Eight top of the notch sailing machines left Alicante, Spain, on Saturday 11th. heading towards Cape Town, South Africa. Even though the Atlantic is large body of water, the leader boat is 146 nautical miles ahead of the last boat as I write this post. Team Puma is the USA entry and is leading the pack, closely followed by the Ericsson's boats. Once again, the world is the race course and crews, designers, boat builders and sailmakers have been pushed to their limits. This time the VOR 70's are crewed by 11 members; it seems a lot of people, but think that a J/24 carries 5 crew members and sometimes is hands full, so this guys are being pushed to the limit and are not only pursuing finishing the race or even win it; there are records that are still waiting to be broken.
There are still more than 5,000 miles to go before approaching Cape Town. We will keep an eye on the 8 in the blue.
More information: www.volvooceanracing.com
Photo courtesy of VOR
There are still more than 5,000 miles to go before approaching Cape Town. We will keep an eye on the 8 in the blue.
More information: www.volvooceanracing.com
Photo courtesy of VOR
