Working against the clock to get their boat back in the water and fit for sea trials in time for the restart of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race next Wednesday, skipper Skip Novak (nearest camera) and Bill Biewenga make adjustments to the replaced keel of the maxi racer Drum. Another dram.a for Drum By ROG.ER WILLIAMS had wanted to take his boat Coas.t, on the first leg of the keel and capsized in a Force 8 C!def Reporter on sea trials this week. race from Portsmouth to Cape gale off the Cornish coast in ' . ' He and his crew have been Town, and there was subse- the Fastn.et Race. Simon le DRU M, th e high-drama boat k' . t th k t quent speculation that the Bon and five of his crew were of ocean racing, is again the wotrDmg agha.msh e c 1do cb yacht might retire from the trapped in an air-pocket in ' f ·1 b. · 't · ge rums 1ps ape an ac k~ . · . · centre o a na1 - 1tmg si ua- · th t Th d d race But Skip Novak put paid the yacht's overturned hull tion, with hull repairs taking ID dd e wa e\ . e amaged to this last week by announc- and were rescued by a Royal l'onger than expected and rull fer,·thno~d e1ngthrepaire.,' ing that repairs would be Navy diver. with a buckled rudder now wi u1 er. e 1ay e maxi s d h d th t th . c 0 m p 0 u n ding the maxi pre-start tnal.s. w~~1d ~~~tf~ue t~e ra~emaxi Drum was towed back to yacht's proble.ms as the re- The rudder is understood to Drum is partly owned by port and underwent exten- st.art of the Whitbread Round- have buckled when a support- pop singer Simon le Bon of sive - and expensive - re- the-Wor d R ace d raws near. rn g s.1 rn g .Snapped . . .O n the_, Duran Duran, who has made a pairs to get her to the starting t d g the line of the Whitbread Race on Tr 0 second leg of the race, quaysi d e si e a JOtmn video recording for market- September 28. t o ~ _~ kland, New Zealand, Table Bay yac_ht ba_srn where ing in the USA to help pay the sta?ts'·next Wednesday morn- the hull was 1 epau ed. . boat's huge repair bills. The question now is - will ing fr om Table Bay and The hull was damaged 111 The maxi's troubles started she be ready in time for the Drum's ski pper, Skip No_vak, ~tormy weather off the West last August, when she lost her start of the second leg?