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4 June 2012
Warming up the fat lady on Cessna Citation
With 16 days of the final Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 5 completed, the two front running Class40s, Cessna Citation and Financial Crisis, were separated by 280 miles on Monday afternoon as the two double-handed Class40s head due east at the same latitude as the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France. South-west of the leading two boats, around 180 miles NNW of the Azores, Phesheya-Racing and Sec. Hayai are beginning the long ascent through the Atlantic to the Bay of Biscay.
In the past 24 hours, Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough in first place with Cessna Citation and the Italian-Slovak duo of Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo in second on Financial Crisis have been reaching in southerly wind towards the western coast of France with Nannini and Frattaruolo indextaining averages of 11-12 knots until midnight on Sunday, taking 20 miles from Colman and Cavanough over the past day and trailing the lead boat by 280 miles on Monday afternoon.
Further to the south, Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire in third on Phesheya-Racing have indextained a 170 mile lead over Nico and Frans Budel on Sec. Hayai in fourth as the two Class40s run downwind as they climb up towards the latitude of Cape Finisterre.
After 30,000 miles and 148 days of hard racing spread over almost nine months, the Kiwi-Australian duo of Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough at the head of the GOR fleet are counting down the final miles on board their Akilaria RC2, Cessna Citation: “It feels fantastic to be inside the final 500 miles of the final leg,” said Colman Sunday night.
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