| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2083.1 | FAX RESULTS SERVICE | GOONS::MACADAM | | Fri Sep 24 1993 11:00 | 12 |
| Saw it demonstrated at Ocean Village, very nice for what it is. However
the drawback is the cost of updating. Could be that the occaisional
purchase of a decent newspaper with current results will be the most
cost-effective solution.
BT (the British Telecom co) is offering a worldwide fax-in service, its
called the BT FAX INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE, and the number is
(international) 44-489-799-747. I think that you fax it and it replies
with the latest tables, charts and press releases.
Hope above of help,
Mike (Tomahawk 25 "POLLY")
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| 2083.2 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Tue Sep 28 1993 06:59 | 23 |
| The race itslef started in the Solent on Saturday, with a decent north westerley
breeze quickly propelling the 14 yachts towards Uraguay, their first port of
call.
There are 5 maxis in the race, three new Farr Ketches ( Merit Cup, La Poste and
NZ Endevour )& Fortuna which started life as a lightweight sloop in the last race,
and started this one as a heavyweight ketch. Unfortunately it has now reverted to
being a sloop again after the aluminium bumpkin which stuck out of the stern to
hold up the radical 105 foot wing mizzen mast failed off the French coast. The
final maxi is "Uruguay Natural", which was the ill-fated Martela in the last
race.
The rest of the fleet is made up of the new Whitbread 60 class. They too have
suffered damage already, with Brooksfield diverting to France to have a new
rudder fitted. These boats have water ballast equivalent to 30 crewmen on the
weather rail, and with their powerful rigs are expected to give the maxis a
good race.
Currently NZ Endevour leads the Maxis, and the fleet, with Tokio, skippered
by Chris Dickson, leading the 60s. I predict that these will be the winners of
their classes at the end of the race.
Chris
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| 2083.3 | positrions at thursday | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Fri Oct 01 1993 05:23 | 10 |
|
Fortuna has retired from the race and is heading back to england
Tokio Chris dickson leads followed by NZ endeavour.
I was going to put more in but it is Friday evening 18:30 and its
being a tough week
cheers
revel
|
| 2083.4 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Mon Oct 04 1993 07:28 | 26 |
| Fortuna has indeed retired. Once the mizzen, which carries over half of the
downwind sail area, had collapsed, all chances of doing well in the race had
disappeared, and the backers felt that the publicity generated would become
'negative' and pulled all the plugs. The boat is expected back in England this
week.
The fleet is back to 14 however, as the Russian ( ?? ) entry Odessa 2000 has
just left Southampton, using safety gear borrowed from a British Steel Challenge
boat.
The Maxis are beginning to assert themselves again, with NZ Endevour leading the
fleet, and Merit Cup moving up from 6th to 3rd. La Poste has a badly twisted
mizzen mast, and can't carry any sail on it except in light winds.
The leading positions are ( as of 03-Oct )
NZ Endevour 4012 miles to go
Tokio 4030
Merit Cup 4046
Galicia 93 Pes. 4050
Intrum Justitia 4058
Winston 4058
Yamaha 4060
La Poste 4101
Chris
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| 2083.5 | Dennis anyone ? | OTOOA::MOWBRAY | This isn't a job its an Adventure | Mon Oct 04 1993 10:30 | 2 |
| I have not seen much in the press on the Whitbread this time. Is
Dennis on board Winston ?
|
| 2083.6 | TV Sched in US anyone? | DPDMAI::CLEVELAND | Grounded on The Rock | Mon Oct 04 1993 19:46 | 5 |
| Does anyone know the television schedule this year for Whitbread? Any
idea if CNN or ESPN will carry it? Times/dates??
Thanks,
Robert
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| 2083.7 | UK Television Coverage | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Tue Oct 05 1993 06:49 | 10 |
| In the UK, there is a weekly half-hour program on ITV, late Saturday night on
Meridian, Late Sunday on LWT.
Fortuna has just arrived back in England, minus it's main mast as well, which
fell down after they had retired and were heading back home. Losing one rig is
unfortunate, two is just plain careless. They blamed it on a block, which
"may have been damaged when the mizzen fell down".
Who wants to buy a Maxi hull, no rig, lots of sails, low milage since total
rebuild ?
|
| 2083.8 | Yacht data as at 05-oct-1993 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Oct 06 1993 03:52 | 177 |
| This information is from the news-group rec.boats if interesred I can post it.
Cheers
Revel
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
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FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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YACHT DATA - Report: 53; Date: 04 OCT 1993; Time: 07:55 GMT;
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Race Leg 1 - Southampton to Punta del Este
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|04 OCT 07:55|20 58.13N|025 50.42W|194|12.2|3802|10.1
02 Tokio |W|04 OCT 07:55|21 24.12N|025 54.47W|193|12.4|3825|10.0
03 Merit Cup |M|04 OCT 07:55|21 24.79N|024 52.57W|189|11.8|3844|09.9
04 Winston |W|04 OCT 07:55|21 40.37N|024 55.30W|192|11.5|3858|09.8
05 Intrum Justitia |W|04 OCT 07:55|21 43.81N|024 58.69W|193|11.5|3860|09.8
06 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|04 OCT 07:55|21 59.05N|025 45.81W|190|12.6|3861|09.8
07 Yamaha |W|04 OCT 07:55|22 19.45N|026 00.53W|191|12.4|3877|09.7
08 La Poste |M|04 OCT 07:55|22 25.38N|024 26.20W|189|11.1|3909|09.6
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|04 OCT 07:55|23 03.64N|023 43.28W|201|10.9|3958|09.3
10 Brooksfield |W|03 OCT 23:00|27 37.00N|023 35.00W|232|07.3|4219|08.5
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|04 OCT 07:55|27 08.70N|025 46.38W|184|05.2|4159|08.4
12 US Women's Chall|W|04 OCT 07:55|27 55.58N|024 46.99W|211|04.4|4218|08.1
13 Uruguay Natural |M|04 OCT 07:55|27 35.31N|023 11.14W|204|04.5|4224|08.1
14 Odessa |W|04 OCT 07:55|47 09.54N|005 33.35W|173|07.7|5641|07.5
Fortuna |M|03 OCT 01:55|48 53.59N|005 27.21W| | | |
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
ODESSA crossed the starting line at 13:22:22GMT on Saturday 2 Oct.
FORTUNA has retired from the Race, and is returning to Southampton.
Acknowledgement
---------------
BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
==========================================
FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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RACE NEWS - Date: 03 Oct 1993; Time: 13:50 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
3rd October 1993, Leg 1,Day 8, Bulletin 9
RACING REMAINS CLOSE IN THE FRONT OF THE FLEET
The leading boats, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton], Tokio [Chris
Dickson, JPN] and Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,ESP] are
following a similar track to the west of the rest of the fleet. Galicia is
holding off their nearest rival Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JP],
who have taken the most westerly course.
La Poste [Daniel Malle,FRA] who reported damage to their mizzen mast on
Wednesday is struggling to keep up with the other maxi's, and the W60's
Winston [Dennis Conner US] and Intrum Justitia [Roger Nilson, EUR],have
also sailed passed her.
The fleet are all enjoying good sailing conditions, 12 knots of breeze
from ENE, clear blue skies and an enviable air temperature of 18C at
midnight! The water temperature has risen to 23C indicating their
approach to equatorial waters. Occasional squals have kept the crews busy,
when winds have varied between 13 and 23 knots. They should soon be in to
the North East Trade winds which will speed them on the way towards the
notorious doldrums where they will slow up their passage to Punta del Este
quite considerably. In the 1989/90 Whitbread, Steinlager[Peter Blake,NZ]
did in fact manage to sail through the doldrums without delay, whereas
Maiden [Tracy Edwards,UK] spent over a week crossing these difficult
waters.
As temperature increases, the fresh water consumption increases, so the
boats have to run their desalinators for longer periods to produce
drinking water. The crews are very active on board pushing the boats for
every tenth of a knot of boat speed. Trimming and changing sails entails
heavy work grinding winches and the crew must not risk dehydration.
The boats tend to get very hot down below as there is very little
ventilation and with spray over the decks they can not afford to have
hatches open. On New Zealand Endeavour the weight saving went so far as to
prevent painting the interior of the boat, the black interior will be dark
and very hot, but will have saved 100 kilo's of weight.
On board Galicia the crew have reported a new enjoyable activity - warm
salt water showers. Using the water ballast system they have designed a
high pressure shower, which is being used by the crew while racing along
at an average of just under 10 knots. The Spaniards seem to have the life
style well sorted out, while remaining extremely competitive. They decided
to sacrifice a few kilo's of extra weight to carry fresh steaks, jars of
olives and many other tasty treats. No doubt they are passing on their
daily diets to all the other yachts who are surviving on the monotony of
freeze dried food, commonly described as reconstituted wood chip.
US Womens Challenge [Nance Frank,US] has a new concern, they have
discovered Uruguay Natural has chocolate icecream on board,
"We are now on our knees praying that they catch up and some falls over
board in a watertight cooler. We would even trade a crew member, what's
one less crew in the doldrums anyway?" reported Barbara. Will Uruguay
Natural be tempted by this offer, or will they hang on to the chocolate
icecream? The catering on USWC is competing with Galicia's, they created
sushi rolls with dried salmon and seaweed, "We even produced a silver
serving tray for the treat ie an old foil scrap wrapped around some flat
repair part from the engine".
Odessa [Anatoly Verba, Russian/Ukraine], who joined the race yesterday, is
making her way through the English channel, she is experiencing different
weather conditions to those enjoyed by the rest of the fleet in the
channel last weekend, and is sailing along at erratic speeds which have
dropped as low as 6 knots. Fortuna [Lawrie Smith, ESP] who retired from
the Whitbread last Tuesday is on her way back to Southampton water and may
pass within sight of Odessa in the western channel. Fortuna is now
expected to arrive in the Solent Monday morning.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
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Copyright BT 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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| 2083.9 | Keep posting those results! | DPDMAI::CLEVELAND | Grounded on The Rock | Wed Oct 06 1993 20:29 | 7 |
| Re .8
Revel,
Thanks for posting the note!! Yes, Please continue to post these. It's
the only way many of us get our Whitbread fix taken care of! Thanks for
the offer!
Robert
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| 2083.10 | Keep em comming!! | YUPPY::PEGLEY | | Thu Oct 07 1993 10:57 | 8 |
| Re .8
Yes please! Continue to post these reports. Are they available online
anywhere via the network?
Regards
Steve
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| 2083.11 | Ditto | MILKWY::SAMPSON | Driven by the wind | Thu Oct 07 1993 11:24 | 1 |
| One more request. It's the only source of Whitbread info in the US.
|
| 2083.12 | internet address | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Oct 11 1993 03:32 | 56 |
| Hello All,
This information has a network pointer to it on the internet that the updates
can be gotten from, my problem is that I don't have the skills/knowledge
how to do it. But I'll work on it. Any volenteers to help would be appreciated.
I currently have a batch job running that can reads rec.boats and creates
a notes conference on my own node from this I can extract the whitbread
updates.
This is not a major hassle at the moment and I can continue to do it.
There are also postscript plots available of the tracks that the boats
have taken from the start of the leg at the address below, an old sample
of which is in PIHIA::charts.ps.
The following is again from the news-group rec.boats on the internet.
cheers
revel
Thanks to the very generous uploading and retrieval of race
reports and charts by Bertil Schou <O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk>
information about the Whitbread can be obtained from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/laser/whit*
If you have WWW you can get there by linking to:
http://www.law.indiana.edu:80/misc/laser.html
Will
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* Laser 151008 /|\ sadler@indiana.edu *
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> For those who cannot print directly, collect the
>files from the FTP site (ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/laser Many
>thanks to Will Sadler!)
Since there is a lot of traffic on ftp.cica I am mirroring
the Whitbread stuff at polecat.law.indiana.edu /pub/laser/Whitbread.
have fun!
Will
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* Laser 151008 /|\ sadler@indiana.edu *
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| 2083.13 | results at 05-Oct 08:00 GMT | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Oct 11 1993 03:38 | 149 |
| WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
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YACHT DATA - Report: 57; Date: 05 OCT 1993; Time: 08:07 GMT
Race Leg 1 - Southampton to Punta del Este
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|05 OCT 07:55|16 29.13N|026 33.28W|180|11.5|3532|10.2
02 Tokio |W|05 OCT 07:56|16 49.14N|026 25.10W|184|10.9|3553|10.1
03 Merit Cup |M|05 OCT 07:57|17 15.62N|026 32.90W|187|11.2|3576|10.0
04 Yamaha |W|05 OCT 07:55|17 21.87N|026 26.04W|184|11.7|3584|10.0
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|05 OCT 07:55|17 21.94N|026 24.75W|188|11.2|3585|10.0
06 Winston |W|05 OCT 07:55|17 23.63N|026 24.94W|185|11.5|3586|10.0
07 Intrum Justitia |W|05 OCT 07:55|17 23.58N|026 09.14W|186|10.9|3591|09.9
08 La Poste |M|05 OCT 07:55|18 00.42N|025 15.92W|187|10.9|3643|09.7
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|05 OCT 07:55|18 34.49N|025 04.42W|189|11.8|3678|09.6
10 Brooksfield |W|04 OCT 19:55|23 52.00N|024 27.00W|195|12.5|3989|08.7
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|05 OCT 07:56|22 52.43N|026 34.70W|194|12.9|3898|08.6
12 Uruguay Natural |M|05 OCT 08:07|23 38.09N|024 29.04W|198|12.6|3976|08.3
13 US Women's Chall|W|05 OCT 07:55|24 01.90N|025 14.26W|196|12.3|3986|08.3
14 Odessa |W|05 OCT 07:55|46 39.76N|007 05.86W|317|03.3|5581|05.3
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
FORTUNA has retired from the Race and returned to Southampton.
