Day 97 - Team Legato departure from Las Palmas at 4 AM Thursday. Warta Polpharma Making Steady Progress South East Towards Gibraltar.
News - Saturday, 04/07/2001, 6:15 PM GMT

Position	04/07/2001 6:15 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 (972 nm from the finish. Has gained 123 nm on Team Legato. Covered 298.8 nm in the last 24 hours. Avg speed 12.4 knots)
5th	Team Legato (1269 nm from the finish. 297 nm from Warta Polpharma. Left Las Palmas at 04:00 GMT after quick repair. Covered 100.1 nm in the last 24 hours. Avg speed 4.2 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.

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

Warta Polpharma projected finish:

• Tue. April 3rd: ETA April 11th
• Wed. March 28th: ETA April 8th
• Mon. March 19th: out of The Race
• Tue. March 18th: ETA around March 29th
• Tue. March 13th: ETA around March 26th
• Sun. March 11th: ETA around March 25th
• Fri. March 9th: ETA around March 23rd

Those Fabulous Poles - Gibraltar by Sunday

The wind is from the northwest at eight knots, which should allow them to reach the Mediterranean by Sunday and Marseille by Wednesday, April 11th.

Team Legato projected finish:

• Tue. April 3rd: ETA April 12th
• Wed. March 28th: ETA April 8th
• Sun. March 25th: ETA around April 2nd
• Fri. March 9th: ETA around March 30th

Team Legato - 'the Survivors' - Repairs finished in Las Palmas

Team Legato arrived in Las Palmas at 10:30 PM Thursday, was repaired for 5 and a half hours, then back at sea by 4 AM.

Once in port, Legato shore manager Ron Hansford supervised the lidting of the mast via a mobile crane.

Once the mast was raised by 4 inches, the damaged mast foot ball joint heel dropped out easily.

Taking advantage of the stop, the electronic equipment was checked and an alternator that had not worked since Wellington was repaired.

Bullimore: "Everybody's done a fantastic job to turn us around so quickly. Carbo Spars have been brilliant and it's great the local Spanish engineers and crane driver were prepared to work through the night."

We can now go flat out to try and catch the Poles on Warta Polpharma over the last 1,500 miles back to Marseille. We have the confidence now to really push the boat and we'll just have to see what happens."

Map images courtesy of Virtual Spectator, click here to go to The Race site for a free download of the software.

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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