newyorker: The Volvo Ocean Race runs over nine months,…
The Volvo Ocean Race runs over nine months, thirty-nine-thousand miles, four oceans, and six continents. This year, one boat became the twentieth in the race’s history not to make the finish. John Clarke reports on the twenty-first-century shipwreck.
Photograph courtesy Brian Carlin/Team Vestas Wind/Volvo Ocean Race
A brief article about the Vestas wreck from The New Yorker. It gets a few small details toward the end slightly wrong, but overall a nice job of summarizing what happened.
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Tags: vor, team vestas wind.
