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Fotogalerie Leg 5
13.02.09
VOLVO OCEAN RACE: THE LONGEST LEG IN HISTORY
Five Volvo Ocean Race teams are girding themselves for the longest leg in the history of the race – a 12,300 nautical mile marathon to from Qingdao, China to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The leg starts at 1300 local time (0500 GMT) from a start line positioned just off the Olympic breakwater in Qingdao and will take the fleet into the depths of the iconic Southern Ocean and around Cape Horn before the teams find the relief of the finish line in the tropical conditions of Rio de Janeiro.
The 12,300 nm course includes two scoring gates (at latitude 37’00.000S and Cape Horn), and two ice gates to keep the fleet to the north and safe from a drifting iceberg that has now broken up, spewing lethal bergy bits and growlers across the ocean. The Islands of New Zealand (East Cape) is also a mark of the course, which the fleet must leave to starboard. The leg is expected to take around 34 days to complete.
At 0700 GMT this morning Ericsson 3 was 191 miles from Qingdao. Routing software is predicting a finish for the team at approximately 0630 GMT tomorrow. The team suspended racing in leg four due to damage, which has since been fixed in Taiwan. After resuming racing just before midnight (GMT) on Wednesday night, the Nordic team is in a dash for the finish line in Qingdao, where the team will make a short pit-stop to provision and pick up crew, before starting leg five. If the weather cooperates, they may even be in time to start with the rest of the fleet.
Lizzie (Green) Ward – Senior Race Press Officer (Race HQ - UK)
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Ericsson 3 bejubelt Sieg in Rio
Foto: Dave Kneale
Ericsson 3 Erste am Zuckerhut
Foto: Rick Tomlinson
Foto: Rick Tomlinson/VOR
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