"Hugo Boss" Back In The Race

"Hugo Boss" Back In The Race
"Hugo Boss" Back In The Race

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Damian Foxhall on "Paprc-Virbac 2" repairing the rudder

Joy and sorrow lay close together for the leading duo of the race: While "Hugo Boss" rushed to the pit stop to repair the defective oars at full speed (see photos from Cook Street), Paprec-Virbac had his first serious technical problem.

"We crashed very violently into an unidentified floating object and severely damaged our port rudder," reported skipper Jean-Pierre Dick from the ship. Fortunately, however, co-skipper Damian Foxhall was able to overlaminate the splintered carbon fiber laminate on the front with a top layer while driving. "He hung himself outboard in his seat belt for this - quite acrobatic! We hope that the repair will hold". So the two hardly lost any time or miles. The day before yesterday, the two of them were the first to sail through Cook Strait with a lead of 130 nautical miles and were accompanied for a while by their team in speed boats

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Full throttle to the pit stop: "Hugo Boss" on Cook Street

Meanwhile, Alex Thomson and Andrew Cape sat on hot coals waiting on the dock while their team inspected the oars. "It was a pretty severe damage, basically the rudder cartridges started to detach from the hull," said Alex Thomson. But the work has already been completed and the team "stands by its feet to push us off the pier tonight at 3:00 am, when the time penalty for the stop has expired.

Nevertheless: already today at noon the two with their pitch-black Open 60 were a good 650 nautical miles behind, until tonight it should be about 800. But maybe the Thomson / Cape duo will achieve a similar masterpiece as in the first part of the race, where they caught up a gap of 400 miles and came within 12 nautical miles of "Paprec Virbac".

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"Hugo Boss" at the stop in Wellington

Shortly before their stop in New Zealand is the duo Dominque Wavre and Michele Parte with their "Temenos 2". The two want to have the defective keel checked in Wellington (traces of rust on the keel root). "At the moment we have over 30 knots of wind, high waves and we are fast - we are already regularly looking over the cameras on the keel," reported Wavre with an uneasy feeling from board.

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