Mange Olsson berättar om Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009

Mange Olsson berättar om Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 på besök hos Hewlett-Packard den 25:e november, 2009.

Magnus Olsson seglade runt jorden med Volvo Ocean Race fem gånger innan han blev skeppare för sin egen besättning ombord på Ericsson 3 under Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009. Ericsson 3, vann den längsta etappen (etapp fem) i tävlingens historia, mellan Qingdao och Rio de Janeiro - en sträcka på hela 12 300 nautiska mil som de seglade på tiden 40 dagar, 5 timmar, 37 minuter och 57 sekunder.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Olsson_(havskappseglare)

// Below shared by Bo Löweberg,

Final Round with Mange
29 April, 2013

“I will bring the SCA boat to Antigua for RORC600 in February. That will be a perfect warm up sailing for the girls. You arrange a lobster dinner for us”!

Mange drove his car on the Drottningholm Golf Club's parking lot last autumn with a big smile on his face and the typical laughter.
I had just paid for the beers in the bar as Mange and Henry were the winners. The round started as always with Henry and myself in time for a warm up and Mange arriving very late to the first tee, not always dressed to golf standard (e.g. wearing jeans and sport shoes). As He used to play Bandy he had a very good sense for the game and most of the time he won our golf games.
Now it feels so good to have paid that last beer.

We met first 1974 at Digital Equipment where we both worked, Mange in Field Service and myself in Sales. The customers just loved Mange when we visited them together, as he smiled and joked all the time. He could say ” I did not bring an oscilloscope, it is enough to repair this computer with a chewing gum.”
On our final Golf Round we talked about the PDP11 computer, its different Operating Systems and the version LSI-11 which was the computer onboard the Swedish Americas Cup challenge “Sverige” 1977. As Magnus had a Master of Science education he was supervising the development of the navigation software for “Sverige” which was developed by two students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

On hole 15 we slipped into talk about girls working with us at Digital. We were speculating if these nice girls were preserved as good as we imagined we were. I do not remember what our conclusion was. But a lot of laughter.
And also as always, Mange did not have time to stay for dinner at the Golf Club, he had a sailing activity going on in the evening. I served Mange and Henry beer and we planned alternative dates for a Crayfish party in September (that never happened because of the SCA Project) and also the visit to Antigua and the RORC 600 in feb 2013.
Last mail from Magnus in February: "We do not have time for RORC 600, 7 girls and myself will sail the boat direct to Lanzarote."

My thoughts go to Magnus family.
Will miss you my friend and look for that sign in the sky.
Bo Löweberg friend

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