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Nation
  
Sweden  Australia

Sail no
  
SWE–1

Class
  
Volvo Ocean 60

Designer(s)
  
Bruce Farr

Other names
  
Illbruck Magnavox 2UE Nokia 2UE Nokia DHL

Builder
  
Richard Gilles and Tim Smythe

EF Language (also known as Illbruck, Magnavox 2UE, Nokia 2UE, Nokia, DHL) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht that won the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race.

Career

EF Language was designed by Bruce Farr and built by Richard Gilles and Tim Smythe.

She won the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Paul Cayard.

She competed in the 2000 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as illbruck and in the 2003 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as Nokia 2UE

References

EF Language Wikipedia