Leg 2 - Cape Town to Cochin

• Starting on 15 November 2008: Start Time: 13:00 hrs (local time)
• To sail    4,450 Nm  to Cochin
• Cochin Port ETA: Wed, 3 Dec 2008

About the leg 2

‘When leg two starts from Cape Town the subtropical high should be too far east to impact on this passage to India. The biggest issue, initially, may not be the weather at all, it could be the Agulhas Current, which runs south down the east coast of South Africa. Over the shallows of the Agulhas Bank it meets cold water and the westerly winds coming the other way from the Southern Ocean. The result is a notoriously rough piece of water.

Once they’ve negotiated this, the teams will be racing to be first into the south-east trade winds, which should be settled and blowing by the time they reach Mauritius. The trades will take them into the Doldrums, and then it is going to be tricky most of the way to Kochi. Any wind on the chart is predominantly a light westerly until the Maldives, but north of that all bets are off.’

Cochin Stopover

Willingdon Island
3-13December 2008

• Race Village construction and improvement of public amenities in Willingdon Island  in the final stage.

• On departure of 2nd leg of the Race from Cape Town the advance teams of Volvo and the racing teams will come to Cochin Port and start setting up their pavilions, technical support area etc in the Race Village.

• Dep of 3rd leg to Singapore (from Cochin) on 13th December 2008 -     11 00 hrs