South Africa. Volvo Ocean Race: The “movistar” trains for the inshore race
The “movistar” team continues training hard at Cape Town. The Spanish Volvo Open 70 boat has gone out to sail every single day since last Monday, working for three to six hours on the water; additionally, she did some night time sailing, during a 24-hour training run.
“The time factor is essential and we are making the most of it – says Pedro Campos, General Manager of the team - . We will have the inshore race on the 26, and we want to be in top shape by then to try to score as many points as we can”.
During her first day of sailing in South Africa, all that the “movistar” team did was to check all systems, but last Tuesday, they stepped up the work with six hours of training, during which the Volvo Open 70 boat sailed beyond Cape Hope, south of the African continent.
Xabi Fernández commented on the experience of the second day: “It was a long and very fruitful day, and we came across good wind and waves. Training at Cape Town is very interesting, because you can reach the open sea after just a few miles of sailing, and it just takes a few hours to go from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean”.
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