Sea, Sail & Surf newsVOLVO OCEAN RACE
Girl Power On Amer Sports Too
dimanche 17 mars 2002 –
On djuice Anthony Nossiter is under real threat as it is common thinking that he will be punished for rounding Cape Horn naked. Mickey Lundh wrote that "there are already rumours about a nude crossing by, yes you all know. Onboard however the violin is playing rather different and one person said why not let him dress up in a survival suit for a day or two. That would teach him from running around nude in King Neptune’s paradise (survival suit in 40 + degrees)."
On the race track, SEB was making the most of being the most westerly yacht and gained on all around her, achieving the best speeds of the whole fleet for extended periods. She has moved up to fourth place. Unfortunately for News Corp, the most easterly yacht, this has meant that she has been relegated to seventh position for the time being. Not only has she lost places but also a lot of miles.
Bringing up the rear, djuice was not able holding off the advances made by Lisa McDonald’s Amer Sports Too who pushed hard to overtake.
Once again the girls on Amer Sports Too have shown very good routing and sailing. They have chosen a similar strategy to SEB, letting the boat run on a more westerly course and pulled away from the guys around. The real asset for them was the speed difference they were achieving, one knot faster than News Corp and almost three knots faster than Amer Sports One. Djuice was suffering from very light wind and was left behind. Lisa McDonald is very confident that they will be able keep up the pace they are showing now. Her husband Neal, skipper of second positioned ASSA ABLOY says that he is very proud of the performance the all female team is showing right now.
After being locked together with Tyco and ASSA ABLOY, illbruck managed to get away from the two yachts by eight miles. John Kostecki, illbruck’s skipper, said in a satellite interview : "We have a few miles lead now and I hope it helps to get away. We sailed the boat really hard and we were playing the clouds better than the competition. Chris Bedford, our meteorologist trained everybody on board well, but Juan [Vila] had a big impact on this." Noel Drennan will face King Neptune in a few hours, as it was dark when illbruck crossed the equator. John Kostecki expects the trade winds to set in tomorrow to get a quick ride to Miami, 2700 nautical miles away. A little later, illbruck gave up the cover on ASSA ABLOY and Tyco, who luffed slightly up to a more northerly course, and gained several miles on illbruck.
SEB has clearly left the trailing group and pushes as hard as they can to get in contact with the leaders.
Equator Crossing Times (GMT) : illbruck 0132 ; Tyco 0138 ; ASSA ABLOY 0153 ; News Corp 0554 ; Amer Sports One 0820 ; SEB 1137 ; Amer Sports Too 1325 ; djuice 1335 ;
Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 9, 1558 GMT
PS Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG TFHR DTL DTL-C ETA PO
1 ILBK 02 05.68N 041 14.96W 02686 318 11.3 262 0 +0 27 MAR 02 37
2 AART 02 09.00N 041 10.28W 02687 321 12.2 263 1 -7 27 MAR 02 27
3 TYCO 02 07.24N 041 08.16W 02690 319 12.0 259 4 -5 27 MAR 02 24
4 TSEB 00 31.32N 041 32.28W 02734 315 10.7 263 48 +2 28 MAR 02 17
5 ATOO 00 19.80N 040 58.60W 02767 315 11.2 250 81 -1 28 MAR 02 11
6 AONE 00 54.12N 040 11.32W 02780 324 09.6 225 94 +8 28 MAR 02 25
7 NEWS 01 14.28N 039 42.20W 02790 334 08.6 207 104 +19 28 MAR 02 21
8 DJCE 00 19.92N 039 57.84W 02813 321 09.5 199 127 +10 28 MAR 02 18
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