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03/15/2001 - Day 75: 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 75 - Team Adventure Still Beating Upwind. Warta Polpharma Equator by noon Friday. Team Legato - Biggest News in The Race, Will They Make it? A Bad Day Today.
News - Thursday, 03/16/2001, 3:21 AM GMT
| Position | 03/16/2001 3:21 AM 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 03/06/2001 - 64 d 22 h 32 m 38 s Approx. Ave. Speed: 18.45 knots) |
| 3rd | Team Adventure (2351 nm from finish. In northeast trade winds beating upwind, avg speed 13.2 knots) |
| 4th | Warta Polpharma (3566 nm from the finish. 1215 nm from TA, will hit equator by noon Friday, avg speed 11.9 knots) |
| 5th | Team Legato (5697 nm from the finish. 3346 from TA. Dropped below required 322 mile average, avg speed 11.7 knots) |
| 6th | PlayStation DNF |
The finish line is in the Western Mediterranean, by Marseille.
The finish line is the length of The Catalans. Innovation Explorer 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 |
Team Adventure projected finish:
Team Adventure, Entertainment Extreme - level with the Cape Verde Islands
Team Adventure is heading north-west, beating upwind in the 20-25 knots northeast tradewinds. They will have two more days of these conditions before they can tack over towards the Straits of Gibraltar. They are level with the Cape Verde Islands, some 400 miles away.
Larry Rosenfeld: "We are still falling foul of the northeasterly winds that are stopping us from heading in the right direction. There may be some improvement on Saturday but we have to be careful, because the boat has a strange motion in these conditions. The bows bury a lot and the impacts are often very violent. We have to take a certain number of precautions to avoid cracking our heads open."
Warta Polpharma projected finish:
Those Fabulous Poles - approaching the equator
Warta-Polpharma will reach the equator by noon GMT Friday. The doldrums should prove 'non-toxic' for them, as it was for Team Adventure. They are having additional satellite problems, this time with the antenna.
Roman Paszke: "we are making progress at 12 knots in light airs, and we're keeping our eyes on a huge anticyclone that could risk complicating life on the haul back to Gibraltar."
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 projected finish:
Team Legato - 'the Survivor's' - in the St Helena's High
With no room to negotiate in daily mileage, Team Legato did not need the high off of Buenos Aires, Argentina that is moving to the east, and blocking the way to the southeasterly trade winds. And, in the coming hours, winds are predicted at 5/10 knots.
Team Legato must finish in 19 days - before 20:56 GMT on Monday 2 April. She has covered 216 miles in the last 24 hours, nowhere near the 322 miles needed daily.
As of yesterday they had 2 days (644 miles) advantage over the deadline.
As of today they are down to 538 miles advantage over the deadline.
Team Legato is the biggest news in The Race. Will they finish in time? Will the race committee give them another extension? Certainly Team Legato has contributed to the Race itself. Since this event is the first time in its existence, will there be any more leeway?
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 |
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 Watcher is the dotted yellow line PlayStation is in orange-red |
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