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Published by Volvo Ocean Race, S.L.U. Edificio Antigua Estacin Martima, Muelle n10 de Levante, Puerto de Alicante, 03001 Alicante, Spain Tel: +34 966 011 100Editor Lizzie Ward Consulting Editor Stuart Alexander Art Director Ian Lock Advertisement Sales Graeme Beeson Design and Production Nexus Design Print Jimenez Godoy, S.A. Murcia, Spain Distribution Seahorse MagazineCopyright Volvo Ocean Race, S.L.U. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying and recording, without permission. Permission must also be obtained before any part of this publication is stored in a retrieval system of any nature. Whilst every care is taken with submitted material to ensure factual accuracy, no responsibility can be accepted by Volvo Ocean Race, S.L.U. or any editor or contributor for any loss or damage arising as a result of information contained in this publication. The views expressed by individual contributors are not necessarily those of Volvo Ocean Race, S.L.U. All rights reserved.Published May 2012.

DOWNHILL RACERS GIVEN ROUGH RIDE

OUTWITTING THE PIRATES

PETER & MARTINS LAUGH-IN

LIVING LEGENDS WITH PLENTY TO SAY

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Stuart Alexander is sailing correspondent of The Independent.

Mark Chisnell is an international racing navigator and a novelist.

Kate Laven is sailing correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

Suzanne McFadden is an Auckland-based sports writer.

Matt Sheahan is racing and technical editor of Yachting World.

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NO PEACE for the wicked, or Volvo Ocean racers, it would seem. The old timers always say how much harder it was and those who were there at the time do not forget Martela OF capsizing off Uruguay or Ludde Ingvalls UBF being dismasted and turning up at the end of the leg under jury rig in 1989-90.

The wet weather gear leaked like a sieve and the freeze-dried, still not in the Michelin star league, tasted the same whatever colour it was.

Yet this race is proving as hard as any that have gone before. Maybe that is partly to do with relatively small crews handling very powerful machines, maybe partly because the route has thrown up a lot more windward work than crews in the past had to tackle.

Even the calamities have kept the fans waking up each day wondering what has happened now?

But the camaraderie remains and the element of adventure is still there. The think tank is buzzing with ideas for the next departure in 2014, and the big step forward in coverage from the boats has come to fruition with a combination of a second generation of media crew members and the technology to help them do a really exciting job.

The first half was hard but if the second half is more conventional it will be no less hard to win. Future gatherings for the Legends Regatta and Reunion will not be short of people or stories. Great days.

LIZZIE WARDEDITOR

04 In Brief Stats, glamour and updates

16 Abu Dhabi in magic carpet style Middle East in the world event

24 Talking Technical Needle match

28 Kids turn artistic Sculpting beauty from rubbish

34 Dancing Dragons The Middle Kingdom takes its place

Contents ISSUE 39

Also Contributors

10 High fives and low notes

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In Brief

Every stopover has its red carpet night of celebrity and awards, where the crews can dress normally, meet socially and be relaxed enough to give generous applause to the prizewinners.

Nights of glitz and glamourCape TownDHL Shore Crew Award Team SanyaIWC Speed Record Challenge CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand Inmarsat Media Crew Member Award Hamish Hooper from CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand Abu Dhabi Seamanship Award Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing

Abu DhabiDHL Shore Crew Award PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERGIWC Speed Record Challenge Groupama sailing teamInmarsat Media Crew Member Award Yann Riou from Groupama sailing teamAbu Dhabi Seamanship Award Richard Mason and Jared Henderson from Team Sanya

SanyaDHL Shore Crew Award PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERGIWC Speed Record Challenge PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERGInmarsat Media Crew Member Award Amory Ross from PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERGAbu Dhabi Seamanship Award Not awarded

AucklandDHL Shore Crew Award Abu Dhabi Ocean RacingIWC Speed Record Challenge PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERGInmarsat Media Crew Member Award Yann Riou from Groupama sailing team Abu Dhabi Seamanship Award Groupama sailing team

Scoreboard Remaining Legs and Route

Cape Town

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18 Feb 2012

19 Feb 2012

Auckland

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17 Mar 2012

18 Mar 2012

Itajai

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22 Apr 2012

Miami

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19 May 2012

20 May 2012

Lisbon

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Lorient

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SCREAMING SIXTIES

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Southern Ocean - beware ice

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Overall Points 147 113 127 119 55 25

Iberdroia In-Port Race Alicante 1 5 2 4 6 3

LEG 1 30 0* 20 25 0* 0*

V&A Waterfront In-Port RaceCape Town 6 4 2 5 3 1

LEG 2 29 19 18 24 10 5

Etihad Airways In-Port Race 2 3 5 4 6 2

LEG 3 27 17 24 18 14 5

Sanya Haltang Bay In-Port Race 6 5 2 3 4 1

LEG 4 20 25 30 15 10 5

Auckland In-Port Race 1 5 4 6 2 3

LEG 5 25 30 20 15** 0* 0*

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Overallstandings at the end of Leg 5

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At the halfway point of the Volvo Ocean Race 190,000 virtual skippers are playing the online game that runs parallel to the actual race. Male virtual navigators still outnumber the women by 10 to one, with players from an amazing 186 nations.

The top five nationalities are Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and The Netherlands, who meet online and chat with each other in already pre-defined nationality-based chat rooms where they can communicate in their native languages.

Many of them have created groups where they have added fellow skippers and friends to their chat rooms. This has made the sailing more fun, greatly improved communication, and provided a platform for sailors to debate their strategies, share memories of sailing adventures, and make new friends.

There are prizes to be won at the end of each leg, as well as a pot of goodies for an overall win. At every leg finish, the winner is awarded with a VIP trip to the next stopover, including air tickets, hotel accommodation, and a place on a VIP spectator boat during the in-port race or leg start, as well as being introduced to their sailing heroes.

The top three prizes at the end of the race are a Volvo XC60 Ocean Race edition, an IWC Schaffhausen watch, and a hospitality package for two at a Formula 1 Grand Prix, offered by DHL.

The contest to host stopovers in the next two editions of the Volvo Ocean Race is running hot with 60 cities in 27 countries looking to stage the race, making it one of the largest host city bidding processes in sport.

It is hugely satisfying to see the strong global appeal the current edition of the race is generating and that is reflected in the number of cities around the world interested in hosting a stopover event in future editions of the Volvo Ocean Race, commented CEO Knut Frostad.

The competition to host a stopover is a real endorsement of the continuing improvements being made to the Volvo Ocean Race and the ever-increasing returns to its host city partners in terms of global media exposure and direct economic benefits, adds Angus Buchanan, director of the Sports Consultancy, the London-based event tendering specialists who are managing the process on behalf of the Volvo Ocean Race.

When planning the new route, it is essential that we balance the heritage of ocean racing and this great event, whilst ensuring we visit new territories in order to bring sailing to a new audience.

cOMpETITIOn HOTs up FOR FuTuRE HOsT pORTs

In Brief

Join the inner circleA brand new membership scheme, called Volvo Ocean Race Crew, was launched for keen followers of the race in March. Devised to offer fans a little extra for their loyalty and interest, members will benefit from the opportunity to enter member only competitions and events as well as claiming discounts on merchandise and enjoying special offers at stopovers.

The scheme was launched with a competition to win a four-day trip to Galway as special guests at the grand finale of the 2011-12 edition of the race.

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Two changes announced in Auckland gave even more Olympic glitter to the fleet, with another two gold medallists added to the crew lists.