BROOKSFIELD'S position is for 1955 GMT Monday.
Acknowledgement
---------------
BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
==========================================
FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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RACE NEWS - Date: 04 Oct 1993; Time: 17:01 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
October 4, 1993. Leg 1, Day 9, Press Bulletin No. 10
FORTUNA RETURNS TO SOUTHAMPTON WITHOUT MASTS
TOKIO AND NEW ZEALAND ENDEAVOUR LEADING
The Spanish Maxi Fortuna, skippered by Lawrie Smith, arrived in
Southampton at 0245 GMT this morning. The sponsors of the boat Tabacalera
SA, withdrew the boat from the Whitbread Round The World Race for the
Heineken Trophy on September 30, four days after she lost her mizzen mast,
but she surprised everyone by arriving without her main mast as well.
So far, there has been no official statement from either the skipper,
Lawrie Smith, or the project managers. However, the main mast was believed
to have been lost on Friday evening just off Ushant which is, ironically,
close to where her mizzen mast went over the side following the failure of
the bumpkin.
Since announcing the withdrawal of the yacht, Smith and his team have
maintained silence and did not even report when the mast was lost.
KIWIS LEADING
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and Tokio [Chris Dickson,
JPN/NZ] are continuing to lead the Maxi and W60 classes respectively. The
second-placed Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is, as expected
performing better than the W60s in the lighter winds and has moved up to
take third place overall.
The fleet has now reached the trade winds and are now enjoying steady
north-easterly winds of 15 knots following frustratingly light winds
during the night. The leaders picked up the trade winds first and have
moved away from the boats at the back of the fleet.
US Women's Challenge's navigator, Adrienne Cahalan, reported at
midnight that the wind was only five knots and the air temperature was a
hot 26 degrees Celsius. Eugene Platon, the skipper of Ukrainian W60,
Hetman Sahaidachny, said his boat had been stuck in a high pressure system
and had lost 250 kilometres to the leaders. "We are enthusiastic to reach
the other competitors now," said Platon. "We damaged four spinnakers and
our sailmaker Yuri Semeniuk is on watch 24 hours a day."
The Italian W60 Brooksfield which had overtaken Hetman Sahaidachny over
the weekend, reported this morning that the wind had picked up to 20 knots
from the northeast and they were making 11-12 knots.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] lost a couple of positions in the W60 fleet to
Intrum Justitia [Roger Nilson, EC] and Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP] during the weekend.
"We have gained so much ground on the other boats over the weekend and
are now sailing with the trade winds. So far the trades have been fairly
light and easterly which is ideal for us in our position," said Nilson.
Onboard photographer/sail trimmer Rick Tomlinson split open his foot
between two toes, but Nilson, who is a doctor, was able to stitch him up
and he is well. "We are sorry to hear about Fortuna and send Lawrie and
his team our best regards."
Yamaha's skipper Ross Field was not happy to see the more easterly boats
claim his lead.
"It's a bit of a kick in the teeth having those yachts to the east
charging down and pulling time on us but we're not despondent about our
overall position. It is probably going to be like this all the way - very,
very close racing," said Field.
Yamaha had a narrow miss on Saturday. Mark Hauser was up the mast
when he spotted a 30ft whale dead ahead of the yacht. Fortunately he was
able to warn the helmsman in time to avoid an accident.
The next press bulletin will be at 1530 GMT.
JBF
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright BT 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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| 2083.14 | results 06-oct 08:00 gmt | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Oct 11 1993 03:51 | 157 |
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YACHT DATA - Report: 62; Date: 06 OCT 1993; Time: 07:56 GMT;
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Race Leg 1 - Southampton to Punta del Este
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|06 OCT 07:55|13 21.98N|028 06.50W|203|08.8|3326|10.0
02 Merit Cup |M|06 OCT 07:55|13 59.89N|028 01.25W|200|08.0|3364|09.9
03 Tokio |W|06 OCT 07:55|14 01.33N|027 42.77W|223|08.8|3371|09.9
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|06 OCT 07:55|14 03.42N|027 33.27W|173|08.3|3375|09.8
05 Winston |W|06 OCT 07:55|14 37.52N|027 42.03W|234|09.1|3405|09.7
06 Intrum Justitia |W|06 OCT 07:55|14 51.01N|027 30.01W|234|08.7|3422|09.7
07 Yamaha |W|06 OCT 07:55|14 42.01N|026 26.88W|175|05.0|3433|09.6
08 La Poste |M|06 OCT 07:55|15 03.30N|026 55.26W|226|08.2|3444|09.6
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|06 OCT 07:55|15 41.36N|025 50.94W|185|04.8|3501|09.4
10 Brooksfield |W|06 OCT 07:55|16 38.00N|026 09.00W|189|10.9|3548|09.2
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|06 OCT 07:56|18 06.06N|028 00.46W|193|11.1|3601|09.0
12 Uruguay Natural |M|06 OCT 07:55|19 07.88N|026 04.20W|195|11.1|3691|08.6
13 US Women's Chall|W|06 OCT 07:56|19 25.49N|025 50.18W|184|11.2|3712|08.6
14 Odessa |W|06 OCT 07:55|46 31.15N|007 51.64W|209|04.2|5557|04.1
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
FORTUNA has retired from the Race and returned to Southampton.
Acknowledgement
---------------
BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
==========================================
FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
=========================
RACE NEWS - Date: 05 Oct 1993; Time: 14:53 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
October 5, 1993. Leg 1, Day 10, Press Bulletin No. 11
FLEET RACING WITHIN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER
Ten days into the Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken
Trophy and the racing is continuing to be as close as any inshore race.
The two leaders in the Maxi and W60 classes, New Zealand Endeavour
[Grant Dalton, NZ] and Tokio [Chris Dickson JPN/NZ], are having to watch
their backs as they are beginning to run out of wind and their rivals
close in. Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] has gained 25 miles on Tokio in the
last 24 hours and Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has gained 11 miles on
New Zealand Endeavour. In fact it is the tenth and eleventh placed
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] and Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon,
UKR] that the BT Race Results System shows as having the highest average
speed for the last six hours.
Juan Vila, the navigator on the Spanish Whitbread 60, Galicia 93
Pescanova, reported that Galicia was within sight of her nearest rivals.
"No problems onboard any of the yachts. We are sailing with north-east
winds of about 17 knots with a masthead spinnaker. Yamaha, Winston and
ourselves are within two miles. Intrum Justitia is not far, but we can not
see her. Merit Cup is about eight miles ahead, close to our position. It
is hot and humid with moderate visibility and low clouds."
Dennis Conner, the skipper of Winston, reported that morale onboard is
good, except that his co-skipper, Brad Butterworth, has had influenza
since the start.
"The racing has been very close and interesting with skippers and
navigators spending many hours pouring over weather charts and position
reports," said Conner. "We are looking forward to several days where
anything could happen until the weather settles down to a steady
north-eastern flow."
The biggest challenge facing the navigators is choosing where to pass
through the doldrums. This is a crucial stage of the race, as some boats
can get through in less than 12 hours while others have been held up for
days.
Matt Humphries, the skipper of Dolphin & Youth [GB], said he and the
navigator Steven Hayles were studying where to pass through the doldrums.
"We believe that the ITCZ [Inter-Tropical Convergance Zone] starts at 8
degrees north on our present longitude of 24 degrees west, and as I speak,
this is the thinnest band," said Humphries. "Hopefully being slightly more
east of the fleet we may make a gain on the leaders. These yachts are so
similar in boat speed that the only way to get back up with the front
runners is to beat them through shrewd navigation."
The crew on Dolphin has taken advantage of the calm sailing conditions to
do some housekeeping. Australian Simon Cunnington has been able to check
the rigging and repairs he made to the boom vang which broke last week.
Their daily duties also include sweeping the dead flying fish off the deck
every morning!
Odessa-Moscow Times [Anatoly Verba, UKR/RUS], which joined the race
over a week late, has been struggling against 55-knot headwinds in the Bay
of Biscay. To compound her difficulties, she has also suffered a broken
main halyard and is only flying her storm jib. The crew are waiting for
conditions to settle before they can repair the main halyard.
FORTUNA
Lawrie Smith, the skipper of the Spanish Maxi Fortuna, has explained why
he thinks the main mast came down. The mast was lost on Saturday night
[not Friday as first reported] when the boat was in a 55 knot storm in the
Bay of Biscay. A runner block, which Smith thinks must have been damaged
when the mizzen came down, failed and the unsupported mast came crashing
down.
Smith said the end of their Whitbread campaign was particularly hard for
those members of his crew who were on their first Whitbread.
BIRTHDAYS ON BOARD
Two crew members celebrated birthdays on board in the last two days.
Kelvin Harrap on Tokio turned 23-years-old today and Andrea Proto, a watch
leader on Brooksfield, turned 29-years-old on Sunday. Harrap, who was born
and bred in Napier, is a graduate of the Royal New Zealand Yacht
Squadron's youth programme. He was a member of the team that won the 1990
Governor's Cup in California. He raced the 1992 Kenwood Cup on Yamaha.
Proto, who was brought up on the island of Ischia, started sailing when he
was six years old. He raced the last Whitbread on the Italian Maxi
Gatorade. Before joining Brooksfield he was a bowman on the One Ton
circuit. JBF
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|07 OCT 07:55|10 02.71N|028 33.92W|172|09.1|3128|09.9
02 Merit Cup |M|07 OCT 07:55|10 49.31N|028 51.92W|187|08.3|3167|09.7
03 Tokio |W|07 OCT 07:55|11 07.28N|028 36.49W|218|08.7|3189|09.7
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|07 OCT 07:55|11 09.51N|028 42.06W|197|07.9|3189|09.7
05 Winston |W|07 OCT 07:55|11 44.14N|029 17.13W|198|07.6|3213|09.6
06 Intrum Justitia |W|07 OCT 07:55|12 14.02N|029 22.82W|203|06.7|3240|09.5
07 La Poste |M|07 OCT 07:55|11 58.71N|027 57.81W|206|07.7|3250|09.5
08 Yamaha |W|07 OCT 07:55|11 56.41N|027 13.36W|216|08.6|3262|09.4
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|07 OCT 07:55|12 27.73N|026 33.97W|215|09.0|3305|09.3
10 Brooksfield |W|07 OCT 07:30|13 48.00N|027 00.00W|198|06.4|3371|09.0
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|07 OCT 07:56|14 13.52N|027 27.48W|155|08.6|3387|09.0
12 Uruguay Natural |M|07 OCT 07:55|15 09.98N|026 34.62W|178|07.9|3457|08.7
13 US Women's Chall|W|07 OCT 07:55|15 24.85N|026 22.19W|193|07.1|3475|08.7
14 Odessa |W|07 OCT 07:55|44 00.16N|010 05.67W|213|09.1|5379|04.8
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
BROOKSFIELD's position is at 0730 GMT on 7 Oct.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 06 Oct 1993; Time: 15:20 GMT;
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October 6, 1993. Leg 1, Day 11, Press Bulletin No. 12
DOLDRUMS WEIGH HEAVY ON SKIPPERS MINDS
The doldrums are occupying the thoughts of all the skippers and
navigators. Those at the front of the fleet hope that they will be able to
get through this ever changing windless zone with their positions intact,
while those further back hope that this will be their chance to catch up
and rejoin the race.
"There will be a lot going on in 48 hours time," predicted Dennis Conner,
the skipper of Winston [US]. "That [the doldrums] will be the
make-or-break point on this first leg of the race. Whoever comes out of
the doldrums first, will be first in Punta del Este."
He predicted that the five leading W60s could come out of the doldrums
together. "Our race is going to be exciting, but the ketches' one will not
be. New Zealand Endeavour is well sailed, better than the others. They
[the Maxis] will be well split up by Punta, but we will all be racing very
closely."
During the night, Winston and Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], had enjoyed a
gybing duel. Ross Field said he had been called on deck because the crew
had seen lights from a boat. "All of a sudden, out of the gloom, there was
Billy [Brad Butterworth, Winston's co-skipper] coming right at us. He was
coming across on starboard and we were on port. Billy must have seen us
because he gybed onto port and then was level pegging with us."
The former crew mates [both were watch leaders on Steinlager 2] then
engaged in a gybing duel that lasted from midnight October 5 through most
of the day. It ended when Winston gybed away to the west and Yamaha stayed
east. Galicia 93 Pescanova who had been shadowing the pair gybed away to
the west approximately six hours earlier. The move to the west paid off,
as Galicia was able to catch up with the leading Whitbread 60, Tokio
[Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ] and is now only three miles behind her in terms of
distance to finish. Winston lost 24 miles to Galicia by staying west for
too long, but Yamaha paid the biggest price, she is now 37 miles behind
Winston and 63 miles behind Tokio.
