Bianca Cook is heading a New Zealand-based Volvo 65 campaign for the next edition of The Ocean Race! Check the link for video of her being visibly stoked while taking delivery of the boat, last edition’s TTTOP. She talks about the emotion of seeing the boat for the first time since the conclusion of the last race.

https://livesaildie.com/nz-ocean-racing-the-vo65-arrives-in-auckland/

Throwback: watch video of her having an inadvertent life vest inflation after being washed off the stack by a wave in Leg 2 of the last race, and sending an adorable message to her mum – “It’s okay! I was clipped in.”

https://twitter.com/theoceanrace/status/927437762013392896

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Team Brunel in the mid-Atlantic / Volvo Ocean Race Leg 9, 2018-05-25

Helm: Kyle Langford
Windspeed: Gusting to 30 knots
Boatspeed: 25 knots
Drone operator: Sam Greenfield

I gif’d this from the Season’s Greetings from The Ocean Race! video that came out on Christmas Eve. But if you like it you should totally check out the original raw-content video uploaded by Sam:

My partial transcript/commentary, entered as I was first watching the video, from my obligatory obsessive spreadsheet:

Sam: It’s blowing 30 knots outside, and we’re going 30 knots, so we’re gonna try to launch the Phantom Pro in these conditions. He launches the drone. Amazing footage of Brunel surfing in 30 knot winds from the drone. Major stuff of the bow. Title (as the picture goes wobbly): Finally the camera gimbal starts shorting out from salt and moisture. Drone comes in for the recovery, but the crewmember with a chest camera waiting to catch it misses it and it goes back aft toward Kyle, who makes a one-handed catch of it while continuing to HELM THE BOAT WITH HIS OTHER HAND. Thank you and good night.

Extra fun: Here’s a screenshot of the live tracker from that day showing the weather system they were riding:

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