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Torben Grael's team first to scoring gate on leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race

The first objective for the Volvo Ocean Race crews on this leg to India has been to be first to reach the scoring gate. Unusually the specification for this was along the line of longitude 58°E below 20°S (ie a line south from just east of Mauritius). Earlier this morning, at around 0345 GMT, Torben Grael and his leg one winning team on Ericsson 4 became the first to reach the gate, thereby picking up 4 points, taking her total tally to 18. She was followed by team mates on Ericsson 3, Anders Lewander's team picking up 3.5 points and their total to 8.5. The next boat expected to cross the scoring gate is Green Dragon putting them on to 14 points, and it will be interesting to see if this allows Ian Walker's team to take over second position overall from Ken Read's Puma, currently on 13 points pre-gate. Ironically both teams are slightly crippled, Green Dragon with a broken boom, Puma suffering some structural issues in her hull since yesterday morning. ...more


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