09.05.2006
NEARING THE FINISH
Little over 36 hours have passed since the yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet crossed the start line in the Chesapeake and began their route up the east coast of the USA to New York and yet they are already nearing the finish of leg six.
ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) have increased their lead over the chasing boats and are now just 14 miles from the Ambrose Light and the final stretch past Long Island and the finish line just off North Cove Yacht Harbour.
Another difficult 6 hours in gruelling upwind conditions have seen the battle continue between Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) and movistar (Bouwe Bekking) for second place and behind them Neal McDonald and his crew on Ericsson have been toughing it out alongside Brasil 1 (Torben Grael)
At the latest position report Pirates of the Caribbean had held on to second and just 1 mile behind them Brasil1 had made gains on movistar and were neck and neck 18 miles behind the leader.
Brunel (Grant Wharington) are a further 17 miles back with ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) bringing up the rear.
The forecast is for lighter winds as the boats approach New York which could be a worry for Mike Sanderson with the chasing pack so close behind. His boat suffered in the light breeze during the in port race in Baltimore and similar conditions could allow the fleet to concertina again just miles from the finish line.
YACHT
Latitude
Longitude
DTF
SMG
DTL
DTLC
PTLPS
ETA
POP
OVERALL
1
ABN1
40 13.48N
073 47.11W
00035
11.5
00000
+00000
7.0
09/05/06 10:21:__
70.5
1
2
POTC
39 56.38N
073 53.68W
00052
11.0
00017
-00001
6.0
09/05/06 13:34:__
47.5
3
3
MOVI
39 56.07N
073 54.52W
00053
10.8
00018
-00002
5.0
09/05/06 13:39:__
49.0
2
4
BRA1
39 55.58N
073 57.22W
00053
10.8
00018
-00001
4.0
09/05/06 13:48:__
41.0
5
5
ERIC
39 55.10N
073 55.62W
00054
10.9
00019
-00002
3.0
09/05/06 13:51:__
33.5
6
6
BRUN
39 39.86N
074 03.48W
00070
07.6
00035
-00012
2.0
09/05/06 16:51:__
2.5
7
7
ABN2
39 27.52N
074 00.22W
00081
07.7
00046
-00016
1.0
09/05/06 19:00:__
42.0
4
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
BRA1 Brasil 1
BRUN Brunel
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
PLPTS: projected leg points
PTP: projected overall points
OVERALL: projected 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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