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Volvo Ocean 60 Class Yacht

Heineken
Other namesYamaha 1
Pontona Youth
Nation United States
 Denmark
ClassVolvo Ocean 60
Designer(s)Farr Yacht Design
BuilderCookson Boats, New Zealand
Racing career
SkippersDawn Riley
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Specifications
Displacement13,500 kg (29,800 lb)
Length18.2 m (60 ft) (LOA)
Beam5.2 m (17 ft)
Draft3.7 m (12 ft)
Crew12

Heineken (also Yamaha 1, Pontona Youth) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished ninth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Dawn Riley.

Career

Yamaha 1 was the first Whitbread 60 ever built and was used as a trial boat for Ross Field's team. It was built by Cookson Boats in New Zealand. When Yamaha was finished the yacht was leased to American skipper Dawn Riley, who finished ninth among the W60s of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race having an all-women crew.

Yamaha 1 competed in the 2003 Volvo Baltic Race with the name Pontona Youth and crewed by a Danish youth team skippered by Thomas Dahl Jensen.

References

  1. "IT IS UNLIKELY THAT COLONEL BILL WHITBREAD, OF THE BREWING FAMILY AND ADMIRAL OTTO STEINER, OF THE ROYAL NAVAL SAILING ASSOCIATION, EVER ENVISAGED THE MAGNITUDE OF THE EVENT THEY CONCEIVED 'OVER A PINT' OF BEER 30 YEARS AGO" (PDF). Kriter.tv. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta – Girls Are Back In Town". firstportofcall.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. "Farr Yacht Design". Farrdesign.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  4. "News & Features - ISAF - World Sailing - Official Site : Preview". Sailing.org. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
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