Martin kirketerp (top), who won gold for Denmark at the 2008 Olympics in China in the 49er class, stepped from shore crew to sailor on board Sanya for Leg 5, while Finlands Thomas Johanson, another gold medallist in the 49er class, in his case in Sydney in 2000, joined PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG.

He replaced Kelvin Harrap who was recovering from carpal tunnel syndrome in both arms as well as bursitis in his elbow.

The youngsters came from local sailing clubs and were joined by 50 umpires for expert training as the Volvo Ocean Race sailing Academy made its own inaugural trip around the world.

The youngsters already knew how to sail and race but they were there to hone team-racing skills and learn new techniques and tactics over a three-day course.

Local coaches assisted with the training exercises under the watchful guidance of Chris Atkins, an International Coach and ISAF Umpire Assessor and Bill OHara, Principal Race Officer, Volvo Ocean Race.

After six events, 200 sailors, 45 coaches and over 50 umpires had attended the Academy Team Racing Clinic run in association with the International Sailing Federation (ISAF).

In parallel, six Ludic dinghies were on hand for coached taster sessions.

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You could feel it in Auckland. A return to familiar territory. The old hands were looking forward yes, looking forward to a bash around Cape Horn, to territory and conditions they had seen before, to a routine in which they could mentor the new boys with confidence.

But not even the pessimists would have predicted the hammering which was in store for them. By the end of Leg 5, only PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG avoided a pit stop to make repairs, and two boats retired.

The first casualty in the race came in the first few hours of Leg 1 as Ian Walkers Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing machine was dismasted. A few hours after that, Mike Sandersons Team Sanya were holed in the bow and later in the leg we were treated to the sight of Kenny Read playing golf on Tristan da Cunha, while waiting for his stricken PUMA to be rescued by ship.

Team Sanya was in further strife on the second leg, stopping for repairs in Madagascar, and Groupama sailing team were bailing out scary quantities of water when winning the leg into Auckland. And the miles in between had been hard. Nick Bice, waiting anxiously in Auckland to tackle a lengthy Sanya jobs list at the end of Leg 4, in a much reduced time, noted that when he was on the winning boat in 2005-06, ABN AMRO ONE, they spent a total of nine days in windward work all the way round. Sanya had spent 28 going just half way round.

The French were happy to restore some national pride by winning Leg 4, and the shore team went into round-the-clock repair mode. All the boats, the remaining five of which arrived to Sunday crowds in Auckland, had to move into overdrive to be back in the water within 96 hours, ready to race.

If the four legs to the halfway point had been a rough ride, then Leg 5 was to prove

even more testing. Before it was over, two boats were being shipped, Team Sanya from Auckland to Savannah in the United States and Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing from Puerto Montt in Chile to Itaja, and three more had stopped for repairs, CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand, Telefnica and, to install a jury rig, Groupama.

Yet the leg was to be a thriller as PUMA, the only boat not to pull off the track, was made to fight every inch of the way for their first leg win as they were hunted down by Telefnica.

Its too early to conclude exactly why the breakdowns happened, but we are obviously concerned about seeing so many incidents of damage to our boats both in this leg and in the race as a whole, said CEO Knut Frostad at the time.

It is important that we dont leap to any conclusions about why these breakages have happened. Some of them are clearly

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not related. However, we will take the current issues into account as we make decisions on rules and technology we will be using in the future, he said.

With the race on a three-year cycle, there will be not a lot more than two years between finishing this one and starting the next. Time is often the most valuable commodity in the planning and execution of any grand prix sailing campaign.

So, will the Search for cost-cutting measures continue? Yes, says Knut Frostad emphatically. And how? Well, that is still under discussion, but word around the dock says that the two main levers will be a shorter course and cheaper boats.

Despite having to rise to the challenge of the current race, Frostads team is already into a timetable for the next race.

We have already put in a lot of work, discussing with teams, designers and all other

stakeholders about the boats and the rules we will use in the future, and we expect to be in a position to announce a decision on that before the end of the current race, Frostad said.

The route may not be finalised until the end of 2012, but it seems certain that the overall plan is to combine the emerging markets element with the classic course.

We will continue along the same track, but we have to condense it, says Frostad. We have to make it more sustainable and that may mean fewer stopovers with shorter stays.

At the same time, the boats are becoming more and more expensive, with technology costs rising faster than the economies to support them. We dont want to go backwards and there are things on which we would not compromise, but we have to consider whether being the most sophisticated is a must.

What is a must is that it attracts the

best teams, made up of the best sailors. Of course, if you reduce costs then, inevitably, you lose something and we cannot please everyone.

So the trick is to lose the right things and keep the right things. There are lots of options on the table but there is no option to do nothing. I would like to see the costs cut to 12-15m and that would be a 25 to 30 per cent reduction. The problem with size matters is that a 70-foot boat is significantly more expensive than a 60-footer.

For sure there is no way we can expect to build a whole new fleet of 70-foot boats. But I am optimistic we will find the right way through and the race has something which is very important at a time of economic uncertainty, and that is financial security. Volvo is more committed than ever. So, everything is up for grabs but between the tramlines of evolution rather than revolution and with a decrease in costs.

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We will continue along the same track but we have to condense it. We have to make it more sustainable and that may mean fewer stopovers with shorter stays.KnuT FrOSTAD

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IT bEgAn EARLy; the forecast for the first night out of Alicante was for boat-breaking conditions, and thats exactly what the fleet had to face. Just six hours in, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing were with the lead pack and 84 nautical miles into the leg when their mast came crashing to the deck in a manoeuvre snapped in two places.

The team motored back to Alicante where skipper Ian Walker had to hold back the tears as he told journalists that his team were still in the race. It was true but they were soon out of Leg 1. Despite repairing the mast and restarting five days later, Walker

retired his boat from the leg soon after judging it safer to ship the yacht to Cape Town and guarantee that they would live to fight another day, rather than risk the potentially fragile repaired rig in the open ocean. One down.

It wasnt long before it was two down. The following morning, Team Sanyas crew found the bow section of their boat flooding as the structure crumpled under the pounding. Skipper Mike Sanderson turned north and headed for the nearest port, Motril they were just 250 miles from Alicante. The boat builders and structural gurus quickly decided that it was a major

repair; it would take weeks, not hours or even days. Sanderson had no choice but to retire from the leg, and start the logistical battle to get his boat to Cape Town for the start of the next one.

When the fleet finally cleared Gibraltar and escaped into the North Atlantic, they found the trade winds had fizzled out and high pressure blocked the route south. Traditionally, the west pays on this leg, and Ken Read and PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG led Iker Martnezs Team Telefnica out that way but Franck Cammas and his crew aboard Groupama 4 chose to hug the African coast and stay east. It took a week to play out, but the move cost Groupama the leg they were ultimately three

days behind the winner into Cape Town. And then there were three.

Trailed by Chris Nicholsons CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand, Telefnica and PUMA battled through the Doldrums, across the Equator and on into the Southern Hemisphere, where Telefnica finally found an edge. And, on November 21 a second mast came down. This time it belonged to PUMA. It handed the result to Telefnica.

It also handed a massive logistical problem to Ken Read and his team, whose route to Cape Town eventually went via a sojourn on Tristan da Cunha and a ship.

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Alicante to Cape Town

6,500 nm

Days at sea: 211 Crash, bang, wallop

Cape Town

Alicante

There are lots of ways to lose a sailboat race and the first leg of any Volvo Ocean Race tends to be when those ways are most fully explored.

