Jules Verne Rekord 2003 zur Übersicht DAY 26 : KINGFISHER2 DISMASTS... At 2222 GMT last night (23.2.03) Listen to the crew recount their reaction to KINGFISHER2 dismasting yesterday evening - As the crew recover from the shock of the abrupt halt to their Jules Verne attempt they now have time to reflect on the long journey ahead Latest audio from Ellen, Andrew, Damien, Hendo, Nigel & Kevin This can be downloaded from : Ellen - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/em240203c_uk.mp3 Crew - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/crew240203a_uk.mp3 Betreff: JV DAY 26: MEDIA UPDATE 1600GMT Absender: "Team Kingfisher" Empfänger: Datum: 24. Feb 2003 17:33 Position: 50 30 'S 73 40'E Distance to SW Australia : 2200nm DAY 26: KINGFISHER2 JULES VERNE RECORD BID IS OVER * KINGFISHER2'S DISMASTING HAS PUT AN END TO THE JULES VERNE RECORD BID...ELLEN: "This was a one attempt project, we had the one shot and unfortunately it has not gone to plan. We don't have any immediate intention to try again, but never say never, some time in the future I'd love to have another go. It is only safe to attempt the Jules Verne during the months of December through to March during the Southern Ocean's summer months - after late March/early April the threat of ice and intense weather systems make it too dangerous to sail across the Indian and Pacific Oceans...so there is no chance of doing anything this year that is for sure...we've another 4 years of our sailing plans with Kingfisher as title sponsor, so we have plenty of new challenges to take on..." Ellen kann es noch nicht fassen Der 40m-Mast in 3 Teilen Eine enttäuschte aber gesunde Crew * REASONS FOR DISMASTING ARE NOT KNOWN AND MAY NEVER BE KNOWN...ELLEN: "Unfortunately, the evidence to help us establish why the mast failed is now floating in the Southern Ocean and we will probably never know the reasons why the mast broke. We were sailing in moderate conditions with a fairly flat sea - and it is often the sea state which causes the trouble - no one saw anything amiss with the mast before it went. It's frustrating as hell but that's the situation with most dismastings. This mast was brand new - the same basic design, albeit with some strengthening, as those of Club Med, Orange and Team Explorer who have all completed circumnavigations so it was a tried and tested design. The issues we had with the mast track in Plymouth before our start, are completing unrelated as this was not a structural issue." * KINGFISHER2 ERECT EFFECTIVE JURY RIG WITHIN 8 HOURS OF DISMAST...ELLEN: "Within 8 hours the crew managed to lever the 15 metre boom into the central mast position effecting a makeshift rig which will carry a dramatically reduced sail area, but enough to power the boat towards SW Australia 2200 miles to the north east... During today the guys improved the jury rig further, and we are currently sailing with a 'cutter' rig, very impressive! We are more than confident that we can sail safely to the port of Freemantle or Perth under jury rig - although it will probably take us 2 weeks or so. It is not ideal but we just have to make the best of what we've got and the shore team are already working on the best way to get us and the catamaran back home." * NO REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE HAS BEEN MADE TO THE AUSTRALIAN RESCUE SERVICES...ELLEN: "Neither the boat or any of the crew were in danger at any time so it was not necessary to put out a request for any kind of assistance... That is your last option - and we are in good shape to sail to Freemantle on the SW coast of Australia, without any assistance of any kind." * FORECAST FOR LIGHT TO MODERATE CONDITIONS OVER NEXT 48 HOURS...ELLEN: "We're going to have light to moderate conditions - a bit on the nose - but in about 48 hours we are expecting a low to arrive bringing 30 knots of wind from the north west... We have sufficient food and other provisions on board for the passage towards Freemantle” Listen to latest audio from Ellen recording during phone press conference to sailing press gathered in Auckland, NZ awaiting the start of the America's Cup racing... http://thedailysail.com/ism/articles.nsf/TDS/kingfisher2 Other crew audio from today available in the Audio section at http://www.teamkingfisher.com LATEST CREW EXCERPTS (see full crew news and transcripts of audio on line at http://www.teamkingfisher.com) ANDREW PREECE EMAIL JUST IN : Suddenly Kingfisher 2 is a desolate place. Down below all is quiet save for the low burr of the heaters that are making the place more habitable than it has been for two weeks, and the light snoring of a team that has been on emergency clear-up duty for more than 12 hours. For the first time since we left Lorient exactly four weeks