Betreff: TIM KENT - AN ACCIDENTAL INSPIRATION Absender: "Aroundalone" Empfänger: Datum: 03. Mar 2003 22:45 TIM KENT - AN ACCIDENTAL INSPIRATION Latest News: Kojiro Shiraishi on Spirit of yukoh was abeam of Cape Horn at 13:08 UTC. He sent his log through with of course a photo to mark the occasion: "I have just now rounded Cape Horn with the Horn approximately 10 miles abeam. Thank you everyone for helping me get this far. The last time I passed Cape Horn I was continuing on in the Southern ocean and so passed by about 90 miles away. I did not get to see the Cape that time. This time I am very happy to say that I have seen it with my own eyes. Yukoh and Poseidon have been toasted and thanked with Champagne. I am really happy to be back in the Atlantic. Kojiro". When Tim Kent rounded Cape Horn early Sunday morning it was an incredible accomplishment for so many reasons. First you have to understand where Tim comes from and what brought him to this point. Living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, selling text books for a living, is about as far from being a Cape Horner as is humanly possible. Many sailors have dreams of sailing around the world, some even dream of doing so via the southern capes, but soon enough life comes along, as do children, and before you know it it's too late to make drastic changes in your life. Fanciful aspirations of a solo passage anywhere often become just that; fanciful aspirations, unless, of course, they are fueled by that one single driving force. This force is so powerful that it is literally responsible for making the world go around. It's called a burning desire, and for Tim Kent that desire has done more than burn a hole in his pocket, it has propelled him out of Wisconsin and more than halfway around the planet on a small sailboat, appropriately named Everest Horizontal. Kojiro feiert an Kap Hoorn mit Mumm Tauranga: Tim Kent mit seinen Töchtern Tim's story is far from over. There is still a long way to go to Salvador and then a final, tough leg back to Newport before this Around Alone adventure is done with, however passing Cape Horn is a major milestone. Tim's email captured the excitement and emotion of his rounding, say nothing of his gratitude towards everyone that has helped him get this far. "We have summited Everest," he wrote. "Cape Horn is abeam! After a wild night of squally weather, packing winds over 40 knots, Cape Horn appeared out of the sunlight between squalls as if scripted. A couple of gybes, and we passed within six miles of the famous Rock. These are hallowed waters. Countless wrecks lie on the bottom here, and countless lives have been lost trying to get around this windswept point of land. I feel honored to be here, to see this storied point and move on. I am incredibly lucky to be on a boat this safe, in weather this good, on an adventure this grand. All of you ha ve supported me in one way or another; financially, emotionally, or with your time and hard work. Thank you to everyone. I am turning north now, and heading home." This "grand adventure" started just over two years ago at a Toys-for-Tots fundraiser at the Milwaukee Yacht Club. Sitting around after dinner with some friends dabbling with the notion of what one might do in life if money was not an object, Tim pronounced that he would like to sail around the world, alone. It was not much more than bar talk, but later that night when he returned home and checked his email Tim found that one of the party had outline an action plan. "It seemed reasonable to me," Tim once told me. "But I had no boat, no money and no offshore sailing experience." It seems, however, that the seed had been planted and the rest is history. It's too much to recount here, but somehow Tim Kent transformed from being a book salesman into an offshore racer and the transformation has been a pleasure and privilege to witness. This morning Tim sent me an email in response to one I sent congratulating him. "It was pretty easy for the smart money to bet against me on this project," he wrote. "No experience. No time. No money. But people did not know what an obstinate bastard I am. I try not to let it show, but when I want to get to a goal, I simply get there." The sailor from Milwaukee has now joined an exclusive club. He is one of the very few people that have sailed the southern capes single-handed. A gold ear ring is awaiting his arrival in Brazil and Tim will wear it with pride. He has much to be proud of. Not only has he accomplished so much against