High fives and low notes in testing first halfnotes in testing

1 Team CAMPER with Emirates Groupama sailing PUMA Ocean Racing Abu Dhabi Ocean Team Telefnica Team New Zealand team by BERG Racing Sanya

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PIRATE AcTIvITy In the Indian Ocean meant that the leg was split into two stages, with the fleet racing initially to a secret finish line somewhere to the north-east of Cape Town in the Indian Ocean. Then they were to be loaded onto a ship and taken to within a short sprint of the finish in the Gulf State of Abu Dhabi.

Another rough night was predicted to open the action, but in the end the leg started slowly. The fleet crept down the South African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. It was only once they faced the strategic hurdle of the adverse Agulhas current that things opened up.

Overall leader, Iker Martnezs Telefnica held to the north for as long as possible to stay close to the coast and avoid the current. Sanya and PUMA took the middle ground, while it was Groupama, along with CAMPER that were

first to break away to the east, giving them a position to the south of the rest of the fleet as the others eventually followed.

Everyone held the easterly course for three days, but the finish line was north-east, and someone had to turn left first. It was Mike Sanderson and Sanya; they split north on December 17. It looked good initially as they built a lead, but then it turned bad, and then it turned ugly.

They were trying to squeeze between the island of Madagascar and a tropical depression with 50-knot winds. They didnt make it and a broken piece of rigging meant a second early bath for Sandersons men. They limped to Madagascar for repairs, eventually finishing in last place.

Back on the water, the low road in the south was paying for Groupama, propelling Franck Cammas and his team into the

lead as the rest of the fleet finally turned left to approach the Doldrums. For a while, the French had the opposition nicely tucked behind them, but as they hit the clouds of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone the passing lanes reopened.

In the 2008-09 Race, a broken daggerboard had forced Telefnica to the west on the approach to these Doldrums and they had gained massively. This time around a different navigator (Andrew Cape) deliberately took them to the east of the fleet but the result was the same; accompanied by CAMPER, the pair flew right by the rest of the pack.

Once again it was a two-boat race into the finish and it was the same two boats. Chris

Nicholson and his team pushed the Spanish all the way, but it was Telefnica on top for two

legs in a row, this time by just one minute and 57 seconds. Ken Reads PUMA came home in third to complete the podium for Leg 2 Stage 1, with Groupama slipping all the way back to fourth, just ahead of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing.

Pirate dodging came next and everyone was transported by ship to Sharjah for a restart and a six-hour sprint to Abu Dhabi. Groupamas sailing team had to make emergency repairs to some hull damage, but it didnt slow them down and they blew past Telefnica with 10 miles to go to take the Leg 2 Stage 2 win. Telefnica held onto second with CAMPER in third.

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Leg 1 had been a brutal test for the class of 2011-12, but Leg 2 presented a different set of problems.

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Fresh From an in-port race win, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing snuck past Telefnica to take the gun right at the end of the 106-mile coastal sprint. They were followed by PUMA up into second and with Groupama grabbing third, the overall leaders finally had to settle for fourth.

The pirate activity in the Indian Ocean now meant that the fleet was loaded back onto a ship for the return trip to the secret haven (which can now safely be revealed as Male in the Maldives). Stage 2 would ultimately involve a tortuous path through South East Asia to Sanya, on the southern tip of China. But it began simply enough with a speed test across the northern Indian Ocean in the north-easterly trade winds.

It was complicated for Telefnica by damage to their crucial Code Zero sail on the first night, but one quick repair later the afterburners were back on. They were quickly moved up to fourth, with PUMA leading CAMPER at the front. When CAMPER opted to take an opportunity to reposition to the north of the main group, Telefnica moved to join them.

The strategy left Iker Martnez and his team propping up the fleet again, but having worked their way north they soon made it pay. As the fleet closed on the entrance to the Straits of Malacca, CAMPER slipped back south towards PUMA, but Telefnica were able to combine blistering pace with a better wind angle to scream into the lead.

Martnez had already demonstrated that they were hard to budge from the front, but the Malacca Straits provided plenty of tactical hurdles. Telefnica committed to the middle of the channel and came out

looking golden. CAMPER, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, PUMA and Groupama all headed for the Malaysian shore. It turned bad and while the latter two bailed out just in time CAMPER and Abu Dhabi took nearly 30 miles of losses before they got going again.

PUMA and Groupama set to chasing down Telefnica as the fleet weaved down the Straits dodging clouds, calms, squalls, half-submerged trees, unlit fishing

boats and nets. It was a three-horse race as they exited into the South China Sea; Telefnica

had held her lead over Groupama and PUMA, with Abu Dhabi and CAMPER now 15 miles behind. Meanwhile, Sanya had taken the Indonesian shore and paid a heavy price, eventually trailing out of the Straits nearly 200 miles adrift.

The fleet now faced a long upwind slog through the north-east trade winds to Sanya. PUMA

rolled the dice and split from the leading trio to stay offshore, leaving Telefnica to extend slowly from Groupama as they closed on the coast of Vietnam.

There was more wind on the shore and when PUMA finally rejoined the pack, Telefnica and Groupama had over 20 miles of advantage, and CAMPER had gone past PUMA into third. And that was how it finished; Telefnica had put down a marker with three wins in three legs something that hadnt been achieved since Steinlager 2 in 1989-90.

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Back-to-back wins left no doubt about the front runners. But while Iker martnez and his Telefnica crew looked good on the leaderboard at the start of Leg 3 stage 1, they quickly suffered their first offshore setback.

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AFTER THE pirate-enforced layovers in legs two and three, the weather forced a break in the next one. A forecast of eight-metre waves meant that while Leg 4 opened on schedule in Sanya Bay, there was then a pause for the seas to abate before Stage 2s staggered start at Sanya Bay lighthouse.

It was Telefnica that led the fleet back out into the South China Sea when Leg 4 Stage 2 started, upwind to the Luzon Strait. But CAMPER (second overall) passed them by the Strait and led out into the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, the vast expanses of open water only increased the strategic complexities of the leg.

A dying weather system meant very little breeze to the south the direct route to Auckland was shut. The pack headed more or less east to go around the top of it and set up for the eventual trade winds sailing except for PUMA,

who were fast supplanting Groupamas early reputation as the risk-takers. Ken Read took his boat and headed for Japan. It was a grand game played on a grand scale and it took a long while to sort out who was right and who was wrong.

The fleet were four days into the Pacific before they even began the right turn and descent towards Auckland, still thousands of miles to the south. They slowly wheeled around, with PUMA finding great breeze to convert her position to one on the eastern wing of the pack. They were starting to look dangerous, with a better, more open sailing angle. But it was only Groupama that found and took an opportunity to move towards PUMA, leaving CAMPER and Telefnica out

to the west. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and Team Sanya were once again trailing.

It was the east that won with Groupamas slightly more conservative approach to that side just shading Ken Reads all-or-nothing gamble as they hit the north-

east trade winds. But if anyone thought it was easy-going from there they hadnt checked the charts the Doldrums and the Solomon Islands were in the way. The former proved to be relatively uneventful, but then Franck Cammas led PUMA and Abu Dhabi to the east of the archipelago, while Telefnica led CAMPER and Sanya through the middle a lot of leverage had been forced into play.

