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A model boat of Team SCA, made entirely of 100,000 LEGO\u00ae pieces, will be exhibited in the Volvo Ocean Race museum from today.<\/p>\n
– Friends construct perfect model Lego boat<\/p>\n
– Model back in Alicante after touring the world<\/p>\n
– Museum gives permanent home to replica<\/p>\n
ALICANTE, March 8 \u2013 A model boat of Team SCA, made entirely of 100,000 LEGO\u00ae pieces, will be exhibited in the Volvo Ocean Race museum from today.<\/p>\n
The launch of the Volvo Ocean 65 replica boat, which safely delivered the all-female crew of Team SCA around the world in the 2014-15 race, coincides with International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
The model was donated by SCA, the Swedish global hygiene company, which sponsored skipper Sam Davies\u2019s crew in the nine-month marathon race.<\/p>\n
It was displayed at each of the 11 ports that hosted the 12th edition before being transported to its new permanent home in the Alicante-based Volvo Ocean Race museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boat is in the best place possible. After a long journey around the world, it has returned home,\u201d said Anders Gaasedal, one of the men who constructed it.<\/p>\n
The Dane, who works for LEGO\u00ae, embarked in 2013 on the challenge of making the Volvo Ocean 65 replica together with his Swedish friend Johan Sahlstr\u00f6m, an engineer for Volvo Trucks. They achieved their target after 1,200 hours of work.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the start of the regatta, we dreamed of bringing the boat back to Alicante. This has been an adventure for us and for Team SCA. It\u2019s marvellous that the boat is being exhibited in the museum. The more people who can enjoy it the better,\u201d added Sahlstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n
What started as a diverting challenge for two friends, developed into a complete engineering and logistic project, replicating in miniature the dimensions of the boat (2.32 metres in length, 3.03 metres mast height, 0.56 metres width of the hull). It has a functioning, scaled-down keel (+\/- 40 degrees with five degrees of tilt from its axis).<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything works, the pieces are not stuck together. The most difficult thing was making everything curve using pieces that are basically rectangular. This is most beautiful model that I have ever made,\u201d said Sahlstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur boat from the distance looks like a real model, you can\u00b4t see it\u00b4s made of LEGO\u00ae bricks, and then, when you come closer, it\u00b4s a great surprise. Everything has curves, it\u00b4s been built in 3D, the bricks have been put together from the top, the side and the bottom, and all is shiny. Children always build from the bottom to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Volvo Ocean Race museum, which offers free entrance, welcomed more than 50,000 visitors in 2015 and is the only one in the world dedicated to almost 43 years of history of the round-the-world race.<\/p>\n
Alicante, headquarters of the Volvo Ocean Race organisation since 2010, was the departure port in the last three editions of the race and will be so again in the next event starting in 2017.<\/p>\n
SCA has a long record supporting women’s causes around the world and Team SCA’s entry in the last Volvo Ocean Race underlined their commitment to the issue of female empowerment.<\/p>\n
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