2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race

Pirates wins the final leg

The 2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race was held between 5 November 2005 and 17 June 2006. Seven boats took part in the race and made ten stops in nine countries.

The 2005–06 race was the first to not begin in the United Kingdom. The course of 31,000 nautical miles (57,000 km) was divided into 9 legs, and would take over 8 months to complete. A new class of boat, the Volvo Open 70 was introduced: The new boats were 2m longer and about 1,000 kg lighter than the VO60's used in the previous race. They were also allowed to have more sail area and include the use of canting keels.^[1]

During Leg 7 of the race Hans Horrevoets, 32, of The Netherlands was swept overboard from ABN AMRO II. Although he was recovered from the water, attempts to resuscitate him were not successful. CPR was stopped at 0420GMT, 18 May 2006.^[2]

The crew of Movistar abandoned ship after the aft end of their keel pivot broke away from their hull in the night of 20 May 2006, and transferred to ABN AMRO II which had been standing by and was escorted by HMS Mersey back to land.^[3] Although a search was carried out for the yacht, it is believed she sank due to the damage sustained.^[4]

The 2005–06 race had tighter restrictions on the number of crewmembers allowed than previous races. An all-male crew was restricted to ten, while a crew with at least 5 women could have eleven members, and an all-female crew, (of which there were none in the race), could have twelve. The only woman who served as crew was Adrienne Cahalan of Brasil 1, who was replaced after the first leg. The skipper of each team could nominate one additional person for the in-port races.

Participants

The competitors at port in Annapolis.

Brunel finishing the New York leg

Yacht	Flag & Sail	Designer	Builder	Skipper
ABN AMRO I	NED 1	Juan Kouyoumdjian	Killian Bushe	Sanderson, MikeMike Sanderson
ABN AMRO II	NED 2	Juan Kouyoumdjian	Killian Bushe	Sébastien Josse
Brasil1	BRA 1	Farr Yacht Design	ML Boatworks	Grael, TorbenTorben Grael
Brunel (Sunergy and Friends)	AUS 03	Don Jones	Hart Marine	Grant Warington
Ericsson Racing Team	SWE 1876	Farr Yacht Design	Green Marine	Neal MacDonald
movistar	ESP 1	Farr Yacht Design	Boatspeed	Bouwe Bekking
Pirates of the Caribbean	USA 7706	Farr Yacht Design	Green Marine	Cayard, PaulPaul Cayard

Legs

Event	Starting date	Start	Finish	Distance (nmi)	Winner
Race 1	5 November 2005	Sanxenxo		In-Port Race	Ericsson Racing Team
Leg 1	12 November 2005	Vigo	Cape Town	6,400	ABN AMRO I
Race 2	26 December 2005	Cape Town		In-Port Race	ABN AMRO I
Leg 2	2 January 2006	Cape Town	Melbourne	6,100	ABN AMRO I
Race 3	4 February 2006	Melbourne		In-Port Race	ABN AMRO I
Leg 3	12 February 2006	Melbourne	Wellington	1,450	movistar
Leg 4	19 February 2006	Wellington	Rio de Janeiro	6,700	ABN AMRO I
Race 4	25 March 2006	Rio de Janeiro		In-Port Race	ABN AMRO I
Leg 5	2 April 2006	Rio de Janeiro	Baltimore	5,000	ABN AMRO I
Race 5	29 April 2006	Baltimore		In-Port Race	movistar
Leg 6	2 May 2006	Annapolis	New York City	400	ABN AMRO I
Leg 7	11 May 2006	New York City	Portsmouth	3,200	ABN AMRO I
Race 6	29 May 2006	Portsmouth		In-Port Race	ABN AMRO I
Leg 8	2 June 2006	Portsmouth	Rotterdam	1,500	Brasil1
Race 7	11 June 2006	Rotterdam		In-Port Race	ABN AMRO I
Leg 9	15 June 2006	Rotterdam	Gothenburg	500	Pirates of the Caribbean

Results

References

External links

• Ocean Race Chesapeake
• QTVR fullscreen panoramas of VO70 Ericsson Racing Team boat
• SailingNetworks – Event details, boats, crew and news
• Race results
• 2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race official film