Women’s team took the lead in Volvo Ocean Race!
It’s good to know that the all-women team took the lead in the Volvo Ocean Race.
Libby Greenhalgh, the team navigator, took her courage in her hands and split with the rest of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet approaching the Straits of Gibraltar – and it briefly left the women of Team SCA in a good lead as they entered the Atlantic on Monday.
The Team SCA navigator has made her reputation as a skilled meteorologist but she still wondered if she had made the right call when she ordered the magenta boat to go north when the other 55 sailors went south.
“Everyone except us were going the southerly route through the Straits and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why,” said the Briton. “We wanted to stay with the fleet but we also wanted to stick with our plan – and our plan has us sailing north.”
The crew had to wait four hours after their tactical gamble for their next position report – and found that they were sitting pretty, some 21 nautical miles clear of their rivals.
“The team collectively hooted and hollered for joy as Libby told us we were ahead,” related their on-board reporter, Corinne Halloran. “Our risk paid off big time and we are now officially sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.”
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