Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
I always enjoyed following the Whitbread and Volvo Ocean Races as they were always action packed with many tales of fine seamanship being exposed.
Today I am able to share a cutting from the Cape Times which covered ‘Illbruck’ winning into Sydney. The opening paragraphs went like this:
“‘Illbruck’ won the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race yesterday, sailing into Sydney Harbour 73 minutes ahead of ‘SEB’ to repeat its opening stage victory from Southampton to Cape Town.
“‘Illbruck’s’ race had nearly ended after leaving Cape Town when the yacht started taking on water in 35-knot winds when an inspection port gave way under the pounding from heavy seas.
“”For two hours we weren’t thinking about racing, we were surviving,” said captain John Kostecki. “We were·coming back to shore at one point but we managed to stop the leak.””
READ MORE HERE: 2001 12 05 – cape times – 912 – OCR
