Team Brunel, guidato dallo skipper Bouwe Bekking, con abordo l’italiano Alberto Bolzan, ha vinto la settima tappa della Volvo Ocean Race, la prima per il team con bandiera olandese, giungendo sul traguardo di Itajaì, nello stato brasiliano di Santa Catarina, in un finale serrato con Dongfeng Race Team, con le due barche distanziate di soli
Fresh from their victory at the Marina Rubicón Round Canary Islands Race, the Dutch team had yet another spectacular photo-shoot session off Lanzarote with top photographer Sander van der Borch
The Dutch team wins the first MArina Rubicón Round Canary Islands Race, the first ever duel between three VO65 racers
With the arrival of Laurent the team is complete. The other crew members are Bouwe Bekking (NLD), Gerd-Jan Poortman (NLD), Pablo Arrarte (ESP), Jens Dolmer (DNK), Andrew Cape (AUT), Rokas Milevicius (LTU) and Louis Balcaen (BEL)
With the arrival of Laurent the team is complete. The other crew members are Bouwe Bekking (NLD), Gerd-Jan Poortman (NLD), Pablo Arrarte (ESP), Jens Dolmer (DNK), Andrew Cape (AUT), Rokas Milevicius (LTU) and Louis Balcaen (BEL)
With a win in the fourth and final race, a fast 30 miles coastal course with over 20kts of brisk seabreeze back and forth across the Bay of Palma, Lionheart lift the trophy that they consider the season’s most prestigious and hardest to win, triumphing in the five strong J Class at the Palma Superyacht Cup
If Wednesday’s J Class race for the King’s Hundred Guinea Cup at Palma’s Superyacht Cup proved inconclusive, Hanuman and Lionheart finally being required to share the top trophy, there were no such doubts cast about the winners of the second windward-leeward race of the series.
Volvo Ocean Race, nuovi “acquisti” per Team Brunel
Al termine di quattro mesi di intensi allenamenti lo skipper di Team Brunel Bouwe Bekking ha annunciato oggi di aver selezionato due nuovi componenti dell'equipaggio.
After four months of intensive training, Team Brunel skipper Bouwe Bekking announced two more crew. Bekking has chosen 25-year old Louis Balcaen (BEL) and 27-year old Rokas Milevičius (LIT) to cover these two Under-30 spots. Only one position remains to complete the sailing crew.
Last week, during the Volvo Ocean Race presentation in Alicante, we had the opportunity to catch up with the skipper of the Abu Dhabi-backed entry and talk about the team and the round-the-world race
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Team photographer Sander van der Borch sent a gallery of fantastic shots from the Team Brunel training session in Lanzarote.
Volvo Ocean Race, Team Brunel ingaggia Dolmer e Arrarte
Jens Dolmer (Danimarca, 44 anni) e Pablo Arrarte (Spagna, 33 anni) si uniranno all’equipaggio di Team Brunel per l’edizione 2014/15 della Volvo Ocean Race.
The Dutch skipper talks to us about the current state of affairs of Team Brunel, the fourth official Volvo Ocean Race entry, as well as the overall race. He unveils the plans of the Dutch team until the start of the race in October and strongly supports the move to the one-design VO65's
Schouten Global, the professional training company, will back Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel as sponsors for the next Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 and have already revealed their ambition to launch their own team campaign in the following edition
Il quarto team iscritto alla prossima Volvo Ocean Race (giro del mondo in equipaggio a tappe) che partirà a ottobre 2014 da Alicante (Spagna), è l’olandese Team Brunel. Si tratta di una partecipazione “attesa” perché, da una parte, l’Olanda ha una lunga tradizione velica (tre vincitori nella storia quarantennale del giro del mondo in equipaggio),
Dutch sailor Bouwe Bekking will skipper a new campaign launched by Brunel on Tuesday in Amsterdam. This will be his seventh participation and the sponsor’s third involvement in the race – both Bekking and Brunel are back to win the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
Volvo Ocean Race, Bouwe Bekking guiderà Team Brunel
Il velista olandese Bouwe Bekking ritorna per la settima volta alla Volvo Ocean Race, il giro del mondo a vela in equipaggio, come skipper di un nuovo team presentato oggi ad Amsterdam.
Well-informed sources indicate that in addition to Team SCA and Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, we should expect teams from the Netherlands, Spain, New Zealand, Great Britain and China
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