2008

High freeboards, more powerful helmets something, impressive riggings in compound materials, more truly radical power in the warlike plane and benefits.

New edition, new boats. Although not all, because winner of the past edition, the ABN LOVE ONE, has been acquired by the equipment Lloyd Delta for the present edition. Both Ericsson is like the Lloyd Delta, design of Juan Kouyoumdjian who as much success collected in the past edition

The modifications in the present boats come from the change in the rules of design for the VOR70. Changes that tend to avoid the problems that knew some the boats of the past edition and simultaneously to equip them with more power and therefore speed. The naval engineers have worked it last to know in detail the tensions which are put under these boats when they glide in stern of wave to wave. The result has been the one of helmets that offer major reliability because the weight of the bulb in 7.400 kilos has been reduced to the displacement until the 14 tons leaving. That is to say, more than half of the displacement the lead of the bulb takes to it!

Many failures in the VOR of the past edition were related to the pendular keels. Therefore the new norm forces to design boats without movable fairings around the union luffs with the helmet and without hatchways of the keel. Also they have prohibited tangones which facilitates the maneuvers besides containing the cost of these boats. The warlike plane has been simplified, which does not avoid that altogether they take guardaropa of 24 different candles, and among them a Zero Code to improve the yield with slight winds.

The eternal search of the balance is fought with the highest benefits. Therefore the sleeve becomes key factor. When more width and plane, more planning and as well greater pair of adrizamiento, but in return is more resistance by wet surface and it increases the tendency to nail the prow with bad weather. When designing a boat is necessary to very consider in which conditions and winds will sail of preponderant form. In this edition, the boats will have to sail many miles with courses of fitted because the route forces to these defeats like the one from Singapore to China or the ascent from Furnaces towards the north. This also influences of remarkable form in the final design of the boat with candles like the Zero Code with which, for example, it will be possible to be sailed to 11 knots with real light winds of only 9 knots.

The covers have been drawn to be more aerodynamic. We do not forget that the speeds that can reach are such that the resistance of the wind on the upper works becomes a factor of first importance. Therefore also the riggings are very clean reducing their resistance to the wind. The unions between shrouds and their terminals, the halliards, tensions. everything is well formed, even the carbon fiber wood of high module of resistance.