Leg 2 - Kapstadt - Wellington - Start 28.November 2011
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26 December 2011
A mixed Christmas Day for the GOR fleet
While the leading trio of double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) Class40s struggled with fickle and frustrating light airs south and south-east of Tasmania, the two boats further west had a Christmas Day pasting in 47 knots of wind, but delivered impressive speeds.
Over Christmas Day the zone of minimal breeze ballooned and stretched to an area covering 350 miles south of Tasmania and the GOR fleet leaders, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild on Cessna Citation and Ross and Campbell Field on BSL in second place were snared early on Christmas Day with the speeds dropping to below five knots as the two Class40s struggled east towards South Island, New Zealand.
By 18:00 GMT, Cessna Citation and BSL had raised speeds to nine-knot averages, but Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron on Campagne de France in third place reindexed glued to the Tasman Sea, 150 miles south of Tasmania with averages dropping to just two knots on Christmas Day. “It's a balmy 17 degrees, flat calm, grey and occasional light drizzle,” explained Miranda Merron. “We had Christmas lunch on the ‘terrace’ - game casserole, cod and potato casserole,” she reports. “This will be followed by tea and my mother's delicious Christmas cake, which has now travelled from Devon to Cherbourg, down the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town and now across the Indian Ocean to our current position south of Tasmania!”
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