10.01.2006
Celebration time
It is time to break out the chocolate onboard ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) to celebrate crossing the second ice waypoint last night and passing the first scoring gate on leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race. They have now earned 3.5 points, the first points to be scored on this two scoring-gate leg to Melbourne. Overnight they blew to pieces their big spinnaker which had previously been repaired for a small hole. The onboard sewing machine was put to good use and a few hours later the sail was back in the air, almost as good as new.
As the Dutch team romps away, the wind has filled in from the northwest for the chasing pack of three and speeds have increased after a frustrating time yesterday, when they were sailing upwind with little or no wind at times. “Not that we have really overtaken the front, but the breeze just filled in,” explained Bouwe Bekking from movistar this morning.
ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) has held onto second place from Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) in third, while movistar is averaging the highest speed in the fleet of 20.5 knots. She is closing quickly on the pirates and is now only 21 nautical miles behind them.
ABN AMRO TWO is 240 miles from the scoring gate and will collect three points if all continues to go as planned, making it a one-two for the Dutch team so far on this leg.
ING Real Estate Brunel (Grant Wharington) is trailing 807 nautical miles behind the leaders having had a difficult day yesterday in the light winds.
Brasil 1 restarted the race at 0948 GMT today
after making full repairs to the structural damage to the deck. “Our shore crew has done an amazing job here in Port Elizabeth,” wrote watch leader Knut Frostad yesterday. “The boat is repaired and even stronger than before, so we should be OK and at least a bit more confident in diving south again.”
LEG TWO DAY 9, 10.1.06, 1000 GMT POSITION REPORT
YACHT
Latitude
Longitude
DTF
SMG
24 Hour Run
24 Hour Speed
DTL
DTLC
ETA
LPTS
TLPTS
RPTD
RACE POS
1
ABN1
39 34.98S
073 10.92E
03475
19.5
451
18.8
00000
+00000
21/01/06 __:__:__
7.0
10.5
25.5
1
2
ABN2
40 14.54S
064 45.58E
03855
18.6
323
13.5
00380
+00001
24/01/06 __:__:__
6.0
6.0
18.0
2
3
POTC
39 56.22S
064 01.58E
03893
17.5
277
11.6
00418
-00005
24/01/06 __:__:__
5.0
5.0
10.0
5
4
MOVI
39 03.34S
064 01.31E
03914
19.3
375
15.6
00439
+00001
24/01/06 __:__:__
4.0
4.0
10.0
5
5
AUS1
40 12.60S
055 07.72E
04282
10.6
242
10.1
00807
-00074
29/01/06 __:__:__
3.0
3.0
8.0
7
6
BRA1
33 57.55S
025 40.86E
05735
00.4
002
00.1
02260
+01226
26/05/06 __:__:__
2.0
2.0
14.5
3
7
ERIC
33 57.56S
025 37.90E
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
AUS1 ING Real Estate Brunel
BRA1 Brasil 1
ERIC Ericsson Racing Team
MOVI movistar
POTC Pirates of the Caribbean
DTF: Distance to finish, SMG: Speed made good, DTL: distance to leader, DTLC: distance to leader change; the difference between the distance from the boat to the leader taken at the time of the last six hour poll, and the distance from the boat to the leader at the previous poll
TLPTS: total leg points to date inc. scoring gate points if yacht maintains current position
RPTD: Race points to date inc. in-port race points, scoring gate points and leg points the yacht would score if yacht maintains current position.
OVERALL: position in race overall if yacht maintains current position.
Lizzie Green Press Officer at race headquarters:
Tel: +44 1489 554 832, Mob: +44 7801 185 320
Email: lizzie.green@volvooceanrace.org
Sophie Luther Press Assistant at race headquarters
Mob: +44 7956 285548 email: sophie.luther@volvooceanrace.org
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