Volvo Ocean Race 2001/2002 www.VolvoOceanRace.org zurück zur Übersicht VOLVO OCEAN RACE - 2. Wochenbericht Southampton, England, October 5, 2001 Week 2 Parking Lots and Fast Lanes Quite simply, the past week of the Volvo Ocean Race has been characterized by slow frustrating progress as the fleet have sailed into a meteorological minefield. The secret to the week has been avoiding clouds that have sucked the breeze away from the yachts. Crews have spent numerous hours parked up while others just a few hundred meters away sail off, until they too have suffer the same fate. “It’s quite frustrating to sail in so little pressure,” explained Ian Moore, co-navigator of illbruck “It’s a bit like driving your Porsche down the motorway stuck in second gear. We have a boat that can easily top 20 knots and here we are pootling along at six.”. Moore’s thoughts were echoed by Grant Dalton on Amer Sports One, who added, “The toughest ocean race is right now the most boring ocean race as we struggle not with the conditions but with the mental boredom of simply being parked for hour after hour and in fact what has now been four or five days of very slow progress”. The estimated times of arrivals into Cape Town have been to be pushed back, with Dalton fearing an extra 5-10 days of sailing. He continued: “When I look out now to the future, I still see the doldrums, the South Atlantic high and the prospect of a time between 35 and 40 days”. After Tyco and illbruck spent the week fighting for the lead, with Amer Sports One, News Corp and ASSA ABLOY never far behind, the top spot has been swept from underneath them by Team SEB. After a mid week pit stop off the small Island of Porto Santo, 20 miles north east of Madeira to collect vital spare parts to fix a damaged headboard car, Gunnar Krantz’s crew have surged from last into the lead. “After being trapped for so many days it is a relief to get going,” explained a relieved Krantz. “We are sailing in a NE trade [wind] and making good ground, eating a lot of miles, hour by hour. Will it hold? We will soon find out. The only thing we can do is to sail the green one as fast as possible. Nothing lasts forever”. djuice have also suffered from headboard car problems and are now at the back of the fleet, just behind Lisa McDonald’s all female team on Amer Sports Too, but fighting hard. Skipper Knut Frostad reflected, “Never in my life has my patience been tested harder. A small loss during the first days out of England has grown to a massive distance, even if we have been fighting like hell, day and night and most likely made very few mistakes the last days. We just missed the first train and our train just won’t give us opportunities to go as fast at the moment. We simply have less wind than the leading pack. The big wall of no wind that could gave slowed them down, decided to let them through before us and instead sucked up every knot of wind around us, BUT…… Don’t you ever think that we have accepted the loss”. Volvo Ocean Race Position Report Leg One, Day 13, 16.00hrs GMT PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PS 1 TSEB 17 03.65N 021 48.20W 05069 214 10.1 261 00000 00.7 25-Oct-01 8 2 ILBK 19 03.83N 026 07.86W 05089 177 06.4 141 00020 -03.4 25-Oct-01 7 3 AART 19 35.09N 026 21.46W 05116 193 05.1 118 00047 -04.4 25-Oct-01 6 4 TYCO 19 39.45N 026 22.98W 05120 184 04.8 105 00051 -04.7 25-Oct-01 5 5 NEWS 19 34.29N 025 36.15W 05127 178 05.4 119 00058 -04.4 25-Oct-01 4 6 AONE 19 46.66N 025 58.06W 05133 180 04.2 108 00064 -05.4 25-Oct-01 3 7 ATOO 20 23.36N 025 18.89W 05179 208 02.5 099 00110 -07.1 25-Oct-01 2 8 DJCE 20 31.32N 023 11.24W 05226 156 05.8 079 00157 -05.4 26-Oct-01 1 PS – Position; DTF – Distance to Finish; CMG – Course made good; SMG – Speed made good; TFHR – 24 hours run; DTL – Distance to leader; DTL-C – Distance to leader change; ETA – Estimated time of arrival; PO – Points. ILBK illbruck Challenge AONE Amer Sports One ATOO Amer Sports Two AART ASSA ABLOY Racing Team NEWS News Corporation TYCO Team Tyco TSEB Team SEB DJCE djuce dragons vo and Volvo Ocean Race Background The Volvo Car Corporation has its headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden. 27,400 people worldwide are employed by Volvo Cars and in the year 2000, the company's sales increased to 422,100 cars. Volvo is one of the world’s leading suppliers of commercial transport solutions. The group manufactures trucks, buses, and construction equipment, power systems for marine and industrial use, and aircraft engine components. Founded in 1927, Volvo currently has about 79.000 employees, manufacturing operations in 30 countries and a worldwide market and service organisation. The Volvo Ocean Race is run every four years. It starts in Southampton on September 23rd 2001 and finishes in Kiel, Germany, on June 9th 2002. 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