Matteo Plazzi, Winston's navigator reported at 1300 GMT: "It is hot!! We
have light and variable conditions; the wind is from five to 15 knots,
from north to 50 degrees. The conditions are different from mile to mile;
yesterday morning Yamaha passed us two miles away and we passed Galicia
three miles away; then Galicia gybed and found more wind to the west and
gained. Later in the afternoon, when we passed Yamaha, we were less than
one mile to leeward of them and, probably, we had 10 knots of wind and
they had less than five. Anything can happen in the next 48 hours."
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is continuing to lead the fleet,
although her nearest rival, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is continuing
to apply the pressure. Both of the Maxis seem to be 'annoyed' by the W60s.
Yesterday, Mike Quilter, NZ Endeavour's navigator referred to them as
"buzzing around like blowflies" and the Merit Cup camp called them
"humming bees". "As soon as the wind reaches 20 knots, the W60s begin to
surf. It is not the 'round the world' race anymore, its like a giant round
the buoys race!" said Fehlmann.
The US Women's Challenge [Nance Frank, US] has enjoyed the fastest
average speed for the last 12 hours according to the BT Race Results
System. This is despite having problems with their mast. USWC had been
flying their Florida Keys spinnaker in 20-22 knots of wind when watch
leader Michele Paret noticed it had dropped a few feet. The team quickly
dropped a spinnaker and Gloria Borrego and Vanessa Linsley were sent up
the mast to examine the damage. The halyard turning block at the top of
the mast had broken and the spectra halyard had sliced a four foot long
gash down the aluminium mast.
"Southern Ocean Ropes, the suppliers of our lines, won hands down over
the mast," said Frank. The pressure on the spinnaker had pulled the
halyard through the aluminium like a knife. "The halyard was barely even
chafed," said Paret.
After 11 days at sea, thoughts are turning to fresh food. US Women's
Challenge noted with envy that Uruguay Natural was enjoying roast chicken
while they made do with flying fish. "The crew, most of whom had been hit
by the flying fish and were smelling of fish slime, were not thrilled
about the prospect of them going below deck," said Barbara Span. "But they
were great." Brad Butterworth, who is famed for his liking for sweets,
boasted to the Yamaha crew that he had jellybeans for dessert!
JBF
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|08 OCT 07:55|08 26.41N|028 05.49W|153|05.5|3048|09.4
02 Merit Cup |M|08 OCT 07:55|08 35.90N|028 14.22W|173|07.0|3053|09.4
03 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|08 OCT 07:55|08 52.42N|028 41.38W|201|06.6|3059|09.3
04 Tokio |W|08 OCT 07:55|08 38.57N|027 44.48W|166|07.5|3067|09.3
05 Winston |W|08 OCT 07:55|09 07.03N|028 57.38W|168|08.4|3068|09.3
06 Intrum Justitia |W|08 OCT 07:55|09 30.55N|029 10.06W|160|09.4|3087|09.2
07 La Poste |M|08 OCT 07:56|09 26.90N|028 30.70W|179|07.7|3096|09.2
08 Yamaha |W|08 OCT 07:55|09 22.46N|027 48.24W|167|07.9|3106|09.2
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|08 OCT 07:55|10 10.82N|027 01.82W|207|08.7|3168|09.0
10 Brooksfield |W|07 OCT 23:00|11 54.00N|026 32.00W|167|07.6|3275|08.9
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|08 OCT 07:55|11 43.66N|027 15.17W|179|04.7|3249|08.7
12 US Women's Chall|W|08 OCT 07:55|12 29.79N|027 19.18W|175|07.0|3291|08.6
13 Uruguay Natural |M|08 OCT 07:55|12 36.05N|027 15.91W|172|06.5|3298|08.6
14 Odessa |W|08 OCT 07:55|40 35.46N|011 51.07W|184|08.8|5163|05.5
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
BROOKSFIELD's position is at 2300 GMT on 7 Oct.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 07 Oct 1993; Time: 14:56 GMT;
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October 7, 1993. Leg 1, Day 12, Press Bulletin No. 13.
A QUESTION OF EAST OR WEST?
The leaders of the Whitbread fleet are sticking together as they approach
the doldrums. The leading boats, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ],
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI], Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ] and
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] which were taking a more
westerly route to the calm belt all gybed towards the east this
morning.Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries,
GB] the most easterly boats in the fleet have stayed east despite losing
ground yesterday.
"We're lined up for the doldrums now - we've made our decision," said
Field. "Yesterday we found our own private parking lot and we got dumped.
We couldn't get west and it was very frustrating becasue the others just
sailed away from us. The conditions are very unusual, a very strange
weather pattern. But we now have the wind blowing nine knots from the
north east - exactly where we want it." At the 1400 position fix, Yamaha
was doing six knots.
Matt Humphries on Dolphin confirmed the strange conditions. "The wind is
varying from 340 to 050 degrees every 10 to 15 minutes," he said. "We are
gybing on every windshift, day and night and it is tough work in the
intense heat but as you can see by our position it is paying off."
A move to the west paid off for Galicia yesterday, as she caught up with
Whitbread 60 class leader Tokio, closing a gap of 27 miles, and is now
level-pegging with her. Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US] also
moved to the west, but too late to benefit as much as Galicia.
Grant Dalton on NZ Endeavour was philosophical about the weather
conditions. "Yesterday's variable conditions worked against us. Today they
are working for us. Who knows what lies ahead tomorrow."
Rick Tomlinson, the British photographer/cameraman on board Intrum
Justitia [EC] and a veteran of two previous Whitbreads, said that the crew
were enjoying the challenging conditions. "This is the most exciting
racing that any of us have ever experienced at this stage of the Whitbread
before. The adrenalin is really flowing and we are really enjoying it!"
The late starter, Odessa-Moscow Times [Anatoly Verba, UKR/RUS], is finally
enjoying some fine sailing after beating against 55-knot winds in the Bay
of Biscay that threatened to blow her back to England. "Life is smiling on
us again. It is beautiful weather with a pleasant breeze. We are steering
222 at 11 knots under full main, heavy genoa and 2.5 tonnes of water
ballast on the weather side. Last night Corin [Mackenzie, IRL] cooked
delicious Irish stew."
JBF
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|10 OCT 01:54|03 27.48N|029 12.84W|197|09.3|2747|09.1
02 Merit Cup |M|10 OCT 01:55|03 43.88N|028 56.10W|195|08.5|2769|09.0
03 La Poste |M|10 OCT 01:56|04 06.00N|029 28.70W|195|09.9|2775|09.0
04 Tokio |W|10 OCT 01:55|03 38.29N|028 27.73W|201|08.9|2776|09.0
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|10 OCT 01:55|04 11.39N|029 40.15W|200|09.9|2776|09.0
06 Winston |W|10 OCT 01:55|04 13.26N|029 40.56W|198|10.2|2778|09.0
07 Intrum Justitia |W|10 OCT 01:55|04 30.04N|029 47.31W|199|10.0|2791|09.0
08 Yamaha |W|10 OCT 01:56|03 46.07N|027 31.05W|189|07.2|2808|08.9
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|09 OCT 19:55|06 50.30N|027 07.22W|180|07.9|2984|08.6
10 Brooksfield |W|09 OCT 20:00|07 21.00N|026 47.00W|186|07.6|3020|08.5
11 Uruguay Natural |M|10 OCT 01:55|07 24.37N|028 15.05W|192|09.0|2987|08.4
12 US Women's Chall|W|10 OCT 01:55|07 15.64N|027 52.53W|173|09.4|2988|08.4
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|10 OCT 01:55|07 15.63N|027 33.14W|192|08.7|2996|08.4
14 Odessa |W|10 OCT 01:55|36 06.52N|013 56.18W|183|07.3|4879|05.8
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
FORTUNA has retired from the race.
Positions for BROOKSFIELD and DOLPHIN are for 1955 Saturday.
Acknowledgement
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RACE NEWS - Date: 09 Oct 1993; Time: 21:37 GMT;
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October 9, 1993. Leg 1, Day 14, Press Bulletin No. 16.
SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS
The fickle conditions of the doldrums are having their effect on the
Whitbread Round The World Race leaderboard with dramatic position changes
up and down the fleet.Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has lost her lead
to New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and Tokio [Chris Dickson,
JPN/NZ] has reclaimed her place at the head of the W60s. Winston [Dennis
Conner, US] after a brief run at the front is now the fourth W60.
Yesterday, Conner spoke to his shore office when Winston was leading.
"We have just got the positions through now and we are really excited to
have taken the lead in the W60 class. However we have got a couple of
important days to go. All it takes is for one boat to get some wind and
they can make a spurt past you," said Conner.Prophetic words indeed. For
the six hours between 0155 and 0755 his rival from America's Cup days,
Chris Dickson, found such a wind and averaged 9.6 knots while the other
W60s had to be content with the low fives. By the 1355 position report
most of the fleet had also got wind, and were now averaging nine to 10
knots.This period in the doldrums will be crucial to the outcome of this
first leg according to Conner."Past the doldrums will be the beginning of
the second part of this leg. Whoever comes out of the doldrums first will
have a big leg up, as we will be on a close reach instead of being able to
gybe downwind In these conditions it is harder to gain on another
boat.Ross Field's policy of sticking to the eastern side of the fleet has
paid off for Yamaha today, as she has moved up from eighth position to
fifth overall. La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], which has been able to fly
all her sails in the light conditions, has also made gains, moving up from
sixth to fourth and gaining 10 miles on Merit Cup. US Women's Challenge
[Nance Frank, US] has overtaken Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR]
and closed the gap on Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA]. In 24 hours [from
0755 to 0755] USWC closed a 41 mile gap on Hetman and has now opened up a
slender lead of nine miles.Adrienne Cahalan, the Australian navigator on
USWC, said she had been plotting the courses of the leaders carefully.
"Combined with the weather data available, I have been able to see where
the best gains are. The wind is now quite light and the drag race is over
for the moment. Therefore, the policy has been to stay in the breeze and
work on boat speed, make ground south and stay cool!"
JBF
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|11 OCT 13:55|02 14.70S|031 38.28W|205|11.1|2375|09.2
02 Tokio |W|11 OCT 13:55|01 40.04S|031 27.67W|212|11.6|2411|09.1
03 Merit Cup |M|11 OCT 13:55|01 22.54S|031 15.47W|198|10.4|2432|09.1
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|11 OCT 13:56|00 40.23S|031 37.89W|202|10.7|2462|09.0
05 Winston |W|11 OCT 13:54|00 33.33S|031 41.56W|203|10.5|2467|09.0
06 La Poste |M|11 OCT 13:55|00 36.61S|031 03.34W|200|09.9|2479|09.0
07 Intrum Justitia |W|11 OCT 13:54|00 13.31S|031 42.51W|197|10.0|2485|08.9
08 Yamaha |W|11 OCT 13:55|00 01.29N|029 53.68W|215|10.8|2543|08.8
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|11 OCT 13:55|02 15.73N|028 49.82W|215|09.5|2692|08.4
10 US Women's Chall|W|11 OCT 13:55|02 56.04N|029 56.24W|218|09.1|2700|08.4
11 Brooksfield |W|11 OCT 08:45|03 04.00N|028 04.00W|217|07.3|2755|08.4
12 Uruguay Natural |M|11 OCT 13:55|03 18.42N|030 10.66W|215|05.8|2716|08.3
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|11 OCT 13:55|03 25.68N|028 59.29W|200|06.1|2751|08.2
14 Odessa |W|11 OCT 13:55|31 20.76N|013 38.56W|171|05.8|4637|06.0
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
FORTUNA has retired from the race.
BROOKSFIELD'S position is for 0845 GMT 11 Oct.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 11 Oct 1993; Time: 13:45 GMT;
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October 11, 1993. Leg1, Day 16 Press Bulletin No 17
LEADERS INTO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] crossed the equator at 00.30
[GMT] Monday. They were followed less than three hours later by the first
Whitbread 60, Tokio [Chris Dickson,JPN]. Merit Cup [Pierre Felhman,SUI]
was next, and all three chose to cross the equator within 25 minutes of
longitude of each other.
Tokio were very pleased to be the first W60 to sail into the southern
hemisphere, "I can assure you that there were several anxious moments
while we watched the rest of the fleet. It's a great relief to have our
plan work and come out of the Doldrums in our original position" reported
Tokio.
The leading three yachts came out of the notorious Doldrums with a good
breeze, enjoying speeds of 10 to 12 knots, and will now be pushing hard to
the finish. The stress and unpredictable conditions of the Doldrums can
greatly affect the performance and motivation of the crew. Grant Dalton
expressed his relief: "After the trials of the Doldrums, the crew was in
good spirits and the skipper no longer required medical treatment for
stress! All is well with the world. We have been averaging more than 9
knots and we seem to be well out of the Doldrums, I can't say anyone on
board is sorry to be able to close the chapter of the last two days.
