Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Wednesday 15 Aug 6am update
6am update
Well its been another wet, windy and miserable night on the Fastnet race. The winds have abated a little but there is still anticipation as to when the wind will swing to the north west. Bongani had lost a little ground overnight on Foggy Dew the nearest yacht to her in class, and Jaguar is continuing its tussle with Scarlet Oyster. Sidney is still hanging on in there and moving nicely, whilst Exabyte has consolidated her position mid-fleet.
The big maxi yachts have rounded the roc and are on their way home, in the hunt for a race record. This is definitely on if the wind does swing north west as then it would be Spinnaker run all the way to Lands End. As the yachts were leaving our base at Shamrock Quay, we went past ICAP Leopard preparing at Ocean Village. We counted some 20+ crew on her, which looked like such a lot of people compared to the 10 we have on Jaguar and Sidney, 9 on Bongani and 12 on Exabyte 3. By this stage, I would think that our skippers will have got very little sleep, if any at all, so I am sure they will be praying for a respite in the weather so they can get their heads down for some well deserved rest before the spinnakers start flying.
Puma Logic has now joined Pink Panther and Lion in Plymouth and the marina is now full of yachts that retired from the race. Most of our teams are staying on to welcome home those who have persevered. It seems, that from 296 starters, there are only 53 left racing, which shows just how courageous our 4 teams are. They all deserve a huge welcome home. Expected eta at this stage will be late Thursday evening.
Well its been another wet, windy and miserable night on the Fastnet race. The winds have abated a little but there is still anticipation as to when the wind will swing to the north west. Bongani had lost a little ground overnight on Foggy Dew the nearest yacht to her in class, and Jaguar is continuing its tussle with Scarlet Oyster. Sidney is still hanging on in there and moving nicely, whilst Exabyte has consolidated her position mid-fleet.
The big maxi yachts have rounded the roc and are on their way home, in the hunt for a race record. This is definitely on if the wind does swing north west as then it would be Spinnaker run all the way to Lands End. As the yachts were leaving our base at Shamrock Quay, we went past ICAP Leopard preparing at Ocean Village. We counted some 20+ crew on her, which looked like such a lot of people compared to the 10 we have on Jaguar and Sidney, 9 on Bongani and 12 on Exabyte 3. By this stage, I would think that our skippers will have got very little sleep, if any at all, so I am sure they will be praying for a respite in the weather so they can get their heads down for some well deserved rest before the spinnakers start flying.
Puma Logic has now joined Pink Panther and Lion in Plymouth and the marina is now full of yachts that retired from the race. Most of our teams are staying on to welcome home those who have persevered. It seems, that from 296 starters, there are only 53 left racing, which shows just how courageous our 4 teams are. They all deserve a huge welcome home. Expected eta at this stage will be late Thursday evening.
posted by Sailing Logic at 6:07 AM
1 Comments:
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Richard Donkin said...
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Endorsing other comments I'd like to say well done to Ali, Philippe and everyone at SL for getting the blog reports out. They have been the best news source I have found on the race. As I write this, the last report from the organisers was some time last night. It's great that the SL fleet is doing so well. I hope that Tom, your injured crewman, gets well soon.
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