It closed down again when

everyone chose to go west of New Caledonia. While Groupama retained their three digit lead, PUMA found a pothole and Telefnica and CAMPER closed up enough to make a fight of it all the way to the finish. Conditions were brutal with some big waves as they approached New Zealand; but despite some late damage to the bow, Groupama took the win by just over 12 hours.

Ken Read had chosen to cover Telefnica, leaving CAMPER to play their own game to the west. PUMA held off the Spanish for second place to close up the overall standings, while CAMPER came into the finish on a charge. Unfortunately, the red boat came up short by less than two minutes again, forced to settle for fourth into their home town. Abu Dhabi and Sanya took up uncomfortably familiar positions in fifth and sixth.

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IT opENED IN brutal fashion as a vicious weather system tracked south with the fleet to keep them in boat-breaking conditions through the first couple of days. And break they did.

Ian Walker and Abu Dhabi were six hours out of Auckland when an internal bulkhead came loose. They were back at the dock four hours later to complete the repair in just 12 hours, but were then faced with a 60-knot Pacific hammering and forced to seek shelter until conditions abated. In the end, the 30-hour pit stop left them almost 600 miles behind.

Meanwhile, the rest of the fleet had been holding it together through 50-knot gusts and seven-metre waves before the conditions eased briefly... and then worsened. In a move with echoes of legs one and two, Team Sanya took the lead and then followed Abu Dhabi out of the game, this time with a broken rudder and crash gybe. Water flooded into the boat before the situation was back under control, and, eventually, skipper Mike Sanderson had no choice but to retire and return to New Zealand.

That left four boats in the

running and it was CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand that pushed hardest in the big seas and breeze to go to the front. Skipper Chris Nicholson uttered prophetic words of concern about the fragility of his lead in those conditions, just before they slammed into a wave and delaminated crucial structures in the bow. After considering the options, Nicholson diverted to Puerto Montt on the west coast of Chile to repair the boat.

The tally of the infirm stood at half the fleet when overall leader Telefnica joined the slow lane.

The damage to their bow wasnt as bad, but it would also mean a pit stop on the west coast of South America. So, by the time conditions finally moderated on the approach to Cape Horn it was a two-boat race. Groupama were looking for back-to-back wins to challenge Telefnica overall, and Franck Cammas French team led PUMA around the great Cape by 60 minutes.

The damage roster had briefly put Abu Dhabi back in the running. Then, just as Telefnica completed a brilliantly efficient 12-hour pit-stop at Cape Horn to secure third, Abu Dhabi did more damage and retired in Puerto Montt, planning to ship the boat to Itaja.

The lead pair raced northwards, side-by-side in a gripping duel, until catastrophe and the Groupama mast came tumbling down. A bitterly disappointed Franck Cammas turned his boat towards Uruguay, where they would build a jury-rig good enough to take third place ahead of a fixed-up CAMPER.

It now looked like a clear run to the finish and a win for PUMA, but Telefnica staged the most extraordinary comeback. Their 400-mile deficit at Cape Horn melted away as a weather system hoisted them to within a mile of Ken Read on the final day. But the PUMA crew kept their heads and their lead to win a remarkable leg the only boat not to suspend racing by just under 13 minutes.

At the time of writing, CAMPER were on their way to claiming fourth and valuable points, while Abu Dhabi and Team Sanya battled to rejoin the race as quickly as possible.

Hard, hard, hard, hard, hardThere was little rest during a short Auckland stopover and even less respite as the crews hit the water for Leg 5.

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Best, biggest, newest, most expensive and most exclusive were terms that became common parlance during a gold-leafed stay in Abu Dhabi during the second Volvo Ocean Race stopover.

All those terms were strikingly apt when arriving at the new marina village, built specially to host the fleet of Volvo Ocean Race boats visiting the Middle East for the first time in the races 39-year history.

Destination Village, a stunning facility on the Corniche Breakwater, had been in the planning for three years having been a big part of the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authoritys elaborate programme to invest in the emirate as a sporting destination.

In 2004, the oil-rich emirate hosted just four events. Seven years later, there were 68, with a racing circuit on Yas Island hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix, a major new cricket stadium at Zayed Stadium filling in as a home venue for Pakistans matches and the Abu Dhabi Golf Club packed to the gunwales with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and others competing in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

International ice-skating, polo, tennis and camel racing events have also been added to a star-studded sporting rota that visitors now enjoy when they come to Abu Dhabi as a result of the government push to promote its social and economic sustainable development.

But lets get back to Destination Village, which is the size of eight football pitches

and built from scratch on reclaimed land. Focusing on Abu Dhabis proud maritime

heritage, the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authoritys plan had a strong legacy element to it, so it was decided the site would become one of the leading sailing and heritage centres in the United Arab Emirates once the Volvo boats had departed.

Pontoons were installed to give visitors a birds eye view of the race boats and crews. A couple of permanent structures were erected, though most of the space was left open for Volvo Ocean Races towering sponsor pavilions, plus space for containers that are brought in a week before the village is due to open and assembled in a matter of days.

The result was one of the most impressive race villages ever seen, not just in the history of the Volvo Ocean Race, but in any international yacht race from the past 20 years.

From the moment of mingling at the entrance to Destination Village, everyone was imbued with Abu Dhabi culture and heritage harking back to the days when local mariners would journey to East Africa to trade in dates, pearls and mangrove wood.

The scents and sights from the traditional souk that lined the alley down to the village set the scene for the falconry displays and henna tattoo artists to hold the attention before the Al Ayala dancers and elegant Arabian dhows with their billowing white sails forced you to stop and stare.

There was the popular Manchester City Speed Kick challenge, in recognition of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyans support of the English Premier League football club, and a hole in one challenge where contestants could hit golf balls onto a floating green for a weighty prize.

In the evenings, the sail lofts and sponsors hospitality areas shut down and the bands and DJs moved in to offer live music and entertainment with The Straits, a collection of musicians from blockbuster group Dire Straits, proving to be the popular headline act watched by thousands.

A 3D cinema, sailing simulator, and interactive museum were all designed to captivate young minds but it was probably the race boats themselves, plus the skippers and crews, that proved the real magnet for the crowds throughout the 10 days the village was open.

In all, more than 120,000 people visited the site including 30,000 on the day when the skippers paraded past the pavilions on camels for the in-port race during the finale weekend.

The cooperation of the local Shamal wind for this race, as well as the start of leg three the following day, had competitors waxing lyrical about Abu Dhabi as a stopover.

Its the first time the Volvo has come to the Middle East but Im sure it is not the last time we are here, said Irish crew Damian Foxall of Groupama.

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Its nice that they have integrated the heritage site and having the local guys performing their songs and dances adds a distinct Arab flavour. I think we have all been very happy to be here.

It has been amazing here, added Thomas Coville. They have taken on board what people have said to them. They wanted to be the best and they have worked very hard to be the best.

Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crewmember Adil Khalid, an Emirati, said starting from scratch had enabled the hosts to create something very special.

We started from zero new marina, new beach, new sailing school, new academy and new pavilion. Every thing is brand new and it has made everyone very happy and proud, he said.

The consensus across the travelling Volvo Ocean Race community of sailors, support crew and sponsors was that Abu Dhabis debut as a stopover had been an overwhelming success, which raised the question of whether the fleet would return for a second visit.

According to His Excellency Mubarak Al Muhairi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authority, it would.

We do not want this to be a one race relationship, he said.

We have had more than 120,000 visitors to the race village which was more than we expected so the benefits of hosting this event are tremendous.

There are different ways of measuring the success of a project like this, he continued.

