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[Mata Hari]

Anyone watch Volvo Ocean Race?

You can go read an article I wrote here...

http://blogs.sport24...ome-formula-one

[Gen]

Don't follow it, but they are nuts I tell you NUTS!!!!

[Out of the Blue]

Must be great fun, but very hard work!!

[Mata Hari]

Don't follow it, but they are nuts I tell you NUTS!!!!

Nuts for certain but I'd do it for sure. OK I'd start with one leg...

I also live on the Platteland

[Mata Hari]

Must be great fun, but very hard work!!

Certainly hard work without a doubt. You at V&A they'll be landing there sometime toward 25th Nov...you should pop in and get some photos for me

[Gen]

Nuts for certain but I'd do it for sure. OK I'd start with one leg...

I also live on the Platteland

YOu see ... soon we'll take over the world!!!!!

Where in the platteland??

[Blue]

Probable in the main town...Orkney!!

[Mata Hari]

Probable in the main town...Orkney!!

Ha ha ha..

How does that alarm sound when you're wrong? Neeeh....

[Mata Hari]

YOu see ... soon we'll take over the world!!!!!

Where in the platteland??

Won't mention on the forums but I'll pm you later

[Mata Hari]

Update on Volvo - Past the Equator on way south to Cape Town

Taken here http://www.volvoocea.../4078/news.html

" It was a case of the rich getting richer after two weeks of racing in Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race as leaders Team Telefónica forged ahead and arch-rivals PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG were left to rue what skipper Ken Read called a tactical mistake.

Having led the fleet for much of the first leg, PUMA slipped back to second on Friday and were then left to watch Telefónica clocking consistently higher speeds in better weather conditions on a more easterly route through the South Atlantic

Iker Martínez´s team, having been neck and neck with PUMA for more than 4,000 nautical miles of the 6,500-nm first leg from Alicante to Cape Town, had a lead of over 50 nm on distance to finish at the 1300 UTC position report on Saturday, though the real world advantage was lower in the race for the south.

Just over 169 nm behind the frontrunners, Chris Nicholson’s CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand made gains overnight, continuing to chip away at the leaders as the fleet prepares for conditions that should bring much faster speeds next week.

“At the moment it doesn’t look like anybody can ride that front all the way to Cape Town and there will be a final band of light winds to cross in the last 400 miles. This could open the race up at the very end as the fleet compresses into the light air ridge. Right now the boats ahead of us are sailing into slightly lighter winds and finally we have had some good news on the skeds taking miles out of both Telefonica and PUMA.”

Watch very informative video here
as they push south to Cape Town, can be an exciting finish coming up

[Gen]

Still think they are nutters

[Cechie]

Probably eat Black Cat crunchy peanut butter...

[Mata Hari]

LOL!!!! Tough race indeed...

[Gen]

no they are Nutella eaters... ekse!!

[Mata Hari]

Further update on Volvo - maybe I'll have you all converted by June 2012!!



15 days review here


17 days (today I think)



Unfortunately PUMA had a dismasting, within the last hour or two, still waiting for further news, seems everyone is safe onboard

Ken Read skipper of PUMA " We were sailing on a port tack, beam reaching in 22-23 knots of breeze, heading east northeast with eight to 10 foot waves when the mast failed. There were no warning signs." http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Volvo-Ocean-Race/137241232436

Hot damn, bad news for PUMA who were second at this stage a few miles behind Telefonica (SPain)

Sailing down past Brazil, have to go East across the Atlantic soon....

[Cechie]

Thanks Lesley. I love boats, but that looks pretty tough to handle...

[Gen]

Genade...I would also be hanging over the boat...puking my lungs out... Now I don't have a problem with motion sickness at all... but I recon I may just if I had to even try that..

[Arlecchino]

I am really sorry for Ken Read and Puma. Great guy and did really well against the odds last race.

This race is missing Torben Grael but I am sure he will be back again. Who will forget the 596.6nm 24 hr record for monohulls - av almost 25 kph. That is almost flying. Great boat Ericsson 4.

[Blue]

Saw the pics of the one that lost its main mast...crazy that crewman who just jumped in to save it...but expected of these sort of seamen...

[Arlecchino]

That was Puma.