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whitbread/volvo ocean race old footage

hey all just thought i should share this with you

http://www.volvooceanrace.tv/page/RaceYearsIndex/0,,12573,00.html

i was reading tracy edwards maiden 1989/1990 whitbread race (i was given it) so i went on to the volvo site to see if it had any info on the old races, turns out it has the old tv shows on every race since 1973 up to last year

check it out just too, even if it is just to see the old tect equipment, mix boats and proper beards, also it show a time when we "brits" were the ones to beat

although there is one swede that crack me last year, low and behold he was in the 89 race


ps always look for crewing Opportunity plz check my ad
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230836 :D
 
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"77’ ketch, Great Britain II skippered by Chay Blyth" was the largest in the first one. dont know when Keewaydin raced, was that the one with a radioactive keel? but i done know anything about it aswell mostly due to being born in 1983.

but the footage of the old races is great

dose anyone know if puma are sell foul wather gear as warn on the last race?
 
Many thanks for this link. I sailed in Adventure from Rio to Portsmouth in the 73/74 race and had never seen that film before. Lots of faces to recognise. Adventure won three of the four legs, including the one I sailed, but we were beaten by Sayula who had kept it together better on the ill-fated second leg from Cape Town, when Adventure suffered damage that cost her the handicap lead. Good to hear Richard Baker's commentary! Hope you find some sailing yourself ..... :)
 
Greenwichman said:
Many thanks for this link. I sailed in Adventure from Rio to Portsmouth in the 73/74 race and had never seen that film before. Lots of faces to recognise. Adventure won three of the four legs, including the one I sailed, but we were beaten by Sayula who had kept it together better on the ill-fated second leg from Cape Town, when Adventure suffered damage that cost her the handicap lead. Good to hear Richard Baker's commentary! Hope you find some sailing yourself ..... :)
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thanks very much sure i will. Wow a real seaman! so you were in the navy sailing team , the bloke who did my comp crew was learned in the navy and is part of the life time club?:confused:, he was the nuts, rough round sides but top bloke. i love the old commentray no frills even when he mention the Fatalities there was no tone change,

im think bout taking a huge lone out and doing the whole of the clipper race
i meet a girl who did a leg on hull and humber she said there is not one thing she could own that she would not sell, to race round the world
 
The 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race will start in Alicante, Spain, in the autumn of 2011. Cape Town will be the first stopover, and Lisbon is the first European stop after the transatlantic crossing, followed by Lorient in France. The race will finish in Galway and the remaining route will be announced by the end of March 2010.
 
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