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Looking a bit spooky south of east cape under current forecast.

 

Might be a case of whoever jags it south in the 1-2 days or so takes the silverware?

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Looking a bit spooky south of east cape under current forecast.

 

Might be a case of whoever jags it south in the 1-2 days or so takes the silverware?

 

Unless volvo delays the race again.......... What do you think the chances are?

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Looking a bit spooky south of east cape under current forecast.

 

Might be a case of whoever jags it south in the 1-2 days or so takes the silverware?

 

Unless volvo delays the race again.......... What do you think the chances are?

 

Its a volvo around the world race, Arnt these guys ment to be able to sail in anything? SAy they get 50kts in a race, what are they going to do? Tell them to pull all their sails down? I say let them go! :)

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Unless volvo delays the race again.......... What do you think the chances are?

 

Would make the organisers look foolish to do that when we have 16 folk slamming around in the RNI in essentially what are toys compared to these professionally raced machines that seem to want to fall apart.

 

Loking at latest MetVuW they should relish the front to scoot out quickly.

 

Maybe this is why the Kiwi is over represented in top levels of sailing on pro rata to other contries - willing to sail anywhere anytime in anything :D

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ABU DHABI BACK IN AUCKLAND, PLAN 24-HOUR REPAIR

 

Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing are hopeful of resuming racing in Leg 5 within the next 24 hours after arriving back in Abu Dhabi to repair damage to their yacht Azzam.

 

Ian Walker and his crew made the decision to return to the City of Sails five-and-a-half hours into the 6,700 nautical mile leg to Itajaí in Brazil when a bulkhead in the bow of their yacht Azzam, securing a crucial heavy weather headsail, ripped clean out.

 

Rather than risk continuing, Abu Dhabi chose to turn around and carry out a full repair to the J4 bulkhead in Auckland.

 

“I don’t think it was a structural threat to the boat, but it would have been a big repair to get the bulkhead back in and take the load of the J4 which is a sail we’re probably going to use 80 per cent of the time in the Southern Ocean,” Walker said.

 

“We discussed it and took the decision that we’re only 40 miles from Auckland, let’s come back and we’ll probably repair it quicker and better, and then we can get back out and try to catch everyone up.”

 

After suspending racing at 0630 UTC, Abu Dhabi were back on the dock by 1030 UTC where the boat was handed over to their waiting shore crew.

 

“It puts us behind the fleet but it’s not disastrous,” Walker added.

 

“The fleet aren’t getting away that fast, they’re heading upwind and they’re going to get a bit of a pounding tonight.

 

“Looking 36 hours ahead there are probably faster conditions for getting out of here.

“It all depends on the movement of the high pressure – they might have to sail a longer distance round it than us. We’re not giving up hope.”

 

Abu Dhabi team director Jamie Boag said the aim was now to get the team back out on the race course as quickly as possible.

 

“We will try to get the boys turned round as quickly as we can and get them back in the race,” he said.

 

“We will know in the next hour how long the repair will take but it should be 24 to 30 hours or so. We will try to get back out there by this time tomorrow night.”

 

Leg 5 started from Auckland at 1400 local time (0100 UTC) on Sunday and sees the fleet race through the Southern Ocean, around Cape Horn and on to Itajaí in Brazil.

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