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About the Volvo Ocean Race The Volvo Ocean Race started from Southampton, England on September 23rd 2001. This professionally crewed event will cover 32,700 nm in approximately ten months, circumnavigating the world with the prevailing winds. The nine-leg race will visit 10 ports, racing through four oceans, and finish in Kiel, Germany in June 2002. Click here for Crew Lists

Leg	Start Date	Description	Distance in Nautical Miles
1	September 23 2001	Southampton, UK toCape Town, South Africa	7,350 nmi
2	November 11 2001	Cape Town to Sydney, Australia	6,550 nmi
3	December 26, 2001	Sydney (via Hobart) to Auckland, NZ	2,050 nmi
4	January 27, 2002	Auckland to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	6,700 nmi
5	March 9, 2002	Rio de Janeiro to Miami, USA	4,450 nmi
6	April 14, 2002	Miami to Baltimore/Annapolis, USA	875 nmi
7	April 23, 2002	Baltimore/Annapolis to La Rochelle, France	3,400 nmi
8	May 25, 2002	La Rochelle to Göteborg, Sweden	1,075 nmi
9	June 8, 2002	Göteborg to Kiel, Germany - FINISH	250 nmi

Total Nautical Miles: 32,700 nm

Leg 1 Results
South Hampton to Cape Town, South Africa - 7350 nmi

Position	Boatname Country	Time	Skipper	Notes
1	illbruck Germany	31d - 6h	John Kostecki	Started campaign first. Have America's Cup team to cheat with also.
2	Amer Sports 1 Italy	31d - 8h	Grant Dalton B. Bekking	Frers design Californians Dee Smith and Keith Kilpatrick aboard
3	Team News Corp Australia	32d - 16h	Jez Fanstone	Rupert Murdock sponsored Ross Field -toughest man I've ever sailed with is navigator. Peter Isler will be on the short legs. Also Bart Simpson is aboard.
4	Team Tyco Bermuda	33d - 17h	Kevin Shoebridge	Shoebridge on fifth campaign Broke Rudder post on second leg Can they make Leg 3?
5	Assa Abloy Sweden	34d - 18h	Roy Heiner Neil MacDonald Next?	Navigator Mark Rudiger Defending Champ
6	Team SEB Sweden	36d - 20h	Gunnar Krantz	Ex- Swedish Match
7	djuice Dragons Norway	37d - 5h	Knut Frostad	Laurie Davidson design Navigator Jean Yves-Bernot
8	Amer Sports II Italy	37d - 11h	Lisa Charles	All female team

Leg 2 Results
Cape Town to Sydney, Australia - 6,550 nmi

Leg 2 Top Stories
Leg 2 was one of the best distance legs in Yacht Racing history
Team SEB set a Volvo 60 record.
459 nmi in a 24 hour period averaging 19.1 knots
That is only 8 miles short of the Open 60 Armor Lux-Fois Gras Bizac's record setting
24 hour run of 467 nmi while establishing a new Transatlantic record this spring!
News Corp got cut from the herd on the 2nd day by a daring move west,
they used there southerly advantage to catch the fleet.
Team Tyco suffered significant rudder damage and headed back to Africa to get repaired.
Assa Abloy hit 33 knots.

Position	Name	Finish Time	Leg 1 & 2 = Total Points
1st	iLLbruck	00:22:26 GMT 11:22:26 Sydney	8 + 8 = 16
2nd	Team SEB	01:35:45 GMT 12:35:45 Sydney	3 + 7 = 10
3rd	Team News Corp	03:17:29 GMT 14:17:29 Sydney	6 + 6 = 12
4th	Djuice Dragons	06:43:35 GMT 17:43:35 Sydney	2 + 5 = 7
5th	Amer Sports 1	06:50:35 GMT 17:50:35 Sydney	7 + 4 = 11
6th	Assa Abloy	Finished	4 + 3 = 7
7th	Amer Sports 2	Finished	1 + 2 = 3
8th	Team Tyco	Retired - in Africa	5 + 1 = 6

Leg 3 -
Sydney - Hobart - New Zealand started December 26th

Assa Abloy got the Double Barreled Victory
After Winning Sydney to Hobart the Crew headed North to Aukland
And North Paid Well!
Three guys were reported ill and injured, with bowman Jason Carrington in his bunk under heavy medication. It seemed this just pushed the determination of the remaining nine to win this leg. They all pulled together and stormed along to a tremendous victory. When crossing the finish line, a weather front went through and not long after Skipper Neal McDonald was thrown into the water by his team-mates, surrounded by a bunch of spectator boats. Even though it was raining heavily several hundred spectators welcomed ASSA ABLOY into Viaduct Basin. Team Tyco took third place in a three-way match race which saw illbruck narrowly beat News Corp to take fourth place just seconds from the finish.