ago, all of the bunks are full: there is no need for a red-alert standby watch now. And all of a sudden the freeze dried food, the 4 degree salt water we use for washing, the condensation on the walls of the toilet, it all seems so intolerable where a day ago it was to be endured and conquered in the quest for the Jules Verne Trophy. This next two weeks will seem like an age as the reality of what has happened takes over from the adrenalin that is now surging as we deal with it. The stump of the mast lies impaled on the port daggerboard. Shards of carbon fibre lie all over the deck, discarded boots and items of foul weather gear are strewn all over the boat. Where yesterday we were all inhabiting our own 25-knot world with little techniques for drying gloves, storing clothes and gear and for getting across the trampoline in spray, getting into bed or bracing in the galley while brewing up helping us deal with day-by-day life at cold and uncomfortable speed, today the bubble is burst. Where there was water rushing past just inches from a sleeping ear there is now the dead sluicing of 2.98 knots of progress towards Australia 2000 miles away. On deck Youngster is steering, a dejected figure who no longer needs to concentrate on riding the edge but instead can sit and keep the boat on slow course with one hand while offering suggestions to the sailmakers who are building our jury rig. And where Neal was previously dealing out challenges to his watch to estimate some obscure rig load or calculate our distance to Cape Horn without reference to a chart, a calculator or a pencil, now he is masterminding the design of an Optimist-style spritsail that will help us in our race to get this over with. And Bruno, who for weeks has been eying his sail collection with pride and with continual thoughts for improvement, is slashing his beloved Solent in two to build a new and thoroughly unwelcome inventory. Jason is there, stoical as ever, getting involved, solid as a rock. Hendo is putting on a brave face as he stitches new reinforcement; Nigel is pragmatically and symbolically shaving a beard he had planned for a barber in Brest. Below Herve eats - he has seen this all many times before – while others, on earlier shifts and on many shifts still to come, restore batteries and sleep the most comfortable and enduring slumber for 25 days. In the nav station Ellen is exhausted and catching some sleep. Today should have been the story of Ellen's braveness as her little finger was ripped from her hand as the traveller line steamed free of a riding turn. About how doctor Kevin stepped up to the plate, gave Ellen the local anaesthetic injection and then seven stitches as the boat bucked the waves at racing speed with me, holding the torch and filming in the galley-come-operating theatre, the squeamish weakest link in the chain. But it didn’t pause there: it stopped, full stop, less than two hours later, in the middle of yet another dark Southern Ocean night. We all have our own versions of how we came to know our Jules Verne challenge was over from the crew on deck who watched the spar fall away from them to those in the galleys either side who were thrown into the forward bulkheads, to those sleeping who came to and found everything still. It all amounts to the same. And so today we are all still a team, all still doing what we do to the best of our collective abilities, but now we are working towards an entirely different goal – getting this show off the road just as fast as we can." Andrew Preece Crewman/Media & Comms STATISTICS 8 OUT OF 12 JULES VERNE ATTEMPTS HAVE FAILED. KF2 was ahead of Orange by 20 hours 46 minutes KF2 was behind Geronimo by 53 hours 40 minutes, but Geronimo’s worst leg was the next 7000 miles KF2 had covered 10254 miles (total of 24 hour runs) KF2 Distance to finish was 15135 miles JULES VERNE RECORD TIMES: 2002 Orange (Peyron) 64 days 8 hours 37 minutes 24 seconds 1997 Sport Elec (de Kersauson) 71 days 14 hours 22 minutes 8 seconds 1994 ENZA (Blake/Knox-Johnston) 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds 1993 Commodore Explorer (Peyron) 79 days 6 hours 15 minutes 56 seconds JULES VERNE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS: 2003 KINGFISHER2 (MacArthur) 2002 GERONIMO (de Kersauson) 2002 Orange (Peyron) a few weeks later Peyron re-started and set a new record 1998 Royal Sun Alliance (Edwards) 1996 Sport Elec (de Kersauson) 1994 Lyonaisse des Eaux (de Kersauson) 1993 Charal (de Kersauson) 1993 ENZA (Blake/Knox-Johnston) For media enquiries please contact Lou Newlands lou@offshorechallenges.com For images and stills, please contact Josie Robinson josie@offshorechallenges.com For TV feeds contact Richard Simmonds rsimmonds@appbroadcast.com For audio feeds contact