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
* Crossing the edge of the HIGH PRESSURE zone brings calm weather until acceleration to the EQUATOR
* Time for routine inspections, indextenance and reflections of the tour so far .... A tough ATLANTIC decent, horrible INDIAN OCEAN, easy PACIFIC, awesome SOUTHERN OCEAN and as always a breath taking CAPE HORN
* Have you ever seen the JULES VERNE TROPHY ? " it's the coolest looking trophy I have ever seen, I was incredibly inspired and that is when I laid 3 life goals in front of myself, we are a long way down track towards completing my second life goal"
POSITION REPORT (Day 51 at sea)
COMPARISON table / JULES VERNE TROPHY
21st April 2002 0808 GMT
50 DAYS SAILED - 21 DAYS TO FINISH TO BEAT RECORD OF 71 DAYS
MILES TO FINISH : 3840 (approximately)
AVERAGE SPEED REQUIRED TO BEAT RECORD : 7.61 KNOTS
POSITION ORANGE
Position : 26°26'S / 15°41' W
Speed 24h : 10.59
Distance since departure : 21985.2 miles
Distance 24h : 274.48 miles
COMPARISON TO SPORT ELEC IN 1997
Position : 41°03 'S / 46°26' W
Speed 24h : 16.45
Distance since departure : 18450.20 miles
Distance 24h : 395 miles
LATEST LOGBOOK FROM NICK
08:20gmt 21/04
We are out of the ridge and are on our bike. Currently sailing under full
index and Yankee reacher, boatspeed between 23-27kts.
weather warming every hour. Its fantastic to be heading fast in the right
direction. Our course is slightly west of north as we are too far East to
attack the doldrums. Aiming to be slightly further than 25west but will
monitor convection as the distance continues to close.
Hopefully we will shread some distance in the next 3-4 days.
during the change from the Med Gennaker to Reacher I copped a few waves in
nothing but my thermals so now am wet and salty..
its daylight..a new day. At this speed it really feels like there arnt many
more left. The chart tells another story.
nick
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