Other names Nokia
Avant Sail no SWE–2000 Displacement 13,500 kg Designer Bruce Farr | Nation Sweden
Denmark Builder Cookson Boats Class Volvo Ocean 60 | |
Skippers Gunnar Krantz
Stefan Myralf
Michael Spies Notable victories 1999 Sydney–Hobart (l.h.) | ||
Swedish Match (also known as Nokia, Avant) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht that competed in the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race.
Career
Swedish Match was designed by Bruce Farr and built by Cookson Boats.
Swedish Match competed in the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race and finished 3rd. She was skippered by Gunnar Krantz.
She was given a new name, Nokia, and competed in the 1999 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. She won line honours in the 1999 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race skippered by Stefan Myralf and Michael Spies. The winning time, 1 day, 19 hours, 48 minutes, and 2 seconds stood as a record until Wild Oats XI beat it in the 2005 edition.
In 2003, she competed in the Volvo Baltic Race under the name Avant.
References
Swedish Match (yacht) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA