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SA’s Kirsten Neuschäfer first around Cape Horn
Published Thu 02 Mar 2023
It’s been an eventful month of February for Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF), rounding Cape Horn at 2023 UTC 15th Feb. She moved to first place after 150 days of racing and since had to face two storms, breaking a spinnaker pole and taking down her massive twin sail alone on a Minnehaha rocked by the residual swell.
Neuschäfer (ZAF) continues to surge ahead. With a 530-mile lead over India’s Abhilash Tomy, the South African has now entered a zone she knows like the back of her hand, having worked in the region as a commercial skipper aboard Skip Novak’s Pelagic. She and Minnehaha made a quick detour past Port Stanley in the Falkland islands, her base for Antarctic expeditions, to say ‘Hi!’ to her many friends there on the way back to France. It was a huge boost and an emotional moment for her... Read more...
