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| Ericsson Racing Teams 3 and 4 |
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| Puma Ocean Racing |
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Team Delta Lloyd
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| The 2008 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race |
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| The 2008 SOLAS Big Boat Challenge 2008. |
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| The 2008 Rolex Trophy One Design Series |
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Sydney Short Ocean
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November 29-30, 2008. |
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Rolex Middle Sea Race 2008 Valletta, Malta.
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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup
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| Sydney to Gold Coast Yacht Race 2008. |
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Giraglia Rolex Cup 2008
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Rolex Farr 40 Worlds 2008
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| Grand Banks Rendevzous, Hawkesbury River NSW Australia 2008. |
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| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Leg 5 Arrivals. |
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| Telefonica Blue finish it off - Leg 5 Day 44 - 06:07 GMT Sunday, March 29, 2009. |
| Hungry Dragons’ take fourth place - Leg 5 Day 43 - 21:26 GMT, Saturday, March 28, 2009. |
| PUMA takes third podium position - Leg 5 Day 42 - 06:48 GMT, Friday, March 27, 2009. |
| Ericsson 4 second for longest leg - Leg 5 Day 41 - 01:16 GMT, Friday, March 27, 2009. |
| Historic win: Ericsson 3 after epic struggle - Leg 5 Day 41 - 13:44 GMT Thur, Mar 26, 2009. |
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Leg 5
Weekly Summaries. |
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| Week 5 Leg 5 - The legendary Cape Horn - 15:59 GMT Friday, March 20, 2009. |
| Week 4 Leg 5 - One month and counting - 15:21 GMT Friday, March 13, 2009. |
| Week 3 Leg 5 - Highs and lows fleet hits the first scoring gate - 18:30 GMT Fri, Mar 6, 2009. |
| Week 2 Leg 5 - Decision time for Volvo fleet - 15:55 GMT Friday, February 27, 2009. |
| Week 1 Leg 5 - Fast boats from China - 16:02 GMT Saturday, February 21, 2009. |
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Hungry Dragons’ take fourth place
Leg 5 Day 43 - 21:26 GMT, Saturday, March 28, 2009. |
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Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker / GBR led his hungry crew over the finish line outside the Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday afternoon to claim fourth place in Leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Crossing the finish line at 18:59 GMT (15:59 local time) the Irish / Chinese team finished the longest leg in the history of the race with an elapsed time of 42 days 13 hours and 59 minutes. |
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Green Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker (GBR) finish fourth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 18:59:40 GMT 28/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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It’s been a long leg for the Green Dragon crew, made all the more difficult by the team running low on both food and fuel during the final week. In fact, the team had to re-fuel before it could bring the boat into the marina.
"It’s been a hard 10 days - these last 10 days," Walker said once his boat was safely dockside. "We just had to stick at it. It feels like quite an achievement to sail 12,500 miles! Getting around Cape Horn was always something I wanted to do, but getting here and having a steak sandwich is the highlight right now." |
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Green Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker (GBR) finish fourth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 18:59:40 GMT 28/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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Navigator Wouter Verbraak, who started the Volvo Ocean Race with Team Russia, is scheduled to join Delta Lloyd for Leg 6. But for the longest stage of the race, he has been with Green Dragon, replacing Ian Moore for the leg.
"It’s been a real leg of extremes. I thought I’d seen highs and lows on the other legs, but this is such a marathon," he said. "You go from one dip to the next mountain. For us as a team it’s been really good to keep coming back until the very end." |
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Green Dragon skipper Ian Walker (GBR), after finishing fourth in Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 18:59:40 GMT 28/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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The fourth place finish means the team collects 5 points towards its total on the overall leaderboard. Green Dragon sits in fifth place, four points behind Leg 5 winner Ericsson 3.
Telefónica Blue is the only boat in the fleet still at sea. At the time of Green Dragon’s finish, Bouwe Bekking’s squad had 39 miles left to run, with a predicted ETA near midnight tonight. |
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Green Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker (GBR) finish fourth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 18:59:40 GMT 28/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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Leg 5 Finishing Order Rio
1. Ericsson 3: 8 points
2. Ericsson 4: 7 points
3. PUMA: 6 points
4. Green Dragon: 5 points
Overall Leaderboard (Provisional)
1. Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael / BRA) 63.5 points (FINISHED)
2. PUMA (Ken Read / USA) 53 points (FINISHED)
3. Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking / NED) 46.5 points (RACING)
4. Ericsson 3 (Magnus Olsson / SWE) 43.5 (FINISHED)
5. Green Dragon (Ian Walker / GBR) 39.5 (FINISHED)
6. Telefónica Black (Fernando Echávarri / ESP) 21 (DNS)
7. Delta Lloyd (Roberto Bérmudez / ESP) 12 (DNS)
8. Team Russia (Andreas Hanakamp / AUT) 10.5 (DNS)
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Telefonica Blue finish it off
Leg 5 Day 44 - 06:07 GMT Sunday, March 29, 2009. |
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At 03:55 GMT, in the early hours (00:55 local time) of a rainy Sunday morning, Telefónica Blue eased across the finish line off the Marina da Gloria in Rio de Janeiro to take fifth place in leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race.
