Image courtesy Team Vestas Wind
In January, the entire stern of Team Vestas Wind was in tatters or missing entirely after the boat ran up on a reef in the Indian Ocean. Today, Neil Cox, Shore Manager for the Volvo Ocean Race team reports the hull is back together again with a substantial amount of new carbon fiber as the below image shows.
His latest report on his team’s progress toward getting back into the race:
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