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Photo: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race |
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Photo: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race |
“Anything could happen here, it’s all on for young and old,” Cape said. “We’re the first to get into lighter air so it’s always a case that the boats behind us could catch us. So right now everyone is a threat, even Abu Dhabi. We could park here for the day and they’ll be right back here with us and choose a different path."
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
“The picture ahead doesn’t look brilliant for anyone, as we have to move across this ridge that stands between us and going fast,” he said. “It’s going to be a pretty slow next 24 hours and the first to break through is going to be going great."
The break in hard running has come as a relief to several of the already wearied teams allowing them to affect running repairs to both boats and bodies.
“I feel like I’ve gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson,” said PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG skipper Ken Read. “Everybody in the fleet’s body and mind is pretty shot right now.”
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
Johanson dislocated his shoulder after being washed across the boat’s cockpit by a wave and Smith was confined to his bunk by a reoccurrence of a pre-existing back injury during a routine sail change.
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
Happily, after taking medical advice from race and team doctors back ashore, PUMA onboard medic Jono Swain successfully re-located Johanson’s shoulder.
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
However Read said Smith’s back injury was a trickier scenario which they were treating with pain medication and could still require him to be taken off the boat at Cape Horn.
“At one point we were heading to the Chatham Islands to get rid of both of them,’’ Read confirmed. “But then Thomas’ shoulder got popped back in and we had a long talk to Casey.
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Photo: Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race |
“Hopefully the medication will start to work a bit better and we’ll see a light at the end of the tunnel. Right now he’s still in pain,’’ Read said.
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Photo: Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race |
“We now have 12 to 14 knots of wind and finally a flatter sea state,” Cammas said today. “Sailing without the shocks – better conditions.
“The boat is fine. We had some issues during the first night and the following day but today there is no problem anymore and we can use every sail and have fixed the leaks.”
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Photo: Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race |
“Right now the fleet is really grouped -- 40 miles for the first 5 boats with still 3,500 miles to go to the Cape Horn is really small,” he said. “There isn’t a big option to take. We are expecting light wind in the next few hours and it already went down a lot.
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Photo: Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race |
At 1400 UTC Groupama were just four nautical miles behind leaders Telefónica. Third placed PUMA were just three nautical miles further off the lead and eight nautical miles ahead of fourth placed CAMPER with Emirates team New Zealand. Team Sanya were in fifth, 40 nm off the lead.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, who resumed racing yesterday after returning to Auckland for repairs on the first day, were 419 nm off the lead.
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