GOR - Global Ocean Race Class40s - Leg 4 Punta del Este - Charleston http://globaloceanrace.com - Übersicht 24 April 2012 A light-wind barrier as the fleet leaves the Caribbean to port The chasing trio of Class40s in the Global Ocean Race (GOR) continue to close down on the lead boat with two distinct weather systems controlling the leaderboard as the fleet races east of the Caribbean’s Windward and Leeward Islands. For the southern group, the NE Trade Winds held firm until late on Tuesday, delivering solid ten to 11 knot speed averages, while at the head of the fleet, Cessna Citation has spent 48 hours in light easterlies and is continuing to head WNW watching their formidable distance deficit tumble. In the past 24 hours, Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough on Cessna Citation have kept heading west as the pursuing pack thunder north making a more direct course to the Leg 4 finish in Charleston, South Carolina. Since Monday afternoon, Colman and Cavanough have only advanced 172 miles towards the finish line, while in second place, 266 miles south-east of Cessna Citation at 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo have covered 226 miles towards Charleston. On Tuesday afternoon, Financial Crisis was averaging 9.6 knots knots and the Italian-Slovak duo are edging into the same weather pattern as Colman and Cavanough, but until late on Monday night, Nannini and Frattaruolo were making some of the best speeds in the fleet. Sergio Frattaruolo describes the conditions: “For some time now we’ve had 20-25 knots of constant trade winds that allow us to make some of the top averages,” says the sailor from Bologna. “During the night we glide constantly between 13 to 17 knots under autopilot and it would be very hard to describe the sensation to anyone who hasn’t tried it already,” Frattaruolo continues. Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE