{"id":6273,"date":"2011-12-20T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/sailing-sanya-forced-out-as-ocean-race-hit-by-further-trouble\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:33:23","slug":"sailing-sanya-forced-out-as-ocean-race-hit-by-further-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sailing-sanya-forced-out-as-ocean-race-hit-by-further-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing-Sanya forced out as Ocean Race hit by further trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

ALICANTE, Spain<\/span> Dec 19 (Reuters) – The technical
\nproblems that have dogged the Volvo Ocean Race from the start
\nstruck again on Monday as Chinese leaders Sanya were forced out
\nof the second leg because of a rigging failure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike Sanderson, skipper of the only team racing in a
\nsecond-hand boat, feared the entire mast could break after the
\nkey piece of equipment broke overnight while the team were
\nbuilding a huge lead on the leg from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

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They were forced to head to Madagascar for repairs, meaning
\nthey now have no chance now of reaching the secret ‘safe haven’
\nport in time to be transported through piracy-affected waters to
\nthe northern Emirates, where the race to Abu Dhabi will resume.<\/p>\n

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It was a heartbreaking setback for the New Zealander
\nSanderson and his crew who had established a lead of more than
\n200 nautical miles on the rest of the fleet in sailing’s
\ntoughest test.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Their best hope now is to rejoin the race for leg three to
\ntheir home port of Sanya in China.<\/p>\n

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Sanya were also forced to suspend racing in the opening leg
\nfrom Alicante to Cape Town after suffering a hole in her hull,
\nprobably caused by storm debris, on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“We had an awesome night’s racing and were making massive
\ngains so we were very upbeat with our progress,” Sanderson said.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The weather was turning for the better and so we were happy
\nin our decisions and general progress.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“As you can imagine we are totally gutted and can’t quite
\nbelieve this has happened when everything was going so well.”
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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ALICANTE, Spain Dec 19 (Reuters) – The technical problems that have dogged the Volvo Ocean Race from the start struck again on Monday as Chinese leaders Sanya were forced out of the second leg because of a rigging failure. Mike Sanderson, skipper of the only team racing in a second-hand boat, feared the entire mast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}