When at least half the crew are Emirati, we will have succeeded, but, in the short to mid-term, it is about growing awareness and PR value of having the race here in Abu Dhabi.

The investment has been a lot this time round because there was so much work to do, but it will be less the second time. Everyone I have spoken to over the past two weeks since the boats arrived has been really excited and happy.

All the attractions and activities were the talk of the town throughout the stopover, yet the Coldplay gig that marked the opening of Destination Village was covered by media, social and conventional, across the entire world.

It was the British bands second New Years Eve concert in Abu Dhabi but, unlike 2009, the rain stayed away and 20,000-strong crowds poured in to sing along with Chris Martins renowned falsetto.

It was a supremely polished performance, the critics said, which turned out to be perfectly in tune with the stopover as a whole.


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Until, no doubt, he spied the decks encircled with barbed wire, with hoses poised to water-blast unsolicited callers; and pacing the decks, the guards there to protect the multi-million dollar cargo.

It was a sight never before witnessed in the history of round-the-world yacht racing sailboats hitching a ride mid-race from a clandestine safe haven, to avoid a potential confrontation with Somali buccaneers. But it was simply a sign of the times off the Horn of Africa, where piracy has become an international crisis.

After seeking advice from Dryad Maritime Intelligence who reported 1,181 seafarers were kidnapped in 2010 alone the organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race took the unprecedented step of interrupting legs two and

What a sight to behold the colossal yellow-hulled

Happy Diamond carving through the waters of the Arabian Sea, with its precious payload of Volvo Open 70s, complete with masts, sitting pretty on its deck. A sight to

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three of the 2011-12 race to action their anti-piracy plan. And if given the same scenario, they say they would do the same all over again.

In hindsight, race CEO Knut Frostad is thankful the boats and more critically, the crews came through the perilous waters in the Indian Ocean, far from Abu Dhabi, safely and without incident.

That was always my first objective, he says. The solution we ended up with was never something that we wanted for the race there are plenty of negatives in putting boats on ships in the middle of a leg. But it was the only solution available to us at the time.

After initial skepticism, the Volvo Ocean Race sailors were ultimately satisfied with the unusual scenario.

Anyone who said it was an over-reaction was kidding themselves; there was a real risk this time around, says Chris Nicholson, skipper of CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand. In order for us to get to Abu Dhabi, we did the only thing possible to make sure the boats got there. And it was done flawlessly.

And those who put the plan into action were also relieved. Craig Rodgers, the races security and logistics manager, was always conscious the strategy could have a huge impact on the race, especially if it went wrong.

I was quite nervous because of the value and impact of any damage to the race boats, he says. Arguably we could have sailed through it, because piracy activity had reduced. But if the boats were in no wind, bobbing around at two to three knots, they would have been easy targets. The safety of the crews had to be absolutely paramount. So we made the right decision at the time.

If we had to do it all again, under the same conditions with the same number of boats, logistically we would do it all the same again.

Early last year, race director Jack Lloyd and Rodgers began researching the possible alternatives to sailing to the second stopover port of Abu Dhabi. As well as looking at historical patterns where pirate attacks had been, they were constantly monitoring the deteriorating situation in the waters off the east coast of Africa.

They turned to Dryad Maritime, a specialist maritime intelligence agency providing risk

forecasts and advice to mariners, and visited Northwood the World War II Air Force base that is now headquarters of the British Armed Forces and NATOs Allied Maritime Command. They offered to help track the ship and provide us with intelligence reports of piracy movements, which was very much appreciated, Rodgers says.

Escorting the fleet would have been too costly, so we started to look at the shipping option, and splitting the route became a reality.

The races official logistics partner, DHL, joined the hunt for a secret safe haven port where the yachts could be loaded onto a carrier. The Seychelles, Colombo and Cochin, India, were considered but Male, capital of the Maldives, was deemed the best option; yacht transporters Sevenstar had carried out operations there in the past, and established an agent there. Its 157m cargo ship, the Happy Diamond, was prepared for the task, along with four guards former Dutch marines and South African military men. Lloyd did the leg work with a cooperative Maldives government.

The hitchhiking went without a hitch. Initial plans to load the yachts alongside the Male port were dashed when a dock wasnt available, so the first operation lifting five yachts on board took place offshore.

Loading the 14.5 tonne boats turned out to be a smooth task; the single point lift carried out by a 450 tonne crane on the ship. The teams were fantastic in terms of sharing their usually secret boat drawings with Sevenstar, Rodgers says. The yachts were loaded with their 100ft masts in, saving another full day of work.

Nicholson admits there were anxieties about the eight-hour operation: Its not a normal move for these boats, which are pretty delicate when you put them alongside a huge ship. But with the help of all the teams and Volvo, all of our worries were cancelled out.

The Happy Diamond received a couple

of suspicious approaches during her passage. You can never tell whether they are fishermen wandering where they shouldnt

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refloated in the Gulf city of Sharjah ready for the day-long sprint to Abu Dhabi the local coastguard and port authorities were more than obliging, quickly clearing the ship with weapons and ammunition on board.

LEAvIng THIs poLITIcAL tinderbox corner of the world would provide more tense moments. The Volvo Ocean Race management did not foresee the turmoil in Male, which boiled over soon after the fleet left for Sanya on leg three. The unrest had been bubbling away and on our second stopover, there were riots on the first two nights, Rodgers says. The government was overthrown a week later.

While the crews and boats came out of the pirate evasion mission in one piece, its agreed it wasnt an ideal scenario for the race. Nicholson says sailing into the Maldives was a flat finish it was weird not seeing your team and family waiting. And to have 20 per cent of the points for such a short sprint leg in and out of Abu Dhabi was a little tough.

Frostad knows another of the downsides was the difficulty for the viewing audience to follow the race when it suddenly became invisible.

If we had known much earlier that it would be the only way we could do it, we would have stopped the leg somewhere completely different and made that the end of the leg, he says.

The problem of piracy is there, and unfortunately, looks like it will be there for quite some time. The big question now becomes can we still race in the Indian Ocean? Theres such a big following there now, it would be a pity to lose that.

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As the fleet finished in Auckland at the end of Leg 4 the race was half way around the world on distance, but the true competition had only just begun. Groupama had pulled the rug out from under Telefnica and after a long, difficult and, at times, tortuous start to this edition of the race, the fleets tightly packed arrival in Auckland justified the pundits views that the 2011-12 race would be closer than any other. The numbers supported such forecasts.

After 5,220 miles and 19 days of racing from Sanya to Auckland the bulk of the fleet was separated by just three hours at the finish. The shake up on the leaderboard had many looking closely at the relative performance between the boats and asking whether a pattern in the relative performances was starting to appear?

Groupama is the one to watch, Team Sanyas skipper Mike Sanderson had declared as the fleet prepared to leave China. He and several other competitors who had expressed similar views were to be proved right almost immediately. In a leg that was to last 19 days, the French team led for 14 as they demonstrated the potency of their Juan Kouyoumdjian-designed boat leaving the five-way needle match trailing in their wake.

As one of the few to finish all the legs up until Auckland, a decent position in the overall rankings was assured for Franck Cammas team, and now the three boats designed by Kouyoumdjian, (Telefnica and PUMA are her sister ships), were the ones on the podium in New Zealand.

So what had changed on board the formerly sticky Groupama?Fore and aft trim was one of the answers according to Groupama

sailing team helmsman and on board performance analyst Charles Caudrelier.

