For EDITORIAL USE only,please credit: Guo Chuan/Green Dragon Racing/Volvo Ocean Race....Ian Walker's Green Dragon sufferers a broken boom as the fleet continued to wrestle with strong gusts and treacherous seas as the second leg of the race to India turned spiteful.....Just before 11:00 GMT 18/11/08 Walker sent the following email to the Duty Office at race headquarters in Portsmouth alerting race organisers to the situation on board. ....ÒI am sorry to report that we have just broken our boom in a 50-knot squall,Ó the message read. ÒWe are in the process of recovering the parts. The situation is under control with no harm or risk to anyone. We are carrying on downwind.Ó....Their position at the time was 39:41.17S,40:28.73E,1,500 miles from Mauritius.....The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain,on 4 October 2008,it will,for the first time,take in Cochin,India,Singapore and Qingdao,China before finishing in St Petersburg,Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles,visiting 11 ports over nine months,the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews.....For all media enquiries please contact Lizzie Ward on +44 (0)1489 554 832 or email <A HREF=\\"mailto:lizzie.ward@volvooceanrace.org\\">lizzie.ward@volvooceanrace.org</A>. For all photographic enquiries,please contact Tim Stonton on +44 (0)1489 554 867 or email <A HREF=\\"mailto:tim.stonton@volvooceanrace.org\\">tim.stonton@volvooceanrace.org</A>. For further images,please go to <A HREF=\\"http://images.volvooceanrace.org\\">http://images.volvooceanrace.org</A>
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