incredible odds, but in doing so he has proven that anything in life is possible if you put your mind to it. It's the kind of inspiration we can all take note of. When you have finished reading this story, look around you. What is it you would like to be doing if money was not an object? Do you have some unfinished dreams? What's stopping you from making it happen? Remember, if Tim Kent can pull off a passage around Cape Horn, you can do just about anything yourself. Write it down, fuel it with a burning desire and see what happens. And don't blame me (or Tim) if your dreams come true. Paste this link into your browser: rtsp://video.aroundalone.com/aroundalone/timkent.rm --- Brian Hancock great.circle@verizon.net Betreff: WAR OF NERVES AND NAVIGATIONAL SKILL Absender: "Aroundalone" Empfänger: Datum: 03. Mar 2003 19:10 WAR OF NERVES AND NAVIGATIONAL SKILL CLOSING THE GAPS IN CLASS 1 PINDAR FASTEST BOAT IN 24HRS HEXAGON headS FOR MAR DEL PLATA VAN LIEW EXTENDS LEGACY AND LEAD KENT & SHIRAISHI ROUND CAPE HORN AND THEN THERE WERE TWOÂ… Southampton, England - 3rd March 03. There are as little as 4 - 5 days racing left for the leaders in Class 1 of Around Alone on Leg 4 from Tauranga, NZ to Salvador, Brazil and the gaps have closed up to as little as 30 miles between leader Thierry Dubois on Solidaires and Swiss skipper Bernard Stamm on Bobst Group-Armor Lux. The complex high pressure system ahead is the common enemy now, which threatens to shake up the race order on the home stretch after 7,000 miles of hard-fought ocean-racing. Veteran circumnavigator Dubois has to evolve his strategy for staying ahead: "I set out to position myself between Bernard and the finish, but he has gone off in another direction, which does not inspire me. So I've stuck to my original plan and follow my own way. Last night things turned out in my favour and I gained. We just keep eating away at the miles, one bite for him, one for meÂ…and a stomach of nerves!" Stamm will not find out what position and points he earns for Leg 4 - and therefore if he goes into the last leg on an equal footing with Dubois or not - until 48 hours after he finishes. Bobst Group-Armor Lux has today fallen foul of the fickle high pressure system and is only clocking 5 knots boat speed: "It's a concertina effect, and these gaps are not big enough, which is making life uncomfortable for me with my 48 hour penalty." This is also a war of nerves as much as navigational skill, as 3rd placed Italian skipper Simone Bianchetti has been learning. Yesterday he was worn out and frustrated on the satellite phone: "I am struggling to get Tiscali moving through the water at more than 5 knots as the wind is light and all over the place. I am worried about my position in the West now, but I hope that overnight the wind will come back." He was right about the wind and has caught up to just under 400m from the two leaders. All top three skippers are looking in their rear mirror as the fastest boat on the water in the last 24hrs is 4th placed Pindar, skippered by British skipper Emma Richards. She says that her 24hr run of 296m, nearly twice that of Stamm, is because she has been "sailing in a totally different weather pattern from the rest of the fleet, and skirting the high pressure that Simone got caught byÂ…" Richards has benefitted from a 15 knot WNW breeze whilst the others are picking their way through the expanding high just North East of Buenos Aires. Nothing is constant in this area as Emma concludes: "By tomorrow the position reports could reverse and I will be watching the others tear miles out of me." New Zealand skipper Graham Dalton ended up having to get rid of the whole mast from his Open 60 Hexagon after dismasting from a crash gybe in 35 knots of wind at 48 07S 59 29W on Saturday 1st March at 13:50 UTC. Then 650 miles from the Argentinian coastline, he was resigned to motoring towards Mar Del Plata, and meanwhile his team have been assessing the solutions for finding a replacement mast and rigging. Dalton is not about to quit: "It was my dream to race single-handed around the world and I am not going to allow circumstance to stop me from achieving this ambition. I may not end up with a result as good as I had wished for in the race, but I will be able to hold my head up in the knowledge that I have always done the best I can." Bruce Schwab is starting his third day in Port Stanley on the Falklands, fixing the boom on Ocean Planet and finding that the locals have been following the Around Alone race