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Charlie Enright
Charlie Enright (born 10 September 1984) is an American sailor who has competed in the Volvo Ocean Race. Born in Rhode Island, Enright attended Brown University. He sailed in the 2011 and 2019 Fastnet Race, winning the latter, and worked for North Sails. Enright and Mark Towill co-founded '' Team Alvimedica'' which sailed in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race. Originally intended to be an all-American team, the team was American/Turkish flagged after sponsorship from Alvimedica. They were the youngest team in the fleet. Enright skippered the team and, after leading the fleet around Cape Horn and winning the final leg, they finished fifth overall. Enright sailed in the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race, skippering '' Vestas 11th Hour Racing'' and finished fifth overall. He also competed in the 2019 addition of the Transat Jacques Vabre, partnering with French skipper Pascal Bidégorry Pascal Bidegorry (born 15 January 1968, in Bayonne) is a French sailor. Life He has raced across the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode Island
Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly more than 1.1 million residents . The state's population, however, has continually recorded growth in every decennial census since 1790, and it is the second-most densely populated state after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though most of its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century. Rhode Island was unique among the Thirteen British Colonies in having been founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo Ocean Race Sailors
The Volvo Group (; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it was the world's second-largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks with its subsidiary Volvo Trucks. Volvo was founded in 1927. Initially involved in the automobile industry, Volvo expanded into other manufacturing sectors throughout the twentieth century. Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 Volvo Cars has been owned by the automotive company Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. The corporation was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Sailors (sport)
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1984 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album ''1984 (Van Halen album), 1984'' (''MCMLXXXIV''), which debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the United States. * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican City, Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh personal computer in the United States. *January 27 – American singer Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire during the making of the Pepsi commercial. February * February 3 ** John Buster and the research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Bidégorry
Pascal Bidegorry (born 15 January 1968, in Bayonne) is a French sailor. Life He has raced across the Atlantic Ocean over 30 times and has set records in many classes. He has won the Solitaire du Figaro and the Transat Jacques Vabre; apart from several championships in the ORMA, International Monohull Open Classes Association, IMOCA, MOD 70 and :fr:Décision 35, Décision 35 circuits. Besides, he has six French and World Championship titles under his belt. He joined Team Banque Populaire in 2004 as skipper of the ''Banque Populaire III'' trimaran. From February 2010 to April 2011, he was skipper of Banque Populaire V, the world's largest ocean racing trimaran at in length and campaigned the yacht in breaking ocean racing records. He was the navigator onboard Dongfeng Race Team in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race, and again in the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race, when Dongfeng won the race by just 30 minutes at the end of the final leg, having not won a single leg beforehand, following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transat Jacques Vabre
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Transat may refer to: * Transat A.T., Canadian tour and travel agency ** Air Transat, Canadian airline owned by Transat A.T. * Concept Composites MD03 Transat, French ultralight aircraft * "The Transat", also called the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race See also * Transit (other) Transit may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Transit'' (1980 film), a 1980 Israeli film * ''Transit'' (1986 film), a Canadian short film * ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestas 11th Hour Racing
''Vestas 11th Hour Racing'' was a Volvo Ocean 65 class yacht team competing in the 2017–2018 Volvo Ocean Race. It was named after 11th Hour Racing, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation and its then title sponsors: a wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems A/S. After the COVID-19 pandemic disruption the team changed yacht class to IMOCA 60 and no longer had Vestas as a sponsor. It now competes in the 2023 The Ocean Race as 11th Hour Racing. The team finished fifth in the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race and in the 2014–15 Volvo Ocean Race, when she was known as ''Team Alvimedica'' and skippered by Charlie Enright. Between the two races, ''Vestas 11th Hour Racing'' was extensively refitted along with the other Volvo Ocean 65's. 2017-2018 Volvo Ocean Race *Charlie Enright (skipper) *Simon Fisher *Mark Towill (Team director) * Damian Foxall *Nick Dana *Tom Johnson *Tony Mutter *Stacey Jackson *Hannah Diamond *Roberto Bermúdez de Castro Muñoz *Jena Hansen J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvimedica
Alvimedica is a manufacturer of medical devices, including coronary stents, balloon catheters, diagnostic and guiding catheters. The company was founded in 2007 by Turkish businessman İshak Alaton. Alvimedica’s headquarters are a 5,500 m² facility located at the free trade zone in Catalca, Istanbul, Turkey. Alvimedica has one of the biggest Class 10,000 cleanrooms in Europe. With an area of 700 m², Alvimedica's Good Manufacturing Practice-compliant facility contains the main assembly of catheter and stent systems. Current projects include renal and cranial intravascular stents. These include Coracto, the first drug-eluting stent developed and manufactured in Turkey. The company is also working on bio-degradable stents which completely dissolve in the vessel. Coracto SDS (Stent Delivery System) Coracto is a drug-eluting stent made with a bioabsorbable polymer. In 2010, a pre-clinical and clinical study were conducted on Coracto. Prof. Nicolaus Reifart of the Main-Tau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
