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GLOBAL OCEAN RACE 2011-2012

GOR: Co-skipper change on Cessna Citation

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After 22,000 miles and 104 days of racing in the double-handed, Global Ocean Race (GOR), the Kiwi skipper of Class40 Cessna Citation and overall leader of the GOR, Conrad Colman, is making his fourth co-skipper change for Legs 4 and 5 and will be racing with Australian sailor, Scott Cavanough, for the two final legs through the South and North Atlantic.

Colman sailed Leg 1 from Palma, Mallorca, to Cape Town with Spanish Mini 6.50 sailor, Hugo Ramon; for the Indian Ocean’s Leg 2, the British Figaro specialist Sam Goodchild joined Cessna Citation delivering a win in Wellington, New Zealand and South African yachtsman, Adrian Kuttel was co-skipper for Leg 3 across the Pacific and around Cape Horn taking first place in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Colman and his new co-skipper, Scott Cavanough, met at the start of the 2009 Mini Transat and have kept in contact since. “It is fantastic having done a lot of successful blind dating with co-skippers in the GOR that I now have Scotty for two legs of the race,” says 28 year-old Colman of his double-handed partner for the leg to Charleston and the final leg of the circumnavigation across the North Atlantic to Les Sables d’Olonne. “I think Scotty has got a lot of complimentary experience,” he adds.

Cavanough has an immensely diverse sailing background from racing in the Sabot Nationals in his native Australia in the early 1990’s, to the rarefied air of the international superyacht circuit and the polar opposite of Mini 6.50 racing. As Colman was crossing the start line of GOR Leg 1 with Cessna Citation on 25 September last year in Palma, Cavanough was 500 miles to the north in La Rochelle at the start line of the Mini Transat with his Mini 6.50, Skippy.

19/03/2012 16:53:00 © riproduzione riservata

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