At least we are back in front".
Merit Cup lead the fleet for less than six hours during the whole of last
week, but closing the gap with Endeavour must have put the pressure on
Dalton. "Despite having been caught, we are happy with our light air
speed, demonstrated when we were able to sail up to Merit, pass it and now
we're in front" reported Dalton. Fehlmann commented "It could have been
either one of us. Now it's like if we are taking a new start, all grouped
in such a small area. We are now catching the SE Tradewinds and entering
the southern hemisphere. Off to a week of heavy heeling."
Crossing the equator has traditionally been a time for 'unusual'
ceremonies for Whitbread new comers, ranging from painting bodies with
vile mixtures of decomposed vegetables to chanting ancient sea shanties.
However in this race so many of the crews have crossed before on previous
Whitbreads that ceremonies are likely to be few and far between, the only
emphasis being on boat speed and performance versus competitors.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,GB] has consistently taken an
alternative course to the leaders, interpreting the forecast conditions
quite differently from their competitors. Dolphin is now some 300 miles
behind the leading boat. They now have the added problem of a fault
with their weather fax, which means they will have to listen in to various
weather stations to find out information on the expected conditions rather
than receiving the satellite pictures via Inmarsat. "Our engineer on
board, Mark Sheffield, has been below deck for hours trying to spark
some life in to the machine. He has even tried to link the SSB radio to
the weather fax, but we are still unable to receive pictures" commented
Humphries.
The weekly report is available on polling the fax number
+44[0]71 492 7201 updated on Thursdays
ENDS
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|13 OCT 07:55|10 02.40S|034 29.14W|200|12.1|1881|09.5
02 Tokio |W|13 OCT 07:56|09 11.19S|034 21.27W|197|10.4|1930|09.4
03 Merit Cup |M|13 OCT 07:54|08 56.94S|033 53.25W|195|10.9|1955|09.3
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|13 OCT 07:55|07 59.96S|034 07.57W|199|10.2|2000|09.2
05 Winston |W|13 OCT 07:55|07 49.98S|034 07.47W|194|10.3|2009|09.2
06 La Poste |M|13 OCT 07:55|07 49.67S|033 40.01W|202|10.5|2021|09.1
07 Intrum Justitia |W|13 OCT 07:55|07 31.15S|034 04.91W|191|10.8|2027|09.1
08 Yamaha |W|13 OCT 07:55|07 37.36S|032 42.17W|203|13.2|2059|09.1
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|13 OCT 07:56|04 29.89S|031 59.78W|201|11.7|2244|08.6
10 Brooksfield |W|12 OCT 23:00|02 37.00S|031 15.00W|210|11.3|2365|08.5
11 US Women's Chall|W|13 OCT 07:55|03 19.53S|031 56.68W|195|10.9|2309|08.5
12 Uruguay Natural |M|13 OCT 07:55|02 14.66S|032 11.89W|189|09.5|2361|08.4
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|13 OCT 07:55|02 08.36S|031 41.73W|196|09.6|2379|08.3
14 Odessa |W|13 OCT 07:55|26 24.61N|016 39.00W|203|10.1|4301|06.3
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
RACE NEWS - Date: 12 Oct 1993; Time: 14:42 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
October 12, 1993. Leg 1, Day 17, Press Bulletin No. 19.
INTO THE SOUTH-EAST TRADES
After the uncertainty and frequent changes in position, the
leaders of the Whitbread fleet are now power reaching towards
Recife, Brazil and are looking forward to 20-25 knots from the
east for the next day or two.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is continuing to lead
the fleet, but Grant Dalton said he intends to extend his lead.
"The conditions are not ideal at the moment, the seas are bouncy
and the boat is heeling over at 30 degrees, which makes movement
difficult," said Dalton. "We are going as hard as we can to keep
our lead. We've got to get our tactics right and a lot hangs on
navigator Mike Quilter, who is looking to outsmart our
opposition."
Chris Dickson's water-ballasted W60, Tokio, seems to have
revelled in the conditions and overtook the Maxi Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] at 0155 this morning and has consolidated
her lead by 35 miles.
US Women's Challenge is one of the boats that has benefited from
a short period in the doldrums. She has overtaken Brooksfield
[Guido Maisto, ITA] and is now within striking distance of
Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB].
"We hope we are through the doldrums. If that is the case, then
we've made good time. We have been parked for no more than an
hour," said Mikaela von Koskull, a watch leader on USWC, and a
veteran of Maiden, the all-female entry in 1989-90. "In the last
Whitbread we spent three very difficult days in the doldrums
trying to move. We are now looking forward to coming into the
Southern Hemisphere and seeing the Southern Cross again." USWC
crossed the equator at 11.08 GMT, a moment that was marked by
blowing on a conch shell from Florida Keys.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] is one of those that lost out in the
doldrums. "Across the water we [Tokio and Yamaha] were only
about 30 miles apart a couple of days ago but all of a sudden we
parked and he went... unluckily for us the doldrums came down
and dumped right on top of us. We got hit hard," said Field.
"Tokio has taken off but we are settling back into it and are
determined to get back at Winston and Galicia." He said Yamaha
would continue along her more easterly track as he believed
their were still gains to be made. At 1355 Galicia had an 81
mile lead on Yamaha.
Matt Humphries, the skipper of Dolphin & Youth, reported that
morale was high having accelerated away from Brooksfield. "Since
seeing Brooksfield only 24 hours ago, we have managed to put
over 100 miles between us. There is no doubt that we did
struggle to get through the doldrums but now that we have a
steady breeze, we are focusing all our efforts on catching
Yamaha." At the 1355 GMT position report, Dolphin was trailing
Yamaha by 171 miles and Brooksfield had not reported in.
Traditionally, crew members who have never crossed the equator
are tortured by King Neptune, and this year despite the
closeness of the racing, the tradition lives on. Reuters
Television has received footage from Intrum Justitia via the BT
Yacht Video System which shows initiates Pierre Mas [FRA], Knut
Frostad [NOR], Bo Hansen [DEN] and Timmy Kroeger [GER] being
forced to eat some something decidedly strange!
JBF
Acknowlegement
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YACHT DATA - Report: 97; Date: 13 OCT 1993; Time: 13:55 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|13 OCT 13:55|11 11.06S|034 50.58W|197|12.0|1810|09.5
02 Tokio |W|13 OCT 13:55|10 19.99S|034 48.90W|202|12.4|1856|09.4
03 Merit Cup |M|13 OCT 13:55|10 05.49S|034 17.00W|199|12.0|1884|09.3
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|13 OCT 13:55|08 58.69S|034 30.50W|201|10.5|1937|09.2
05 Winston |W|13 OCT 13:55|08 52.41S|034 27.41W|198|10.9|1944|09.2
06 La Poste |M|13 OCT 13:55|08 53.80S|034 06.76W|202|11.6|1952|09.2
07 Intrum Justitia |W|13 OCT 13:55|08 34.91S|034 28.96W|200|11.3|1959|09.2
08 Yamaha |W|13 OCT 13:55|08 49.52S|033 16.64W|205|13.3|1979|09.1
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|13 OCT 13:55|05 38.35S|032 17.04W|194|11.8|2175|08.7
10 Brooksfield |W|13 OCT 11:00|04 47.00S|032 17.00W|205|12.0|2221|08.6
11 US Women's Chall|W|13 OCT 13:55|04 20.33S|032 20.48W|201|10.9|2244|08.5
12 Uruguay Natural |M|13 OCT 13:55|03 13.87S|032 28.57W|196|10.3|2300|08.4
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|13 OCT 13:55|03 06.97S|032 02.22W|199|10.3|2318|08.3
14 Odessa |W|13 OCT 13:55|25 42.68N|017 04.79W|209|08.0|4253|06.3
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
RACE NEWS - Date: 13 Oct 1993; Time: 14:54 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
October 13, 1993. Leg 1, Day 18, Press Bulletin No. 20.
REACHING DOWN THE COAST OF BRAZIL
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is slowly drawing away from
the leading Whitbread 60 Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ] and her
nearest rival in the Maxi class Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI].
At the 1355 GMT position report New Zealand Endeavour had widened
the gap between herself and Tokio by approximately 10 miles to 46 miles.
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], Winston
[Dennis Conner, US] and Intrum Justitia [Roger Nilson, EC] have
maintained their relative positions but it is Yamaha that has
made the biggest gain of 20 miles on Intrum Justitia.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] has had the fastest speed over the
last 12 hours of 13 knots. "We are on the charge again and it is
going well," reported Field. "We are starting to make the small
gains that will get us back into it. We just have to chip away
at the gaps during the next few days." Field said that Yamaha's
performance was also being boosted by the South Equatorial
Current. "We are reaching with a jib top at about 89 degrees
true wind angle. There is a breeze of 15-18 knots on the beam,
so right now we are cruising along at around 13 knots."
In the second group which is some 100 miles behind the first
eight, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has once again overtaken
US Women's Challenge and is approximately 20 miles behind
Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB].
According to the weather forecasts that are sent out to the
boats via Inmarsat-C the fleet will have 15-20 knots from the
east, perfect conditions for the water-ballasted W60s.
Water ballast was the cause of some tension on Intrum Justitia
[Roger Nilson, EC] on Sunday morning. The centre manifold on the
pumps blew out when the valves of the water ballast system were
left shut by mistake. The crew had to make do with filling the
tanks via the breather holes and then emptying them with the
hand pumps. Crew member, Markus Mustelin reported to the Intrum
shore base: "Fortunately, we have a civil engineer on board,
Magnus Olsson, who has been very creative in his work and has
temporarily fixed the problem with all sort of material from
various sources such as the boom repair kit and the radar
reflector". After the long downwind passage to the doldrums,
Mustelin reported that the trade winds are hard going. "We are
pitching madly and it is hard to walk on deck and it is even
hotter than ever down below, as everything has to be closed
because of the spray! It's very hard to walk on deck," said
Mustelin. Dennis Conner, the skipper of Winston [US] said after
the New York to Southampton race that the amount of spray that
came over the deck when the boat was reaching was comparable to
a power boat.
The winners of the first Heineken Leg Trophies in the Maxi and W60
divisions are expected to arrive very early on October 22.
JBF
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright BT 1993
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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YACHT DATA - Report: 102; Date: 14 OCT 1993; Time: 14:02 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|14 OCT 13:56|15 34.61S|036 36.12W|202|12.1|1532|09.6
02 Tokio |W|14 OCT 13:55|14 40.27S|036 13.18W|199|11.5|1589|09.5
03 Merit Cup |M|14 OCT 14:02|14 26.88S|036 12.77W|206|11.8|1601|09.5
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|14 OCT 13:55|13 19.62S|035 38.67W|192|11.5|1676|09.3
05 Winston |W|14 OCT 13:55|13 11.74S|035 48.04W|201|11.9|1678|09.3
06 La Poste |M|14 OCT 13:55|13 05.12S|035 44.64W|204|11.2|1685|09.3
07 Yamaha |W|14 OCT 13:55|13 30.14S|035 00.00W|203|12.8|1687|09.3
08 Intrum Justitia |W|14 OCT 13:55|12 58.35S|034 59.66W|183|12.6|1714|09.2
09 Brooksfield |W|14 OCT 11:00|09 04.00S|034 22.00W|208|11.2|1936|08.8
10 Dolphin & Youth |W|14 OCT 13:56|09 55.49S|033 25.42W|200|11.3|1918|08.8
11 US Women's Chall|W|14 OCT 13:55|08 26.72S|033 56.83W|201|11.0|1980|08.6
12 Uruguay Natural |M|14 OCT 07:55|06 13.96S|033 20.24W|196|10.4|2115|08.5
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|14 OCT 13:55|07 04.14S|033 05.92W|193|09.7|2077|08.4
14 Odessa |W|14 OCT 13:55|23 45.65N|018 48.12W|216|07.1|4106|06.3
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
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KEY see prevoius note
BROOKSFIELD's position is for 11:00 GMT Thursday.
URUGUAY NATURAL's position os for 07:55 GMT Thursday.
RACE NEWS - Date: 14 Oct 1993; Time: 14:52 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
October 14, 1993. Leg 1, Day 19, Press Bulletin No. 21.
AN UNCOMFORTABLE RIDE TO PUNTA DEL ESTE
The Whitbread is now 'drag racing' to Punta del Este as the yachts
continue to beam reach down the Brazilian coast. By tomorrow, the wind
should have shifted around to the north allowing the boats to pop out
their spinnakers and enjoy running in 20 knots: just the conditions for
which the boats were built.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ]
are continuing to lead the Maxis and Whitbread 60s respectively, although
their lead has not been as effortless as it may appear.
"It's all work and no play and little rest 24 hours a day, with patches of
sleep snatched when possible," said Dickson. "It is incredibly exciting
with position reports ever six hours making it a real chess game with move
and countermove." The position reports are sent out via Inmarsat C.
New Zealand Endeavour has opened up a further 10 miles on Tokio, but her
nearest Maxi rival Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has not given in any
ground.
