Heineken (yacht)

Heineken
Other names Yamaha 1
Pontona Youth
Nation  United States
 Denmark
Class Volvo Ocean 60
Designer(s) Farr Yacht Design
Builder Cookson Boats, New Zealand
Racing career
Skippers Dawn Riley
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Specifications
Displacement 13,500 kg (29,800 lb)
Length 18.2 m (60 ft) (LOA)
Beam 5.2 m (17 ft)
Draft 3.7 m (12 ft)
Crew 12

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.[1]

Career

Yamaha 1 was the first Whitbread 60 ever built and was used as a trial boat for Ross Field's team.[2] It was built by Cookson Boats in New Zealand.[3] 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.[2]

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.[4]

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 2015-09-21.
  2. 1 2 "Volvo Ocean Race Legends Regatta – Girls Are Back In Town". firstportofcall.com.
  3. ↑ "Farr Yacht Design". Farrdesign.com. Archived from the original on 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
  4. ↑ "News & Features - ISAF - World Sailing - Official Site : Preview". Sailing.org. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
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