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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
PUMA navigator Tom Addis said the team were employing every weapon in their arsenal, including old school match racing tactics.
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
Addis said his team were reveling in the close-quarters scrap, especially having sailed a “pretty lonely race”, including detouring to the world’s most remote inhabited island with a broken mast in Leg 1 and blazing their own trail hundreds of miles from the fleet in the Leg 4 race from Sanya to Auckland.
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Photo: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race |
“It feels like a race. It’s hard in these long legs to remind yourself it’s still a race when you’re in the middle of the ocean on your own. But, when there’s another boat it makes it much easier.”
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Photo: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race |
Navigator Andrew Cape was modest about the turnaround, putting it down to the weather gods.
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Photo: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race |
Cape said he was enjoying the opportunity to be on the attack from the rear of the fleet, rather than defending from the front.
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Photo: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race |
Meanwhile, CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand suspended racing at 0130 UTC on Tuesday. The team notified race management of the move while just south of Isla Guafo, about 180 nautical miles from their destination Puerto Montt.
Shore manager Neil Cox said the team expected to reach the port later tonight, and would begin work immediately. Cox said a team of six shore crew plus an ultrasound technician would work on the damaged hull, which could take from three to seven days.
CAMPER skipper Chris Nicholson said he was hopeful the team could complete the repairs and sail the remainder of the leg in time to compete in the Itajaí In-Port Race.
“The sooner we get our repairs done, the sooner we get underway again,” he said. “We’re looking forward to as much time as we can have in Itajaí before in-port racing, so we’re looking at two weeks down the track from now.
“We’ve still got 3,000 miles to go, it’s a long way, and we’ve already come a long way, so this is quite a marathon leg for us.”
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing are continuing to trek towards the Chilean coast in fifth place, while assessing their options.
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