#VOR - Disaster-struck Team Vestas Wind is "exploring the opportunity" of re-joining the Volvo Ocean Race a week after coming a cropper on an Indian Ocean reef, as Jonno Turner reports on the official race website.
The news comes days after Ireland's own Brian Carlin, the on-board reporter for the ill-fated team, gave his personal account of what went down on their VOR 65 in a video blog post.
At a press call in Abu Dhabi, host city of the next race stopover, team chief executive Morten Albæk said "we'll do everything within our means" to get the crew racing again.
But with the crashed boat a write-off, the next best option is building a new boat.
"Whether that can be done, and done in a time which is meaningful for Team Vestas Wind to re-enter the race, is still to be concluded," he said.
It's still a mystery as to exactly how Team Vestas Wind's heading put them in such close contact with the Cargados Carajos Shoals, a 50km-long reef northeast of Mauritius.
Team navigator Wouter Verbraak blamed their failure to "zoom in" on their electronic charts.
"Not doing so is the big mistake that I made," he said, "but the good thing is that we didn't make any more."