The biggest gains have been made by Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] who is
finally reaping the reward of staying further offshore. Yamaha has
consistently been sailing one knot faster than the leading six boats and
the 0200 GMT position report showed that Yamaha had overtaken Intrum
Justitia [Roger Nilson, EC]. By 1355 GMT Yamaha had a 27 mile lead on
Intrum and had closed the gap between herself and Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP], Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US]
and La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA]: a gain of 20 miles in 24 hours.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has also moved up the leader board by
overtaking Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] last night. Maisto said
yesterday that ever since Brooksfield lost her rudder the crew's watch
words have been 'chase and overtake'. "We can't wait to do battle with
Dolphin," he said. "On Sunday morning we could have touched Dolphin, then
they got away again, so we can't give up now. When we overtake them our
next step will be to catch the others. We are all giving 150 per cent."
Brooksfield is now approximately 12 miles ahead of Dolphin. At 1755 GMT
Maisto reported they had 17 knots from 110-115 and Brooksfield was doing
12-13 knots with the main and jib top.
Dolphin & Youth reported this morning that having picked up the Brazilian
current, the crew were experiencing a fairly rough ride. "The sea is very
confused at the moment and there is no pattern to the waves," said
Humphries. "The yacht is pitching all over the place with water spraying
everywhere. At one stage last night, it became so violent that two of the
bunks fell to the floor with the boys asleep in them."
Still in the Northern Hemisphere, Odessa Moscow Times [Anatoly Verba,
UKR/RUS] has had to deal with a completely different weather system to the
rest of the fleet. Since the boat left Southampton 11 days ago, the wind
has constantly been on the nose. "The low pressure system that caused so
many troubles in the Bay of Biscay still doesn't want to leave us alone:
we are in its same sector with the same souith-west winds which means
unfinished beating," reported Verba yesterday. "Only 15 minutes ago, after
11 days of the race, we put a spinnaker up at last." Odessa Moscow Times
sailed past a sleeping whale just 30 metres away.
JBF
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| 2083.23 | 15 Oct 93 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Oct 18 1993 03:10 | 124 |
| hello all,
The person making this available on the internet is taking a weeks vacation
starting 16-Oct, so the quality of reports will proberly go downhill if
I have the time to keep them up. I'll give it my best shot.
cheers
revel
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
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FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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YACHT DATA - Report: 107; Date: 15 OCT 1993; Time: 14:00 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|15 OCT 13:55|20 15.94S|038 28.12W|199|13.1|1244|09.7
02 Tokio |W|15 OCT 13:55|19 28.08S|037 52.23W|199|13.9|1302|09.6
03 Merit Cup |M|15 OCT 14:00|19 05.41S|038 00.00W|199|13.5|1315|09.6
04 Winston |W|15 OCT 13:56|17 27.24S|037 53.95W|208|14.2|1397|09.4
05 Yamaha |W|15 OCT 13:55|18 02.32S|037 02.84W|205|13.3|1398|09.4
06 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|15 OCT 13:55|17 48.61S|037 19.05W|209|14.0|1399|09.4
07 La Poste |M|15 OCT 13:55|17 10.91S|037 05.63W|199|12.4|1437|09.3
08 Intrum Justitia |W|15 OCT 13:56|17 48.63S|036 03.05W|197|13.6|1445|09.3
09 Dolphin & Youth |W|15 OCT 13:56|14 35.29S|035 09.65W|200|13.2|1628|08.9
10 Brooksfield |W|15 OCT 11:00|13 13.00S|036 23.00W|206|11.8|1660|08.9
11 US Women's Chall|W|15 OCT 13:55|12 55.60S|035 11.38W|195|12.3|1710|08.8
12 Uruguay Natural |M|15 OCT 13:55|11 18.98S|034 52.52W|198|11.0|1803|08.6
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|15 OCT 13:55|11 11.02S|034 11.91W|200|11.9|1829|08.5
14 Odessa |W|15 OCT 13:56|20 22.56N|020 34.32W|201|09.5|3881|06.6
Fortuna |M|04 OCT 19:55|50 50.90N|001 18.80W| | | |
RACE NEWS - Date: 15 Oct 1993; Time: 15:03 GMT;
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October 15, 1993. Leg 1, Day 20, Press Bulletin No. 22.
LEADERS LAUNCH ASSAULT ON RECORDS
The Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy is speeding up
with most of the fleet enjoying average speeds of around 13 knots for the
past six hours. Two records are under threat: Steinlager 2's 1989-90 Leg 1
time of 25 days, 20 hours, 46 mins, 27 secs, an average speed of 9.5
knots; and Yamaha's 24-hour run of 343 miles on this leg, an average of
14.29 knots. Whoever covers the greatest distance in 24 hours will be in
the lead for the Omega 24-hour Challenge and will get to fly a yellow flag
to mark her lead.
Grant Dalton, the skipper of the leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour, is
well aware of these records and a less happy anniversary. "We have finally
got a spinnaker up again after living on a 30 degree angle for five days.
Tomorrow at 24 degrees south, we will pass the point where Fisher & Paykel
dropped its mizzen mast, we will be happy to get past that point
unscathed," reported Dalton via Inmarsat-C. "We are all looking forward to
arriving in Punta, and due to the quality of BC's [Cole Sheehan] food,
none of us look any different. I hope the weather holds and we are able to
finish inside Steinlager's time for the leg."
Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ], the leading W60, has gained some ground on
New Zealand Endeavour but Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has not been
able to gain any ground on either yacht. Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad
Butterworth, US] has moved up into fourth position overall, but is only
one mile in front of Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and two in front of
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP]. La Poste [Daniel Malle,
FRA] has dropped back a position as she is probably unable to use her bent
mizzen mast fully. Before the boat went into the doldrums, La Poste
predicted that they would lose 20-25 miles a day once the wind went over
15 knots.
Dalton said he was now feeling more comfortable with his lead. "No one on
board wants to live through the 36 hours like we had in the doldrums when
our hard-earned lead evaporated." He said Fehlmann must be wondering why
he can't catch New Zealand Endeavour in the conditions. "Merit is a
bigger, heavier boat and should be better suited to the conditions. We
seem to have a speed advantage when running."
Ross Field on Yamaha, which was the most offshore boat for several days,
reported he was pleased with progress so far. "We stuck out here and got
the breeze and we're right back in it. There is still over 1500 miles to
the finish of the leg so a lot could still change. One hundred miles
sounds a lot to pull back but in ocean racing it is nothing. You only need
a slightly different wind pattern and it can all change very quickly."
Intrum Justitia is now the most offshore boat, a tactic which Dutch
navigator Marcel van Triest hopes will bring gains. "We sailed directly
south from Recife while the other boats headed SSW. We've picked up fresh
south-east trades and are increasing speed with jib top moving at 14
knots. The race is really tight again between the four of us [Yamaha,
Winston and Galicia], but Tokio seems to have got away. Placings across
the finish line will depend largely on strategy in these last few days and
how we deal with the weather systems. It now looks like a South Atlantic
high will dominate, with more north-east winds all the way into Punta. A
low from the west could dramatically change the picture of the race!" A
broken steering cable occupied the crew for some time yesterday, but it is
now working again.
Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] has benefited from staying offshore,
overtaking Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] who stayed inshore and suffered
from the lighter conditions. "For an hour last night, the wind increased
to 26 knots and backed enough to hoist a spinnaker," reported Humphries.
"Dolphin & Youth accelerated with the extra sail area and we started
touching speeds of 20 knots; it's a pity that it didn't hold."
Yesterday afternoon Dolphin & Youth was followed by a school of whales for
about three hours. The crew was further entertained when a meteorite
exploded in the water. "The whole sky lit up like it was daylight," said
Humphries.
Acknowlegement
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| 2083.24 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Mon Oct 18 1993 07:36 | 13 |
| I understand that both the Maxis and W60's are considering taking an extra
crew member for the next leg, and several of the Fortuna crew are waiting for
the call to Punta.
Simple mathematics...
NZ Endevour sails with a crew of 14, in 3 watches, ( 1 on , 1 off and one
on stand-by ). The cook and skipper are not in the system. That leaves
four people per watch. The Ketch rig allows them to set between 3 and 5
sails. It doesn't take much to work out that the stand-by watch doesn't
get much sleep !
Chris.
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| 2083.25 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Thu Oct 21 1993 07:17 | 27 |
| NZ Endevour won the first leg yesterday, in a time which was 1.5 days better
than Steinlagers winning time of 4 years ago. This was mainly due to better
winds in the closing few days.
The W60 Tokio was only 3 hours behind, with the maxi Merit Cup 3rd. Galicia 93
Pescanova was the second W60, and beat the much-fancied Winston and Yamaha.
Winston finished the race without a mainsail after it was shredded in a squall.
Yamaha also nearly lost it's mast when a backstay tensioner broke when they
were hit by the same squall, only a quick thinking crewman cutting the haliyard
saved the day.
Dennis Conner evidently did not enjoy the race, and apparently had reservations
on 6 flights back home, just to make sure he got out as soon as possible. He
will not be on board for the next leg, but will probably do the Fremantle to
Auckland leg.
Chris Dickson ( Tokio skipper ) and Conner continued their Americas Cup animosity
towards each other, with Dickson saying that he enjoyed the Whitbread more than
the Americas cup, and Conner reply that "That's because you have never won the
Americas Cup"
All these boats finished on the same day, which indicates that there is not
much to choose between them, and the race will really start again on the next
leg to Fremantle.
Chris
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| 2083.26 | Being uncomfortable is part of racing | AKO539::KALINOWSKI | | Thu Oct 21 1993 11:50 | 14 |
| >Dennis Conner evidently did not enjoy the race, and apparently had
>reservations on 6 flights back home, just to make sure he got out as
>soon as possible. He will not be on board for the next leg, but will
>probably do the Fremantle to Auckland leg.
as Bevis and Butthead would say
"What a wauussss!"
Do you think it is the fact he came in lower than first or second
(ie match racing), or he is afraid the crew is going to keelhaul him
where there is no chopper-cam to protect him. ;>)
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| 2083.27 | | JUPITR::KEENAN | | Thu Oct 21 1993 16:02 | 5 |
| There's a lot more Dennis Conner in the world today than in the
past. It must take a crowbar to get him through the companionway.
Since he's in his fifties now, I can see how he doesn't have the energy
for the southern ocean.
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| 2083.28 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Mon Oct 25 1993 07:37 | 12 |
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> There's a lot more Dennis Conner in the world today than in the
> past. It must take a crowbar to get him through the companionway.
According to press reports, he started the race at 252 pounds, and finished
it at 230. "Not difficult with that food" he complained. He also moaned about
the fact that there was so much straight line sailing ( what did he expect !).
Most of the other boats have now finished, Britains "Dolphin & Youth" coming in
6th of the W60, just beating Brooksfield.
Chris
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| 2083.29 | Update from 20 - Oct just after the finish | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Oct 25 1993 22:40 | 179 |
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WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
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FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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RACE NEWS - Date: 20 Oct 1993; Time: 09:36 GMT;
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October 20, 1993
NEW ZEALAND ENDEAVOU R AND TOKIO WIN HEINEKEN LEG TROPHIES
Merit cup finishes to take second place in the maxi division
The New Zealand Maxi New Zealand Endeavour, skippered by Grant
Dalton, has won the first Heineken leg trophy for the Maxi
division in the first leg of the Whitbread Round The World
Race. Three hours later, Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN/NZ] won the
Heineken leg trophy for the Whitbread 60 division.
Merit Cup skippered by Pierre Fehlman sailed across the line third,
eight hours behind New Zealand Endeavour, taking second place in
the maxi division. Merit Cup's finishing time was 04:11:39 GMT.
New Zealand Endeavour covered the 5938 mile leg in 24 days, 7
hours, 19 minutes, 2 seconds beating Steinlager 2's 1989-90
first leg record of 25 days, 20 hours, 46 minutes, 27 seconds by
1 day, 13 hours, 27 minutes and 25 seconds. Tokio's time of 24
days, 10 hours, 28 minutes, 21 seconds was also inside the time.
Dalton said he was thrilled with the result. "It's a first for
me - we have all been working towards this for a long time,"
said Dalton. "For the boys who were on Steinlager 2 this is
seven out of seven for them - it is just what we wanted." In the
1989-90 Whitbread, Steinlager 2 won every leg of the race with
Dalton finishing second to her on all but two legs .
Dalton said that leg was won by sailing conservatively and
covering the other boats. "We had a predetermined plan and we
stuck to it. We did not make any mistakes tactically. It was a
combination of tactics and crew work, not boat speed that did it
for us."
For Dalton this leg was all the more stressful for being in
front. "It was not a leader's race. The fleet kept running us
down and we would have to get away again.The worst period was in
the doldrums where the race effectively restarted. But in the
end it is only who gets there first that matters."
Dickson also found the doldrums trying. "It was like coming off
the freeway and going into a parking lot! We were really pleased
to come out with our lead intact." He attributes this victory
to preparation. "We did not see any conditions that we hadn't
seen in our training. We had people that know themselves, the
boat, the sails and the whole package. They are a great team of
guys, they pushed the boat really hard."
For Dalton the vital part of this victory was the steady
performance of his crew.
Chris Dickson said that his tactics had also been conservative.
"We may have given away miles by sailing conservatively," said
Dickson. "But we wanted to keep our lead in the bank and not
gamble it away."