Hélène Belleoud hb@windreport.com KINGFISHER PLC is the title sponsor to Ellen MacArthur's sailing campaigns Kingfisher plc is one of Europe's leading retailers operating in the international home improvement and electrical and furniture markets. Kingfisher employs around 90,000 people in over 1,397 stores across 16 countries and includes some of the best known retail brands in Europe: B&Q and Comet in the UK and Castorama, Darty and BUT in France. http://www.diy.com http://www.comet.co.uk http://www.kingfisher.com DAY 26 : JULES VERNE 2003 - LATEST AUDIO JUST HOURS AFTER KINGFISHER2 DISMASTED Absender: "Team Kingfisher" Empfänger: Datum: 24. Feb 2003 06:48 DAY 26 : KINGFISHER2 DISMASTS... At 2222 GMT last night (23.2.03) KINGFISHER2 dismasted: "I was in the nav stations speaking with our weather router Meeno Schrader on the satellite phone when I heard an almighty crunching and grinding sound... It felt like we had hit something as the boat slowed so quickly but when I got on deck and looked up the rig had gone over the side - it is the last thing you want to see...” Latest audio from Ellen, Neal McDonald and Bruno Dubois recording just hours after the dismasting ONBOARD KINGFISHER2 This can be downloaded from : Ellen - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/em240203a_uk.mp3 Neal - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/nmd240203a_uk.mp3 Bruno - http://www.ocftp.com/audio/bd240203a_uk.mp3 JV DAY 26: KINGFISHER2 DISMASTS - ALL CREW SAFE - JULES VERNE RECORD BID IS OVER... Absender: "Team Kingfisher" Empfänger: Datum: 24. Feb 2003 06:08 IN THIS NEWS RELEASE : BULLET POINT SUMMARY, EMAIL FROM ELLEN, TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO CALLS FROM DURING THE NIGHT, LINKS TO FULL AUDIO FILES WITH ELLEN, NEAL MCDONALD, BRUNO DUBOIS IN BRIEF: * JUST AS KINGFISHER2'S LUCK WAS TURNING, almost a full day ahead of Peyron's Jules Verne record pace, with excellent wind forecast for the days to come and with Geronimo virtually becalmed in the South Atlantic, a phone call to mission control confirmed the worst. "This is the call I was hoping never to have to make...we've been dismasted...20 minutes ago" a dispirited Ellen reported. * AT 2222 GMT LAST NIGHT (SUNDAY 23.2.03) KINGFISHER2 DISMASTED - BOAT AND CREW ARE SAFE, NO INJURIES.... KINGFISHER2 was sailing in moderate conditions of 25-30 knots of wind in a 1.5 metre swell under full indexsail and spinnaker approximately 100 miles south east of the Kerguelen Islands (50 50'S 72 08'E). Suddenly without warning the mast came crashing down, falling forward and missing the 3 crew who were on deck at the time. * THE 39.5 METRE CARBON MAST BROKE IN TWO PLACES - THE REASON FOR THE DISMASTING IS NOT KNOWN. The mast fell forward and sideways over the port (leeward) hull - the bottom 10 metre section of the mast has been salvaged. But the reindexder of the mast, rigging and sails were all cut away to prevent any further damage to the boat - a broken section of the mast in the water punctured a small hole in the port hull but the boat is not taking on water and is now in a good and seaworthy condition. * DEVASTATED OF COURSE, BUT PROFESSIONAL TO THE END - BY 0230 THE CREW ALREADY HAD A JURY RIG IN PLACE using the boom as a temporary mast...KINGFISHER2 is already making between 7 and 10 knots towards their nearest practical safe haven, Perth some 2000 miles to the east. The 10 metre section of the mast that reindexed on the boat was used as a brace to leverage the boom into place. * ALTHOUGH JUST 100 MILES FROM THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS the decision was taken to head east as there are limited facilities on the islands, and ultimately the giant catamaran will need to make to a port with cargo facilities to return her to Europe. * "WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF BAD LUCK ON THIS TRIP BUT WE FOUGHT ON AND THINGS WERE JUST TURNING FOR US - NOW TRAGICALLY IT'S ALL OVER"... ELLEN: "We have had a lot of bad luck on this trip - a lot of disappointing weather situations which has put us continuously behind the record... But everyone just fought on - there was never any talk of abandoning this record even in the slowest times... The crew were always positive, just wanting to get back at the record and in the last few days that started to happen... We got ahead of Peyron's record and were catching Geronimo who has got becalmed in the South Atlantic - then, bang, all of sudden its all over..to watch all that work drift away was so painful". * KINGFISHER2 WERE 332 MILES (approx 20 HOURS) Ahead OF THE EXISTING JULES VERNE RECORD SET BY PEYRON... and had closed the gap on Geronimo to 2 days (859 miles) at the time of dismasting. Just as the KINGFISHER2 crew were getting back on