VOR: A final act of piracy

Paul Cayard was apologetic afterwards for his final act of Piracy, but his crew did what they had to do to win the final leg of the 2005/2006 Volvo Ocean Race, stealing away what would have been a fairytale final victory for ABN AMRO TWO. Snared like a hapless fly in a spider’s web as the arachnid sucked out its bodily fluids, there was simply nothing the youngsters on the white boat could do as they watched, windless, as the Black Pearl arrived from over the horizon and inexorably passed on the wings of a new breeze.