online, so to have two skippers turn up on their doorstep is an extraordinary event. Class 2 Leader, American Brad Van Liew on Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America, is right in the middle of the Class 1 fleet just 268m behind 4th placed Open 60 Pindar, an outstanding performance from an Open 50 after 6,000 miles run. His detour towards Graham Dalton on Saturday in harsh upwind conditions has been logged to receive compensation, however for Van Liew there is one thing more important than competition: "In single-handed racing the legacy of one competitor diverting to the aid of a fellow competitor is a big part of the ethics of the sport. I was determined not to let the ethical legacy ever be doubted and going to the aid of Graham for the 6 hours that his safety was in question was my sole purpose in life. These are the things that make the friendships and bonds of single-handed competitors like no other in sport." American Great Lakes sailor, Tim Kent on Everest Horizontal, is the second class 2 skipper to have rounded Cape Horn on Sunday 2nd March at 16:35 UTC. This was a rite of passage for Kent: "We have summitted Everest - Cape Horn is abeam! After a wild night of squally weather, packing winds over 40 knots, Cape Horn appeared out of the sunlight between squalls as if scripted and we passed within 6 miles of the famous Rock. I feel honored to be here, to see this storied point and move on. I am incredibly lucky to be on a boat this safe, in weather this good, on an adventure this grand. I am turning north now, and heading home." The first Open 40 to get a safe passage round 'Cabo de Hornos' was Japanese skipper Kojiro Shiraishi on Spirit of yukoh at 11:08 UTC on 3rd March. Unlike Kent, Koji has been round before, but he never saw the legendary rock the first time: "This time I am very happy to say that I have seen it with my own eyes. Yukoh and Poseidon have been toasted and thanked with Champagne Mumm. I am really happy to be back in the Atlantic." The passage was not without drama as Koji's thumb on his right hand was twisted backwards when he was thrown from his bunk after a rogue wave slammed the boat side on. And then there were two… both Alan Paris on BTC Velocity and Derek Hatfield on Spirit of Canada are anxious to get out of the Southern Ocean as Hatfield is eerily becalmed and yet there is another strong low pressure to the North approaching fast. Paris is happy to have widened the gap on Hatfield by another 50 miles to 140 miles, despite the original distance between them being 420 miles. However, this new depression could come bearing down on Spirit of Canada first and propel him closer still. Their ETA at the Horn is going to coincide with the first Open 60 arriving in Salvador, Brazil, revealing a gap of around 2,470 miles from first boat to last. POSITIONS AT 1400GMT 3rd MARCH 2003 You can track the race boats using RayTech 4.1 navigational software by going to the Positions page online and clicking on the link to the Raymarine website at the top of the index chart. Class 1 Boat Lat Lon AvgBsp Avgheading DTF, DTL 1 Solidaires, 33 01.210 S, 42 25.190 W, 9.05 kt, 29 °T, 1226.40 nm 2 Bobst Group-Armor Lux, 34 24.000 S, 40 47.070 W, 4.71 kt, 27 °T, 1291.75 nm, +65.35 nm 3 Tiscali, 37 18.210 S, 50 03.550 W, 10.11 kt, 47 °T, 1623.61 nm, +397.21 nm 4 Pindar, 39 20.310 S, 48 41.210 W, 12.56 kt, 52 °T, 1693.04 nm, +466.65 nm 5 Hexagon, 46 07.440 S, 59 29.970 W, 3.81 kt, 345 °T, 2299.98 nm, +1073.59 nm 6 Ocean Planet, 51 41.310 S, 57 49.120 W, 0.00 kt, 0 °T, 2524.75 nm, +1298.30 nm Class 2 Boat Lat Lon AvgBsp Avgheading DTF 1 Tommy Hilfiger, 43 04.570 S, 51 05.190 W, 10.58 kt, 35 °T, 1941.69 nm 2 Everest Horizontal, 53 14.500 S, 63 52.400 W, 10.20 kt, 23 °T, 2732.69 nm 3 Spirit of yukoh, 56 13.710 S, 67 04.950 W, 9.40 kt, 97 °T, 2943.33 nm 4 BTC Velocity, 55 52.330 S, 84 56.240 W, 6.45 kt, 71 °T, 3538.8 1 nm 5 Spirit of Canada, 54 19.260 S, 88 29.380 W, 2.97 kt, 118 °T, 3678.22 nm International Media Relations: Mary Ambler - Email: mambler@clipper-ventures.com - Mobile: +44 (0) 7887 643 583 Around Alone TV - APP Broadcast Andrew Hawthorn - Email: ahawthorn@appbroadcast.com - Mobile NZ: +64 (0) 21 352 169 APP Broadcast London Office - Tel: +44 (0)208 964 4992 Official Photography - Marinepics International distribution: Ali McKichan - Email: info@marinepics.com - Tel: +44 (0) 1489 573753 Official Schools' Programme: HSBC Glocal Education Challenge - www.education.hsbc.com Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE