It's been a busy time for our hard working team of Salthouse boys in Cape Town. Not only have they managed to build a plug and bow section for the Team Sanya Volvo70 but now that the boat has arrived in Cape Town they have been doing some long hours of messy work cutting away the damaged hull section and replacing with the new.
This article from the Volvo Ocean Race website....
Although only unloaded from a cargo ship just two days ago, amazingly Team Sanya’s badly holed Volvo Open 70 is today a complete boat once more.
“It would be a truly amazing accomplishment to have the boat back so soon” Richard Mason - Team Sanya boat captain.
Although far from ready to sail again, the team have made remarkable progress in such a short time and are still confident of having the boat fully ready to compete in the Cape Town In-Port Race on December 10. A huge team, including a crack squad of repair specialists flown in from Salthouse Boatbuilders in New Zealand, have been working around the clock to cut away the badly delaminated bow and replace it with a new custom made section.Sanya boat captain Richard Mason said: “It is absolutely incredible to be where we are after only 48 hours. The boys are doing a fantastic job and everything is coming together on schedule. “It would be a truly amazing accomplishment to have the boat back so soon.” While the boat builders continue their mission to restore Sanya to her former glory, the sailing crew have been engaged in an intense training program at a local gym to ensure they are in peak condition when the boat is ready to sail, team MCM Andrés Soriano reports.In the early hours of Saturday morning the sailors will run to the top of Cape Town’s Lions Head Peak, a climb of 2,195 feet (669 metres) above sea level, before returning to the team base to prepare their gear in anticipation of a planned training sail on December 7.
See more of the Salthouse boys progress with Team Sanya on our facebook..... www.facebook.com/salthouseboatbuilders
Although only unloaded from a cargo ship just two days ago, amazingly Team Sanya’s badly holed Volvo Open 70 is today a complete boat once more.
“It would be a truly amazing accomplishment to have the boat back so soon” Richard Mason - Team Sanya boat captain.
Although far from ready to sail again, the team have made remarkable progress in such a short time and are still confident of having the boat fully ready to compete in the Cape Town In-Port Race on December 10. A huge team, including a crack squad of repair specialists flown in from Salthouse Boatbuilders in New Zealand, have been working around the clock to cut away the badly delaminated bow and replace it with a new custom made section.Sanya boat captain Richard Mason said: “It is absolutely incredible to be where we are after only 48 hours. The boys are doing a fantastic job and everything is coming together on schedule. “It would be a truly amazing accomplishment to have the boat back so soon.” While the boat builders continue their mission to restore Sanya to her former glory, the sailing crew have been engaged in an intense training program at a local gym to ensure they are in peak condition when the boat is ready to sail, team MCM Andrés Soriano reports.In the early hours of Saturday morning the sailors will run to the top of Cape Town’s Lions Head Peak, a climb of 2,195 feet (669 metres) above sea level, before returning to the team base to prepare their gear in anticipation of a planned training sail on December 7.
See more of the Salthouse boys progress with Team Sanya on our facebook..... www.facebook.com/salthouseboatbuilders
