Transat Jacques Vabre 2003 zur Übersicht - www.jacques-vabre.com Betreff: TJV: DOLDRUM DECISION TIME Absender: "Team Cowes" Datum: 13. Nov 2003 17:03 REACHING PORT GYBE - 14-16 KNOTS OF NE WIND - 14 KNOTS BOATSPEED - 680 MILES N EQUATOR - TEAM COWES 5TH 264 MILES BEHIND LEADER VIRBAC (1500GMT) IN BRIEF: * Genoa...Gennaker..Code E...Spinnaker TEAM COWES works through the sail inventory, Nick Moloney "We have the big SKANDIA spinnaker back up - there was no damage to the sail after our struggle on the bow the other night, which is great news" VMI an 6.Stelle * Southen Hemisphere boy looking forward to 8th Equator Crossing NICK MOLONEY " The excitement is building for me to get across the Equator and into my home hemisphere" NICK MOLONEY AUDIO CALL 13:30hrs "Not too much to report from Team Cowes this afternoon, at around 2am today the wind freed and dropped slightly, and we started to work through our sail inventory, Genoa - Gennaker - Code E and finally the massive spinnaker that we stuggled to drop the other night - we checked it over before re-hoisting and there didn't appear to be any damage, it's the perfect sail for these final pre-doldrum miles. We have a grey day here in the Atlantic, althogh it's warm, and the water feels actually hot!! In between sail changes last night we really sweated our options on where to traverse the Doldrums - two days ago the forecast showed that we might all get through with out stopping - now it's fairly different, and we really hope that our west position will enable us to cross at the narrowest point, but it's a bit like flipping a coin as to who might get stuck in it the longest - it's a real passing opportunity, and once again gives us a real chance to be ahead of VMI and PRB. We are not worried about what direction the wind comes from in the Doldrums - more worried about wind speed, trickling along at 5 knots is just fine if everyone else is parked up. Crossing the equator in this race signifies the last section of the race, with normal moderate SE winds, so it's an important occasion, this will be my 8th equator crossing and I have slept through 5 of them!!! I might try to stay up for this one. It's quite nice to get back into my half of the world, the further south we go, the more stars that I start to recognise from gazing into the night sky when I was a kid. The water goes down the cockpit drains in the opposite direction too!! - I don't know if that's a myth or not, and despite having been a plumber I've never figured it out!! TOP 10 OPEN 60 POSITIONS AT 1500GMT 13.11.03: Pstn/Boat Name/Long/Lat/Speed/Course/DTF/DTL 1 VIRBAC / 5 47.64' N / 26 55.88' W / 10.6 / 192 / 1333.7 / 0.0 2 SILL / 8 52.60' N / 26 14.88' W / 13.3 / 190 / 1465.6 / 131.9 3 ECOVER / 8 41.28' N / 26 31.08' W / 12.3 / 190 / 1499.4 / 165.7 4 PRB / 9 48.04' N / 26 23.60' W / 12.5 / 184 / 1562.9 / 229.3 5 TEAM COWES / 11 05.24' N / 28 02.88' W / 13.7 / 197 / 1597.9 / 264.2 6 VMI / 10 26.96' N / 26 10.92' W / 12.4 / 179 / 1603.9 / 270.2 7 CARREFOUR PREVENTION / 12 11.36' N / 25 26.64' W / 14.2 / 190 / 1716.5 / 382.8 8 ARCELOR-DUNKERQUE / 13 16.24' N / 22 00.92' W / 12.8 / 191 / 1867.7 / 534.0 9 GARNIER / 17 31.76' N / 26 14.56' W / 14.0 / 197 / 1997.5 / 663.8 10 LOIRE ATLANTIQUE / 18 03.48' N / 22 11.00' W / 12.2 / 191 / 2115.5 / 781.9 For TJV race information go to http://www.jacques-vabre.com Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE