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Video Sailing – Boat crashes and capsizes of Extreme 40 catamaran sailboats at the iShares Cup.
Ericsson Racing Team continued its dominance of the Volvo Ocean Race today when Torben Grael/BRA/Ericsson 4 and Magnus Olsson/SWE/Ericsson 3 finished first and second on leg six from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Boston, USA.
The two Ericsson teams shared the same top two positions on the previous leg from Qingdao in China to Rio, but in that case, Ericsson 3 came out on top.
Sunday, Ericsson 4 crossed the finish at 21:05 GMT (16:05 local) recording an elapsed time of 15 days, 10 hours 30 minutes and 54 seconds.
Skipper Torben Grael said: ‘It feels fantastic. I think we …Â Details & Pictures
Doug Baker just wanted the record. H.L. (Loe) Enloe would settle for his newfound respect. This time.
Both—one sailing the 80-foot monohull Magnitude 80 from Long Beach and the other the 60-foot Jenn trimaran Loe Real from San Diego—emerged from the 62nd Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race reasonably satisfied. Baker had a race record for monohulls of 10 hours 37 minutes 50 seconds and Enloe scored a first-place finish in a faster time by nearly two hours of 8 hours 45 minutes 3 seconds, second only among multihulls to the late Steve Fossett’s record of 6:46:40 on the Stars & Stripes catamaran in 1998.
Oh, sure, a multihull should beat a monohull of similar size, some monohull sailors may say dismissively, but Baker wasn’t as concerned about that as he was chasing the ghost boat adorned with the face of a witch’s cat on the hull…Â DetailsÂ