#VOLVO OCEAN RACE – The VOR fleet are battling squall after squall as they make their way south towards Auckland this evening.
"There’s a lot of thunderstorm activity predicted down the track, we’ve certainly been having a few good storms of a night time and early morning the last couple of nights. I think we will see some pretty big gains and losses, and hopefully we need to be on the good side of a few of these ones to get back into this.
You just filmed us getting whacked by one of the little thunderstorms. It gets up to 35 knots and you don’t have time to change a jib, they move down quite fast. What you’ve got to do is bear away, go with it. It’s a matter of hanging on, hoping everything stays in one piece. We’re probably averaging about 24 knots now, We’re a little off course course, not too bad, and that’s good," Skipper Chris Nicholson.