Both skippers found the six hourly position reports produced by
the BT Race Results System addictive. "Whoever sends those
things out, tell them not to be late," joked Dalton. "Because we
are all waiting for them - we all know what the others are doing
and can tell straight away if it is a thumbs up or a thumbs down
report." New Zealand Endeavour watch leader Glen Sowry likened
the position reports to exam results.
For Dickson, knowing what the opposition was doing so often
brought the race on to a new level tactically. "It is like a
chess game. We would receive the reports, then Andrew Cape, the
navigator, and I would go over all the available weather
patterns and try and find the best course. With the reports
coming every six hours we would only be able to snatch two hours
sleep here and there. It was like match racing 24 hours a day
and you can't go home at night. We treated the race like a round
the buoys race."
Dalton found being in front for so much of the leg particularly
stressful. "When you are leading you are always frightened that
someone could pass you!"
Both winners are cautious about the future legs. "It would be
nice to win all six legs," said Dalton. "And it could be done,
but I am not saying that we will do it. This is a massive
confidence boost for us, but we will take it from there."
"The second leg is a whole new race," said Dickson. "They are
all really tough competitors and it is going to be hard to the
end."
The next boat to finish was the second Whitbread 60 Galicia 93
Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] at 09:00:42 GMT today.
Yamaha and Winston are expected to finish by 12:00 GMT today.
(further details will be issued in the next press release)
Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US] has been slowed
down by a bent boom. The yacht broached during repairs to one of
the steering wheels and a spinnaker was blown out, the main
ripped and the boom bent. Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] narrowly
averted dismasting this afternoon when a tensioner on the
masthead backstay broke. Joey Allen saved the mast by cutting
the spinnaker halyard and releasing the load on the mast.
RACE NEWS - Date: 20 Oct 1993; Time: 16:30 GMT;
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October 20, l993. Leg l, Day 24, Press Bulletin No.28
FIRST SEVEN BOATS FINISH LEG ONE -- NZ
ENDEAVOUR AND TOKIO WIN HEINEKEN LEG TROPHIES
Seven boats have finished the first leg of the 32,000 mile
Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy. The
winning Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour, skippered by Grant Dalton,
arrived at l9:49:02 GMT [l6:49 local] breaking the Leg One
record set by Steinlager 2 by l day, l3 hours, 27 minutes and 25
seconds. New Zealand Endeavour covered the 5,938 mile leg in 24
days, 7 hours, l9 minutes, 2 seconds.
Three hours later, the Japanese-New Zealand Whitbread 60, Tokio,
skippered by Chris Dickson arrived, winning the Heineken Trophy
for the W60 division. The second Whitbread 60, Galicia 93
Pescanova, skippered by Javier de la Gandara did not arrive
until 09:00:42 GMT [06:00 local] giving Dickson an ll-hour lead
to take into the second leg.
Dalton does not have quite as comfortable a margin over the
second-placed Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] which
finished at 04:ll:39 GMT [0l:ll local], nine hours after New
Zealand Endeavour.
Galicia 93 Pescanova was followed by Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]
one hour later, then Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth,
US] came in one hour and a half after that. Winston arrived
with no main sail up, having broken the boom the night before.
The boat had been caught in a squall and was knocked flat,
blowing out the masthead spinnaker, bending the boom and ripping
the main sail. The same squall hit Yamaha with very nearly
serious consequences. "We were dropping the masthead spinnaker
when the masthead backstay tensioner broke. The rig fell
forward with all its weight on the runners which were slack at
the time," said Field. "Fortunately, Joey Allen cut the halyard,
letting the spinnaker go. We survived that squall but Winston
didn't."
Galicia 93 Pescanova overtook Yamaha in the last 24 hours. "We
got more wind offshore and were able to overtake," said de la
Gandara. "But it was a very close race. Tokio were lucky in
the doldrums, they were only about 2 miles away from us, but
they got the wind first and got into a different weather
pattern. We couldn't catch them."
All three skippers said that Tokio had sailed a really good race
although they were determined not to let her get away.
"The boats are so close in speed that different legs will be won
by different boats," said Butterworth. "We just hope to be one
of those boats." Dennis Conner said he was undaunted by Tokio's
l3 hour lead over them. "A lot will happen in the Southern
Ocean. In the last race Fisher & Paykel had a 20-hour lead over
Steinlager 2 on the second leg, but Steinlager went on to win."
"After the doldrums, we must have made up at least ll hours on
Winston and Galicia," said Field. "These boats are so fast that
I think we will see big gains and losses because the boats can
get into different weather systems."
Intrum Justitia skippered by Roger Nilson, finished at l5:l0:49
GMT. La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] is expected in late tonight
local time. The next group, Brooksfield Guido Maisto, ITA] and
Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] are due tomorrow morning.
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| 2083.30 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Mon Nov 08 1993 07:21 | 13 |
| Roger Nilsson has been replaced as skipper of Intrum Justitia by Lawrie Smith in
a last-minute move before the start of the second leg to Fremantle.
Nilsson has a knee injury, but that may not be the only reason, as the sponsors
were known to be disappointed with Intrum Justitia's performance in the first
leg. There are no plans for Nilsson to rejoin the boat later. Paul Standbridge,
a very experienced professional crewman, who often sails with Smith, also joined
the crew.
Nance Frank's US Womens Challenge has abandoned attempts to raise more funds, and
to reconcile it's crew, and has pulled out of the race.
Chris
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| 2083.31 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Wed Nov 10 1993 07:16 | 6 |
| 2083.32 | Leg 2 14-Nov-1993 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Nov 15 1993 03:15 | 79 |
| 2083.33 | 16:51 GMT, 15 Nov 1993 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Tue Nov 16 1993 18:35 | 92 |
| 2083.34 | November 16, 1993. Leg 2, Day 4, Press Bulletin No. 50
November 16, 1993. Leg 2, Day 4, Press Bulletin No. 50
| PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Tue Nov 16 1993 18:48 | 71 |
| 15:04 GMT, 16 Nov 1993
November 16, 1993. Leg 2, Day 4, Press Bulletin No. 50
FLEET CONVERGE IN THE RACE TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
The Whitbread fleet is beginning to converge as the boats that
chose to dive south first made big gains overnight.
The Whitbread 60 Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] clawed back 37 miles
from yesterday's leader Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] and
is now nine miles behind her. Just 42 miles separates nine of
the ten W60s. Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] which does not have
the sail wardrobe of her better funded competitors is a further
60 miles back.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI] are continuing their match race with New Zealand
Endeavour poking her nose in front this morning. The third Maxi
La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] and the fifth W60 Yamaha [Ross
Field, NZ/JPN] have both split away from the main group that was
taking the Great Circle route to join the more southerly group
that included Tokio, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] and Women's
Challenge [Dawn Riley, US].
Yesterday, Guido Maisto reported to his shore team that the
benefits of his more southerly course would not show for another
24-48 hours. "We have just passed the 'neck' [edge of the
centre] of the high pressure system and from now on we should
get more and more wind. We are racing within sight of Tokio with
15 knots from the north."
The wind has picked up since yesterday with duty yacht La Poste
reporting 20 knots from the north and the first tastes of the
Southern Ocean. The temperature is a cool 15 degrees Celsius
with good visibility. "Yesterday and this morning we sighted
Yamaha. This is exciting close racing!" reported Malle.
"Southern Ocean life is beginning: we saw a huge whale and every
hour there are more and more birds circling our wake from the
elegant albatross to the fast petrel. We are looking forward for
the westerlies and the long surfs."
Yamaha's encounter with the Southern Ocean wildlife was a little
too close for comfort. Yesterday, she collided with a two metre
wide sunfish, a large circular fish that basks on the surface of
the sea. "We were sailing along at 11 knots and suddenly the
boat simply stopped dead in the water. I think my heart
stopped," said Field. "The boat wouldn't move and it wasn't
until we dropped the spinnaker and drifted back that a dead
sunfish came floating up to the surface alongside us. It must
have hit the keel and got itself stuck there."
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] reported sighting killer
whales. "Yesterday afternoon we were racing within sight of
Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] when we were followed by a school
of killer whales," said Humphries. "The temperature really drops
at night and we have to wear hats, gloves and thermal gear when
we go on deck."
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153
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| 2083.35 | November 17, 1993. Leg 2, Day 5 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Nov 17 1993 18:38 | 85 |
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15:37 GMT, 17 Nov 1993
November 17, 1993. Leg 2, Day 5, Press Bulletin No. 51
TOKIO MOVES INTO LEAD OF WHITBREAD 60 FLEET
Chris Dickson's dive to the south in the first few days of the
Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy has
finally paid off as Tokio moved into the lead of the Whitbread
60 fleet this morning. At the 0800 poll the BT Race Results
System put Tokio seven miles ahead of yesterday's leader W60
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR].
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] has also moved
past Intrum Justitia, but only by a narrow three miles. Galicia
may even be the lead as Tokio did not respond to the 1355
position poll. The Spanish yacht finished second on the first
leg and won the Round Europe and Fastnet Races during the
build-up for the Whitbread.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] has consolidated her
lead over the second Maxi Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI]. The
third Maxi La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] which chose a more
southerly route than her two rivals, trails 43 miles behind
them. Malle can take some consolation from the knowledge that at
one stage Tokio was 50 miles behind Intrum Justitia and was able
to move up and overtake.
The fleet are now well and truly into the Roaring Forties with
more than 30 knot westerlies speeding them towards Fremantle,
Australia, 6,700 miles away. The Omega 24-Hour Challenge record
of 343.69 miles held by Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] looks under
threat as the second-placed W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova averaged
16.2 knots for a six hour period and Yamaha averaged 16.0 knots.
To achieve such a high average the yachts will be reaching
speeds in excess of 20 knots. At the time of the position poll,
Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] was hitting an exhilarating 21
knots.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and Women's Challenge
[Dawn Riley, US], the most southern boat of the fleet, have
moved past Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] to take
seventh and eighth places respectively. Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] is a further 115 miles behind Hetman.
Chris Dickson has sent back more details of Ken Hara's dip in
the Southern Ocean. As bowman Hara had to climb out to the end
of the spinnaker pole to spike off the old spinnaker as the new
one filled, a manoeuvre he would perform many times a day.
Unfortunately, as Hara climbed back he slipped and despite
Tokio's rules that all crew should be clipped on when working
outboard, Hara was not and fell into the water.
The alarm was immediately raised and Dickson took the helm.
Kelvin Harrap [23, NZ] was posted at the stern to maintain
visual contact as the boat sailed away at 13 knots. The rest of
the crew struggled to lower the two spinnakers and turn the boat
around to pick up Hara. Once recovered, he changed into dry
clothes and continued his watch. The water temperature was 17
degrees Celsius, not as dangerously low as it will be in the
future.
Matthew Humphries reported a less serious, but alarming, problem
from Dolphin & Youth.
"We were sailing downwind hitting speeds of about 15 knots when
a huge bang came from the top of the mast. My first thought was
that the top of the mast had fallen over but on looking up, the
spinnaker halyard had snapped and the spinnaker was falling into
the sea under the bow of the yacht," said Humphries. "I hit the
alarm switch next to the wheel which sounds a horn below deck
and within minutes everyone was on the bow retrieving the
spinnaker from the water without any problems."
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153
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| 2083.36 | November 18, 1993. Leg 2, Day 6. | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Thu Nov 18 1993 20:34 | 94 |
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16:52 GMT, 18 Nov 1993
November 18, 1993. Leg 2, Day 6, Press Bulletin No. 52
THE SCREAMING SIXTIES BATTLE IT OUT
The Whitbread 60 fleet is screaming through the Southern Ocean,
clocking up incredible speeds at the same time. The Maxi New
Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is still leading the fleet,
but as the conditions become more suited to the Whitbread 60s NZ
Endeavour is being hunted down.
"These conditions are more suited to the smaller boats," said
Dalton. "The big question is whether we can hold on to them
until we get into the lighter airs."
Bearing out his comments two Whitbread 60s have clocked higher
24 hour runs than the Maxi and moved into the lead for the Omega
24-Hour Challenge.
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] are
sharing the lead of the W60 fleet. Between 0800-0800, November
17-18, Intrum Justitia covered 375.2 nautical miles, Galicia
372.9, NZ Endeavour 370.2 and Tokio 364.3. The previous Omega
leader, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], set a record of 343.69 was
set on the first leg. In the coming weeks the record is bound to
be set and reset as the yachts pick up one low pressure system
after another. During the 1989-90 Whitbread Fortuna set a
noon-to-noon record of 398 miles and covered 411 miles outside
of that period. Her skipper was Javier de la Gandara and he is
keen to break his own record.
The wild rides are unlikely to continue in the short term as the
wind is now dropping off. Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA]
reported at 1100 GMT that the wind was 18 knots from the
south-west but decreasing - as is the temperature, it is now a
cool 10 degrees Celsius. The barometer was at 1013.8 and going
up.
To keep the yachts going as they have been is draining on the
crews and they will be glad of a respite. Ross Field reported
that Yamaha had broached during the night.
