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Vessels

Vestas

Vestas is the short vessel name used in the GISIS casualty record for the racing yacht involved in the 20 January 2018 collision off Hong Kong. The related Volvo Ocean Race report refers to the race entry as Vestas 11th Hour Racing.

Vestas is the short vessel name used in the GISIS casualty record for the racing yacht involved in the 20 January 2018 collision off Hong Kong. The related Volvo Ocean Race report refers to the race entry as Vestas 11th Hour Racing.

Particulars

  • Vessel type: Other, for controlled-vocabulary use. The source describes a racing yacht or 65 ft sloop.
  • Class/context: Volvo Ocean 65 race yacht.
  • LOA: 22.14 m including bowsprit for the VO65 class, confirmed by SRC-MSIG-061. This is not a fishing-vessel particular.
  • IMO number, flag state, and gross tonnage are not confirmed by the reviewed sources.

Incidents

Operators / owners

  • Not confirmed by these reviewed sources.