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04/02/2001 - Day 93: 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 93 - Team Legato Heading for Las Palmas, Canaries for Repairs
News - Monday, 04/02/2001, 11:44 PM GMT
| Position | 04/02/2001 11:44 PM GMT |
| 1st | Club Med (WINNER OF THE RACE 03/03/2001 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 (FINISHED 3RD AT 9:21:02 GMT 03/24/2001 - 82 d 20 h 21 m 02 s Approx. Ave. Speed: 14.97 knots) |
| 4th | Team Legato (1841 nm from the finish. Covered 243.1 nm in the last 24 hours. Team Legato heading for the Canaries for repairs. Avg speed 10.1 knots) |
| 5th | Warta Polpharma (2127 nm from the finish. 286 nm from Team Legato. Has made up 78 miles on Team Legato. Covered 258.2 nm in the last 24 hours. Avg speed 10.8 knots) |
| 6th | PlayStation DNF |
The finish line is in the Western Mediterranean, by Marseille.
The finish line is the length of The Catalans. Team Adventure is docked at the quai des Belges, where an 80 meter finger has been especially constructed for The Race arrivals.
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Click here to read more on the finish in Marseille |
The Finishes Statistics
The Finishes
Records Broken in this Race
Records broken
Boat Damage on Finishers
Boat Damage on finishers
Team Legato projected finish:
Team Legato - 'the Survivors' - heading for Las Palmas, Canaries
Team Legato's mast-step ball joint upon which the mast is stepped broke and the mast moved downwards, remaining more or less vertical, in what was a dreadful din. The crew grabbed the shrouds to prevent the boat from dismasting altogether.
Carbo Spars based at the Hamble England, is currently making a replacement part which will be flown out ready for their arrival in Las Palmas.
Bullimore: "If things go well, we could be in and out of port within eight hours, and then it will be full speed for the Strait of Gibraltar and the Marseille finish line."
Paul Larsen: "The offending piece is the ball-and-socket joint which connects the base of the mast to the boat. It locates the mast in position, takes the massive compression loads and allows the mast to rotate to give the best angle of attack to the wind."
"The break occurred just beneath the ball part where it temporarily narrows before flaring out into the base. The whole mast, complete with ball still in socket, had dropped backwards off the stump and settled on the large metal base plate fixed to the beam. The jagged stump was sticking up into the carbon base of the mast just forward of the socket, hence the mast was being supported at two points. This has the effect of locking the mast in position so as it can no longer rotate."
Warta Polpharma projected finish:
Those Fabulous Poles - gaining on Team Legato
Polpharma is now heading north-east towards Gibraltar. They have gained 78 miles on Team Legato.
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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