GOR - Global Ocean Race Class40s - Leg 5

Charleston - Les Sables d'Olonne
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Fotogalerie Leg 5
19 May 2012

Upwind start in the Gulf Stream for the final leg of the GOR

At 10:30 local time (14:30 GMT) on Saturday 19 May, the four reindexing Global Ocean Race (GOR) Class40s from the original fleet of six boats crossed the start line in Charleston, South Carolina, and set off on the 3,600-mile Leg 5 to the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France.

Motoring out of their base in the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina at Patriot’s Point, the four double-handed boats gathered in the Cooper River south of the Ravenel Bridge and north of the start line stretching from a flagpole mounted on Charleston’s Waterfront Park pier to a Committee Boat anchored west of the northern tip of Shutes Folly Island.

Start nach Mallorca

In 13-15 knots of north-easterly wind, the South African duo of Phillippa Hutton-Squire and Nick Leggatt were first across the line with Class40 Phesheya-Racing heading south, leaving the golden sand of Shutes Folly and the 200-year-old, American Civil War artillery position and prisoner-of-war camp, Castle Pinckney, at the island’s southern tip to port.

As the fleet rounded the channel marker near Pitts Shoal in the Southern Channel, the Kiwi-Australian duo of Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough took pole position with their Akilaria RC2 Cessna Citation, leading the fleet out of Charleston Harbour between Fort Sumter to the west and Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island to the east with Phesheya-Racing in second place; the Dutch father-and-son duo of Nico and Frans Budel in third with Sec. Hayai and the Italian-Slovak team of Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo in fourth with Financial Crisis.

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17.06.2012 - Final Prize Giving of the GOR 2011-12

11.06.2012 - The Dutch duo on Sec. Hayai take fourth overall in the GOR

10.06.2012 - The South African team on Phesheya-Racing ride the storm into Les Sables d’Olonne

09.06.2012 - Reeling in the final miles on Phesheya-Racing and Sec. Hayai

07.06.2012 - Marco Nannini takes second in the GOR

06.06.2012 - Colman and Cavanough win the GOR with Cessna Citation

04.06.2012 - Warming up the fat lady on Cessna Citation

01.06.2012 - Chilling tales from the heart of the storm

31.05.2012 - A brief lull before the next depression arrives

29.05.2012 - Getting ready for a mid-Atlantic Force 9-10 gale

27.05.2012 - Finally, offwind sailing for the GOR fleet

25.05.2012 - Waterspout drama for Phesheya-Racing

24.05.2012 - Exiting the Gulf Stream into flatter water

23.05.2012 - Un-readable conditions continue in the Gulf Stream

21.05.2012 - Conditions ease after the worst 24 hours of the circumnavigation

20.05.2012 - Financial Crisis gambles with the Gulf Stream