Brooksfield

Brooksfield is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She finished sixth in the W60 class of the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Guido Maisto.[2]

Brooksfield
Other namesNafta watch
Veliki viharnik
Clean Sport Too
Yacht clubPirat[1] Portorož
Nation Italy
 Slovenia
ClassVolvo Ocean 60
Sail noSLO–031
LaunchedVenice, Italy, 1992
Owner(s)Jure Orel
Fateactive
Racing career
SkippersGuido Maisto
Dušan Puh
Specifications
Displacement13 tons
Length19.2 m (63 ft)
Beam5.2 m (17 ft)
Mast height28.0 m (91.9 ft)

Since 2000, the owner was Mobitel (Slovenian Telekom), who renamed it Veliki viharnik, but currently it is owned by Slovenian businessman Dejan Kovačič.[3]

In 2019 it was bought by Slovene skipper Jure Orel's firm Clean Sport and renamed Clean Sport Too.

Design

Career

2nd Jadranska regata/Adriatic race (2008) Skipper Dušan Puh Position 1 Group MAXI Finish time 2.5.2008. 20:59:40 Sailed time 32:59:40

4th Jadranska regata/Adriatic race (2010) Skipper Dušan Puh Position 1 Group MAXI Finish time 1.5.2010. 01:00:41 Sailed time 38:00:41

5th Jadranska regata/Adriatic race (2011) Skipper Dušan Puh Position 3 Group MAXI Finish time 30.4.2011. 06:40:54 Sailed time 43:40:54[4]

Current status

After two years long-term storage at the Marina of Portorož, the yacht was moved to the Marina of Koper; the current main sponsor is the town of Koper. Brooksfield won the Diplomatic Regatta 2015 and Skipper Cup 2015, and was 2nd at the Jabuka Regatta 2015 and 3rd at Bernetti 2015.[5]

Brooksfield on YouTube
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gollark: I have a lot of test systems for stuff like TomatOS.
gollark: Some of them.
gollark: Don't worry, PotatOS (**not** Potato**O**S) has autoupdate to quickly send out patches.
gollark: `potatOS` is in the global scope of potatOS, you know.

References
  1. Sailing Club Pirat Portorož
  2. http://www.kriter.tv/history/whitbread_history.pdf
  3. Article about Brooksfield on Delo's website
  4. Adriatic race results
  5. Nedeljski dnevnik No. 49, 9 December 2015, pages 26–27
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