew Member programme that has been in place since the 2008-09 race. The agreement announced in Lorient has been made possible after Volvo Ocean Race S.L.U. secured financing that will underpin the process of designing and building the boats according to schedule. The Volvo Ocean Race, which began life in 1973, is owned by Volvo Car Corporation and The Volvo Group, who together reaffirmed their open-ended commitment to the race at a news conference ahead of the start of the current edition in Alicante in November 2011. "We at Volvo Cars are fully behind these initiatives, which we believe will secure the future of this great event on all levels but also stay faithful to the very basis of the Volvo Ocean Race as the sport's premier offshore competition for the world's leading sailors," said Stefan Jacoby, CEO of Volvo Car Corporation. His counterpart at Volvo Group Olof Persson also gave firm backing to the moves. "Volvo Group believes the plans presented to us by Knut and his team will take the Volvo Ocean Race to the next level with an innovative boat design which keeps us at the forefront of ocean racing while giving us the best possible chance of building bigger fleets," Persson said. "I am delighted as CEO to confirm my absolute confidence that the Race is taking the best route to an even brighter future." The boats will be sold by U.K.-based Green Marine Ltd, who will carry out the final assembly. MULTIPLAST in France, Persico S.p.A. in Italy and DECISION S.A. in Switzerland will manufacture different components. “For us it’s a great honour and a great challenge to be involved in this project and a race that is part of our heritage,” said Marcel Müller, managing director of Green Marine. “It’s the opportunity to work together with some of the best professionals in the marine industry including the other boatyards and the designers. We’re ready to create something very special.” The process will significantly reduce the barrier to competing in the Volvo Ocean Race and the cost of mounting a competitive campaign, which CEO Frostad said would be possible for less than 15 million euros. The “ready to sail” cost of the boats, including sails for the pre-Race period and the Race itself, will be around 4.5 million euros, while further significant cost savings will be made possible by the pooling of resources. "Our clear goal throughout the planning process for the next race has been to make it easier and less costly to mount a campaign in the Volvo Ocean Race," Frostad said. "This is a big step towards that goal. "This new one-design is fantastic looking and will be ultra-reliable and great to race. We're heading into a new era of this great race with a future that it's more exciting and more secure." Patrick Shaughnessy, President of Farr Yacht Design, said his team were well placed to take on the challenge of designing the new boat. “We’re super enthusiastic about the challenge we have in front of us,” he said. “It’s a big challenge but I think we’re well suited to meet it, and we’re really excited to be part of it. “We’ve been involved in the Volvo Ocean Race and the Whitbread Round the World Race for over 20 years so it’s a great honour to be part of what’s considered going forward.” The six boats contesting the current edition of the Volvo Ocean Race are about to embark upon the ninth and final offshore leg, leaving Lorient on July 1. The race will finish on July 7 with the final in-port race in Galway, Ireland. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/news/6640_Volvo-Ocean-Race-introduces-new-boat-for-next-two-races.html Looks like a nice and neat design, and with a atleast 8 boats being built, should be exciting! I cant believe that I forgot to watch the conference considering ive been working on assignments for the last 4 hours It definitely is an interesting design and it will be fun to see what speeds it can do compared to the version 4s Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Saturday Night Special Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 While I admire the move to reduce costs I think in the long term they will finish off fecking the last of the great yacht races and no one will bother competeing or careing ,Is this not suposed to be Formula one of ocean racing? yes reduce cost by all means but remove the designers input or a countries ability to build its own entry ? Do you think F1 will be seen racing prod line built cars all the same? how about they run them by remote controll as well from a comand center .This is as stupid as it gets. We won most international Keelboat Contests where it was a designers derby by out thinking the oposition not Out Spending them BLake won In Big Red this way but if he had not Dalton Would have ,now the world has just had the ability removed .This Sux real bad Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 343 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 What a stupid design from a designer with a poor track record in this style of racing. What farr 'open' style boat has done well anywhere? Why on earth have the reverse bow? Water everywhere, and that is part of the issue with these current boats. One design you would have thought would have let them give more protection to the crew and tried to keep the boats a tad drier. F*ckin stupid. Tend to agree with the rat. The beginning of the end... (and why not multihull... ) Link to post Share on other sites
