Volvo Ocean Race- Team Vestas Wind recovery video

by Richard Gladwell/Sail-World.com/nz on 24 Dec 2014 Three and a half minute video of the Team Vestas Wind recovery operation from the reef at St Brandon.

The Volvo Ocean Racer struck the reef on November 29, just after nightfall breaking off both rudders, she also ;ost a considerable part of her stern section.

After their return to Abu Dhabi, the crew and sponsors undertook to remove the wreck from the reef, and less than a month later they returned, and refloated the boat, removed the mast, and hoisted her aboard a Maersk shipping line vessel. She will head for Mauritius, then Malaysia, and the Italy.