VOLVO OPEN 70 “TELEFÓNICA”: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Team: Team Telefónica
Country: Spain
Clubes: Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo
Real Club de Regatas de Alicante
CEO: Pedro Campos
Skipper: Iker Martínez
Technical Director: Horacio Carabelli
Boat: “Telefónica”. Volvo Open 70 – version 3
Sail Number: ESP - 1
Designer: Juan Kouyoumdjian
Shipyard: King Marine (Alginet, Valencia)
Build: approximately 40,000 shipyard hours. 28 people
Length: 21,5 metres (70 feet)
Beam: 5,70 metres
Mast height: 31,6 metres (the equivalent of a ten-storey building)
Mainsail: 175 m2
Jib: 135 m2
Spinnaker: 500 m2 (the equivalent of two tennis courts)
Displacement: 14.500 kg
Max weight: 14.500 kg
Bulb weight: 5.500 kg
Keel weight: maximum 7.400 kg
Swinging keel to 40º angle
Daggerboards: 2
Number of sails 17 total (maximum of 9 on board)
On board cameras: 5
On board microphones: 3
Crew: 10 sailors + 1 media crew member
Wheels (rudder): 2
Grinders: 3
Main technological innovations:
Brand new construction process, based on the latest technological developments.
New internal structure of the boat with a division in the watertight bulkheads, which have been optimised to fit in with the new rules and which seek to minimise the internal structure.
Brand new daggerboards and rudders, thanks to exhausting research to obtain maximum control and stability for the boat at all times.
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