The elapsed time for leg five for Telefónica Blue was a daunting 42 days, 22 hours and 55 minutes. |
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Telefonica Blue, skippered by Bouwe Bekking (NED) finish fifth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 03:55:00 GMT 29/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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This wasn’t the way it was supposed to be for skipper Bouwe Bekking / NED and his team. Following two consecutive leg wins, Tom Addis was promoted from strategist to navigator. And after changing to larger rudders for this leg, the Telefónica Blue squad had high hopes of closing the gap with the front-running Ericsson 4.
But before the race had started, the team ran aground on a submerged rock outside the harbour in Qingdao. Skipper Bekking quickly made the decision not to take the start and instead Telefónica Blue returned to the Olympic harbour in Qingdao where the boat was hauled out for the damage to be assessed. |
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Telefonica Blue, skippered by Bouwe Bekking (NED) (pictured) finish fifth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 03:55:00 GMT 29/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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In the event, there was no structurally significant damage and the team resumed racing just shy of 19 hours after the start of the leg. From then onwards, the Telefónica Blue was on the back foot.
They fought hard to get back into the mix with the rest of the fleet, but 20 days into the leg, a broken forestay forced the team to make heroic efforts to save the mast from tumbling down, but at that point, their competitive hopes in leg five were all but extinguished as the team was restricted to using smaller headsails. |
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Navigator Tom Addis (AUS) from Telefonica Blue, skippered by Bouwe Bekking (NED) finished fifth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 03:55:00 GMT 29/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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A late charge on the final section of the race course brought the team within hours of fourth-placed Green Dragon, but to no avail - four points, from a fifth place finish drops the team to third place on the overall leaderboard behind Ericsson 4 and PUMA.
"I think we have a really good chance actually," Bekking said when asked about the impact of this leg on the overall leaderboard. "I think Ericsson 4 will be scratching their heads a little bit because they haven’t been winning the last three legs. They are definitely beatable I think." |
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Telefonica Blue, skippered by Bouwe Bekking (NED) finish fifth into Rio de Janeiro on leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the line at 03:55:00 GMT 29/03/09.
Photo © Dave Kneale / Volvo Ocean Race.
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Leg 5 Finishing Order - Rio de Janeiro
1. Ericsson 3: 8 points
2. Ericsson 4: 7 points
3. PUMA: 6 points
4. Green Dragon: 5 points
5. Telefónica Blue: 4 points
Overall Leaderboard (Provisional)
1. Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael / BRA) 63.5 points (FINISHED)
2. PUMA (Ken Read / USA) 53 points (FINISHED)
3. Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking / NED) 50.5 points (FINISHED)
4. Ericsson 3 (Magnus Olsson / SWE) 43.5 (FINISHED)
5. Green Dragon (Ian Walker / GBR) 39.5 (FINISHED)
6. Telefónica Black(Fernando Echávarri / ESP) 21 (DNS)
7. Delta Lloyd(Roberto Bérmudez / ESP) 12 (DNS)
8. Team Russia(Andreas Hanakamp / AUT) 10.5 (DNS)
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| Team Russia
suspends operations in Singapore |
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| As Team Russia
has suspending its operations after arriving in Singapore,
it hasn’t ruled out returning to the race at a later
date should sponsorship be found. The team remains unique
in the eight boat fleet in not having any naming or title
sponsorship. For anyone interested in helping out Team Russia
with sponsorship so they can continue to race, more information
