The crew on Illbruck, which won the last Whitbread Round the World Race as EF Education, plan to use the slog south as a training run for the 2001 Volvo Round the World Race, which will include a leg from Sydney to Hobart along with the regular Sydney to Hobart fleet. Most of the international crew are experienced Fastnet and Whitbread Round the World sailors and all are familiar with the conditions that the Southern Ocean can toss up.