"Suddenly it's all on. It is blowing hard and freezing cold and
we are reaching along in winds that are around 25-30 knots. We
have a jib top and one reef in the main because it can quickly
gust up to 40 knots. The water ballast tanks are full and we are
literally just holding on," reported Field. At one stage the
yacht was completely engulfed in water. "We were powering along
under a gennaker when the wind surged and the boat went down the
mine. The deck was totally under water, the whole boat was awash
and we were still doing more than 20 knots."
It was just as exciting on the Maxi New Zealand Endeavour.
"Wow, what a day! A top speed of 28.4 knots and we have been
sitting on speeds of more than 20 knots for long periods,"
reported Dalton. "It has been a rude awakening for those of us
who thought the passage through the Southern Ocean was going to
continue to be as easy as it has been over the past few days."
Endeavour's bowman Craig 'Spike' Watson [27, NZ] had a
particularly rude awakening when he was out at the end of the
spinnaker pole. The pole dipped into the water with him at the
end of it and he was dragged underwater at 15 knots for about 60
seconds before his crewmates could winch the pole out of the
water and get back on board. Fortunately he was attached to the
deck by his safety line.
As if that were not enough, he was then sent to the top of the
mast to fix a broken strop. "It was a minor problem, but a major
exercise to fix it in the 30 knot winds," said navigator Mike
Quilter [40, NZ]. "We were surfing at more than 20 knots for the
30 minutes he was aloft." His reward was to be helming the yacht
when it clocked the boat record of 28.4 knots.
The Maxi fleet is beginning to spread out with Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] 27 miles behind Endeavour and 46 miles
ahead of La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA]. Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU] is now more than 200 miles behind.
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153
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| 2083.37 | November 21, 1993. Leg 2, Day 9 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Sun Nov 21 1993 19:20 | 80 |
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15:31 GMT, 21 Nov 1993
November 21, 1993. Leg 2, Day 9, Press Bulletin No. 55
MILD CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
There has been little change in the positions in the Whitbread
fleet as the crews enjoy unusually mild conditions. In the Maxi
division, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] has continued
to stretch her lead over Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] by
another 20 miles to 85 miles. La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] has
managed to take seven miles out of Merit Cup by taking a more
southerly route, but is still 74 miles behind.
In the Whitbread 60 division, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, GB]
is holding on to a 14 mile lead over the second W60, Galicia 93
Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP]. De la Gandara is fighting
to hold on to second place as Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] is only
one mile behind them and on the same course. Despite their
proximity they are unlikely to be able to see each other as
Intrum Justitia's navigator, Marcel van Triest [29, NED],
reported thick fog at 1357 GMT. "Conditions are extremely
pleasant for the Southern Ocean," he reported, somewhat
ironically. "Light winds, thick fog, water 2 degrees, air a
touch more, humidity 100%. We are waiting for things to come,
while fighting for every metre in light and fickle breezes."
The fourth and fifth Whitbread 60s, Winston [Brad Butterworth,
US] and Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], have fought so hard that
there has been no change in their mileage at all. The sixth W60,
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has not been so lucky as they
appear to have found light winds and have lost 41 miles to
Yamaha and 10 miles to the seventh W60, Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB].
Despite the mild conditions, Dolphin & Youth had a strong
reminder that they are in the Southern Ocean when they saw
icebergs. "Iceberg spotted at 52.40S, 21.24W at 0500 GMT. Very
large with some growlers seen within 1.5-2 miles downwind,"
reported navigator Steve Hayles [20, GB]. The smaller growlers
pose the biggest danger to the Whitbread yachts as they can be
difficult to see at night or in fog and may be spotted too late
to take avoiding action. Whenever an iceberg is spotted by a
yacht it is reported to other yachts in the vicinity.
The calm conditions of the last 48 hours are unlikely to
continue as the wind is forecast to pick up and swing round to
the west. Already the last three boats in the W60 fleet, US
Women's Challenge [Dawn Riley, US], Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene
Platon, UKR] and Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] are starting to
enjoy the benefits and have average speeds 1-2 knots higher than
their rivals. In fact Odessa has gained 60 miles on Hetman
Sahaidachny, but is still 137 miles behind.
New Zealand Endeavour's navigator, Mike Quilter [40, NZ], said
at midnight he was looking forward to a change in wind
direction. "At present at 51.11S and descending, on starboard
gybe running in 21 knots of air. We are waiting for the breeze
to swing so we can gybe. If it doesn't swing soon, we'll have to
dust off the dogsleds!"
Jeni Mundy [28,GB], one of the new recruits on Women's
Challenge, reported that the clement conditions have been a
bonus for the women. "It has certainly helped to settle us all
in and the crew is working more and more as a team as we
familiarise ourselves. The atmosphere is a very positive one. I
do find it hard to believe we are in the Southern Ocean,
sunshine, slight seas and low winds bear no resemblance to my
memories of my last visit here. We are beginning to wonder if
the Southern Ocean is where we left it!"
JBF
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153
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| 2083.38 | November 22, 1993. Leg 2, Day 10, | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Fri Nov 26 1993 02:50 | 75 |
| 2083.39 | Latest... | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Tue Nov 30 1993 06:58 | 21 |
| In the absense of the official reports, a quick update....
The leading Yachts have rounded Prince Edward Island, and are expected in
Fremantle sometime next week.
The first yacht round was NZ Endevour, who shortly afterwards suffered a
severe broach. The mizzen spinnaker wrapped itslef round the spreaders of
the mizzen mast, pulling them away, causing the top 21 feet to snap off.
Their heavy main spinnaker was also badly damaged. There is just enough to
set a double reefed mizzen, and they will also try and make a new mizzen
spinnaker for the shorter mast.
This has slowed them down, and enabled Lawrie Smith to take Intrum Justitia
to the front of the fleet. Intrum went south of the great circle route
after the Island, and gained over the chasing pack as a result.
The prospect of a W60 leading the fleet into Fremantle looks increasingly likely,
as the other leading Maxi, Merit Cup have slipped down the fleet also, and are
currently 5th.
Chris
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| 2083.40 | November 29, 1993. Leg 2, Day 17 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Tue Nov 30 1993 21:38 | 81 |
| Sorry about the lack of info but I have to work for a living
cheers
revel
November 29, 1993. Leg 2, Day 17, Press Bulletin No. 63
INTRUM JUSTITIA LEADS THE FLEET
The Whitbread 60 Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has moved
to the front of the fleet following the damage to the mizzen
mast of the Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ].
Intrum Justitia has lead the Whitbread 60 fleet since Punta del
Este, Uruguay and was slowly wearing down New Zealand
Endeavour's overall lead when disaster struck on Sunday morning.
New Zealand Endeavour's mizzen mast snapped just above the third
spreaders and the top eight metres of the mast was lost.
"We are still racing," said Dalton. "We are still doing 14 knots
and within a few hours we will have the boat sailing at 85 per
cent efficiency." The crew has cut down sails to fit the shorter
mast and as long as the wind remains strong Dalton still has a
chance of holding off the second Maxi Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI]. As soon as the winds drop, maximum sail area
comes into play and, like La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] on the
first leg, New Zealand Endeavour will not be able to compete
with her rivals that are still in one piece.
Dalton concedes that any hope of being the first boat into
Fremantle went with the top of the mizzen and that honour is
more likely to go to Intrum Justitia or one of the other W60s.
However, Dalton still believes he has a good chance of winning
the Heineken Trophy for the Maxi division of the Whitbread. "We
have nine hours on Merit Cup and it's a long way from Fremantle
to Southampton." Even with the new handicap, 30 hours after the
break, New Zealand Endeavour is still enjoying a 72 mile lead
over Merit Cup.
Intrum Justitia was the second boat and the first W60 to go
around the halfway mark of the course, Prince Edward Island, and
immediately dove south while most of the following boats chose a
more direct easterly course. "This leg is really in two parts,"
said navigator Marcel van Triest [29, NED]. "We won the first
part and there is no reason why we can not win the next." Intrum
Justitia's move south has already paid off as she has stretched
her lead over the second W60 Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] by
another 41 miles. "We are now 102 miles south of Tokio," said
van Triest. "As far as I am concerned the northerly boats are
taking a much higher risk than us. Going south was the obvious
choice for me. We are now in a high pressure system with 18
knots WNW breeze and are continuing further south. There is a
big low building up but it will probably not reach us until we
get past Kerguelen Island in about three days time."
"We are all very confident and are pretty sure we are in a good
position for the coming weather patterns," said Lawrie Smith,
the British skipper who joined the boat just one week before the
start of the second leg. "We intend to hold the current lead for
the remaining 3000 miles to Fremantle."
There has been little change between the Tokio, Yamaha [Ross
Field, NZ/JPN], Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] and Galicia 93
Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP]. However, the sixth W60
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has slipped back after her
record breaking run on Saturday when she covered 394.4 miles and
gained 40 miles on Galicia. Since then, Brooksfield has chosen
to head south and has broken away from the main pack.
The eighth W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] rounded
Prince Edward Island this afternoon. "Sunny, wind 13-15 knots
from 320," reported Platon.
The remaining three yachts should round in the next 24 hours.
JBF
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153
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| 2083.41 | December 1, 1993. Leg 2, Day 19 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Dec 01 1993 18:48 | 118 |
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December 1, 1993. Leg 2, Day 19, Press Bulletin No. 66
INTRUM JUSTITIA SMASHES OMEGA 24-HOUR RECORD
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], the front runner of the
Whitbread fleet, has smashed the current record for the Omega
24-Hour Challenge and the all-time record of 411 miles set by
Fortuna in the 1989-90 Whitbread. Between 1355-1355 GMT,
November 30 to December 1, Intrum Justitia set a new world
record for a monohull of 425 miles and averaged an incredible
17.7 knots. The new world record is yet to be ratified by the
World Sailing Speed Record Council.
Two other W60s, the second-placed Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] and
the fourth placed Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP] also beat Fortuna's record of 411 miles. Tokio covered
415.8 miles and Galicia 411.7. Ironically, de la Gandara was the
skipper of Fortuna when she set that record and not without
cost, his record breaking run resulted in one crew member
breaking an arm and another a leg.
In stark contrast the rudderless Dolphin & Youth has only
averaged 1.6 knots since 0800 as the crew has struggled to make
effective repairs [see below].
Today's duty yacht, the sixth W60 Brooksfield [Guido Maisto,
ITA], reported 25-27 knots from the north-west and also clocked
up an impressive 24 hour run of 396 miles. Currently she is
sharing the highest speed for the last six hours with Intrum
Justitia. Both yachts have chosen a more southerly route than
their rivals and appear to be benefiting. Intrum Justitia was
120 miles below the island when she passed. Intrum Justitia has
stretched her lead over Tokio to 68 miles. Tokio meanwhile has
managed to gain 26 miles over Yamaha [Ross Field NZ/JPN]. The
fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], has lost out by
choosing to go north of the Kerguelen Island, while her rivals
all chose to go south. Winston has lost 50 miles to Galicia and
given 50 to Brooksfield.
As the wind has stayed strong New Zealand Endeavour [Grant
Dalton, NZ] has managed to maintain her lead of the Maxi
division, although Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is slowly
eating it away. Dalton said spirits were high on board. "If we
get an even break with the weather we will be still very much in
this race. That's what we are working on and we're sailing the
boat as hard as we can to minimise the loss," said Dalton. The
third Maxi, La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], has lost some ground
by choosing to go north of Kerguelen Island.
Yesterday Fehlmann gave his analysis of why New Zealand
Endeavour's mast may have failed. "It is most likely that the
chasing W60s contributed to build up the pressure aboard NZE,"
said Fehlmann. "The mizzen mast on our maxis is mainly meant to
give us additional boost in medium and light weather conditions.
With heavy weather it is very risky to overcanvas the rear rig.
As long as the wind remains strong, the Kiwis should not suffer
too much. If it drops below 25 knots, we should catch up."
DOLPHIN & YOUTH LOSES RUDDER
The only British entry in the Whitbread Round The World Race for
the Heineken Trophy, the Reebok-sponsored Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB], has lost her rudder and is now limping
towards the Kerguelen Islands 430 miles away.
The rudder broke away from the boat at 0350 GMT but they had
first had problems with the rudder yesterday morning.
At 0338 GMT today, Matthew Humphries reported: "Our rudder now
is really quite seriously damaged. Overnight, the main rudder
pintle cracked quite badly and the top bearing is completely
broken away. We are expecting to completely lose the rudder at
some time soon. Emergency steering is being set up but our speed
will be well down and that makes a landfall in the Kerguelen
Islands quite important [food and fuel]. The rudder cannot be
removed out here due to the seaway so it will either fall off,
leading to structural damage to the boat or will be so damaged
as to make any repair to it unlikely. Spirits are high and all
is well on board. " Just 13 minutes later the rudder did break
away and destroyed all pintles and gudgeons. Fortunately the
rudder blade was not lost completely and it will be used for a
jury rig. "The emergency steering with poles, without a rudder is not up
to steering the boat in any seaway such as we have now," said
Humphries. "An approach to the Kerguelens would be very
difficult especially as a fair bit of breeze is forecast. We are
trying to refit the rudder with what we have. We will either
chop the bottom off the rudder or move it up to release some of
the load. If successful that would get us to Fremantle. We will
be going nowhere for a few hours. Everyone is fine."
