Young, determined and from parts of Cape Town known for gangs rather than yacht clubs, seven sailors will leave their hometown on Sunday on an epic ocean race to Brazil. The crew of the 43-foot Gryphon boat are competing in the Cape2Rio race — a 5,600-km adventure across the South Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro. A total of 28 yachts will take part in the race, which mixes professional sailors with enthusiastic amateurs on a testing continent-to-continent passage.
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