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Recebi a minha revista da Marinha do Brasil para ficar em sintonia com o universo aquático.

Nothing like being updated with who else understands the sea.
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Life at sea...

When I'm in the sea something wonderful happens: you are surrounded by an magic aura that transcends the rational feel. Something unexplainable happens and leaves you speechless. All in one complete world where the sea and our existence raises a joy it hurts the heart and soothes the soul. That's how the old wolves of the sea feel when they're at sea ... or as I say ... and be or not and without thinking, because you're there.

It's beautiful.

The rote...

From Alicante to ...

Sanya is the ninth stopover to be announced for the 2014-15, the second time the city will host the event. The Race will start from its home in Alicante, Spain before visiting Recife in Brazil, going on to the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi and then to Sanya. The teams continue on to Auckland, before rounding Cape Horn and reaching Itajaí, the second of two Brazilian stopovers. From there, the route takes the teams north to Newportand across the Atlantic to Lisbon. The Race will finish inGothenburg, Sweden, with the final stopovers, as well as dates and distances, to be announced in the coming weeks.

Why not?

Indeed, what is most important is the passion.

When I'm in the rain, in a storm, the only thing I want is for this to continue. It's beautiful to see the lightning and the wind in our face. Things happen like a movie scene, but it's real. Very real. The clothes are all wet and that makes us believe we can win ..win... overcome difficulties, overcome challenges, because we are made of body, soul and spirit. A spirit that moves us toward something bigger, much bigger, for what we believe to be supreme, magnificent and spectacular. I just want to continue, continue to throw me on the sea every time it's need and I know that I'm going to reach my goal, regardless of whether or not to return.

That's it.

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Elite assembly line production for the new rigging

Wondering what’s happening with the rigs of the new Volvo Ocean 65? It’s well underway at Southern Spars, New Zealand. Our sole spar suppliers are working fast: three masts are already being finished and the first boom is ready to go.

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"We have mast 5 half way through lamination" - Kevin Batten

Southern Spars will supply all the masts, booms and rigging for the 2014-15 and 2017-18 races. According to Project Manager Kevin Batten, the build of the high modulus masts and high modulus  box booms is well underway.

“We’re right into it,” he said over the phone earlier this week. “We have masts 1, 2 and 3 on the shop floor being worked on. Mast 1 is ahead of the others and has most of its internal fittings installed.

“Mast 2 has some of its internal components fitted and mast 3 is just in the jig and is getting drilled off. Mast 4 is now out of lamination and is getting trimmed. We have mast 5 half way through lamination.

“Boom 1 is fully painted and boom 2 is with our paint team now. Boom 3 is in the jig and is getting drilled off and we have boom 4 in lamination.”

The Auckland-based company will ship the first two masts in April to Green Marine in the UK. Like all the suppliers involved in the One Design project, Southern Spars not only has strict deadlines to meet to make sure the first boat hits the water this summer, but must also deliver reliable and strictly identical products.

The company’s product reliability has already been proven in the last edition of the race, when Southern Spars supplied full rig solutions for CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand and Team Telefónica, who came through the race without suffering rig problems. They also supplied partial packages to PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG and winners Groupama sailing team.

“These new rigs will go around the world twice and the masts are deck stepped,” added Batten. “So it has been a bit challenging to get all the electronics and control lines through the mast base into the boat. The masts are all jumper-less with three spreaders. In general, we are using a lot of our previous experience to make sure the rigs will be reliable.”

And Batten is confident that Southern Spars processes can guarantee all the masts, booms and rigging to be the same.

“Making sure everything is one design from mast to mast was a big job in the beginning. We have a process here: we pick fibre for each mast and check the resin content to make sure each mast is the same weight for the mast section. Once the masts come out of lamination, we weight them all to make sure they meet the designed weight.

"When the masts are laminated we have a datum mark in the mould. This mark is transferred onto the mast tube. When the masts are set into the drilling jigs we line up the datum mark with a mark on the stands so we know every mast will be drilled the same.

“We spent a lot of time designing all the mast and boom jigs. There are new stands in the factory for the Volvo masts and booms these stands are bolted to the floor. The drilling jigs are then bolted to these stands so each time a mast or boom is installed in the stands we know they will be the same.

"We are absolutely confident that we will have everything identical.”

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