Volvo Ocean Race Legends: Destruction derby



8:35 AM Sun 12 Sep 2010 GMT
'Ceramco from the air nearing Cape Town' Ceramco NZ
The first leg of the third Whitbread Round the World Race in 1981-82, from Portsmouth to Cape Town, was dubbed by one yachting magazine as a 'destruction derby'. Part 1 of 3. Three yachts, La Barca Laboratorio, Rollygo and Peter Blake's Ceramco NZ, lost their rigs. FCF Challenger and Charles Heidsieck III suffered serious rigging problems, Bubblegum broke a chainplate and also collided with a whale, losing steerage when the wire cables broke. Trait? de Rome came perilously close to losing her entire skeg and rudder and Scandinavian retired to Las Palmas with a long list of problems. In Cape ...


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