Les
allemands à leur tour devant le Panel ? (21/03/01) (source : Pegis
on Delphi forum)
Après le Swiss Challenge
à propos de ses modifications, une nouvelle rumeur
circule actuellement d'une seconde saisine de l'Arbitration
Panel de la XXXIe Coupe.
Cette fois-ci, la question aurait trait au recrutement
de Rob Hook ("Sail Designer" du Team OneWorld) par
le challenger allemand pour occuper le même poste
dans le cadre de la Volvo Team.
A suivre...
Le
Illbrück Challenge Match Race Team (01/03/01) (source : Illbrück
Challenge)
Comme annoncé à la fin du mois de
janvier , le match-racer danois Morten Henriksen débute
la mise sur pied d'une Illbruck match-race Team, qui
devrait à terme être fusionnée avec l'équipe principale,
engagée sur la Volvo Ocean Race.
Pour ce faire, le danois semble avoir décidé de recruter
l'ensemble des talents allemands disponibles (voir
ci-contre). L'équipe part s'entrainer au Portugal
alors que Henriksen continue son programme de recrutement.
Le
Illbrück Challenge commence ses essais (24/02/01) (source : Illbrück
Challenge)
The Illbruck Challenge America’s
Cup Design Team this week began testing models in
the towing tank at the Hamburg Ship Model Basin, marking
a fundamental step in the design of Germany’s first
America’s Cup racing yacht.
This is a major milestone in the design our first
America’s Cup boat,“ said Michael Richelsen, design
director for the illbruck Challenge. „The towing tank
is a reality check as to where we are in the design
process. By testing our ideas on one-third scale models,
we can validate our computer findings. The Hamburg
Ship Model Basin is a leading edge facility where
we have the benefit of German’s top scien-tists and
experts.“
In addition to the research being conducted at the
Hamburg facility, the design team is also testing
the same model but in a smaller scale of 1:20 at FH
Kiel. Design concepts for both appendages and hull
shape such as keels will be tested in the towing tank
on one-third scale models of actual International
America’s Cup Class (IACC) yachts. Tank test results
will be used to refine and validate design ideas that
are developed with both Velocity Prediction Programs
(VPP) and Com-putational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computer
codes.
The tank tests allow the design team to measure the
effects of speed and wave variations on a range of
design configurations, recording drag and side force
on the models. The one-third scale models are towed
at a variety of speeds, heel angles and leeway angles
through the tow basin.
Richelsen heads the design and technology program,
drawing on his experience as Director of Design Systems
at North Sails and his deep involvement in various
America’s Cup campaigns since 1983, most recently
with AmericaOne. The team includes yacht designers
Friedrich Judel and Torsten Conradi as well as scientists
and experts in VPP, CFD and structural composites.
Scientists associated with Team’s leading research
and development facilities including Germanischer
Lloyd, FH Kiel, and Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und
Raumfahrt (DLR), the German national center for air
and aerospace research, are working exclusively for
the illbruck Challenge. Tank testing and CFD work
will be done both at FH Kiel, a technical university,
and HSVA. The illbruck Challenge design office is
located in Hamburg, Germany, centrally located to
the team’s tank testing facilities and re-search partners.
The America’s Cup race boat will be built in Germany.
Additional
Members to Illbruck Team (01/24/01) (source : illbruck
Challenge)
Four additional race
crew have been named to the illbruck Challenge Volvo
Ocean Race sailing team, following an intensive training
and racing session in the Southern Ocean, illbruck
Challenge skipper John Kostecki announced today. Named
to the race crew - who could
also play a role in the America's Cup set-up - are
:
-
the canadian Richard Clarke,
helmsman/trimmer (a three-time Olympic campaigner
in the Finn class, Finn gold medallist in the
99 Pan American Games and seven-time Finn North
American Champion, He is switching gears to
big boat offshore racing) ;
-
the new zealander Jamie Gale,
mast (competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in
the Star class and 1996 Games in the Soling
class, He is a veteran of three America's Cup
campaigns and was part of the winning 1995 Team
NZ programe) ;
-
the irish Ian Moore, navigator
(who has earned a reputation as a respected
navigator and tactician in world-class offshore
events such as the Fastnet Race, Admiral's Cup
and Newport-Bermuda Race, he holding a Masters
Degree in Naval Architecture and designed high-speed
catamarans before becoming a professional sailors
) ;
-
the american Noel
Drennan, former sail coordinator is now helmsman/trimmer
(17 years with North Sails, is a 17-time veteran
of the Sydney to Hobart Race, the No.1 ranked
helmsman on the Etchells world rankings from
97-2000 and was sail coordinator for the last
Stars & Stripes campaign).
