Jules Verne Rekord 2003 www.kingfisherchallenges.com - zur Übersicht DAY 13 : JULES VERNE 2003 - LATEST AUDIO FROM ONBOARD KINGFISHER2 Absender: "Team Kingfisher" Datum: 11. Feb 2003 11:46 WEATHER IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO ELLEN and team on KINGFISHER2...and its not being very co-operative. The overall weather pattern is dominated by several high pressure systems across the South Atlantic - high pressure generally means very light winds...not what is needed to break records... Listen to the latest audio from ELLEN, JASON & NEAL ONBOARD KINGFISHER2 This can be downloaded from : Ellen - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/em110203a_uk.mp3 Neal - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/nmd100203a_uk.mp3 Jason - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/jc100203a_uk.mp3 Audio files can be downloaded daily from http://www.ocftp.com/audio The latest audio is determine by date and time The crew member talking can be determine by the preceding initials ie ; em for Ellen MacArthur. ap for Andrew Preece and so on for each crew member. Kingfisher 2 folgt dem Kurs von GERONIMO DAY 13: A SLOW NIGHT FOR KINGFISHER2 BUT 24HR RUN FEW MILES FASTER THAN ORANGE... Absender: "Team Kingfisher" Datum: 11. Feb 2003 09:30 SUMMARY: 0700 GMT 11.2.03 Position: 22 19' S 34 46' W (Rio de Janeiro 370nm W ) Ahead/Behind the record: 12 hours 40 minutes behind Orange Ahead/Behind Geronimo: 52 hours 12 minutes behind Geronimo DAY 12 24 hour run (point to point) : Kingfisher2 266nm, Orange 252nm, Geronimo 459nm End DAY 12 distance to go (on theoretical course) : KF2 20496nm, Orange 20294nm, Geronimo 19661nm Click on POSITIONS link at http://www.teamkingfisher.com to see graphic images comparing the tracks of these 3 challengers at 4 hourly intervals. Av/Max boat speed in last hour: 12.61 / 16.8 knots heading: 245 Av/Max wind speed in last hour: 8.84 / 12.5 knots Wind direction: 125 Distance to WP4 35 00'S / 24 00'W approach to Southern Ocean : 948 nm (theorectical shortest distance) IN BRIEF: * WEATHER IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO ELLEN and team on KINGFISHER2...and its not being very cooperative. The overall weather pattern is dominated by several high pressure systems across the South Atlantic - high pressure generally means very light winds...not what is needed to break records... * DESPITE A SLOW NIGHT, KINGFISHER2's 24-hour run of 266 miles was a few miles more than Orange achieved on day 12 of their record bid... * FORECAST WIND FOR NEXT TWO DAYS indicates nothing more than 3 to 10 knots...bad news for the team, however during the night they have been sailing at over 12 knots for much of the time, so lets hope that forecast is wrong! * EXTRAORDINARY PICTURES ON THE WEBCAM yesterday...check it out at http://www.teamkingfisher.com...taking you closer to the action (or lack of it in 2 knots of wind) than ever before! AND LISTEN TO LATEST AUDIO FROM NEAL, JASON and ELLEN... just click on audio icon at http://www.teamkingfisher.com * ELLEN THIS MORNING: "Frustration has been the word of the day and will be the word for the next few days too... We are just dying to get into some breeze and to feel KINGFISHER2 take off beneath us but to sail round the world without calms like this is impossible..." * GERONIMO HAS PASSED THE HALF WAY POINT and is about to pass the southern tip of New Zealand on her way in to the Pacific part of the Southern Ocean on day 31. After three bruising days, she has found near perfect conditions. http://www.grandsrecords.com * CREW MEMBER FOCUS: Kevin McMeel, assistant navigator and qualified emergency surgeon, has raced over 87,500 miles but on board KINGFISHER2 for his first circumnavigation... Listen to Ellen's latest audio this morning PLUS latest audio from NEAL and JASON... Visit http://www.teamkingfisher.com and click on the 'Audio' icon on the menu bar or download from http://www.ocftp.com/audio/em110203a_uk.mp3 (Ellen), http://www.ocftp.com/audio/nmcd110203a_uk.mp3 (Neal) or http://www.ocftp.com/audio/jc110203a_uk.mp3 (Jason) Kingfisher operating company of the day COMET: Comet is Britain's original out-of-town electrical chain and enjoys the number two position in the UK electrical market. http://www.comet.uk ELLEN LATEST LOG: (communications by BT [broadband users check out video and other high speed content at http://kingfisher.sportal.com] An unbelievable day once again... another painful day where our speed was so low that I'm not evn sure I want do the calcultion. This afternoon we had no wind for about 6 hours - with a boat speed of 3 to four knots... Frustration has been the word of the day, and I know will be the word for the next few days too... We are just dying to get into some breeze and to feel KINGFISHER2 take off beneath us. Seeing her just sitting in the water has been quite unnatural for her. Since Plymouth she has not been so still - in fact, I think we were sailing around more on our mooring there than the we were yesterday in the light winds. I guess at the end of the day we can see the light at the end of the tunnel - and also we can try to focus on doing all we do better - so that everyone pulls together more and concentrates on what is coming. We are still learning all the time, me especially, and we are having more discussions together now, where we are able to discuss our thoughts and changes. As I sit here and type it is 5.30 in the morning. The moon set about an hour or so ago, after lighting up the horizon like it was the only path to take in the world. There was the odd star around but soon after, all was blanketed with a layer of grey cloud... But it was not such a negative thing because that's the sea. The air warmed - the wind increased and we took off. A real change from sailing slowly in 12 knots, to helming a flying machine. I was driving as the wind increased - all of a sudden with the new wind we were at 26 knots! The power is awesome - so much faster than the wind we had. Must go now as very tired and lacking sleep! We'll be heading south on the next low we can catch, then I'll need that sleep. ex JULES VERNE USHANT (START) TO CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TIMES: 1993 Commodore Explorer (Peyron) 21 days 12 hours 48 minutes 1994 ENZA (Blake/Knox-Johnston) 19 days 17 hours 53 minutes 1997 Sport Elec (de Kersauson) 21 days 18 hours 17 minutes 2002 Orange (Peyron) 18 days 18 hours 40 minutes 2003 Geronimo (de Kersauson) 16 days 14 hours 35 minutes 21 seconds OMEGA official timekeeper of KINGFISHER2'S Jules Verne record attempt CREW MEMBER FOCUS: Kevin McMeel (CAN) - Assistant Navigator / First Aid Few days into this trip and crewman Andrew Preece (in charge of Media & Comms) mistakenly refered to Kevin as American... 100 emails later, putting Andrew right on Kevin's nationality, we realised (a) how popular Kevin is "back home" and (b) there is no messing on the nationality issue! Kevin (44) has raced over 87,500 miles offshore but has never done a circumnavigation: "I wanted to do the Jules Verne with the best team assembled - I had no hesitation of signing up with this team when I finally got the call," explained Kevin. "The primary objective is to go out there and break the record but we have to ensure everyone's safety and get back in one piece. I specialise in emergency surgery but, don't worry, I trained for 12 years so the guys are in good hands!" Kevin joined Assa Abloy's Volvo syndicate in 2002 to assist primary navigator Mark Rudiger. 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