"ABN Amro One" Takes The Lead In The Volvo Ocean Race

"ABN Amro One" Takes The Lead In The Volvo Ocean Race
"ABN Amro One" Takes The Lead In The Volvo Ocean Race

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Video: TEAM ABN AMRO | VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2005-2006 2024, March
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"Movistar" after collision with an unknown object

On the way to the Doldrums, the favorite team "ABN Amro One" with skipper Mike Sanderson has taken the lead. "Brasil 1" is currently in second place, followed by "Ericsson Racing Team".

While the leading boats are moving south, the sailors of the "Movistar" in the port of Portimao / Portugal realized yesterday why their keel suspension was damaged. When the Open 70 was hoisted out of the water, it was revealed to the onlookers that both the rudder blade and the leverage on the port side had been cut off as if by a razor blade. "Something hard must have hit us, something like a container," said team manager Pedro Campos in view of the damage.

The team should be relieved in a certain way, as this indicates that a collision was necessary to inflict such damage on the VO 70 and ultimately also a break in the hydraulic foundations of the keel. The team is now making the same considerations as Paul Cayard from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” in Cascais had been thinking through over the past two days: repairing the ship, then sailing on and getting a few more points on the way to Cape Town or it immediately Send to South Africa and repair there in peace?

Cayard has meanwhile opted for the second variant. He organized an air transport for November 25th. The American was so concerned about the problems with his tilting keel that he contacted all competitors with a similar Farr-Design boat as he and his crew to sharpen their awareness of the seals over the keel.

Scary, as Cayard describes when his crew member Erle Williams wanted to inspect the box around the keel. "It was like a pressure cooker about to explode," explained Cayard. If the box had burst, the skipper is certain that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” would have sunk within a few minutes.

It is unthinkable if such structural problems would arise in the Southern Ocean. To avoid this danger, some engineers in Cape Town will probably have to do a lot of inspection and possibly repair work during the four-week break.

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