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Equiplite first Generation VO70 Hardware passes the starting line for the second time round the world. When Chieftain Racing made a last minute call to enter the Volvo Ocean Race starting on 11 October 2008 in Alicante, Spain, they called on the considerable Volvo Ocean Racing expertise of Equiplite.
ABN 1 | 2 where Equipped with Equiplite, supplied by Equiplite Europe:
- Snatch Blocks
- Main Halyard block
- Mast base
- NS Connectors
- Halyard Swivels | Top mast | JIB
- Deck loops
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Team Chieftain is a highly successful team whose 2007 successes include a win at the Rolex Fastnet Race and second place in IRC in the HSH Nordbank Blue Transatlantic Race.
In the Volvo, Team Delta Lloyd, as they are now known, will race the old ABN Amro One boat skippered to victory in the 2006-2007 race. The boat now sports continuous carbon rigging, and its dagger boards have been shifted, as well as other optimizations to suit the light upwind conditions expected on the race course. |
Written by: Welmoed Blanksma, The netherlands
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