This is going to be the longest day for the Hugo Boss team as they re-assemble and launch the boat. She came out the shed on schedule early this morning, emerging into a dank, chilly dawn, going in to the slings, dwarfed by the huge travel hoist on the commercial dock ready for launching.
This is going to be the longest day for the Hugo Boss team as they re-assemble and launch the boat. She came out the shed on schedule early this morning, emerging into a dank, chilly dawn, going in to the slings, dwarfed by the huge travel hoist on the commercial dock ready for launching.
Hugo Boss was going back on her keel early this morning – a time consuming job which requires a large measure of precision and good communication between the team before re-stepping the repaired rig, and putting the boat back in the water to be ready to sail tomorrow.
“ It is pretty unbelievable the job the guys have done,” Alex Thomson stated this morning, “ You really could never tell what the boat and the rig have been through at all.
To think the state we were in only last Thursday it is just amazing, but the guys have all done a fantastic job. Now for me it is a case of getting my head back into race mode.
I have been home for a few days and really just tried to chill out as much as I could, literally sleeping as much as I could. Now I am sure that as soon as I get back on the boat and get some sailing then I will be right back into it.
The really difficult bit for me as skipper and owner, is the legal aspect and dealing with that, because you really have to look after it, and after all we are the victim in this.”