Sometimes Ocean Racing isn’t Racing at All

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Check out this short little video of the Team Puma during Volvo Ocean Race refueling in the middle of the ocean. Yes that’s right, refueling! Well, with a quarter of a mast and a race to get back into, they need to get ashore for a spar replacement as soon as possible. Thank God for hi-tech communications and GPS devices, and thank God for those shipping lanes.

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