After attending the Volvo Ocean Race Prizegiving Ceremony last night and starting with an early morning test sail today, the PUMA Ocean Racing team are making their final preparations for the restart in Cape Town.
Tomorrow afternoon at 1300 local time (1100 GMT) skipper Ken Read and his crew will begin the 4,450 nautical mile sail to Kochi, India. During Leg 2, the PUMA team will sail a new and unfamiliar route. The passage from Cape Town to Kochi is widely regarded as an 'unknown' for the Volvo Ocean Race sailors, as no professional round-the-world yacht race has ever sailed this course before. The leg is expected to be predominantly upwind sailing and piracy is considered a serious threat in these waters. As the commercial capital of India's south-western state of Kerala, Kochi will welcome the fleet after a tough eighteen days at sea.
As Kenny sail, "Leg One to Cape Town was such a close leg, we had some great racing and we learned a lot about the boat and how hard we can push ourselves onboard il mostro. This is only the beginning. Tomorrow we'll be saying 'goodbye Cape Town and hello Kochi'. We'll be ready for that and to go out there and push even harder. Everyone's talking about India, and we're excited to be going there."
The race restart will be live on Volvo Ocean Race TV .
