Team Vestas Wind
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Team Vestas Wind in 2015.
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| Nation |
 Denmark
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| Class | Volvo Ocean 65 |
| Designer(s) | Farr Yacht Design |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers | Chris Nicholson |
Team Vestas Wind is a Volvo Ocean 65 yacht. She finished seventh in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race skippered by Chris Nicholson.
It is the 7th boat to announce it is participation to the race on September 1st 2014 following a press release from Alicante, Spain.
The crew was:
On November 30th 2014, during a night navigation, it grounded on a coral atoll of St. Brandon. This happened 10 days after leaving Cape Town, on the way to Abu Dhabi. The yacht was damaged and repaired the race for the last 2 legs. The grounding was because the atoll was not visible on the low scale chart. The crew was rescued by the Mauritius coast guard the next morning. The cause of the grounding was that the charting software did not show the atoll unless the map was zoomed all the way in.
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