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Photo: Maria Muina/Team Telefonica |
Horacio Carabelli, shore team manager for Telefónica, said the overall race leaders had made good inroads into their schedule of work and were on track to be 100 per cent by the weekend.
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“Everything was taken off the boat so the crew need to check everything, the keel system, all the halyard locks on the mast, electronics...it is a long list. There is some new structure so we need to also check how the boat is behaving. All in all we are pretty happy,” Carabelli confirmed.
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“We will put the mast in when the boat is in the water today and get ourselves tidied up and set up for to go for a sail tomorrow around midday,” he said.
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Photo: Ian Roman/Volvo Ocean Race |
“There are always a lot of details to sort out. You can never do enough -- it’s a race boat so it is never finished. Tomorrow’s sailing will all be about making sure everything works -- locks, reefs everything, so it will be a longish afternoon out on the water.
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With the PUMA crew arriving back Itajaí today, shore manager Tim Hacket said his team were focused on having the boat ready to sail on Tuesday.
“We are just continuing to get the boat ready,” he said. “The sailors are back today and are heading out sailing tomorrow. We are getting all the gear back on board as we launched yesterday. Nothing too frantic, just normal preparation for a sailing day.
“It’s been a steady pace for us. We have been pretty fortunate with the job list so it has all been good. There have been plenty of little jobs that we hadn’t been able to do at other stopovers because they were so short, that we have been able to take care of now. Repainting the decks with new non-skid was a big one.
“Not everything is 100 per cent complete and there are plenty of jobs we can work on at night but the boat is ready for them to go sailing for sure.”
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