6:27 AM Thu 16 Jul 2009 GMT
Top international and Volvo Ocean Race photographer Dave Kneale, took these images from Day 3 and 4. Day 3 was the second day of racing at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships in Brazil. Racing was lost on day 4 due to a lack of wind, however sailors were treated to a visit from Torben Grael, five times Olympic medalist, former World Champion in the Star class and more recently winning Volvo Ocean Race skipper on Ericsson 4.
Grael's daughter Martine is tied at the top of the points table in the Girls 420 Event
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Torben Grael, winning skipper of Ericsson 4 in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, is reunited with Telefonica Black’s Santiago Lange at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship 2009 in Buzios, Brazil. Lange is Championship Coach for the event who provides coaching to the sailors at the Youth Worlds whose nations have been unable to send support staff to the championship, in particular to those sailors competing thanks to fun -
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