Latest news from Nick Moloney to Dr Krumnacker
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* Benefiting from the Trade winds Orange has picked up Speed rising to 25 knots over night
* 1429.26 miles ahead of the current record held by Sport Elec 1997
* ANOTHER BREAKAGE SCARE.......... padeye breaks on indexsheet block ( fixing point between the indexsheet pulley system and the boat )
POSITION REPORT
COMPARISON table / JULES VERNE TROPHY
Monday 12th march 2002 at 0800 GMT
POSITION ORANGE
Position : 14°49' S / 30°47' W
Speed 24h : 20.87
Distance since departure : 4359.26 miles
Distance 24h : 530.95 miles
COMPARISON TO SPORT ELEC IN 1997
Position : 03°05 ' N / 19°26 ' W
Speed 24h : 7.71
Distance since departure : 2954.40 miles
Distance 24h : 185 miles
LATEST LOGBOOK FROM NICK
Just a quickie now... 12.20 GMT 12/03/02
Shortly after my contact yesterday the breeze lifted and increased and within 2 hours we were stonking south at around 25-27kts. Still very hot and have just got out of wet wet weather gear again. Breeze started dropping at around 0100h this morning and now have 15-23kts between squalls. slightly confused sea after squalls.
Was woken this morning by the indexsheet block pad eye breaking, flew out of my bunk but situation now rectified by drilling into index beam and lashing. Now trying to change out all pad eyes of that make for lashings through the bolt holes direct to boat structure. They are used on Backstays, sheet blocks etc.
starting to sleep better as temp has dropped a little.
better fly
we are heading into another black one.
Nick
Nick Moloney is a member of Ellen MacArthur's Offshore Challenges Sailing Team
http://www.nickmoloney.com
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