Volvo Ocean Race - Green Dragon hits a snag

4:09 AM Mon 18 May 2009 GMT

'Green Dragon, skippered by Ian Walker (GBR) at the start of leg 7 from Boston to Galway' Dave Kneale/Volvo Ocean Race &copy

Latest from Ian Walker onboard Green Dragon, leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race.

GREEN DRAGON LEG SEVEN DAY 2 QFB: received 17.05.09 1737 GMT

Why did I have to mention the threat of lobster pots yesterday? Today as we rounded Cape Sable off the Southern tip of Nova Scotia we were confronted by hundreds of them and to make matters worse, it was low tide and the lines were slack with little or no pattern.

After zig zagging our way through with a lookout forward, we eventually hooked one on our leeward daggerboard. Five minutes later we had three of them entangling us. After backing down and clearing two of them we realised one line had sawn its way through the leading edge of the port daggerboard. We managed to raise the board and cut it free but we are left with a 250 cut in the laminate of our daggerboard one metre up from the tip. The rope we hit must have been over a metre below the surface!

We cannot leave the board in

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