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Playstation & Team Adventure arrive in Marina Port Vell
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PLAYSTATION HAS ARRIVED!
She's here and you can't miss her, a 40 metre mast with impressive rake, 38 metres long, more than 18 metres beam and bows to devour the sea. The American Steve Fossett's PlayStation arrived in Marina Port Vell yesterday evening at 2200.
BARCELONA ARRIVAL FOR TEAM ADVENTURE by Keith Taylor
BARCELONA, SPAIN, December 20, 2000 - Team Adventure docked in Barcelona Harbor just minutes before midnight on Monday night, becoming the third entrant in the Race of the Millennium to arrive at the starting line. The 110-foot American catamaran, skippered by Cam Lewis, from Lincolnville, ME,
had sailed through calms and storms during an 11-day voyage from her builder's yard in Cherbourg, France.
Barely 12 hours later, Lewis and his international crew of 14 sailors shoved off the dock and went sailing again as they showed off their boat to media guests of race sponsor Renault, to a camera crew from the host television broadcaster TWI, and a photographic team from Fortune magazine. Special guests on board included Bob Metcalfe from Lincolnville, ME and Lewis' father George Lewis, from Sherborn, MA.
"The delivery voyage was a wonderful test for the boat and the crew," Lewis said. "We put the boat and the crew through a punishing three-day test in ferocious, wintry North Atlantic storm conditions. Our boat, our systems and our people came through with flying colors.
"We also had some great light air sailing in the Mediterranean after we passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and that gave us an opportunity to work on our sail trimming techniques and refine our crew drills.
"Team Adventure is an extremely big and powerful boat with extraordinary working loads on the sails and gear. Every mile we sail brings additional insights on how we can trim and tune for maximum speed and efficiency. This boat is a wind generator. It sails doubles the speed of the wind. If it is blowing ten knots the boat does 20 knots.
"It is thrilling to be in Barcelona and at the starting line, arriving just a day after our sister ships who got a big-time headstart on us with their building schedules."
Team Adventure is the third in a series designed and built by French multihull designer Gilles Ollier. The other two boats, Club Med and Innovation Explorer, arrived at Port Vell Marina in the old port of Barcelona on Sunday.
The Race of the Millennium is a grueling, non-stop 27,000-mile sailing sprint around the world. Beginning on December 31st, Spain, six giant catamarans will set sail from a starting line off Barcelona. The first boats are expected to finish in Marseilles, France, in 60 to 65 days,
breaking all existing sailing records for circumnavigations of the globe.
All six boats are en route to Spain or in Barcelona. Steve Fossett's 125-foot Morrelli and Melvin-designed catamaran Playstation, the biggest boat in The Race, docked in the heart of The Race Village in Port Vell Marina last night after sailing from Falmouth, England.
Today all the crews competing in The Race began a two-day survival training course that is part of the stringent safety requirements set down by the event's organizers.
On Saturday, December 23, all the entrants will compete in time trials and a short race off the Port of Barcelona.
Before he went sailing yesterday, Lewis and one of his crew applied a green and purple Monster(.com logo to the side of the big cat. Monster(.com, the leading global online careers site and the flagship brand of TMP Worldwide (NASDAQ: "TMPW"; ASX: "TMP"), has signed a Sponsor Level Partnership - becoming the first major sponsor of the team.
The two remaining competitors of The Race are labouring in the lightest of airs to reach Barcelona.
Warta-Polpharma / Roman Paszke (Pol)
Speed 13 knots, heading 120° at 0900 GMT, 224 miles SW of Lisbon, or 270 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar.
Team Legato / Tony Bullimore (GB)
Speed 4.2 knots, heading 210°, 63 miles SW of Lisbon, or 236 miles from the straits of Gibraltar this morning at 0900.
More Information:
- YachtsandYachting.com The Race Information Page
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