18.01.2006
Brasil 1 dismasted
At 06.30 UTC Brasil 1 dismasted in position: 40,47.61S , 89,18.36E. She is currently 1200 miles from Fremantle and 1300 miles from Albany, south western Australia. Skipper, Torben Grael, sent the following statement:
“At the time Brasil 1 was sailing downwind in a west north westerly breeze of about 18 knots under clear sunny skies.
"The mast broke in three pieces after what seems to be a fitting failure at the lower end of the port V1 (vertical shroud). The turnbuckle eye broke horizontally across with half of the fitting reindexing on the boat and half on the shroud. No other signs of failure have been found so far.
All the crew is safe and sound and we're still in the process of cleaning up and salvaging as much material as possible. Due to the clement weather conditions we are trying to salvage the final top section of the mast from spreader four to the top. If we're successful this would mean that all pieces have been salvaged.
Once this has been completed we will make a jury rig and sail in the direction of Eclipse Island which also happens to be our nearest landfall.
No decision about retiring from the leg has been taken."
Meanwhile, the rest of the fleet is making good progress towards the finish of leg two in Melbourne. Wind speeds vary from ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) to the north of the fleet having 25 knots, while ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) is enjoying 33 knots. Movistar (Bouwe Bekking) shows no signs of slowing down, positioned 83 nm to the south sailing in 20 knots of breeze, and Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard), which restarted the leg in very light breeze yesterday, has a miserly 13 knots of breeze. The team left the Australian coast and took a southerly course immediately, some 131 nautical miles to the west of the track taken by the Dutch boats. Stronger breeze is expected for her in the next few hours.
LEG TWO DAY 17, 18.1.06, 1000 GMT POSITION REPORT
YACHT
LAT
LONG
DTF
SMG
24 Hour Run
24 Hour Speed
DTL
DTLC
SGPTS
LPTS
TLPTS
RPTD
ETA
OVERALL
1
ABN1
40 06.93S
129 25.17E
00762
15.5
361
15.1
00000
+00000
7
7.0
14.0
29.0
20/01/06 16:52:__
1
2
ABN2
40 00.34S
128 24.47E
00808
16.3
349
14.5
00046
-00002
6
6.0
12.0
24.0
20/01/06 20:43:__
2
3
MOVI
40 00.68S
126 02.55E
00917
16.3
321
13.4
00155
-00007
4.5
5.0
9.5
15.5
21/01/06 06:02:__
3
4
POTC
36 49.98S
119 45.78E
01234
12.3
141
05.9
00472
-00015
4.5
4.0
8.5
13.5
22/01/06 11:38:__
5
5
AUS1
38 58.77S
113 25.58E
01661
17.2
313
13.0
00899
+00020
1.5
3.0
4.5
9.5
24/01/06 10:08:__
7
6
BRA1
40 48.64S
089 19.59E
02734
07.7
351
14.6
01972
-00034
1
2.0
3.0
15.5
31/01/06 11:39:__
3
7
ERIC
33 57.56S
025 37.90E
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
AUS1 ING Real Estate Brunel
BRA1 Brasil 1
ERIC Ericsson Racing Team
MOVI movistar
POTC Pirates of the Caribbean
DTF: distance to finish, SMG: Speed made good, DTL: distance to leader,
DTLC: distance to leader change; the difference between the distance from the boat to the leader taken at the time of the last six hour poll, and the distance from the boat to the leader at the previous poll
SGPTS: points scored at scoring gates on this leg to date
LPTS: projected leg points
TLPTS: projected overall leg points including actual points from scoring gates
RPTD: overall points including actual points from scoring gates
OVERALL: projected position in race overall if yacht indextains current position
Lizzie Green Press Officer at race headquarters:
Tel: +44 1489 554 832, Mob: +44 7801 185 320
Email: lizzie.green@volvooceanrace.org
Sophie Luther Press Assistant at race headquarters
Mob: +44 7956 285548 email: sophie.luther@volvooceanrace.org
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