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Friday, 25 November 2005 |
ABN Amro One head Volvo Ocean Race
Skipper Mike Sanderson and his ABN Amro One crew headed the Volvo Ocean
Race fleet past the first scoring gate on leg one from Vigo to Cape
Town and the team picked up three-and-half points for being the first
past the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha at 0130 GMT on 21
November.
Neal McDonald's Ericsson were 10 hours adrift in second with Brasil third.
Points are accumulated on each of the nine legs and seven in-port races, replacing the old elapsed time system.
ABN Amro One came sixth out of seven in the first in-port race, but
Mike Sanderson insisted his boat was more suited to the strong winds in
the open ocean than the the light airs experienced in Galicia.
"Following our disappointing performance in the first inshore race, my
answer was that we were, from a naval architecture point of view,
supposed to be slower in those conditions of under seven knots," he
said.
"And that as long as the boat did what it was supposed to do, when it
was supposed to do it, then we thought that we still had the right boat
to win the Volvo Ocean Race."
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