Ocean Race: Team Malizia passes Cape Horn as leaders

Ocean Race
Team Malizia passes Cape Horn in first place

Boris Herrmann’s team Malizia won the race to Cape Horn at the Ocean Race. The German racing yacht “Malizia – Seaexplorer” passed the legendary Chilean landmark on Monday after 29 days, four hours and eight minutes. The success came in Boris Herrmann’s fifth Cape Horn passage with a lead of 18 nautical miles over the Swiss team Holcim-PRB. Skipper Boris Herrmann said: “Cape Horn holds many memories for me. Reaching this line first means almost more than winning the stage. I’m proud of the team and of this boat!”

With the successful summit attempt, the last 2000 nautical miles of the historically longest royal stage in the Ocean Race are heralded. The fleet leaves the South Pacific and turns left into the Atlantic. There, in the final phase of stage three, the circumnavigators head up the South American east coast to Itajai. In the Brazilian port, the second round of points for the double-rated stage will be distributed over a total of almost 15,000 nautical miles. Team Malizia is currently third in the intermediate classification behind the teams Holcim-PRB and 11th Hour Racing.

In the Malizia team, Rosalin Kuiper from the Netherlands is on the mend at her Cape Horn premiere. The 27-year-old suffered a concussion, a laceration and bruises when she fell out of her bunk as a result of the encounter between the boat and the big wave on Sunday. She rests on the advice of the doctors on board in order to be operational again as soon as possible.

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