Latest news from Nick Moloney to Dr Krumnacker
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Nick Moloney is a member of Ellen MacArthur's Offshore Challenges Sailing Team http://www.nickmoloney.com
* Morning Positions place ORANGE off the most southern point of CAPE HORN - a North Westerly flow has allowed them to round close to land, a Northerly flow would have forced them further South.
* Planning the climb up the Atlantic ... Weather conditions look favourable to start
* Looking forward to turning left and moving on from an ANGRY OCEAN " Sometimes it was so windy the gusts were like being punched in the chest "
POSITION REPORT (Day 43 at sea)
COMPARISON table / JULES VERNE TROPHY
13th April 2002 0806 GMT
POSITION ORANGE
Position : 56°14'S / 68°28' W
Speed 24h : 22.7
Distance since departure : 18907.65 miles
Distance 24h : 544.59 miles
4 DAYS Ahead OF CURRRENT RECORD
COMPARISON TO SPORT ELEC IN 1997
Position : 59°08 'S / 121°12' W
Speed 24h : 12.70
Distance since departure : 15446 miles
Distance 24h : 305 miles
LATEST LOGBOOK FROM NICK
10:46gmt 12/04
Well we didnt manage to completely avoid the upwind onslaught. At daybreak
this morning we were once again forced to drop the indexsail completely and
sail under wing mast a;lone for a brief period. 40+kts upwind in this part
of the world is not at all pleasant. spent most of the day getting blasted
by frozen spray trying to slow the boat to 12-15kts BS under storm jib
alone.
Sometimes it was so windy the gusts were like being punched in the chest.
wore goggles through most of it as eyes are pretty trashed from over a week
of thick spray at high speed.
very cool images of one angry ocean today. I remember running across the
tramp..leeward to windward hull and watching the windward hull hovering as
we crawled over the swells. Its amazing how much windage this boat has with
wing mast, storm jib and the canoe bodies.
we are reaCHING AGAIN BUT 25KTS. THE WIND HAS DECREASED but seaway is still
a little confused
dreaming of cruzing to Antartica one day
Looks like we will have company at the Horn. Training ship Endevour is on
route from AUS to Falklands and has been held up by all this strong
winds...actually I thgink she got pummelled in the North by a gale.
looking forward to turning left
nick
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