a
The new crew named today
join illbruck Challenge Volvo Ocean Race team members
Stuart Bannatyne, watch captain; Stuart Bettany, bow;
Mark Christensen, watch captain; Ray Davies, helmsman/trimmer;
Dirk de Ridder, trimmer; Ross Halcrow, trimmer; Tony
Kolb, bow; and Juan Vila, navigator.
Additionnal forces
come as the team announces the signing of one of the
world's top match racer, Morten Henriksen, to oversee
the building of a competitive match racing team while
John Kostecki concentrates on the Volvo.
Henriksen will recruit German talent in building a
competitive illbruck match racing team for the World
Match Racing Circuit. This will allow new recruits
with limited match racing experience to train in the
one-on-one format of racing used in the America's
Cup while also providing the seasoned team members
the chance to sharpen their skills. The match racing
team will be joined by Kostecki and other illbruck
Challenge race crew as the schedule permits.
The illbruck match racing team will compete on the
international circuit while the illbruck Volvo Ocean
Race crew is competing in the around-the-world race.
Henriksen will continue in a coaching role with the
illbruck race crew following the completion of the
Volvo Ocean Race in June 2002 when the entire sailing
team will then focus together on training for the
America's Cup.
"Morton is a great addition to the team," said Kostecki.
"Not only is he one of the most respected match racers
in the world, he is is also a talented and respected
coach. While our round-the-world race crew focuses
on delivering the best possible performance in the
Volvo Ocean Race, Morten will be building a strong
match racing team. By the time the Volvo Ocean Race
is over, we will merge all of our sailing talent for
the final stage of America's Cup preparation" .
German
challenge accepted (12/21/00) (source
: SailSail.com)
The Royal New Zealand
Yacht Squadron has formally accepted the America's
Cup challenge from the Duesseldorf Yacht Club. It
is the first challenge from a German yacht club in
the 150-year history of the world's oldest sporting
trophy.
The Commodore of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron,
Peter Taylor, said the recent clarification of the
"arm of the sea" clause by the America's Cup Arbitration
Panel had cleared the way for acceptance of the Illbruck
Challenge from the Duesseldorf Yacht Club on the Rhine
River.
Challenges for the 31st America's Cup regatta
have now been formally accepted from five yachts
clubs in four different countries
:
-
Prada
Challenge, (Punta Ala Yacht Club, ITA) ;
-
Oracle
Racing, (Seattle Yacht Club, USA) ;
-
Stars
& Stripes, (New York Yacht Club, USA)
;
-
Swiss
Challenge, (Société Nautique de
Genève, SUI) ;
German's
Cup Challenge Is Official (11/01/00) (source :
Illbruck
Challenge)
It's official. The first-ever German challenge,
the Illbruck Team, headed by the Illbruk family
(Germans yachting fanatics who made their millions
in the plastics industry), will represent the Germany
in the 2003 America's Cup, with American John Kostecki
(tactician for Paul Cayard's AmericaOne syndicate
in the last Cup) as skipper.
The not very well-kept secret of the German-based
America's Cup syndicate backed by Mickaël Illsbruck
was formally announced today during a press conference
at the international water sports exhibition "hanseboot"
in Hamburg.
The Illbruks have always had an affinity with
New Zealand - hiring Kiwi stars such as Russell
Coutts and Peter Lester to sail the Pintas, which
were often built in Auckland. Now they have turned
to other New Zealand sailors for their round-the-world
campaign in the Volvo Ocean Race and the America's
Cup.
With a cluster of Kiwi sailors and an American skipper,
the Illbruk syndicate have paid their entry fee,
booked a base in the Cup village and say that they
are definite starters for October 2002.
The technology, sailing and management teams assembled
for the Volvo Ocean Race will remain in place for
the America's Cup, providing a seamless integration
of the racing programs.
