Thursday, 16 August 2007
Sidney leading Class
Breaking news this morning is that Sidney is leading her division of Class 1 A, which is fantastic news. The yacht is unaware of this at the moment. We are all looking forward to welcoming her in.
Jaguar Logic has called in since the last update to say that all is well but they were unable to fly a spinnaker during the night as they have lost all their power sources which mean they are unable to turn on the instruments, and therefore were sailing blind throughout the night. Scarlet Oyster has pulled out a 15 mile lead at this stage, but at daylight Jaguar hoisted there big spinnaker and at the moment is going quicker so has a chance of eating up the miles. It is all very exciting waiting for the position updates.
Lion have just left the marina en route to Southampton, where they will be having their rig surveyed after the failure at the port cap shroud fitting. It seems at this stage that she will need a new mast. This will mean a busy week coming up for the Sailing Logic maintenance squad.
Bongani continue to do well in Class 2 division A where she is lying 2nd just 2 miles behind Antares. Bongani have their storm main (trysail) still up as they have damaged the mainsail, but are trying to repair this in time to re-hoist and hopefully catch up a little on Antares. Antares has a bigger handicap than Bongani, but only just, so if Tim and the crew can get in sight of them, they will stand a chance if overhauling them into first place, go get em!!
Exabyte 3 is still due in this afternoon approx. 5pm. We can’t wait to see them!
During the night, some of the bigger yachts in Class zero and super zero have arrived, with many a tall tale of the conditions they faced emerging after the beer started flowing. Chieftan is still leading the Race overall and seems unbeatable at this stage with the yachts left out still racing.
A few statistics are emerging from the RORC race office. Out of 271 official starters, there are only 56 yachts that are still in the race. It is fantastic to have four of our seven yachts amongst them.
Breaking news this morning is that Sidney is leading her division of Class 1 A, which is fantastic news. The yacht is unaware of this at the moment. We are all looking forward to welcoming her in.
Jaguar Logic has called in since the last update to say that all is well but they were unable to fly a spinnaker during the night as they have lost all their power sources which mean they are unable to turn on the instruments, and therefore were sailing blind throughout the night. Scarlet Oyster has pulled out a 15 mile lead at this stage, but at daylight Jaguar hoisted there big spinnaker and at the moment is going quicker so has a chance of eating up the miles. It is all very exciting waiting for the position updates.
Lion have just left the marina en route to Southampton, where they will be having their rig surveyed after the failure at the port cap shroud fitting. It seems at this stage that she will need a new mast. This will mean a busy week coming up for the Sailing Logic maintenance squad.
Bongani continue to do well in Class 2 division A where she is lying 2nd just 2 miles behind Antares. Bongani have their storm main (trysail) still up as they have damaged the mainsail, but are trying to repair this in time to re-hoist and hopefully catch up a little on Antares. Antares has a bigger handicap than Bongani, but only just, so if Tim and the crew can get in sight of them, they will stand a chance if overhauling them into first place, go get em!!
Exabyte 3 is still due in this afternoon approx. 5pm. We can’t wait to see them!
During the night, some of the bigger yachts in Class zero and super zero have arrived, with many a tall tale of the conditions they faced emerging after the beer started flowing. Chieftan is still leading the Race overall and seems unbeatable at this stage with the yachts left out still racing.
A few statistics are emerging from the RORC race office. Out of 271 official starters, there are only 56 yachts that are still in the race. It is fantastic to have four of our seven yachts amongst them.
posted by Sailing Logic at 12:41 PM
