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(ii) One point for sail damage and one point for equipment damage following New Zealand stopover
(iii) One point for equipment damage following New Zealand stopover
(iv) One point for sail damage and one point for equipment damage following New Zealand stopover. One point for equipment damage following Gold Coast stopover.
(v) Two points for equipment damage following New Zealand stopover. One point for sail damage following Gold Coast stopover.
(vi) One point for sail damage for New Zealand stopover
(vii) One point for sail damage following New Zealand stopover
The race from Singapore to Qingdao in China is one of extremes. The heat below deck will be difficult to cope with in the early stages and it will stay with them until they are level with Taiwan and the entrance to the Yellow Sea.
The fleet will meet challenging head winds that provide the most extreme conditions of the race and, as the teams head back into a northern hemisphere winter, the temperatures will quickly plummet. The Kuroshio or ‘Black Stream’ current will give the teams a…