Groupama is more geared towards close reaching in a good breeze, whilst the other two are more centred on VMG when sailing upwind and downwind, he said.

Our bulb is set back quite far with a keel fin sloping aft, whilst the other two boats are a little bit more bow down. At low speed, our transom is a little deeper and we create a bit of drag under 10 knots of breeze. Weve been able to correct this slight fault through the positioning of weight and the form of the sails and now Groupama is more versatile.

The change in trim hadnt gone unnoticed by the opposition. Their strengths start to become apparent when boat speeds are in

excess of 15 knots and they are particularly strong at 18-20 knots when they are blast reaching, observed Team Telefnicas technical director Horacio Carabelli.

In Alicante they were very sticky but they shifted the weight and trimmed the boat more by the bow to lift the aft sections. These boats are very sensitive to fore and aft trim.

Second onto the podium in Auckland was another team that had struggled early on with a calamitous dismasting. With precious time to

At the halfway stage, what patterns of performance have emerged? Matthew Sheahan asks the players themselves how they read the fleet.

Needle match

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re-tune the boat with the new rig, Ken Reads PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG had been on the back foot for longer than they had expected. Now they appeared to be back up to speed. What was the feeling on board?

We think were competitive in the light stuff, particularly upwind, said Read. We also think we are strong in reaching conditions with our code zero.

Our weakness is in upwind sailing in general. I think our daggerboard shapes dont help us here. There is quite a wide variety of shapes and configurations among the fleet. Of the more unusual configurations, there are some longer, higher aspect ratio boards that seem to be working well. Its debatable whether this is really an option for us, especially as wed have to take a penalty to change the foils, so weve been working on some sail shape changes to try to compensate for this.

Three days before the start of the leg to Brazil, PUMAs new daggerboards arrived, same size, same shape, no penalty.

Of the upwind kings, Chris Nicholsons CAMPER with

Emirates Team New Zealand were desperate to post a win in Auckland and in the early stages of Leg 4 they looked like they could deliver the dream result. But not only did they not achieve this, they were squeezed off the podium by Telefnica by less than two minutes.

They are clearly very good upwind in a breeze but they are still struggling on reaches, observed Read. With this in mind they will have been very disappointed not to have won leg three, where there was some upwind work towards the end of the leg.

FoR TEAM SAnyA skipper Mike Sanderson, it is CAMPERs shape and stance that stands out.

This boat is a very different beast from others in the fleet, observed Sanderson. She is a different shape but in terms of what you can see, her additional three to four degrees heel angle is perhaps the most noticeable characteristic under sail.

For Ian Walkers Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, just the mention of upwind work was enough to remind his team of what has been a deeply frustrating race so far.

Weve still not really gone downwind, lets face it, he said. Weve done six weeks sailing in this race so far and I think four and a half have been upwind. We have to get the spinnakers up and maybe it will be a different story.

Patrick Shaughnessy of Farr Yacht Design who drew her, agrees.

The concept we chose for the race was never set up to do well in upwind breezy conditions, he said. The strengths of the platform are targeting light air conditions and specifically high speed reaching and running conditions.

In the repertoire of things that can be changed, a lot of the boats hardware is fixed, but changes can be made in the sail wardrobe, you can change how you stack and load your boat for the leg. Those playing grounds are the same ones that everyone has; many of the teams will be doing similar things.

The general nature of our boat, because it was emphasising light air performance and high speed reaching and running, gives away some righting moment to other boats the same reason were strong in other conditions. I think we will close the performance gap upwind on other boats, because they have less ability to improve their platform so drastically, and we can probably do that without trading away so much.

When it comes to trading performance, Sanderson knew that, as a second generation boat with a reputation for light airs performance, Team Sanya would need to become more of an all-rounder to keep pace. While they

were last into Auckland they were just 35 minutes behind Abu Dhabi and three hours off second place.

But despite a tight race and a points shuffle, Telefnica remained at the top of the leaderboard at the halfway stage.

Their strength is that they dont appear to have a weakness, said Read. There are no conditions where they really do not seem to excel and their only apparent shortcoming is in reaching when compared with Groupama. We dont know how they will perform downwind as we havent done any yet. It is pretty rare in a Volvo to be this good all round.

Sanderson has a final observation that should be all the more enticing for those that want to see a closely fought match.

Once the race becomes more traditional, particularly from Auckland onwards, I think Groupama could really stamp her authority on this event, he said.

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In your elemeNt, Chasing perfection.Cruising in a high powered truck on the motorway, or rushing along at 23 knots, surfing down the mountainous waves. Driver and skipper separate worlds. Still they put the same extreme demands on their gear to always perform on top.

VOLVO TRUCKS. DRIVING PROGRESS


A global campaign to encourage action against the growing pollution swirling in the worlds oceans, threatening sea-life and washing ashore on beaches around the globe has become a focal project for the Race.

Judging by the number of people who have visited the Keep the Oceans Clean! Dome at the stopovers so far, it has already struck a chord. The project has touched the lives of more than 55,000 people at five stopovers and that figure will continue to rise in Miami, Lisbon, Lorient and, finally, Galway.

Scientists estimate that there are over 100 million tonnes of floating rubbish creating what amounts to five huge rubbish dumps across the worlds oceans, including one in the North Pacific thought to be bigger than the state of Texas.

Driven by these shocking statistics, the race organisers launched Keep the Oceans Clean! as a call to arms in the battle against pollution of the seas.

For all of us, no matter where we live, the ocean is essential to our existence, project coordinator Jacqui Smith said.

We need to respect the sea, look after it, and be stewards for this beautiful expanse of blue that covers over 70 per cent of the earths surface.

Our aim is to inspire and encourage individuals to respect the oceans

There is still a lot of on-the-water action left in the Volvo Ocean Race as it crosses the Atlantic and returns to Europe, but thanks to the Keep the Oceans Clean! project, the races environmental legacy is set to live on for generations.

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Kids transform seas rubbish to lasting artand think twice about how their actions can affect the marine environment which collectively can make a real difference.

One of the driving forces of the project is Skeleton Sea, a small band of surfers-cum-artists who in 2005 began salvaging beach rubbish and turning it into works of art.

This creative approach to environmental education is the foundation stone of the Keep the Oceans Clean! project, whereby Joo Parrinha, Luis de Dios, and Xandi Kreuzeder lead a series of beach cleans and art workshops at each of the 10 stopovers. Using rubbish collected from each beach clean, the artists create a sculpture that is stunning and thought-provoking.

Hordes of people have turned out at each stopover to help clean up their local beaches and hundreds of children attend the workshops run by the artists where beach trash masterpieces are created.

Sometimes the kids just start choosing pieces for their work even before I can explain to them how to glue the materials, or what I want them to do, said Skeleton Sea artist Joo Parrinha.

Most of them are very unexpected with their creations. It makes me feel very good, to be able to provide this great experience for these kids, to show them how we can look at rubbish in another perspective and re-use

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Another aspect of the environmental project is BirdLife Internationals Save the Albatross Campaign. A six-minute film documenting the plight of the endangered albatross is shown in the Keep the Oceans Clean! dome at each stopover.

Thousands of albatrosses are killed each year through long line fishing and

through mistaking ocean debris for food. This famous ocean wanderer, with a wingspan of 12 feet, is often seen by the Volvo Ocean Race sailors as they race through the worlds most desolate oceans, a place that albatrosses call home.

