The Ocean Race 2022-23 Leg 3 live – Follow along as the longest leg in race history gets underway

‘Everybody keyed in’ – Enright

11th Hour’s skipper Charlie Enright is aware of the task ahead.

Enright said: “When the course for this race was announced, everybody keyed in on this leg pretty quickly as the big one. You know, it’s going to be somewhere between 30 to 40 days.

“The south can be unbelievable,” added Enright. “I mean, it’s big westerly winds with no leeward mark, a sailor’s dream and you get to go downwind forever. But it’s also a pretty treacherous part of the world. In the two previous editions of the race we’ve been either side of that. In 2014/15 we were a group of young guys and to find ourselves leading the fleet around Cape Horn was a magical moment.

“But in the next edition of the race we dropped a rig about 50 miles after going around Cape Horn. So the Southern Ocean can give and it can also take away.”

Welcome to one and all

Hello and welcome to Eurosport’s live coverage of Leg 3 of The Ocean Race 2022-23, from Cape Town in South Africa all the way to Itajai, Brazil, an astonishing 12,750 nautical miles that makes it the longest leg in race history.

Let’s start things off by hearing what some of the athletes had to say.

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