can be found on their website at: http://www.teamrussia.org/en/partners/view/become_a_team_sponsor/ |
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| Previous Leg
5 Articles. |
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| Final furlong for Green Dragon - Leg 5 Day 43 - 16:17 GMT, Saturday, March 28, 2009. |
| Green Dragon in Stealth Mode - Leg 5 Day 42 - 14:52 GMT Friday, March 27, 2009. |
| Ericsson 4 next in line - Leg 5 Day 41 - 14:38 GMT, Thursday, March 26, 2009. |
| Ericsson 3 in hiding - Leg 5 Day 40 - 15:06 GMT Wednesday, March 25, 2009. |
| Longing for Rio - Leg 5 Day 39 - 14:42 GMT Tuesday, March 24, 2009. |
| Watching And Waiting - Leg 5 Day 38 - 15:08 GMT Monday, March 23, 2009. |
| High Pressure Slows Volvo Fleet - Leg 5 Day 37 - 14:54 GMT Sunday, March 22nd, 2009. |
| Ericsson 3: Still in control - leg 5 Day 36 - 14:48 GMT Saturday, March 21, 2009. |
| Focused on the finish - leg 5 Day 35 - 15:05 GMT Friday, March 20, 2009. |
| Telefonica
Blue Back in the Atlantic - Leg 5 Day 34 - 15:38 GMT Thur,
Mar 19, 2009. |
| Ericsson 3 promises a fight to the finish - Leg 5 Day 33 - 14:57 GMT Wed, Mar 18, 2009. |
| Ercisson 3: First at Cape Horn - Leg 5 Day 32 - 14:34 GMT Tuesday, March 17, 2009. |
| Furious fifties in full force - Leg 5 Day 31 - 15:08 GMT Monday, March 16, 2009. |
| Welcome to the Southern Ocean - Leg 5 Day 30 - 14:58 GMT Sunday, March 15, 2009. |
| Closing fast - Leg 5 Day 29 - 14:42 GMT Saturday, March 14, 2009. |
| Watch
out for the Dragon - Leg 5 Day 28 - 14:31 GMT Friday, March
13, 2009. |
| Pressure
on, breeze down - Leg 5 Day 27 - 16:05 GMT Thursday, March
12, 2009. |
| Icebergs
to Port, Icebergs to Starboard - Leg 5 Day 26 - 15:00 GMT
Wed, Mar 11, 2009. |
| Hard
driving Ericsson 3 extends lead - Leg 5 Day 25 - 14:58
GMT Tuesday, March 10, 2009. |
| Ericsson
3 fast and furious - Leg 5 Day 24 - 14:59 GMT Monday, March
9, 2009. |
| A Taste of the south - Leg 5 Day 23 - 14:35 GMT Sunday, March 8, 2009. |
| Ericsson
3 takes lead as north gamble pays off - L5 D22 - 15:15
GMT Sat, Mar 7, 2009. |
| Disappointing
setback for Telefónica Blue - Leg 5 Day 21 - 13:22
GMT Fri, Mar 6, 2009. |
| All
points north - Leg 5 Day 20 - 15:06 GMT Thursday, March
5, 2009. |
| Ericsson
3’s brave move - Leg 5 Day 19 - 15:20 GMT Wednesday,
March 4, 2009. |
| Gateway
to the Southern Ocean - Leg 5 Day 18 - 14:50 GMT Tuesday,
March 3, 2009. |
| PUMA
leads but the pressure is on - Leg 5 Day 17 - 14:41 GMT
Monday, March 2, 2009. |
| Ericsson
4: Leader of the pack - Leg 5 Day 16 - 14:42 GMT Sunday,
March 1, 2009. |
| The
pack splits - Leg 5 Day 15 - 14:46 GMT Saturday, February
28, 2009. |
| Weather & wind
angles force tactical decisions - Leg 5 Day 14 - 14:52
GMT Fri, Feb 27, 2009. |
| Out
of the squall zone - Leg 5 Day 13 - 14:56 GMT Thursday,
February 26, 2009. |
| Violent
squalls bring big gains and losses - leg 5 Day 12 - 14:55
GMT Wed, Feb 25, 2009. |
| Stalking
or overtaking - Leg 5 Day 11 - 15:14 GMT Tuesday, February
24, 2009. |
| Racing
through paradise to the Southern Hemisphere - 14:59 GMT
Mon, Feb 23, 2009. |
| Doldrums
compression gives hope to back markers - 14:45 GMT Sunday,
February 22, 2009. |
| 10,000
mile count down - Leg 5 Day 8 - 15:05 GMT Saturday, February
21, 2009. |
| Telefónica
Blue makes move as Green Dragon gambles - 15:10 GMT Friday,
Feb 20, 2009. |
| Wet,
hot and manky - Leg 5 Day 6 - 14:25 GMT Thursday, February
19, 2009. |
| A
flat out drag race - Leg 5 Day 5 - 14:59 GMT Wednesday,
February 18, 2009. |
| Grinding
down the opposition - Leg 5 Day 4 - 14:54 GMT Tuesday,
February 17, 2009. |
| High-speed ‘Flying’ into
the Pacific - Leg 5 Day 3: 16:20 GMT Monday, February 16,
2009. |
| Speed
is king as temperatures plummet - Leg 5 Day 2 - 14:51 GMT
Sun, Feb 15, 2009. |
| Telefónica
Blue returns to the race course - Leg 5 Day 1 - 23:42 GMT
Sat, Feb 14, 2009. |
| Ericsson
3 scores points, re-stocks in Qingdao, starts Leg 5 - 10:00
GMT Sat, Feb 14, 2009. |
| Puma
leads, Telefónica Blue suspends racing, start of
Leg 5 - 07:57 GMT Sat, Feb 14, 2009. |
| The
longest leg in history - 11:00 GMT Friday, February 13,
2009. |
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