Nicholson wins Musto trophy

Chris Nicholson has won the VOR leg four Musto Seamanship Trophy

At the Volvo Awards ceremony in Rio de Janiero at the end of the race from Melbourne, the Musto Seamanship Trophy for Leg four was presented to Chris Nicholson, Watch Captain on the Spanish entry movistar by skipper Bouwe Bekking.

When water came flooding into the hull, threatening to sink the yacht west of Cape Horn, Nicholson bravely dived under the water to connect two emergency pumps direct to the vessel’s batteries. He suffered a series of electric shocks, as he made the connection, but his achievement in doing so enabled the crew to fire up the pumps and drain tonnes of seawater back into the ocean. Movistar went on to finish the leg unassisted.

Previous winners of the Musto Seamanship Trophy include Richard Mason (Ericsson) and Andrea Fonseca on Brasil 1. Each stainless steel trophy is individually sculpted by UK-based John Mellows. The Trophy depicts a Volvo 70 at speed on a three sail reach, with the bow wave streaming away back to the shrouds.

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