American John Kostecki is the Illbruk skipper in
both ventures. "When the last America's Cup finished,
we had 90 per cent of our team for the Volvo race,
then everybody started getting approaches from all
these other America's Cup teams," Kostecki said.
"It was looking like we would cross the finish line
in Kiel in June 2002 and the team would break up
to go all over the place. "I explained that to Michael
Illbruk and he didn't like the sound of it. He figured
we had a unique team, and it seemed logical that
we stay together and do an America's Cup."
Former Team New Zealand trimmer Ross Halcrow (with
1995 Cup winner Team New Zealand, Halcrow was trimmer
both with the 1999-2000 Young America Challenge
and the 1992 New Zealand America's Cup Challenge)
has been part of the Pinta team for the past 10
years.
In addition, the new illbruck Challenge race crew
for the America's Cup includes Ray Davies and Dirk
de Ridder will compete in the illbruck Challenge
in both the Volvo Ocean Race and the America's Cup.
Both Davies and de Ridder were with Kostecki in
the AmericaOne campaign.
New Zealanders Stu Bannatyne and Mark Christensen
- watch captains on the Volvo boat - and Stu Bettany
look certain to follow. Olympic Star sailor Jamie
Gale will try out for the team next week when Illbruk
sail their round-the-world boat from Perth to Auckland.
Dane Michael Richelsen, Illbruck Challenge Director
of Design/Research and Development, will head the
design and technology program. Richelsen will draw
on his experience as Director of Design Systems
at North Sails and his deep involvement in various
America's Cup campaigns since 1983, most recently
with AmericaOne. Richelsen is building a team of
yacht designers, scientists and experts in Velocity
Prediction Programs (VPP), Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) and structural composites. Yacht designers
Friedrich Judel and Torsten Conradi from the design
firm of Judel/Vrolijk are already on the team, as
is sail designer Patrik Erlandson from North Sails
Sweden.
Five-time America's Cup veteran Chris Bedford heads
up the meteorology team. Bedford will liaise with
all members of the team, collecting data and developing
weather forecasts that will support racing activities."
Scientists associated with Germany's leading research
and development facilities including Germanischer
Lloyd, FH Kiel, Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA)
and Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR),
the German national center for air and aerospace
research, are working exclusively for the illbruck
Challenge. Tank testing and CFD work will be done
both at FH Kiel, a technical university, and HSVA,
a leading European tank testing facility. The illbruck
Challenge design office will be located in Hamburg,
Germany, centrally located to the team's tank testing
facilities and research partners.
Because the Illbruk Challenge will have only four
months to work solely on the Cup campaign, Kostecki
and Illbruck said this first challenge will be a
low-key one.
"Our America's Cup campaign will start with a one-boat
program for America's Cup XXXI in 2003 with our
eye on victory in America's Cup XXXII. The powerful
performance it will take to win the America's Cup
is not something that comes overnight. We will take
a long-term approach to winning the America's Cup".
The America's Cup race boat will be built in Germany
as will the boat for the Volvo Ocean Race. The team's
new Volvo Ocean 60, designed by Farr Yacht Design,
is now under construction at the illbruck plant
in Leverkusen, Germany. Killian Bushe, a veteran
in composite construction of Whitbread and America's
Cup boats and a range of other offshore racing boats,
is the lead boat-builder of the illbruck Challenge.
The Illbruk Challenge will fly the Dusseldorf Yacht
Club's burgee. The Yacht Club, founded in 1908,
has a membership of more than 480 and is a shareholder
and organizer of the well-known annual North Sea
Race Week. "The Duesseldorf Yacht Club and its members
are proud to launch Germany's first America's Cup
Challenge," said Commodore Strosek. "We are delighted
to be represented by this distinguished team of
sailors. The Illbruck family has sailed from this
club for many years; we are pleased to continue
the tradition by partnering with them for this significant
milestone in German sailing history," Strosek said.
The illbruck Challenge team will continue its Volvo
preparations with a Southern Ocean training session
starting next week in Fremantle, Australia. The
team will depart from Fremantle for Auckland, New
Zealand November 20. The team will then compete
in the Sydney-Hobart Race in December. Training
for the America's Cup will begin upon conclusion
of the Volvo Ocean Race in June 2002 from the recently
secured illbruck base, the former America True base,
in Auckland's Viaduct Basin
