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04/05/2001 - Day 96: News | [Print] [Close] |
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Club Med in yellow Team Adventure is green | PlayStation is in red
Warta is orange Team Legato is blue |
Day 96 - Team Legato has Left Las Palmas After Repairs. Warta Polpharma Still on Track for Gibraltar on Sunday. Team Adventure Educational Crew Mates Selected.
News - Thursday, 04/05/2001, 11:56 PM GMT
| Position | 04/06/2001 9:42 AM 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 | Warta Polpharma (1196 nm from the finish. Covered 229.7 nm in the last 24 hours. Avg speed 9.6 knots) |
| 5th | Team Legato (1370 nm from the finish. 174 nm from Warta Polpharma. Left Las Palmas at 04:00 GMT after quick repair. Covered 95.2 nm in the last 24 hours. Avg speed 4.0 knots) |
| 6th | PlayStation DNF |
The finish line is in the Western Mediterranean, by Marseille.
The finish line is the length of The Catalans. At the quai des Belges, an 80 meter finger has been especially constructed for The Race arrivals.
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The Finishes Statistics
The Finishes
Records Broken in this Race
Records broken
Boat Damage on Finishers
Boat Damage on finishers
Warta Polpharma projected finish:
Those Fabulous Poles - Gibraltar by Sunday
Warta Polpharma is on track for Gibraltar on Sunday and Marseille on Tuesday. They are beating to weather.
Team Legato projected finish:
Team Legato - 'the Survivors' - Repairs finished in Las Palmas
After Team Legato suffered in the 25-30 knot headwinds, about 100 miles before Las Palmas they were becalmed.
Bullimore: "We are obliged to sail with whatever wind we get, and it dropped to 2 or 3 knots for a few hours, and now we have a very strong north-easterly blowing across the islands which is causing us a few worries. Would you believe it? Right from the moment when we made the decision to repair the mast in Las Palmas, we have had to battle against the wind and its been like that for 1000 miles!!!"
The repair team in Las Palmas consisted of:
The local Yacht Club, 'Real Nautica' provided rubber boats.
When Ron Hansford, engineer from Carbo Spars arrived in the canaries, the airline had lost his tool bag, so it was a mad scramble going to hardware stores to find required replacement tools. Luckily he had the replacement ball joint.
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 |
Team Adventure news:
Fulfilling the educational program, two school teachers will be joining Team Adventure to relive the treck retracing the course Christopher Columbus took on his voyage to the Americas. Columbus and his three ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, had departed Spain in 1492 from Porto.
Betsy Alison, hostess of the American cable television show "Boating Today" and a five-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year, is also joining the crew and will write a regular column for the team's web page. She has a highly successful track record in a variety of dinghies, one-design keelboats and offshore boats.
The teachers are:
Bradley is an English and Media Studies teacher at Bridgemary Community School, in Gosport, Hampshire. Born and raised in South Africa, she taught in schools in Port Elizabeth before moving to Britain 18 months ago.
A sailor for the last eight years, Bradley sailed extensively in South Africa and has raced keelboats on the south coast of England and in Ireland.
Bradley and Rieck will communicate daily from the big catamaran with students on both sides of the Atlantic, using the ship's satellite communications system to transmit written information and digital photographs via the web.
Janet Bradley after a shakedown sail: "This was a pretty awesome experience. I was surprised by the smoothness of the ride, in these conditions at least. I was expecting something rougher and noisier. I'm really looking forward to the days ahead."
Susan Rieck: "This is a marvellous machine, an extraordinary ride. This is much bigger than the boats I'm accustomed to sailing in and I am impressed by its acceleration under sail, and its stability. There is also a lot of work attached to sailing this boat. This is what I expected, but it was more than I expected."
Cam Lewis: "We're pleased to welcome these two fine teachers and sailors aboard Team Adventure. It is the mission of Team Adventure to motivate young people to learn and excel, to develop their awareness of the world around them. With this voyage we hope to bring to life for kids the determination and the achievements of Columbus so many years ago."
Betsy Allison: "When Cam Lewis offered me the opportunity to sail transatlantic, and on the classic Columbus route, I jumped at the chance," she said. "This is a boat that is redefining the limits of sailing performance and I'm looking forward to telling its story to readers, web browsers and my television audience."
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