Great choice of video, making me feel full of nostalgia for those days and the Whitbread races that followed, the crews lived aboard and went sight seeing in the various ports, not just to the gym and press conferences as now and they looked after the boats themselves shore crew teams were still a way off.
I recall one edition where we hosted some crews at private BBQ s I have never seen anyone devour steaks like the (skinny) Russian sailors.
During the last Volvo stopover here we had a One Ton Cup revisited regatta at the same time and based in the viaduct by the Volvo boats, most passers by were more interested in our old one tonners and asked if they were the original Rainbow 11, Waianiwa and Young Nick etc . I guess the boats seemed and were more accessible then and were for a time household names in NZ .
Our antics after race with a petrol powered cocktail blender - not exactly subtle either.
