Datum: 09. Dec 2002 16:34
FINAL YACHT TISCALI ETA TUESDAY MORNING WITH CAPE DOCTOR WIND
10th Dec: Tiscali ETA: mid-morning
12th Dec: Invitation to hear John Dennis speak
13th Dec: Pre-start Press Conference & Class 2 Prizegiving
14th Dec: Watch the Around Alone Leg 3 Start at 12:00hrs
Cape Town, South Africa – 9th December. Last boat to finish Leg 2 of Around Alone is Open 60 Tiscali, skippered by Italian Simone Bianchetti. He is currently 177 miles away and going at 10 – 11 knots average boatspeed, and expects to be in around mid-morning tomorrow 10th December in a good ‘Cape Doctor’ breeze.
The local south easterly wind is known as the Cape Doctor because it was thought to blow all the germs from the city out to sea leaving the downtown air fresh and clean. For now though it is whipping up everything at North Wharf on the V&A Waterfront and making work on the boats difficult as the Around Alone fleet rocks in the breeze, while halyards clang against the masts. Last night one of the docks broke free causing a minor panic as shore crews scrambled to run extra lines ashore. Fortunately there was no damage done.
It has not been an easy trip for the Italian circumnavigator. Simone w as plagued by both autopilot problems and a dismasting during Leg 2 from Torbay, England to Cape Town, South Africa. He & Tiscali nevertheless was determined to continue his race and pulled in to Northern Spain under jury rig, where he was welcomed and assisted by the Spanish Navy based at El Ferrol del Caudillo. Fellow competitor Bernard Stamm, winner of both Legs 1 & 2, lent Simone his spare mast so he could complete this leg and be on the start line for Leg 3. Emma Richard’s sponsor, Pindar, offered to transport the mast to Northern Spain and did so in their converted fishing trawler ‘Hatherleigh’. And yet again, in the true spirit of camaraderie, all the Around Alone skippers are back in town to welcome Simone in to Cape Town tomorrow.
* John Dennis on Bayer Ascensia is diabetic, and will be sharing his experiences to fellow diabetic sufferers and the Bayer team at the Vincent Pallotti Hospital on December 12th at 1800hrs . You are welcome to meet him there – RSVP: 0860 102 672.
* The Around Alone fleet and Race Village are based at North Wharf at the V&A Waterfront until the restart on December 14th.
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