En fait, point de peau de requin, c'est une rafale à 50 noeuds qu'il a... rencontrée. (Pffff ! Ils ne pourraient pas articuler un peu quand ils causent au micro les mecs !
). Et c'est bien la bôme qui est cassée. Etonnant how they were still moving fast !
The team got the boom down below and the mainsail back up, sheeting it loose-footed, direct to the deck without the boom. Immediately afterwards, they were considering trying to pick up the spare – but this morning it was all about picking up the points at the gate, and then fixing the boom and going north. They are having to sail a narrower True Wind Angle (TWA) than the others, but they’re still moving fast. The consolation for watch captain Damian Foxall, who’s never got past Port Elizabeth on this race, is that this time he will ...
Et Puma a eu 2 gros cracks, le deuxième encore plus grave.
This time not from the bow section but in the main section of the boat.
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Not only is this break in the central structure for the entire boat, but it will take quite a bit longer to put a fix on - maybe as long as 24 hours - and this time the actual fix may be a bit more of a band-aide rather than the fairly solid splint that we could put on the broken front longitudinales.
On dirait bien que ce coin là ne casse pas que les cargos. Quelle course monstrueuse tout de même avec ces bateaux-là !
