10.03.2005
Jules Verne Trophy2005
ORANGE II MAXI CATAMARAN
Morning press release
Paris, Thursday 10th March 2005 – 05.00 GMT
Learning to be patient
Only 100 miles of the route covered over the past 24 hours. The Orange II maxi catamaran is still suffering on her climb back up the Atlantic. The only way to get around the high, which is unusually low for the season, is to head off a long, long way from the direct route. Bruno Peyron and his dream team are sailing more than 400 miles west of the routes taken last year by their opponents. Today, the incredible feat of circling the world in 50 days seems less and less likely as the hours slip by. To achieve this, they have to cross the line before midday on Tuesday 15th March, and now the probable arrival time appears to be sometime on 16th or 17th March.
Bruno Peyron, this morning at 04.00: "If we had had the same conditions as Cheyenne after the Horn of Brazil, we would have finished in 48 days (an improvement of ten days over the record – editor’s note). There’s no point in getting in a mood about it. We’ll get there however long it takes… We’re sailing close-hauled under the solent in a 9-knot north north easterly. That’s all quite logical, and just as in the books. The high has had the good idea of moving off to the east, and the wind should back around in the next few hours. We will then be able to head further north taking us closer to home, but it’s going to take another day and a half or so for us to get more pressure on the sails. The forecasts vary for the final stretch. Some say the second low that we should be picking up is dying on the spot. So it’s all very touch and go."
Data:
Day at sea: 45th
Date : 10/03/2005
Time (GMT) : 04h18
Latitude : 19 52.56' N
Longitude : 40 38.08' W
Instantaneous speed: 13.3 knots
Instantaneous bearing: 316
Average speed: 10.6 knots
Speed over 24h: 11.3 knots
Distance over 24h: 272 nm
Speed since the start: 22.4 knots
Total distance: 24061 nm
Reindexing distance: 2421.20 nm
Website: http://www.maxicatamaran-orange.com
Radio sessions: Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1.15 p.m. GMT at Orange race headquarters and live on Internet. Wednesday’s broadcast will be a live video link on Internet and on Orange mobile handsets.
Orange Race headquarters: Fédération Française de Voile
17, rue Henri Bocquillon
75015 PARIS
(Métro Boucicaut)
Audio: Apart from the radio session three times a week, an audio recording is made every morning at 5 a.m. with the boat.
These recordings can be heard and downloaded in MP3 format in the press section of the website: www.maxicatamaran-orange.com
For any individual requests, please contact Bénédicte Etienne on 06 87 30 12 83
Boat’s positions:
The position of the boat is updated every quarter of an hour on the website: www.maxicatamaran-orange.com
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