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  White Water Rafting On Bucking Bronco

  But it’s a round the world yacht race ! Neal McDonald, skipper of ASSA ABLOY gave a vivid analogy of the boat being ’tossed around like a cork’ from his ’white water rafting trip from hell’ through very strong current, in a near gale. Meanwhile his wife Lisa, skipper of Amer Sports Too, was fighting the end of the Southern Ocean before (…)
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 12 février 2002
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  Freezer To Sauna

  The conditions that the crews of the Volvo Ocean Race have faced on this leg four from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro have been extreme to say the least. They started the race in Auckland in hot Summer conditions, went through the freezer of the Southern Ocean and now having rounded Cape Horn are on their way to hot and tropical Rio. The (…)
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 11 février 2002
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  Decisions, decisions… before rounding cape Horn

  Tactics and strategy for the navigators and tacticians on the Volvo Ocean Race are never easy at the best of times. Weather routing : which weather model to choose or adapt ? Boat to boat tactics and strategy : which is the favoured side where we want to be for the next shift, which could be well over 100 miles or 24 hours away. Land ahead (…)
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 10 février 2002
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  illbruck first to round Cape Horn

  Information Volvo Ocean Race 10 février 2002
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  No room for error in harsh wastelands

  To describe the feeling of breaking a mast, 1200 miles from land, deep in the remotest ocean on the planet is almost impossible. The crew onboard SEB are numbed but resolute. Hopes and dreams are washed over the side with the remains of the rig as it is cut free to prevent it from punching a hole in the hull of the boat.
  7 février 2002
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  The Volvo Ocean Race reaches a global audience

  Results from ongoing and extensive media research in specific territories, confirm that the Volvo Ocean Race is reaching a wider audience than ever before.
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 23 janvier 2002
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  Pascal Bidegorry joins Team SEB

  For leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race which starts this Sunday in Auckland, Team SEB, currently in sixth position overall, has hired French solo and trimaran sailor Pascal Bidegorry, aged 34.
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 22 janvier 2002
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  Coping with Seasickness

  Racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, the world’s premier ocean race, is tough at the best of times. It’s hard to picture what it must be like to live onboard a stripped out racing machine, which is what the V.O.60 class is, for weeks on end, in cramped conditions with 11 other people. It’s either freezing cold or unbearably hot. It’s wet and it’s (…)
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 14 janvier 2002
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  ASSA ABLOY First into Auckland !

  What a fantastic day for the kiwis on ASSA ABLOY, to win Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race into Auckland. New Zealanders, Richard Mason and Stu Wilson were heroes along with the rest of the crew of ASSA ABLOY, to the early morning cheering crowd, as they entered Viaduct Basin, after they had crossed the finish line.
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 3 janvier 2002
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  Who Will be the First Kiwi into Auckland ?

  To every New Zealander on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, to be the first Kiwi into Auckland rates extremely high in their list of achievements for this leg. Grant Dalton from Amer Sports One when asked how important for him personally to lead into Auckland, said in Hobart, "As important as any other Kiwi in this race, won the last two and I (…)
  Information Volvo Ocean Race 2 janvier 2002