the pace - this is a huge blow... NEAL MCDONALD: "The look on the guys faces just says it all - total doom and gloom...just silence...it's the end of a huge attempt that could have been so successful. Things were really starting to look good for us." * THE JULES VERNE LIVES UP TO ITS REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST ROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGES - now 8 out of 12 record attempts have failed since the first Jules Verne record attempt in 1993. The existing record is held by Orange (Bruno Peyron) at 64 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds. Whether Olivier de Kersauson and his crew on board Geronimo, currently just over a day ahead of this record, can better this time reindexs to be seen. * FROM GERRY MURPHY, CEO KINGFISHER PLC, title SPONSOR OF ELLEN MACARTHUR AND HER JULES VERNE ATTEMPT : "We obviously share Ellen and the crew's immense disappointment at the dismasting of KINGFISHER2. However, the safety and well-being of Ellen and her crew has always been our index concern and it reindexs the most important thing to us. "The Kingfisher group is extremely proud to be associated with Ellen and her crew. Individually and as a team. They embody all the quantities and values that we look for in our staff. Their determination, talent and will to succeed are an example to us all. "We are sure that they will overcome this disappointment to continue their search for new and bigger ocean-racing challenges." *************** EMAIL FROM ELLEN RECEIVED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING I'm sitting here at my chart table feeling quite sick inside. I can feel the water running by the hull, and feel the waves take KINGFISHER2 along - but not at the 20 knot average of earlier. for now our trip as we knew it is over. At 22:22 on the 23rd of feb I was jolted forward on the chart table seat whilst discussing weather with our router meeno schrader. Jolts forward happen quite often in these boats as we fire down waves - but this was different, this was a gut wrenching ear piercing crunching and snapping sound. I dropped the phone and hurled myself towards the companionway - looking round my feet as i went to check water coming onboard from anywhere - nothing. As I reached the hatch all became clear in a flash of nausea...the 39.5 metre mast which has powered us ahead of the record over the past 24 days was no longer. We shall most likely never know the cause of our dismasting, and in some cases you just have to accept them for what they are. It would be very wrong to say that this trip has not been a massive challenge so far, but equally nothing, at any stage in this trip as brought tears to my eyes. and the tears in my eyes right now come with frustration and anger as I grit my teeth together - not through struggling with other issues, but with the anger that i feel right now at having let so many people down. So much work has gone into this project - so much energy and commitment, each fitting sealed - each lashing tied - and here we were cutting parts of it over the side. it's so destructive, so final and so over... So sitting here i feel empty and sad, above all so relieved that no-one bar our boat was hurt, as that would have been the winner in any one 2 one. But at the same time I feel proud; i feel proud of the strength of the crew - proud of their commitment and humour, proud of their smiles and proud of the way that they have handled their frustration too. The strange thing is that suddenly, although we are all disappointed we have shifted our focus on getting ourselves moving, and to what looks like Australia as soon as we can. I glance down at my notebook to jot down something to remember - seeing the pages and pages of notes preparing things for this trip. All of a sudden our challenge feels like it was days away, as if it's almost a distant memory.. Just three hours ago I was having stitches put in my hand after cutting it open, then an hour ago me cutting through rigging as if there was no tomorrow - and now even that seems irrelevant... no longer are we living each day for our distance run, checking the lines are leading correctly and, or thinking about every aspect of boat speed. It's over - our jules verne is over. It's a funny feeling sitting out here thinking about all that has happened, and wondering what might have been.. But then the "what if's" will always exist in life. They will never disappear, but you can choose to ignore them...what's done is done - and however you want to look at it - you learn from it, we have learnt from it. We must just get up and on to the next challenge... ellen. Listen to latest audio from Ellen, Neal McDonald, Bruno Dubois recorded just hours after the dismasting... Visit