Rats 28 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Interesting that Juan K has been stiffed considering he has had the more consistently fast designs for a while now. Did he tender a OD that didn't make it? or are there some politics in play here Agree the reverse bow is borderline think they need to make the designer stand at a grinder pedstal for a couple of watches in 25 knots true, blast reaching and a good sea state-think you would find things getting drawn a little differently after that The sooner they ditch the friggin Tiki tour up to the Persian gulf and China and the drift fest that became along with Pirate avoidence the better off everyone will be. Back to the hard core long legs ocean sailing and endurance test of crew and machine I say Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 The second step towards the end of a once great race (the first was going out of the southern ocean) Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 The 65-foot (19.8-metre) monohull racing yacht will be strictly one-design. It will be designed by the United States-based Farr Yacht Design and constructed by a consortium of leading boatyards in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Switzerland. The boats will be sold by U.K.-based Green Marine Ltd, who will carry out the final assembly. MULTIPLAST in France, Persico S.p.A. in Italy and DECISION S.A. in Switzerland will manufacture different components. WTF???!!!!! On behalf of NZ's marine industry: "f*ck you Volvo and f*ck you too Knut!" Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 The second step towards the end of a once great race (the first was going out of the southern ocean) Towards??? It's there and that press release seals the deal. Isn't that press release the very same one the AC mob used that dribbled on about stuff that never happened, lower costs that didn't happen and a huge number of more boats that would enter that never did? It would be interesting to see the cost comparison, allowing for inflation etc, between say Lion NZ's (or one of that vintage) campaign and one of this years versions. I think the costs they are trying to cut are only costs they loaded on in the 1st place. Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I think I agree with all of you above - those who decry the move. I mean given that Farr is an ex-pat Kiwi - maybe. But to be fair he has long since stopped calling himself one. So nah, not even that. Given that his pig rooter is slower than Camper, I don't understand why he even got a look in, when clearly Juan K designs faster boats? Promises of speeds within 2.7%? Yeah right, how do you promise that? He promised Walker the fastest boat no doubt and stuck a bow on it off a bath tub. While I understand the desire to lower costs, I think they are going to lower costs more dramatically when you consider this may be a killer altogether. Kill the race - yep that will lower costs. How about a syndicate to buy Tele or Groupama?Fastest mono in NZ for a fair few years to come I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 and at 4.5 mill euro that is nearly twice the price of a mod 70 i know which one i'd have Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Lets just get together with Australia, South Africa, and Argentina and start a "real southern man's" around the world race. Southern Ocean (twice around if need be). Stop offs at Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Perth and Auckland. No "too far north" ice gates. Maybe the French get a wild card entry by virtue of Akaroa (not to mention that they're good). Let the rest of them north of the equator play with themselves. Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 "a minimum of 8 boats will be built to contest the next two races" That doesn't necessarily mean a fleet of at least 8 boats per race .... it might only be 4 boats per race with new boats for each team each race. Even at a fleet size of 8 boats .... its still not huge is it? Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 What a stupid design from a designer with a poor track record in this style of racing.What farr 'open' style boat has done well anywhere? Why on earth have the reverse bow? Water everywhere, and that is part of the issue with these current boats. One design you would have thought would have let them give more protection to the crew and tried to keep the boats a tad drier. F*ckin stupid. Tend to agree with the rat. The beginning of the end... (and why not multihull... ) Virbac, quite possibly one of the most successful open 60s in recent history. http://www.farrdesign.com/603.htm Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 343 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 What a stupid design from a designer with a poor track record in this style of racing.What farr 'open' style boat has done well anywhere? Why on earth have the reverse bow? Water everywhere, and that is part of the issue with these current boats. One design you would have thought would have let them give more protection to the crew and tried to keep the boats a tad drier. F*ckin stupid. Tend to agree with the rat. The beginning of the end... (and why not multihull... ) Virbac, quite possibly one of the most successful open 60s in recent history. http://www.farrdesign.com/603.htm Fine! I stand corrected. But still consider my rant pretty valid Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 I don't understand why he even got a look in, when clearly Juan K designs faster boats Good comment but sadly totally irrelevant. One-design so it makes zero difference who designs them or what speed they travel at. I know that's a hard concept for you 'speed is the only thing it's about' multi dudes but some of us do prefer a good race instead (note: that comment was going to be tagged to Clippers comment but AA is more fun, just, to wind up ) Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 If a one design then no need for the reverse bow, which looks like nothing more than an affectation anyway. Perhaps in a few years we will look at them the way we now look at a mullet haircut - fashion gone wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 If a one design then no need for the reverse bow, which looks like nothing more than an affectation anyway. Perhaps in a few years we will look at them the way we now look at a mullet haircut - fashion gone wrong. It's there to satisfy the multi lads Link to post Share on other sites
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