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Volvo Ocean Race: Above and below decks with Zhik

by Sail-World.com/nz 23 Jan 2018 23:33 GMT 24 January 2018
Leg 4, Melbourne to Hong Kong, day 14. Onboard AzkoNobel in the South Pacific near Challenger Deep © Sam Greenfield / Volvo Ocean Race

During Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race the crews literally experienced "Life at the Extreme" with sweltering temperatures and no wind in the Doldrums followed by fast wet sailing for almost a week in the Tradewinds.

For the first time Zhik has been chosen by sailors as their apparel of choice for Volvo Ocean Race. Zhik is aboard team AzkoNobel and Dongfeng Race Team and as Olympic sailors know Zhik has the right clothing for all sailing situations, including the DAME award winning Hydrovision™ hood featuring a clear, ‘see through’ visor, an ‘Adaptive™’ hood and collar on the Isotak X Ocean Smock and Drysuit enabling the entire hood-collar unit to be inter-changed with different balaclavas for different weather conditions

Here's a look at what the sailors are wearing and what life is like above but mostly down below on Leg 4.

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