http://www.teamkingfisher.com and click on audio icon or download from http://ocftp.com/audio/em240203a_uk.mp3 http://ocftp.com/audio/nmd240203a_uk.mp3 http://ocftp.com/audio/bd240203a_uk.mp3 ELLEN AUDIO TRANSCRIPT 0045 GMT 24.2.02 Communications Partner BT http://www.teamkingfisher.com/btopenworld "I was in the nav stations speaking with our weather router Meeno Schrader on the satellite phone when I heard an almighty crunching and grinding sound... It felt like we had hit something as the boat slowed so quickly but when I got on deck and looked up the rig had gone over the side - it is the last thing you want to see... Fortunately, only the on-watch crew were on deck [3 people, Neal, Bruno, Youngster, with Jason below temporarily] - everyone is okay. We are very lucky if we had been doing a manouevre or changing watch systems it could have been a different story. It's pretty frightening to see your world fall over the side. We just cut everything away as quickly as we could [it took about an hour] to get us free of the broken mast. As soon as I heard the bang - I ran down the whole length of the boat - thinking we had hit something - to check there was no water coming in anywhere. When I came up the hatch and looked up there was not mast - one minute 39 and a half metres of mast standing there, the next nothing. First reaction was to make sure everyone is safe, then we just had to get on with cutting away the pieces of the mast and sails that were floating in the water but trying to keep as much as we could. We managed to save 10 metres of the bottom of the mast - everything else went - sails, rigging. Just saw it all float away into the Southern Ocean, along with the chance of breaking the record. These things happen so quickly - we don't know what went wrong. No one was looking at the rig the moment before it happened - we may never know why, that is often the case with dismastings. It was a brand new rig - the guys had worked on it meticuously - and the issues we had in Plymouth (replacing part of the mast track) are certainly unrelated. We will probably never know why it broke.” NEAL McDONALD AUDIO 0045 GMT 24.2.02: communications by BT (broadband users check out video and other high speed content at http://kingfisher.sportal.com) "We were running along in breeze 28-33 knots - few hours prior to this the sea state had been pretty unpleasant but it had flatterend out - and we were sailing at between 18 and 23 knots straight down the track. It happened alarmingly quicly - just thankful no one around on that side of the boat... We have a hole in the side of the boat from where a broken section of the mast punched through - if the sea state had been worse it could have been a different story and perhaps a sunken hull. The look on the guys faces says it all - we were getting back in the money, now its total doom and gloom, just silence..." HIGH RES IMAGES of dismasting available to download from http://ocftp.com/images/4984high_oc.jpg http://ocftp.com/images/4982high_oc.jpg STATISTICS 8 OUT OF 12 JULES VERNE ATTEMPTS HAVE FAILED. KF2 was ahead of Orange by 20 hours 46 minutes KF2 was behind Geronimo by 53 hours 40 minutes, but Geronimo’s worst leg was the next 7000 miles KF2 had covered 10254 miles (total of 24 hour runs) KF2 Distance to finish was 15135 miles JULES VERNE RECORD TIMES: 2002 Orange (Peyron) 64 days 8 hours 37 minutes 24 seconds 1997 Sport Elec (de Kersauson) 71 days 14 hours 22 minutes 8 seconds 1994 ENZA (Blake/Knox-Johnston) 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds 1993 Commodore Explorer (Peyron) 79 days 6 hours 15 minutes 56 seconds JULES VERNE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS: 2003 KINGFISHER2 (MacArthur) 2002 GERONIMO (de Kersauson) 2002 Orange (Peyron) a few weeks later Peyron re-started and set a new record 1998 Royal Sun Alliance (Edwards) 1996 Sport Elec (de Kersauson) 1994 Lyonaisse des Eaux (de Kersauson) 1993 Charal (de Kersauson) 1993 ENZA (Blake/Knox-Johnston) OMEGA official timekeeper of KINGFISHER2'S Jules Verne record attempt http://www.ellenmacarthur.com/omega The Jules Verne record reindexs at 64 day 8 hours 37 minutes OMEGA : Official timekeeper of KINGFISHER2’s record attempt For media enquiries please contact Lou Newlands lou@offshorechallenges.com For images and stills, please contact Josie Robinson josie@offshorechallenges.com For TV feeds contact Richard Simmonds rsimmonds@appbroadcast.com For audio feeds contact Hélène Belleoud hb@windreport.com KINGFISHER PLC is the title sponsor to Ellen MacArthur’s sailing campaigns Kingfisher plc is one of Europe's leading retailers operating in the international home improvement and electrical and furniture markets. 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