Most of todays entertainment has revolved around the albatrosses, one of which circled our boat for hours on end today. I will never tire of watching these magnificent birds it really is one of the most amazing sights, seeing them in their natural environment, wrote Ian Walker, skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing during the Southern Ocean Leg 5.

The event has even adopted an albatross as its official mascot, Wisdom, who is named after a 61-year-old Laysan albatross, thought to be the oldest wild bird in North America.


it in a creative way. Who knows, one day we might be able to approach this thinking in a much more serious way.

It has been a privilege to have the opportunity of working with so many different children from all around the world, and to share with them the sculptures we have left in each port: the Bunch of Flowers in Alicante, the Future Sea Aquarium in Cape Town, the Lulu Fish in Abu Dhabi, the Gifts from the Sea in Sanya, and the Whale Tail in New Zealand. Five sculptures so far, and five more works of art to come, Parrinha said.

Its more important than ever for people to do their bit to protect the environment, even if it means picking up just a few bits of rubbish at their local beach, German artist Kreuzeder added. If our message reaches just a few people, then we believe its been worth all the effort.

The lasting legacy of the Keep the Oceans Clean! project is already clear to see, with many families coming back to the Dome again and again.

The beauty of this project is that we have had a host of experiences that have been different, touching, and rewarding in each stopover, said Smith.

Each culture has presented new insights and stories, making a difference in a personal and intriguing way.

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the Albatross Campaign. A six-minute

through mistaking ocean debris for food. This famous ocean wanderer, with a wingspan of 12 feet, is it in a creative way. Who knows, one day we might be able to approach this

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hours on end today. I will never tire of watching these magnificent birds it really is one of the most amazing sights, seeing them in their naturalenvironment, wrote Ian Walker, skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing during the Southern

The event has even adopted analbatross as its official mascot,

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have been different, touching, and rewarding in each stopover, said Smith. Each culture has presented new insights and stories, making a


Shaping the Future. Together.The Volvo Ocean Race and BCG have partnered to set the future course for the Race. Together we are building the strategy for the Volvo Ocean Race to be the undisputed leading global event in sailing and the most attractive sailing event for sponsors, business communities, spectators, and sailors. We at BCG are inspired to collaborate with the toughest, most global offshore race. The dedication of the teams and individuals involved are of great inspiration to us all.

Official Management Consulting and Strategy Partner to the Volvo Ocean Race.

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Martin Tasker and Peter Lester have been working together since 2006. They are professionals

and they are buddies and the chemistry works without any artificial effort, Tasker

the questioning anchorman, Lester the expert who can explain to other experts without baffling even the most casual sports fans in the audience.

The walls of the studio look like a crime investigation centre, plastered with notes and information collected mainly by Tasker for reference throughout the broadcast. He is a product of rigorous training and the value of research, drummed into

everyone by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Lester does his background work by wandering around the team compounds.

Because he speaks their language, is almost one of them, they respond in the same way. After that, even when watching on the monitor in front of him, his reactions are those of a competitor.

While both are talking they are also listening. Their earpieces are linked to the man directing the show, Leon Sefton, and that includes warnings about what is coming up, where he is directing his cameramen.

Not that the commentary can reflect anything other than what the viewer can see on the screen. Describing something that cannot be seen is a no-no. Being ready for something the viewer is about to see is a must.

I just call it as I see it, says Lester. I dont really do that much preparation, and the one time I did it went wrong. Martin and I were calling a race that seemed to be in the bag and were asked, on the final leg, to do an event wrap-up. I went first.


Peter and Martins laugh-inThe door to the commentary box is lovingly decorated with a picture of the Statler and Waldorf duo from the Muppet Show but, inside, the Tasker and Lester shows only obvious resemblance to the childrens favourites is the ever-present determination to add humour to their commentary on the televised stream of

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GIvE HIM A microphone and a few minutes to find out what is going on and Martin Tasker will give you a commentary. Although a call to Americas Cup arms by Television New Zealand (TVNZ) in 1997 gave him a specialist beat that is now 15 years old, Martin is also a generalist, providing coverage of golf, cricket, tennis rugby and anything else that the producer can throw at him.

Not surprising, then, that he was Sports Broadcaster of the

Year in 2006, helped, he says, by being the man to do the leap off the back of Paul Cayards Pirates of the Caribbean as the fleet left Wellington for the run round Cape Horn to Brazil.

No Jack Sparrow, and certainly not a cockney sparrow, Martin Tasker emerged from the north-east of England school of regional newspapers around Newcastle-upon-Tyne doing what many Geordies had done before him, travelling to foreign lands.

He made his way to Hong Kong to work for the South China Morning Post, then Radio Television Hong Kong before roaming again via Hawaii, Florida, and the Bahamas, delivering himself back to the UK in a yacht from Bermuda.

He joined the BBC back in the north-east but it was in the opposite corner of England, Plymouth, and its BBC regional headquarters there which was also the secondment destination from

TVNZ for Claudia, who persuaded him that New Zealand was a far better place to bring up their two daughters.

He has sailed since he was 11, owned a junk in Hong Kong, raced in the English Channel and was on board Alfa Romeo for its record-breaking coastal classic

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I had talked to a guy called Peter Hallwright and he had given me some top stuff, anecdotes and one-liners. So I finished and handed back to Martin.

Tasker takes up the story. Peter had used word for word everything I had prepared because I had talked to Peter Hallwright, too. It left me with absolutely nothing to say.

Lester adds: Now, the golden rule is for Martin to keep the clever bits.

The central pair now often has the luxury of a third commentator and onboard interviews via the media crew member (MCM).

Sefton notes: We really rely heavily on the MCMs. They are the heart and soul of the television coverage and give us brilliant access to parts of the boat and angles which would not be covered by the fixed cameras.

But Martin and Peter are like turning on a good, reliable, old faithful diesel engine. All hell can be breaking loose behind the scenes but they provide the anchor. There can be all sorts of technical challenges, but they keep on describing the scene.

While Tasker is The acknowledged, seasoned professional broadcaster, Lester, says Sefton, is much more than a talented amateur.

He has earned his stripes. He is not there by mistake. Martin brings the pure passion, he remains dedicated to the mission of bringing sailing and sailboat racing to a wider public.

Peter then concentrates on making it understandable and interesting. He can read what is happening on the water, so it becomes like overhearing two very knowledgeable mates standing on the terraces and discussing the game.

So, how do these two guys travel? We get on like a house on fire, always have done, says Tasker. We dont try to make it something it isnt.

We dont overhype it. I get nervous, he doesnt know what nerves are. The chemistry is really important and we have a lot of laughs, both on and off air.

Well, says Lester, at least I dont have to room with Tasker. That would be terrible. He would burp and fart.

The whole Volvo thing, says Tasker, has been a great experience but sometimes the hours are very long. We were on air for about seven and a half hours for the leg start out of China. I use a lip mike and I have a moustache. When it came to doing my piece for TVNZ at the end of the day there was a crease in the moustache that refused to budge and was clearly visible on camera.

Nor is there much time to enjoy the different countries where the race stops. I think the only one was Cape Town, says Lester. We had the morning off before flying home and spent it going up Table Mountain. I really liked Cape Town.

In Auckland they were both on home territory and could go home every night. As can Sefton, who says: I have worked with lots of presenters and presenter pairings. In my book, these two are in the top three of all time.

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There are plenTy of people from South Island in general and Canterbury/Christchurch in particular who have rugby football drummed into them from the moment they can drag themselves out of a baby buggy. But Peter Lester was a water baby.

