09.05.2006
PIRATES UNFURL THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Paul Cayard, from San Francisco, USA, steered his black and red boat, The Black Pearl, over the finish line in the Hudson River to claim the second place for his Pirates of the Caribbean team in leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race in New York today. Finishing at 06:47:11 (local time, 10:47:11 GMT) this podium position brings the Pirates up to second place overall, with 47.5 points, just half a point ahead of movistar (Bouwe Bekking) who finished in a disappointing fifth place.
On reaching the dock, a visibly shattered Cayard said: “It has been a very tough 40 hours, there was really strong wind off New Jersey and the boat has been really slamming hard. We have had our fair share of problems, but the guys did a great job. Last night was really quite stressful as the wind died all together and the boats were very close and that is where we had little bit of luck on our side. ! I can’t recall anything much tougher on this race so far.
“New York is a really impressive city and I am really proud, as the only American skipper in the fleet, to be here. Second overall is an added bonus for us and we will certainly take it!”
Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) brought his largely Brazilian team home just nine minutes behind the Pirates to take the final podium place. Three minutes behind, in fourth place, was Ericsson Racing Team with Neal McDonald (UK) back in charge, while the Spanish team of movistar finished under a minute later in fifth place.
“Of course we very pleased with the result,” said Grael. “It was by far the hardest leg of the race in terms of the physical effort required and the lack of sleep. Because it wasn’t a long offshore leg, the whole crew were working throughout and it has been very hard for them. Every manoeuvre required everyone up on deck in their full foul weather gear,” he explained.
Brunel (Grant Wharington) has 15 miles to go to the finish, followed by ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) a further 10 miles behind.
LEG SIX DAY 03, 09.05.06, 1047 GMT POSITION REPORT
Leg Standing
Yacht
Total Leg Points
Arrival Time
Elapsed Time
Points Overall
Position Overall
1
ABN1
7.0
09/05/06 08:07:36
001d 15h 07m 36s
70.5
1
2
POTC
6.0
09/05/06 10:47:11
001d 17h 47m 11s
47.5
2
3
BRA1
5.0
09/05/06 10:56:52
001d 17h 56m 52s
42.0
4
4
ERIC
4.0
09/05/06 10:59:49
001d 17h 59m 49s
34.5
6
5
MOVI
3.0
09/05/06 11:01:26
001d 18h 01m 26s
47.0
3
YACHT
Latitude
Longitude
DTF
SMG
DTL
DTLC
PTLPS
ETA
POP
PROJECTED POSITION OVERALL
6
BRU
40 29.68N
073 55.44W
00015
08.0
00000
+00020
2.0
09/05/06 12:54:34
2.5
7
7
ABN2
40 24.05N
073 44.28W
00025
11.2
00010
+00022
1.0
09/05/06 14:09:41
42.0
4
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
BRA1 Brasil 1
BRUN Brunel
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
PLPTS: projected leg points
PTLPTS: projected total leg points including actual points from scoring gates
POP: projected overall points including actual points from scoring gates
OVERALL: projected position in race overall if yacht indextains current position
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Email: lizzie.green@volvooceanrace.org
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