Volvo Ocean Race - Cape Town Stopover
| Groupama's bold move looking good |
| Wednesday, 09 November 2011 07:56 |
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It's still early days, with a lot of water to pass beneath the hulls, but over the course of the past 9 hours, the brave move by Frank Cammas appears to be paying dividends. The French team finally found breeze in the hours of darkness and have leapfrogged into first place according to the last position report at 0400 UTC, when they had a seven nautical mile lead over second placed Team Telefónica. PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG lie three nautical miles behind the Spanish team, and CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand in fourth a further 20 nautical miles astern. With the French crew now benefitting from their bold split from the fleet, the mood on Groupama 4 is understandably upbeat. “The atmosphere on board is following a parallel curve to the strength of the wind” said media crew member Yann Riou in a report from the boat this morning. “Everyone on board has been 100 per cent behind the decision to go south and we are all working hard to make it pay.” |
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Volvo Ocean Race Podcast
Jeff Ayliffe had an exclusive chat to PUMA Ocean Racing's skipper Ken Read today. When they last chatted, Ken was hoping to be back for the Volvo Ocean race 2011, but they had not confirmed. The team are are not only back, but have experienced a transatlantic victory aboard the new boat 'Mar Mostro', and Read told Jeff he was delighted to preparing for Alicante and the start of Volvo Ocean race action
- Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town
Team Camper’s South African crewman is Michael Pammenter, who sailed with Telefonica Black in 2008. Michael caught up with Jeff Ayliffe just after the boat Was being transported to New Zealand.
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Puma Ocean Racing’s Jono Swain is the 2nd of 3 South Africans in this years Volvo Ocean race. He chatted to Jeff Ayliffe about sleeping patterns and life aboard a Volvo open 70
- Volvo Ocean Race Cape Town
Capetonian Paul Wilcox is part of Abu Dhabi Racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, and he was chatting to Jeff Ayliffe shortly after the team pulled off a win in the Transnet after a close battle with Groupama.
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