I was born into Christchurchs yachting community, says Peter Lester with sailing competitions an integral part of my life from schooldays on.

By 1974 he had won the OK Dinghy junior world champion and

three years later, when it was held in Takapuna, he won the senior world championship, which, along with helping the national team to win the Admirals Cup in Britain, saw him elected New Zealand Yachtsman of the Year and a finalist in the New Zealand Sportsman of the Year.

If that was a year for celebration, the next year found a very unhappy Lester having to suffer some infamous bad manners in San Diego at the conclusion of the Americas Cup mismatch between Dennis

Conners catamaran and the New Zealand big boat.

Like his oppo Martin Tasker, Peter Lester has plenty of air miles under his belt in his pursuit of a career in professional sailboat racing.

He looked after the development of yacht tracing in Japan, skippered Pinta for Germanys Willi Illbruck, coached the Spanish Americas Cup challenge in San Diego, offered a guiding hand to a racing team in Turkey, and was sailing boss of the Aspire sports academy in Doha,

Qatar. He still advises the Koreans on their Americas Cup aspirations.

But there was some time at home, not least in charge of Yachting New Zealands high performance programme and he still finds time to race he was at Key West in January 2012.

Throughout, he has been called into commentary studios, radio and television, to explain in a soft Christchurch style, the intricacies of the game, which attracted him even

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Dancing Dragons

Then, on the road to Sanya from the airport, comes the answer. Hundreds of people are queuing outside a split-level store clad with Prada, Dior, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany & Co. advertisements. They queue because in 2009 the government passed legislation making the store Chinas only non-airport duty free destination.

It was part of the bid to boost tourism in a province that is building 17, yes 17, golf courses. Luxury has become the linchpin of Hainan, Sanya in particular, and the basis of its domestic tourism boom. This is, make no mistake, very much a 21st century city.

Keen to capitalise on its success, the local government turned its sights on the international market. In order to achieve global exposure they decided they needed to host an event that would put them on the worlds stage.

Cue the Volvo Ocean Race. If we wanted to have more tourists from outside China visiting the island, we needed an international platform to promote the place, Sanya Deputy Mayor Wu Yunjan said. The Volvo Ocean Race travels around the world, and it connects different nations and cultures, which greatly serves our objectives.

In March 2010 Sanya was unveiled as one of the 10 stopovers of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, the second Chinese port in the 39-year history of the race following Qingdaos inclusion in 2008-09.

Construction of a purpose-built 400,000-square metre port began immediately against the backdrop of countless new high-rise buildings popping up across the rapidly changing city skyline. The race village opened on February 4, 2012, just in time for the arrival of the fleet.

As the Chinese philosopher Confucius said: It is always a pleasure to greet a friend from afar. Sanya was to welcome over 270,000 Volvo Ocean Race visitors to its island home.

The 60 sailors and six media crew were treated like rock stars, given red carpet treatment from the moment they stepped ashore after the 3,051 nautical mile race from Abu Dhabi.

No welcome was greater than that reserved for local hero Tiger Teng Jiang He, the only Chinese representative competing on board his home countrys first stand-alone entry Team Sanya. Green Dragon, in an Irish partnership, raced last time in 2008-09.

The 38-year-old Tiger is very popular and has a popular story. He fought against adversity to rise from scavenging for food in rubbish bins to running his own highly successful construction business. Now he harbours an ambition to become the races first Chinese skipper.

Why not? he asks. PUMAs skipper Kenny Read is 50. I am very young and have many races left. Maybe one

day I can be skipper and lead a Chinese team.Thousands of locals lined the marina

on January 5 to deliver a raucous night-time welcome as Tiger helmed Sanya across the finish line at 1925 local time. Fire crackers sounded as the exhausted team of 11 sailors

Chinas southernmost and smallest province, Hainan, like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, is changing its identity. In a process of rapid urbanisation, it can one minute look super-modern and the next steeped in the past.

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stepped on to terra firma after more than 14 days at sea. Tiger wrapped his countrys national flag over his shoulders before stepping ashore to the embrace of his wife chen lei and two sons Tianyi, four, and Tianxiang, two.

When Tiger joined the team his eldest son became very proud of him, he just became his idol. Its always daddy, daddy, daddy, chen lei said. chinese lion and dragon dancers led the sailors on a colourful procession past traditional drummers and bamboo performers to the main stage, where hundreds cheered Sanya, Sanya, Sanya.

The teams timing could not have been better, having arrived on the eve of the lantern Festival, a traditional national holiday that marks the end of the chinese New Year celebrations.

Underlying the many traditions of one of the worlds oldest cultures was the noticeable presence of superstitions, which were enough to make even a sceptic like Team Sanyas helmsman/trimmer David Dingo Rolfe nervous.

Rolfe, from New Zealand, was allocated

the number four crew number, a number symbolising death in china. even hotels, including those in which the Volvo team was staying, avoid using the number four, instead calling the fourth floor 3A or 5A. I wasnt superstitious, but now I dont know what Im going to do, he said while packaging food for the leg 4 race to Auckland.

Fortunately, Rolfe was soon distracted from any lingering concerns by the adoration of

more than 50,000 fans, who turned out to bid the sailors

farewell at the official departure ceremony on February 20.

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anyone wearing a team uniform, and posed for photos with them, smiling broadly.

Once the boats had gone it was time for reflection. The overwhelming consensus; the Sanya stopover was a massive success.

During the two weeks that the Sanya Race Village was open to the public in February 2012 the sporting spectacle attracted more than 273,000 visitors.

It also created a platform for more than 6,000 VIP guests, the largest programme of its kind in the races history. Of those, a significant number were invited guests of organisers, teams, partners and sponsors, many of them coming from Asia and all taking advantage of the unique environment offered by the race.

Volvo Ocean Race ceO Knut Frostad said the number of guests and visitors at the stopover illustrated the high regard with which the city is held.

china is now at the heart of the Volvo Ocean Race, it makes the perfect stopover on so many fronts, he said. Its a tribute to the great work done here that its now hard to imagine the race not coming here.

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Thank you so much for organising such a great event. I am still saying amazing. Everyone still looks just the same. I felt so privileged to be part of the reunion, just as I did when I did the race, and memories had got lost in the last 20 years. Seeing everyone I remembered what it was like to sail across the oceans and the beauty that surrounds you.Jo Gooding/Maiden 1989-90

It was a special event and I am so glad that I was able to attend.Phil Wade/Drum 1985-86

We had a complete riot. I cannot believe it really, when I think back that it all happened. We had a complete ball. Such great fun! Very many thanks and I hope we can do a similar thing in four years time. Tim Morris/Adventure 1973-74

The LEsprit dquipe crew have been twice happy during this Legends Regatta. The first one was to be there, the second one was to be honoured by Pippa when we received the trophy!Daniel Hirsch/LEsprit dEquipe 1985-86 Winner Legends 2011

An outstanding event, everyone involved, the sailors, friends, staff and even the taxi driver who managed to get me back to the hotel, was fantastic. I have only one disappointment which is not being able to purchase the Legends regatta polo shirt.Clive Vaughan/FCF Challenger 1981-82*Sorry Clive, sold out on the first day.

Many thanks for the brilliant idea of the Legends and for the perfect week. We had a fantastic time in Alicante with all our friends from Ceramco, Gauloises, Charles Heidsieck and Steinlager 2. Unforgettable moments of friendship and of emotion.Daniel Wlochovski/Flyer 1981-82

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