Alert: boat capsized, TeamTom rescued and alive!
We received the following report from Tomskl:
At apr 8.00 pm last night (dec 13) Tom and myself were just changing places. The ocean was quite calm. We were in great spirits after the first 8 days in the race. Suddenly our boat was rocked by an enormous wave-the size of which we've never seen before.
Our boat was thrown over and capsized. The cabin flooded. We desperately tried to turn the boat back up again- but to no avail.
In fact our PSVita/teamtom boat started to sink.
We managed to get the life raft and life jackets out during some very nervous and difficult moments. We entered the life raft and saw our dream literally sink in the Ocean. We floated for about ten hours in the night on the life raft until we were rescued by the Crystal Cruise Ocean Liner.
We are obviously very disappointed but at the first place very happy to be alive and very grateful to our rescuers.
We are now heading for St Maarten and will come back with a full report shortly.
We wish all the other Woodvale participants best of luck!
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