Volvo Ocean Race Press Information

And last but not least!!! Here we go the Blackies!!As if it couldn’t be in any other way, hard beating in 25 knots to the finish line!!

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As we get close to the finish line, there is a curious mix of relaxation and tension onboard. Relative relaxation, as we still have 250 miles to go and anything might happen. The curiosity is that mix:  tension to be on shore and with the family, but also to get everything fixed for the next leg, and relaxed as we know we have done everything we could in this one. We were not very lucky sometimes and that’s all.  Think ahead and we will see.

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Yes, there are still boats on the water, and Telefónica Blue is one of them, but not for long, as the barn door is only 50 miles away.

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The Green Dragon has 260 miles and a couple of gybes to go before arriving in Cape Town. We are now moving OK but still 10% slow due to whatever damage is under our boat. This should be enough to hold off Telefónica Blue who is 100 miles back, but you can never be sure of anything I am told approaching Cape Town.

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Dealing with Jerry Kirby is like dealing with a little kid in the back seat of the family wagon on the way to summer holiday.

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Everything is getting to its edge now. We are still battling The Green Dragons and the situation feels close and stressful.  Not the least after a few tricky situations today.

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First of all congratulations to Torben and his boys. They sailed a blinder of a race from the scoring waypoint to the finish.  Well done.

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We are 600 miles away and back to the penguin’s land.  As we get closer south, it gets chilly. Hope in the next hours we head up north – it is a little bit warmer up there! Still going fast, under the circumstances, so everything depends upon what might be waiting for us off Cape Town, weather slowing us down or not. Incognita? Weather changes so abruptly down here that you never know.

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I know this race now has a new Asian flavour to it – what with visiting China and Singapore, but I wasn’t expecting a taste of the orient quite so soon in the form of a massive Chinese gybe last night. 

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It’s been an odd day on E4 today.  We came out of our stealth mode – which didn’t really do much for us – we just carried on as normal.

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