The Transat Race 2004 Plymouth - Boston - Start 31.05.2004 www.thetransat.com - zur Übersicht 08.06.2004 SKANDIA SNEAKS INTO 4TH DESPITE MAJOR FLOODING OVERNIGHT... IN BRIEF: * Nick wakes-up to find SKANDIA's rear compartment knee-high in water after aft deck hatch blows open. "I had to open the stern escape hatch to let the water escape," he said. * Conditions in the Atlantic continue to be arduous, with Nick reporting 30-knot winds and big seas. * The match-race for the lead in the Open 60 class continues between the two Mike's. Briton Mike Golding on ECOVER has the upper hand at the moment, 4 miles in front of New Zealand yachtsman Mike Sanderson on PINDAR. Golding was 974 miles from Boston at 1100 GMT. * Closer to Boston, French 60-foot trimaran GEANT is expected to finish today. Skipper Michel Desjoyeaux could clip a day and a half off the course record, adding the Transat victory to his Vendée Globe and Route du Rhum wins. Log on to www.thetransat.com to follow his finish live. Skandia mit Nick Moloney - DPPI AUDIO Communications Powered by BT Business Broadband To Listen to the latest Audio from Nick download : http://www.ocftp.com/audio/nm080604a_uk.mp3 IN DETAIL : Nick Moloney came the closest he has to disaster in the Transat race after his Open 60 SKANDIA flooded yesterday evening. "The aft deck hatch blew open and we took on several tons of water, "explained Nick in a call back to the Skandia MultiManager shore team. Skandia has five watertight bulkheads to save the yacht from sinking in the event of a flooding, but the Thrane and Thrane Fleet 77 high-speed internet connection box and the autopilot processor are situated in the rear of the yacht. If Skandia had been on the opposite tack, these would have been underwater and ruined leaving Nick with no fast communications and only hand-steering for the final 1100 miles to Boston. Nick was napping at the time, wearing earplugs that allow him to sleep through the constant drum of waves slamming the side of the hull and crashing on deck. On waking up he discovered - to his horror - an estimated seven tons of water in the rear of the yacht. "I was wading around knee deep in water and had to open the stern escape hatch to let the water escape," he said. Nick pumped the rest of the water out manually and turned on a portable heater to help Skandia dry out. Drama over, but it was a close call. Conditions in the Atlantic continue to be arduous, with Nick reporting 30-knot winds and big seas. The air temperature is around five degrees. After three casualties over the weekend; the dismasting's of VIRBAC and PRB plus ARMOR LUX's capsize after losing her keel, Nick has been preserving SKANDIA and himself, only venturing on deck for sail changes. After a wipe-out yesterday, he throttled back putting three reefs in the indexsail, dropping from 18 to 10 knots of boat speed. At the 1100 GMT poll today, Nick was 0.1 of a mile ahead HELLOMOTO, skippered by British sailor Conrad Humphrey's and 129.4 miles behind the Open 60 class leader. The match-race for the lead continues between the two Mikes. Briton Mike Golding on ECOVER is ahead at the moment, 4 miles in front of New Zealand yachtsman Mike Sanderson on PINDAR. Golding was 974 miles from Boston at 1100. Dominique Wavre on TEMENOS is still third, 42.2 miles from ECOVER Closer to Boston, French 60-foot trimaran GEANT is expected to finish today. Skipper Michel Desjoyeaux could clip a day and a half off the course record, adding the Transat to his Vendée Globe and Route du Rhum wins. Log on to www.thetransat.com to follow his finish live. IMOCA POSITIONS 1100 GMT NAME / SKIPPER / LAT / LONG / DIST 1. ECOVER / Golding /43 07.08'N / 48 49.08'W / 974.0 to finish 2. PINDAR ALPHAGRAPHICS / Sanderson / 43 00.48'N / 48 44.44'W / 4.0 behind leader 3. TEMENOS / Wavre / 43 11.48'N / 47 50.64'W / 42.2 behind leader 4. SKANDIA / Moloney / 44 44.00'N / 45 41.92'W / 129.4 behind leader 5. HELLOMOTO / Humphrey's / 44 43.96'N / 45 41.84'W / 129.5 behind leader ABD CHEMINÉES POUJOULAT - AMOR LUX / STAMM ABD PRB / RIOU ABD VIRBAC / Dick QINETIQ FACT OF THE DAY : COMBATING THE COLD - REDUCING HEAT LOSS In order to cope with cold, windy and wet conditions your body adopts a three-pronged approach. It reduces heat loss, increases heat production and mobilises metabolic fuels. The body reduces heat loss through skin vasoconstriction. This is the constriction of the cutaneous (close or next to the skin) blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries). This reduces the volume of warm blood flowing through the skin and results in a lowering of skin temperature. The reduction in skin temperature in turn reduces heat loss via radiation. Vasoconstriction is usually the body’s first response to exposure to cold air. 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