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Daring fix keeps Chinese boat in hunt
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FRENCHMAN Kevin Escoffier effected a mid-race repair, dangling 15 meters above deck, to keep Dongfeng Race Team’s Leg 2 challenge on track in the Volvo Ocean Race yesterday.
With the boat bobbing in some 15 knots of winds, the 34-year-old bowman from St Malo was winched up the mast to bond together a track that had become detached.
The part enables attachments to run smoothly up the mast, allowing the height of the mainsail to be adjusted easily. It works like a curtain rail.
Volvo Ocean Race watch producer, Mark Covell, who is a silver medallist from the 2000 Sydney Olympics, said: “This was a tough job. If the wind is blowing hard, you will be battered about like a rag doll up the mast.”
Dongfeng, the Chinese entry in the world’s toughest professional crewed offshore race, lost some time through the process but was still less than six miles off the lead roughly halfway through the 5,200 nautical miles of the second stage between Cape Town and Abu Dhabi.
The American skipper of Team Alvimedica, Charlie Enright, had double cause for celebration as he took the lead early on Thanksgiving Day.
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