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Heineken (yacht)

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Other names
  
Yamaha 1Pontona Youth

Length
  
18.2 m (60 ft) (LOA)

Displacement
  
13,500 kg

Designer
  
Beam
  
5.2 m (17 ft)

Builder
  
Cookson Boats, New Zealand

Skippers
  
Dawn RileyThomas Dahl Jensen

Heineken (also Yamaha 1, Pontona Youth) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished ninth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Dawn Riley.

Career

Yamaha 1 was the first Whitbread 60 ever built and was used as a trial boat for Ross Field's team. It was built by Cookson Boats in New Zealand. When Yamaha was finished the yacht was leased to American skipper Dawn Riley, who finished ninth among the W60s of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race having an all-women crew.

Yamaha 1 competed in the 2003 Volvo Baltic Race with the name Pontona Youth and crewed by a Danish youth team skippered by Thomas Dahl Jensen.

References

Heineken (yacht) Wikipedia


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