{"id":6420,"date":"2011-12-25T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/sailing-camper-poised-for-overall-lead-after-hauling-back-rivals\/"},"modified":"2011-12-25T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T22:52:12","slug":"sailing-camper-poised-for-overall-lead-after-hauling-back-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sailing-camper-poised-for-overall-lead-after-hauling-back-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing-Camper poised for overall lead after hauling back rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALICANTE, Spain<\/span> Dec 24 (Reuters) – Camper overhauled
\nheavyweight rivals Telefonica on Saturday to complete a
\nwell-timed comeback and put themselves in a great position to
\nsnatch the overall Volvo Ocean Race lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The Camper team, skippered by Australian Chris Nicholson,
\nwent into the unpredictable Doldrums zone in fourth place but
\nlook set to come out in first after overtaking Puma, Groupama
\nand now Telefonica, the current race leaders.<\/p>\n

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Once through the Doldrums they will be hard to catch on the
\nway to the secret safe haven port organisers have established in
\nleg two as part of the race’s anti-piracy plan.<\/p>\n

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

“We’ve wriggled our way through the lead,” said the former
\nOlympian Nicholson.<\/p>\n

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

“The navigators had a good plan from the get-go in the last
\nfew days and we’ve been able to deliver on that up on deck. It’s
\nbeen really pleasing to see the work the guys have put in and
\nthe way we went about making the decisions. It’s quite a good
\nfeeling.”<\/p>\n

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

Leg two from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi has been split into two
\nstages, with the boats heading to the safe haven port, from
\nwhere they will be shipped under armed guard through the worst
\nof the piracy-affected waters of the Indian Ocean to Sharjah in
\nthe northern Emirates. Stage two will be a sprint from Sharjah
\nto Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

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

The 24 points for victory in the first stage would be enough
\nto take Camper past Telefonica, who head the overall leaderboard
\nby three points.<\/p>\n

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

Camper were leading Telefonica by 21 nautical miles (29 km)
\non Saturday, with France’s Groupama 95nm behind the leaders in
\nthird place, followed by the U.S. boat Puma and Abu Dhabi.
\nSanya, the race’s first sole Chinese entry, were forced to pull
\nout of the stage with broken rigging.<\/p>\n

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The eight-month, 39,000 nautical mile event will conclude in
\nearly July in Galway.<\/p>\n

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

(Editing by Stephen Wood)<\/p>\n

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

\n

\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALICANTE, Spain Dec 24 (Reuters) – Camper overhauled heavyweight rivals Telefonica on Saturday to complete a well-timed comeback and put themselves in a great position to snatch the overall Volvo Ocean Race lead. The Camper team, skippered by Australian Chris Nicholson, went into the unpredictable Doldrums zone in fourth place but look set to come […]<\/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-6420","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\/6420","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=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}