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03/06/2001 - Day 66: News | [Print] [Close] |
| Innovation Explorer is in turqoise
Club Med in yellow Team Adventure is green | PlayStation is in red
Warta is orange Team Legato is blue |
Day 66 - Innovation Explorer has FINISHED! 11:35:38 GMT - 64 d 22 h 32 m 38 s Approx. Ave. Speed: 18.45 knots
News - Tuesday, 03/06/2001, 12:30 PM GMT
| Position | 03/06/2001 12:30 PM GMT |
| 1st | Club Med (WINNER OF THE RACE Elapsed Time: 62d 6h 56m Approx. Ave Speed:18 knots) |
| 2nd | Innovation Explorer (FINISHED 2ND AT 11:35:38 GMT TODAY - 64 d 22 h 32 m 38 s Approx. Ave. Speed: 18.45 knots) |
| 3rd | Team Adventure (5237 nm from finish. Pushing north-east, avg speed 18.1 knots) |
| 4th | Warta Polpharma (6098 nm from the finish. Heading north, avg speed 12.2 knots) |
| 5th | Team Legato (8736 nm from the finish. Moved further north overnight, avg speed 18.1 knots) |
| 6th | PlayStation DNF |
| cat-alist Estimated arrival dates and Positions | ||
| 1st | Club Med | Saturday, March 3rd - 7:56:33 PM GMT |
| 2nd | Innovation Explorer | Tuesday, March 6th - 11:35:38 AM GMT |
| 3rd | Team Adventure | around March 18th |
| 4th | Warta Polpharma | around March 21st |
| 5th | Team Legato | around March 30th |
The finish line is in the Western Mediterranean, by Marseille.
The finish line is the length of The Catalans. Innovation Explorer Med is docked at the quai des Belges, where an 80 meter finger has been especially constructed for the occasion.
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Click here to read more on the finish in Marseille |
Innovation Explorer, 'the Hunters' - FINISHED!
Innovation Explorer FINISHED 2ND AT 11:35:38 GMT TODAY - 64 d 22 h 32 m 38 s Approx. Ave. Speed: 18.45 knots
Congratulations to: Loïck Peyron, Skip Novak, Elena Caputo Novak, Julien Cressant, Xavier Dagault, Thierry Douillard, Olivier Lozachmeur, Loïc Le Mignon, Jean-Philippe Saliou, Jérôme Teigné, Yves Loday, Roger Nilson (on-shore routing).
Club Med’s average speed was slightly slower - 18.33 knots- but the winner took a more direct route, making the voyage in 27,407.9 miles, 1,356.3 miles less than Innovation Explorer.
Club Med Club Med vacated the winner's pontoon, taking to the sea today to accompany Innovation Explorer home. The team and families were aboard. A large banner was on Club Med that said: 'Well done ! '. Club Med sat and waited by the finish line, in irons, two reefs in the main.
Innovation Explorer roared in at 25 knots with full mainsail and staysail. The waiting fleet had trouble following Innovation Explorer. Once past the finish line, Loïck Peyron turned her into the wind and the sails were lowered. Thousands of fans came out to meet the french heroes as they came into port, followed by 200 spectator boats.
4 PM GMT: The boat turned 180° and backed up against the quayside to dock. Skip Novak threw out the aft mooring line, and the boat was secured once more to terra firma. The crew leaned over the siderail, reaching out to touch their families and friends for the first time in so long. Innovation Explorer is on the winners pontoon. They have just done the press conference.
Innovation Explorer will be officially declared second once the race officials have had time to make sure that the boat still conforms to the regulations.
The crew then proceeded to the winner's pontoon for an award ceremony followed by a press conference.
Elena Caputo yesterday: "Jean Phi [Saliou], Thierry [Douillard] and I used the last tube of Sikaflex and the last pieces of sail material to patch up the reacher a bit more, hoping to fly it into port tomorrow. In the meantime, the rest of the crew worked on replacing a few broken battens in the mainsail."
"Interviews were again done for the TV crews which filmed us from on board the France Telecom trimaran which accompanied us for half the day."
In the past few days in the Mediterranean, she has had to gybe at wide angles back and forth because she has no specialist downwind sails left.
The scrutineers will check over the boat: one item is the propeller shaft seals, to see that they have not been broken.
Innovation Explorer projected list of boat damage:
Club Med boat damage (the list is getting longer):
From the NOW live tracker, www.now.com
| Innovation Explorer is in turqoise
Club Med in yellow Team Adventure is green | PlayStation is in red
Warta is orange Team Legato is blue |
Team Adventure, Entertainment Extreme - heading north-east
Lewis: "Where are we? South Atlantic ocean (east) roughly 700 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, despite a veil of warm, damp fog we have made some decent progress towards the north. We have had a full main and solent up all day, and been sailing at anywhere from the mid-teens to 30 knots and flying a hull; all on port tack. This progress cheered up the crew and gave us all a needed morale boost after the horrifically slow day yesterday."
"Congratulations go to CLUB MED. They have won The Race finishing around 8pm French time last night. They sailed a good race raising the 24 hour speed record and showed us all some great competition. Their fantastic time around the world was just over 62 days. Ocean Racing has been raised to a new level."
Those Fabulous Poles - heading north
Drapella: "Although we rounded Cape Horn at 1046 GMT on 2nd March, the battle really began several hours later. The atmospheric pressure fell to 956 hPa in 22 hPa stages, and in just eight hours. The gradient alone was enough to generate 64-knot winds, with gusts of up to 75-79 knots. The waves were extremely steep and short on either side and started to break, increasing to demolition levels. We came in close to Isla Nueva, south of Tierra del Fuego, but believe you me, it didn't feel as though we were on the lee side. "
"Close to the coast, hidden by the hills, we tested the advantage of the biggest sea anchor on the market. Using the 36-metre long wavescreen, with the warping end of the line passed through blocks attached to the aft cross beam, we were able to slow her down to four-to-five knots, which was very efficient while it lasted for 15 minutes in all. "
"It ended up giving up completely and we had to cut it free and bring the lines back up on deck to protect the rudders and the lifting propellers. Still on the lee side of the island, we had to turn upwind so that she would drift under bare poles with her mast facing in the right direction. That was when we ran into hundreds of very dangerous waves, in 60-70 knots of wind, with a true wind angle of 70-80 degrees, the boat almost being knocked down in the same direction as the swell. Several breaking waves covered the decks, rigging and fittings. We lost a wind generator three metres from the deck, life buoys and a running light fell onto the trampoline."
From the NOW live tracker, www.now.com
| Innovation Explorer is in turqoise
Club Med in yellow Team Adventure is green | PlayStation is in red
Warta is orange Team Legato is blue |
Team Legato - 'the Survivor's' - 4 to 5 days to Cape Horn
Bullimore: "We are pushing the boat and ourselves as hard as possible" said Bullimore early today. "We have a daily target of 320 miles to hit in order to finish back in Marseilles within the deadline and need to bank as many miles as possible when the conditions are like this."
"If we can keep going like this, we expect to round the Horn in 4-5 days (Saturday or Sunday) and can then concentrate of eating into Warta Polpharma's lead."
Map images courtesy of Virtual Spectator, click here to go to The Race site for a free download of the software.
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Club Med in blue
Innovation Explorer is in green Warta Polpharma is yellow | Team Adventure is in orange
Team Legato is in brick-red PlayStation is in orange-red |
Map images courtesy of Virtual Spectator, click here to go to The Race site for a free download of the software.
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Club Med in blue
Innovation Explorer is in green Warta Polpharma is yellow | Team Adventure is in orange
Team Legato is in brick-red PlayStation is in orange-red |
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