Yamaha (yacht)

Yamaha
Other names Pontona Youth
Nation  Japan
Class Volvo Ocean 60
Racing career
Skippers Ross Field
Thomas Dahl Jensen

Yamaha (also Pontona Youth) is a Volvo Ocean 60 yacht. She took part in the 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Ross Field and finished as fastest Volvo Ocean 60 yacht and second overall after New Zealand Endeavour.[1]

Yamaha competed in the 2003 Volvo Baltic Race with the name Pontona Youth and crewed by a Danish youth team skippered by Thomas Dahl Jensen.[2]

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