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9:08 AM Fri 24 Sep 2010 GMT

'Skipper Ken Read helming the PUMA Ocean Racing Volvo Open 70 'il mostro'' Sally Collison/PUMA Ocean Racing Click Here to view large photo

In May of 2007, the fledgling Puma Ocean Racing hosted a nice-but-modest press conference at Boston's Rowse Wharf to announce their intention to race in the 2008/2009 Volvo Ocean Race. The newly minted team, headed by skipper Ken Read, was optimistic but realistic about their odds, and their game-plan strategy of hitting a series of 'singles' (as Read, a Red Sox fanatic, loves to say), rather than swinging hard in the hopes of it proving to be a home run. The strategy paid off, and Puma Ocean Racing managed to usurp Telefonica Blue for a surprise second-place finish in a ...

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