As Ericsson 4 (Torben Grael/BRA) is finally set free from the Doldrums, on leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race, the back-markers are still fighting rainsqualls and wind-sucking black clouds, but there is renewed hope and energy for the crews as the end of the Doldrums is in sight and the race for the other podium places heats up. Onboard PUMA (Ken Read/USA), the crew helplessly watched Ericsson 3 (Anders Lewander/SWE) sail away. The situation was made worse when the crew of Green Dragon (Ian Walker/GBR) saw PUMA ahead of them become engulfed in a rain cloud, like a fly in a spider’s web that stopped the cat dead in her tracks. Green Dragon managed just to skirt the cloud by 100 metres and gained approximately 15 nm in two hours.
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