All is not well for all the sailors since they left Cape Town. Minor mishaps were reported from various teams since the team left Cape Town four days back.
A press release, which just reached my inbox, says Ian Walker’s (the only name I am familiar with so far, apart from Bouwe Bekking, Telef`onica Blue) Green Dragon suffered damages. Green Dragon has a broken boom. Ian Walker alerted the Duty Office at race headquarters in Portsmouth at 11:00 GMT Walker via email.
The message from Ian Walker read: "I am sorry to report that we have just broken our boom in a 50-knot Squall. We are in the process of recovering the parts. The situation is under control with no harm or risk to anyone. We are carrying on downwind." Green Dragon was then positioned 39:41.17S , 40:28.73E, 1,500 miles from Mauritius.
The team is evaluating the possibility and the trying to decide on to continue their sail under jury rig to Kochi or head for Mauritius. If they head for Mauritius, they will be in a position to replace their boom.
Two days earlier, Green Dragon’s yacht faced a huge bang, and the result was, the yacht went into a spontaneous Chinese gybe. Ian Walker then wrote, “You might think this is al lright for a boat with such strong Chinese connections but a Chinese gybe is what we all fear most as it is when the boat crash gybes and leaves you on your side with everything including the keel on the wrong side.”
In his entry, he further stated, “As the mainsail hit the weather runners, water started pouring in down below through the ventilation hatches due to the side decks now being underwater, but the boat miraculously turned back the right way, gybed back and righted itself. Everyone’s immediate reaction was that we had broken the rudder, but as it turned out the steering blocks had sheared away down below leaving Neal with no steerage on the weather wheel.”
A press release, which just reached my inbox, says Ian Walker’s (the only name I am familiar with so far, apart from Bouwe Bekking, Telef`onica Blue) Green Dragon suffered damages. Green Dragon has a broken boom. Ian Walker alerted the Duty Office at race headquarters in Portsmouth at 11:00 GMT Walker via email.
The message from Ian Walker read: "I am sorry to report that we have just broken our boom in a 50-knot Squall. We are in the process of recovering the parts. The situation is under control with no harm or risk to anyone. We are carrying on downwind." Green Dragon was then positioned 39:41.17S , 40:28.73E, 1,500 miles from Mauritius.
The team is evaluating the possibility and the trying to decide on to continue their sail under jury rig to Kochi or head for Mauritius. If they head for Mauritius, they will be in a position to replace their boom.
Two days earlier, Green Dragon’s yacht faced a huge bang, and the result was, the yacht went into a spontaneous Chinese gybe. Ian Walker then wrote, “You might think this is al lright for a boat with such strong Chinese connections but a Chinese gybe is what we all fear most as it is when the boat crash gybes and leaves you on your side with everything including the keel on the wrong side.”
In his entry, he further stated, “As the mainsail hit the weather runners, water started pouring in down below through the ventilation hatches due to the side decks now being underwater, but the boat miraculously turned back the right way, gybed back and righted itself. Everyone’s immediate reaction was that we had broken the rudder, but as it turned out the steering blocks had sheared away down below leaving Neal with no steerage on the weather wheel.”
They had overcome this situation now when they are left with a broken boom
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