'Not a one man job'
”I have tried to explain it to people hundreds of times. I don’t believe in being a bossy skipper like in the old days. You simply don’t need that. I think the best way of skippering is to try and create a good spirit onboard and make everyone work for each other”, says Magus Olsson who has taken over the role as a skipper on leg four since Anders Lewander is staying ashore for rehabilitating his injured knee.
Mange continues:
“Sailing really sticks out from the crowd if you compare it with other sports like football, handball and hockey. They are all team sports where everybody is dependent on each other, but they don’t have a skipper who stands above everyone else in the team. They just have a captain whose task in general is to keep the team together and to be a bit of a role model, an experienced guy with a lot of routine.
I don’t understand why sailing should be any different.”
Not much has changed onboard because of the change of skipper. Anders and Magnus have a very similar way of running the team. Magnus is still a watch captain and he is working as he did before. Tomas Johansson has taken over the role of supporting Aksel Magdahl, our navigator, so Magnus can get some sleep once in a while.
“So far we have had both ups and downs. We did not have a great start, but we managed to hang on to the top anyway. But after a few hours into the game, we lost in boatspeed against Puma, Telefonica Azul and Ericsson 4. We are working hard with the trim, but they are still slipping away from us. It’s really frustrating! But we will keep battle on!” Mange says.
Gustav Morin - MCM
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