Brooksfield Explained

Brooksfield
Othernames:Nafta watch
Veliki viharnik
Clean Sport Too
Club:Pirat[1] Portorož
Nat:
Class:Volvo Ocean 60
Sailno:SLO–031
Launched:Venice, Italy, 1992
Owner:Jure Orel
Fate:active
Skip:Guido Maisto
Dušan Puh
Length:19.2m (63feet)
Beam:5.2m (17.1feet)
Height:28m (92feet)
Displacement:13 tons

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]

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.

Career

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

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

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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.klub-pirat.si/en
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-09-19 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235321/http://www.kriter.tv/history/whitbread_history.pdf . dead .
  3. http://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/veliki-viharnik-spet-izziva-viharje.html
  4. http://www.yc-host.com/en/adriatic_race/boats/2
  5. Nedeljski dnevnik No. 49, 9 December 2015, pages 26–27