Volvo Ocean Race - Cape Town Stopover
| Have Groupama blown it? |
| Tuesday, 08 November 2011 13:39 |
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Camper's Mike Pammenter, above, as Camper pursue telefonica and Puma away from the coast. Image Hamish Hooper / camper /Volvo Ocean Race The hugely experienced Frank Cammas and Groupama have made a very brave move, splitting from the fleet to hug the African coastline, as the 3 other boats cruise far to the north-west. Groupama are averaging 2.3 Knots, whilst Puma, Telefonica and Camper are moving between 12 and 14 Knots. The result of the Groupama move will become clearer over the next 12 hours, but one cannot but feel edgy about the call. Chris Nicholson's CAMPER changed tactics overnight, cashing in a loss by choosing to break off their southerly path and follow Iker Martinez on Telefónica and Kenny Read’s PUMA in the west. She is now 25 nautical miles behind Telefónica who still leads the field. Cammas’s decision to split from the pack is risky. It is unusual to have such a defined split in the fleet, and Cammas is clearly confident in his choice. However, there is now no return for Cammas. He has made his decision and to change would be very costly indeed. His plan will be to pick up some thermal driving breeze from heat of the coast. Meanwhile, back in Alicante, Ian Walker and his team from Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing are making good progress and plan to step their replacement rig today. Team Sanya meanwhile are focused on organising the shipping of their damaged boat to Cape Town n order to make repairs to the bow section in time for the in-port race and start of the second leg. |
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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
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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
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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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