Light Air hit the fleet putting Assa Abloy and Amer Sports1 miles ahead of the fleet that chose to stay well south of the rhumb line.

Position	Name	Finish Time	Total Points Standings
1st	Assa Abloy	8d 15h 20m	15 points 4th
2nd	Amer Sports 1	8d 17h 9m	18 points 2nd
3rd	Team Tyco	8d 18h 18m	12 points 5th
4th	illbruck	8d 18h 22m	21 points 1st
5th	Team News Corp	8d 18h 24m	16 points 3rd
6th	Djuice Dragons	27 nmi behind	10 points 7th
7th	Amer Sports 2	400 to go Rudder/Forestay	5 points 8th
8th	Team SEB	Retired with Broken Rudder	11 points 6th

The Volvo 60s made a 3 1/2 hour pitstop at Hobart before heading to New Zealand. Amer 2's girls have rerigged a forestay strop after theirs broke costing them 70 miles. Amer Sports 1 blew out their number 3 in winds up to 60 knots and had the port water ballast tank fail. djuice dragons had the same problem as illbruck did last time with forward compartment hatches leaking badly, but they were only 13 miles behind then leader Team News Corp.

They experienced waves up to 30 feet in the Bass Straits. Winds 20 to 35 knots on the nose slowly moving abeam. The wind should ease up as they approach Tasmania which could get flucky tonite allowing any of the front 4 boats a chance at Victory.

Leg 3 Hobart Finish Times

Position	Name	Hobart Finish Times
1st	Assa Abloy	9:46:43 Local Time 29th
2nd	Amer Sports 1	10:10:31 Local Time 0:31
3rd	Team Tyco	10:13:23 Local Time
4th	Djuice Dragons	10:27:55 Local Time
5th	Team News Corp	10:32:26 Local Time
6th	illbruck	10:33:31 Local Time
7th	Amer Sports 2	Always a day or 2 behind Why - story next week! Rudder/Forestay
8th	Team SEB	Retired with Broken Rudder

 

Leg 4 -
New Zealand - Rio de Janeiro

illbruk lead almost the entire way there to take it!
After 6,700 most of the fleet were tight for the finish. Amer Sports One looked like they would take 2nd, but shifty winds caught them in a hole which enable the rest of the boats to sail by, leaving them with a dissapointing 5th. The carnage was complete on this leg, with a broken mast aboard SEB, and a broken rudder on Team News Corp. Although SEB created a jury-rigged mast, they eventually retired from the race, while Team News Corps went on using their emergency rudder, and was able to fend off the swift assault by the women on Amer Sports Two to take 6th.

Position	Name	Finish Time	Total Points Standings
1st	illbruck	23d 5h 58m 42s	29 points 1st
2nd	Djuice Dragons	23d 11h 52m 42s	17 points 6th
3rd	Team Tyco	23d 13h 4m 52s	18 points 5th
4th	Assa Abloy	23d 14h 22m 21s	20 points 3rd
5th	Amer Sports 1	23d 14h 50m 55s	22 points 2nd
6th	Team News Corp	24d 21h 55m 10s	19 points 4th
7th	Amer Sports 2	25d 11h 6m 50s	7 points 8th
8th	Team SEB	Retired with Broken Mast	12 points 7th

 

Leg 5 -
Rio de Janeiro - Miami

5 hours in a 4,400 mile race separated 1st to 5th

Leg 5 Position	Name	Elapsed Finish Times	Total Points Standings with leg 5
1st	Assa Abloy	17d 13h 20m	28 points 2nd
2nd	illbruck	17d 14h 21m	36 points 1st
3rd	Team Tyco	17d 14h 34m	24 points 4th
4th	Team SEB	17d 17h 16m	17 points 7th
5th	News Corp	17d 18h 26m	23 points 5th
6th	Amer Sports 1	17d 20h 47m	25 points 3rd
7th	Djuice Dragons	19d 00h 37m	19 points 6th
8th	Amer Sports 2	19d 02h 33m	8 points 8th

Leg 6 Finishing Results
Leg 6 Points added - pending protests

 

Leg 7 Results

 

 

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