Innovation Explorer is in turqoise
Club Med in yellow
Team Adventure is green
PlayStation is in red
Warta is orange
Team Legato is blue (still in port)
DAY 7 - Innovation Explorer Regains the Lead
News - Saturday, 01/06/2001, 2:00 PM GMT
Position
01/06/2001 5:15 AM GMT
1st
Innovation Explorer (14.7 knots boat speed)
2nd
Club Med (129 nm for leader.
Had the fastest boat speed at 22 knots, now at 14.7 knots)
3rd
Team Adventure 275 nm from the leader. Heading south at 14 knots)
4th
Warta Polpharma (414 nm from leader. Slow progress at 6 knots)
5th
PlayStation (395 nm from the leader. In the Atlantic now, heading south, 10.4 knots)
6th
Team Legato (598 nm from the leader. In Gibraltar for repairs and 48 hr layover. Due to leave 1 PM GMT Sunday)
Distances have spread with the increase of wind speed. It looks like Club Med, having played the center of the field between Innovation Explorer and Team Adventure has gained. Team Adventure went too far west. Team Adventure had wanted to reach the north east wind first, brought in by the ocean front. After having spent the last 12 hours in a choppy sea, she is experiencing 28 knots of wind with a double reef in the main and a storm jib.
Club Med's navigator Mike Quilter is satisfied with the decision to play the center. Club Med is at the entrance to the Canary Islands, reaching at 27 knots for the last hour. Club Med will pass in the next few hours the Canary Islands with Palma on starboard anf Tenerife on port.
Innovation Explorer is the most to the east to the side of Island of Lanzarote. Team Adventure, having taken the far west has lost 125 miles, and will pass the Canaries on the west.
The Ollier boats, Club Med, Innovation Explorer and Team Adventure are sailing in wind strength of 25 knots and flat seas.
PlayStation has now passed Warta Polpharma.
Tidbit: PlayStation has added approximately 600 kg to the boat with the new sails. The Cuben fibre mainsail that ripped is irrepairable.
PlayStation's theme song is 'Who Let the Dogs Out', by the Baha Men.
Warta Polpharma will shortly be meeting the cold front. In preparation for the 40-45 knot winds overnight they have reduced their sail surface area.
