Fotogalerie
30.01.2011
TENSION MOUNTING AS VELUX 5 OCEANS SPRINT THREE START LOOMS
Third leg to Punta del Este starts on Sunday, February 6
THERE is less than one week to go until the start of sprint three of the VELUX 5 OCEANS round the world yacht race. The countdown has begun to the 7,000 nautical mile leg from Wellington, New Zealand, to Punta del Este in Uruguay. In six days the fleet of international ocean racers will blast out of Wellington Harbour on the next stage of their solo adventure around the planet.
Since they finished the gruelling second sprint from Cape Town to Wellington around two weeks, the VELUX 5 OCEANS skippers have hard at work preparing their Eco 60 ocean racing yachts for their next challenge. Ocean sprint three will see the fleet once again take on the mighty Southern Ocean before rounding Cape Horn, the southerly tip of South America and one of the most notorious bodies of water in the world.
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The ECO 60s in Wellington
credit Ainhoa Sanchez/VELUX 5 OCEANS
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