ROARING Towards Cape Town | Leg 2 08/02 | The Ocean Race Show 

Love Rosalins 30kts sound impression! Big respect for all sailors for enduring these conditions.

Another great mix of video, crew, technical explanation. The mix of serious and light-heartedness is fun to be part of.

I really like how different technical therms and situations are explainend. Using bottles as waves is just genius.

No matter how modern the boat, ancient rituals like having a crew member over the side in waves freeing a line with a knife have been repeated at sea for a thousand years.

Great report Niall.- Thanks for all these details. Knowing that filming is hard work under this condition, its anyway helpful to improve the sound quality when recording. Please: No critique at the team documentarists. You all do a great job as your teams. I hope that all the teams with their technical specialists including the constructors find a solution to avoid the extreme foil resonances. Car and or airplane constructors are familiar with those effects. There are for sure solutions of different scales. Wether structural dampings or different weights. There will be high-speed sailing on the long 3rd leg with these types of acoustic speedometers. What I could see is that nobody with or without capsuled ear protectors will hold through, I hope the crews will receive solid improvements. Last 1.000 miles to Cape Town - how many miles further to SE before shifting towards the RSA coast? What I find lifting the tension for the whole race is: If the 1-3 positions stay as they are in the moment, the scoreboard will show 3 winners with 8 points each. Speed for Mailzia is already slowing down. Save arrival to all crews. A great event for offshore sailing.

Thanks for the vivid documentation about what is happening on board and the challenges the crews have to face.

Great update, nice nice work thru on the wave diving. Saw a video of Pip Hare with her imoca in the shop, making the bow fatter, flatter to prevent diving. Next year, no more pointy bows. Scow bows will rule.

Great mix of impressions and technical explanations. I'm always looking forward to the next Ocean Race Show. Keep it up. And thanks for entertaining me

Excellent update summary. Human survival in a hostile environment. Testing doing the basics: sleeping, eating, talking, shower/baths, bathroom breaks. Noise, pounding, vibrations/rattlings, falling temperatures, sea water ingress, body & clothing smell, sea fare.

Awesome guys! Keep up the great show! Looking good Niall. Editor got Susann and Jack mixed up, make sure you guys get enough sleep!

The fishing net was around the foil , not the keel

Great video! Any chance you could put subtitles on the sailors? It can be difficult to hear what they are saying through all the noise and the auto-generated ones struggle as much as the rest of us.

I'm curious if the race committee or the teams have remarked on how close the fleet sailed to Itajai? Is it odd to sail past the Leg 3 finish on Leg 2, knowing they'll be heading the long way 'round in March?

Great report. Thanks Niall.

Great Show, i love the race!!!

Great episode. Keep them coming.

The nose dive issue can also be dealt with by altering the angle of attack to match the wave frequency to the hull. An oblique path to prevent the loss of speed and time lost to regather momentum, and the shock waves, sleep disruptions, impromptu food fights, etc. From the archives of the _Institute for the Preservation of Dunning-Kruger Genius._ (I had written the above before reality pointed out that oceans are painted after all!)

I said it already but fantastic coverage.

Susann grew a beard? 😄 And Jack miraculously jumped to Holcim? Oops 🫣

Great report! 👍👏

Can you explain the inhauls and tweakers, particularly if using multiple jibs? See it on the Maxis, how does it affect sail pressure forward of the mast foot? How do you balance the boat on the foils?

Wie immer super.....

These are so well produced and keep me engaged in the race. Keep it up!

Looks so funny how Susann Beuke tries to eat her pasta in the slamming boat at 14:06

Thanks again for these updates.

14:09 That's not Susann Beucke

Excellent reporting!

that is insane.

very good show

Any chance we get more new images like in the earlier oceanraces? Always the same

Is that a keel or a foil?

I believe Pip Hare is modifying the bow on her IMOCA right now to be a similar profile to Team Malizia.

Niall, So the current leg is a bit of a long sprint 10days? But the next is really long 30 days ?more? Not sure Too long to go with limited sleep/ water/food etc How will the sailors try to be sure they can stay ‘ on the ball’ 20+ days in if the don’t change their sleep and nutritional habits of the earlier sprint legs? Maybe the OBR will have to find out for us??? Cheers Warren

Platypus bill bow would help the bow diving. Lol!

No active noise cancellation?

Looks like we really do have the power to turn the tide on plastic pollution 😉🌊

“Like babies screaming and crying!”

Why aren't the vo65 racing though?

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no live inport race !!!???

Can we have more coverage of the vo65s?

Yeah, thats not the keel... its the foil. How should you be able to crank the boat so much to one side without shore attachment :D

please stop reusing clips

There is so much more rubbish in the water these days I'm surprised they dont pick up a lot more especially now with all the foils

Why don't they wear head protection.... and eat with their bare hands... would greatly reduce risk of an accident.

Great video! Does the winner win English classes?

Niall, So the current leg is a bit of a long sprint 10days? But the next is really long 30 days ?more? Not sure Too long to go with limited sleep/ water/food etc How will the sailors try to be sure they can stay ‘ on the ball’ 20+ days in if the don’t change their sleep and nutritional habits of the earlier sprint legs? Maybe the OBR will have to find out for us??? Cheers Warren