Dolphin & Youth is the only yacht in the race with a
transom-hung rudder. Like a dinghy, the rudder is attached to
the hull with a 'hinge and pin' mechanisms called the gudgeons
and pintles. The top plate of the bottom pintle developed a
crack on the port forward corner. "The motion of the boat caused
the crack to open up about 55 nm, which in turn caused the
induced movement between the plate and the rudder," reported
Humphries yesterday. "We have been tight reaching on port gybe
in a lot of breeze for about five days on this leg. The bottom
gudgeon has been moving very slightly earlier in the trip but is
checked and tightened regularly."
The yacht is currently sailing downwind in 25-30 knots towards
the Kerguelen Islands. Dolphin & Youth's current speed is 2.2
knots, but this should pick up once better repairs have been
made. The Kerguelen Islands are a French dependency and is home
to a French Naval Meteorological Station. Tools and welding
equipment will be available on the island, however, as there is
no air strip, one of Dolphin's sponsors, DHL, cannot send a new
rudder there. The yacht will have to sail the remaining 2705
miles with the jury-rigged rudder.
JBF
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153.
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| 2083.42 | December 2, 1993. Leg 2, Day 20 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Thu Dec 02 1993 22:26 | 82 |
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December 2, 1993. Leg 2, Day 20, Press Bulletin No. 67
LESS THAN TWO THOUSAND MILES TO GO
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, GB], the leading W60, has less
than 2,000 miles to go to the Western Australian port of
Fremantle. A lot can happen in 2,000 miles, but at the moment,
with a 72 mile lead over her nearest rival, Tokio [Chris
Dickson, JPN], Smith and his crew have the Heineken Trophy
within their sights. They are still basking in the afterglow of
yesterday's record-breaking effort when Intrum Justitia snatched
the lead in the Omega 24-Hour Challenge by covering 425 miles:
an average of 17.7 knots.
"The last days have been fantastic sailing. The type of
experience which makes you want to sail the Whitbread just
another time. We have constantly been logging around 20 knots
and have been pushing hard on deck as well as down below. We are
certainly not giving our competitors any miles for free. The
crew is dedicated to give everything in the last week now to
keep our lead." said Smith yesterday. "This afternoon we had a
whale about the size of the boat zig-zagging in front of us.
Luckily we escaped without any confrontation. It may have found
us very attractive with our grey hull.." Smith stepped on to
Intrum Justitia just one week before the start of the second leg
yet he has transformed the boat's performance. Intrum Justitia
finished fifth on the first leg.
Tokio took the first Heineken trophy for Leg One and will be
anxious to do so again. Navigator Andrew Cape said the crew
can't wait for the hot weather of Perth. "We are jib top
reaching in 30 knots, fast but very, very wet and the water is
not at all warm."
The fourth W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP], said they are now sailing in 25 knots and looking forward
to a cold front that is on its way. A low is passing south of
the fleet and the wind is expected to pick up to 35 knots giving
more opportunities for record breaking. Galicia's navigator Juan
Vila was navigator on the Maxi Fortuna with Javier de la Gandara
when the original record of 411 miles was set. Yesterday,
Galicia covered 411.7 miles and Vila compared the two
experiences. "The W60s seem to be proving to be a lot faster
than maxis as the wind goes to 30 knots. Compared to Fortuna,
this time we did the same miles with a bit less wind. Four years
ago we broke sails during the run, or it could have been more.
This time with Galicia 93 Pescanova we could hold a good average
speed, while in the last race we had higher maximums in six hour
periods."
The fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], is still losing
ground following their decision to pass north of the Kerguelen
Islands. At 14:16 Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] was just 29
miles behind her.
Despite her rudder problems, Dolphin & Youth is still in 7th
position and much happier, with navigator Steve Hayles signing
telex messages as 'the slightly less directionally stable Reebok
boys'. "We have spent a long time today designing a more
permanent solution to the problem. This will be fabricated and
fitted ASAP, either out her or in more sheltered waters.
Reattaching the rudder was a struggle with Matt spending over 20
minutes over the side of the boat [extremely bravely]. We are
sure our new system will be very permanent."
The leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], is
still holding off Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] despite the
loss of the top of their mizzen mast on Saturday. At the 1416
poll New Zealand Endeavour was sailing 0.3 knots faster than
Merit Cup.
At the back of the fleet the Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU] and the W60 Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] are
engaged in their own tussle, just one mile separates them as
they are sailing next to each other.
The first yachts are due in Fremantle late on December 8.
JBF
The next report will be at 1530 GMT.
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153.
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| 2083.43 | December 4, 1993. Leg 2, Day 22 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Sat Dec 04 1993 21:36 | 93 |
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December 4, 1993. Leg 2, Day 22, Press Bulletin No. 70
ALL WELL IN THE WHITBREAD FLEET
All is well in the Whitbread fleet following last night's dramatic
incidents when the French Maxi La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] found the
Italian W60 Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA]. The Maritime Rescue
Coordination Centre [MRCC] in Canberra received a distress signal from
Brooksfield's Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon [EPIRB] at 0718
GMT December 3. When all subsequent efforts to contact her by radio and
Inmarsat-C failed at 1036 the Race Director Ian Bailey-Willmot accepted
the offer of the two nearest boats, La Poste and Winston [Brad
Butterworth, US] to turn back and search the area of Brooksfield's last
known position.
At 0032 December 4, La Poste reported that she had found Brooksfield.
Brooksfield had taken on 3 tonnes of water when the area around the rudder
post delaminated leaving a large hole in the hull. As soon as the water
started gushing through, the crew shut a watertight bulkhead and then
tried to find a solution to seal the hole and regain steering. The water
had destroyed all means of communication except for the EPIRB which the
crew switched on. Maisto said via La Poste that all the crew were
well but they had no hope of restoring long distance communications. "Both
the SSB power unit and the Toshiba were drawn under more than one metre of
water. We don't have the spare parts needed to fix them."
In a message to race headquarters Malle said he had no hesitation in
turning back. "The solidarity between competitors made us gybe towards
them as soon as we understood from you that the signal was not a false
alarm. We did push the boat to the limit thinking that every minute could
matter and in the anxiety of what we were going to find. The crew are not
just seamen, but most are old friends, some of whom have sailed with us."
La Poste and Winston had a harrowing journey back towards Brooksfield as
the wind strengthened and changed direction. "We have had to back right
down on speed as the conditions are so severe that we are sailing with
storm jib only," said Butterworth as he raced back. "We now have to go
upwind to reach her. The wind has been gusting 50-55 knots but steady
above 40, which with the size of the seas has made headway towards
Brooksfield slow."
Winston was further east than La Poste and therefore had to sail into the
wind. She broke her mainsail battens during a gybe and incurred other
damage overnight. At lunchtime Butterworth gave a situation report. "We
are sailing under storm jib and mainsailas the spinnaker pole was washed
back last night fracturing it two meters back from the outboard end. We
are now fitting the spare. Everyone is very tired as there was no sleep
last night due to the gale force conditions we experienced. The boat is
soaking wet but all fit and well and looking forward to Fremantle."
La Poste's journey back was also difficult. "We close reached towards
Brooksfield's DR [dead reckoning] position as the wind increased to more
than 50 knots. We pushed the blast reacher and the mainsail well over
their range, broaching often in over 50 knots of wind, in an attempt to
reach our friends as soon as possible. Arriving 11 hours after the last
known position report was difficult as the wind shifted 100 degrees since
last EPIRB position and dropped to 35 knots before we got to the area. We
drew a triangle of most probability and at 2230 fired the first flare and
started beam reaching across the area, following a SAR [search and rescue]
grid. At 2345 we spotted a weak target at six miles on radar. Every
attempt from crew up the mast to identify the reflecting object failed, so
we stopped the grid and ran dead towards the echo. At 0020 we got VHF
contact and sighted the mast. After making sure that everybody was OK and
the situation under control we informed the MRCC Australia and RHQ. At
present we are escorting Brooksfield till they make sure that the repair
is solid enough to make it to Australia."
The other W60 with rudder problems, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,
GB] is due to reach the Kerguelens sometime tomorrow. The team has had
ongoing problems with their various emergency rudders and now hope that a
French ship from the Kerguelen Islands will be able to meet them and give
more fuel and a tow to the islands. If she does receive a tow, Dolphin
will have to return to the point where she received assistance before
restarting.
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] is continuing to enjoy the overall
lead of the fleet and keeping Chris Dickson's Tokio at bay. The first four
W60s have now started to head north to warmer weather and Fremantle.
New Zealand Endeavour is still leading the Maxi fleet, but her lead is
increasingly under threat as the wind is dropping and Merit Cup will be
able to use her greater sail area to overtake.
The next update will be at 1530 GMT.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153.
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| 2083.44 | 14.30 GMT December 5 1993, | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Dec 06 1993 05:29 | 94 |
| Hello
Does anyone know what Katabatic winds are?
cheers
revel
l4.30 GMT December 5 l993, Leg 2 Day 23, Press Bulletin 7l
WHITBREAD FLEET - SOUTHERN OCEAN DRAMAS CONTINUE
Following close on the heels of the search prompted by
Brooksfield's distress signal, attention has shifted to several
other boats who are engaged in dramas of their own in atrocious
weather conditions.
Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] reached the comparatively
sheltered waters of the Baie du Morbihan in the Kerguelen
Islands at 08.l5 GMT, 5th December, after many days battling
with the elements using various different emergency steering
arrangements, manufactured on board. The elements have not been
kind to Dolphin & Youth as the boat, accompanied by the 25 metre
French Navy in-shore survey vessel, La Curieuse, continued the
20 miles across the bay in the teeth of 55 knot katabatic winds,
caused by the cold air rushing down the mountainous terrain of
Kerguelen where many peaks rise to 6,000 ft.
The 50 man French staff on the island, established to look after
the weather station and provide maintenance facilities for
Antarctic patrol vessels have been working since early Saturday
morning to manufacture a durable emergency rudder from mild
steel which, although heavy, will be sufficiently strong to get
the boat to Fremantle in good order.
The survey vessel and Dolphin & Youth secured to a buoy at l2.37
GMT, 5th December and are waiting for the weather to moderate
before they start fitting their new rudder.
Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] is making good progress despite
the continuing difficult weather conditions, at ll.00 GMT he
reported "weather conditions are severe, we presently have
around 45 knots from the north-north west. In the last four
hours the wind has always been over 40 knots with gusts at more
than 55. The sea is very rough with waves breaking over the boat".
Brad continued "A couple of hours ago we broke a steering
wheel. I was driving when a huge wave broke over the deck and
Dino [Phipps, NZ] who was in front of the wheel was swept
against it. Still clutching the wheel, I was washed a couple of
metres aft until my harness took up the strain. No-one was hurt
in the incident".
The leading boats are gaining some respite from the severe
weather conditions experienced in the last few days during which
many boats broke all previous mono-hull sailing records for
sustained high speed at sea.
Intrum Justitia [EUR] with her multi-national crew, skippered by
Britain's Lawrie Smith, remains in the lead with 88l miles to go
to Fremantle at l4.00. Her speed is now slightly reduced in the
relatively moderate winds she is experiencing and in the six
hours from 08.00 to l4.00 today she achieved l5.3 knots,
compared with the l7 or l8 knots she has been doing in recent
days.
Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] has managed to cut her deficit on
Intrum Justitia but is still 64 miles behind.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], the first Maxi is l68
miles behind the leading Whitbread 60 and has increased her
margin over the second Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI]
who is some 2l miles astern.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] continues her difficult passage
to Fremantle under bare poles [no sails set] in winds reported
by La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], who is accompanying her, to be
gusting to 69 knots with rough seas. Both boats are making a
modest 4 knots.
The leading boats are expected to arrive in Fremantle, Western
Australia, on the 8th/9th December, where they will, no doubt,
be happy to take advantage of the generous Western Australian
hospitality.
Race Sponsors, DHL International and Peters & May, the
Southampton Shipping Agents, are working extremely hard to
ensure that the appropriate spare parts are shipped to Fremantle
before the yachts arrive so that the fleet can carry out timely
repairs in preparation for the third leg of the Race to Auckland
which starts on the 9th January.
For further information contact Kate Whowell on +44-489-799-000
or fax +44-489-790-l53.
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| 2083.45 | Katabatic winds | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | NE1410IS | Mon Dec 06 1993 08:02 | 8 |
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>> Does anyone know what Katabatic winds are?
Katabatic winds are winds that blow down steep hills due to temperature and
prssure differentials between the top and bottom. They have a strong downward
component which makes it difficult to sail in them !
Chris
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| 2083.46 | December 6, l993. Leg 2, Day 24 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Dec 06 1993 20:19 | 76 |
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December 6, l993. Leg 2, Day 24, Press Bulletin No. 72
LAST DAYS AT SEA FOR LEADING BOATS
The leading yacht of the second leg of the Whitbread Round The
World Race, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] looks all set to
collect her first Heineken Trophy in just two days time. The BT
Race Results System predicts that Intrum Justitia will arrive on
the evening of December 8, five hours ahead of the second W60
Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN]. Tokio won the Heineken Trophy for
the first leg from Southampton - Punta del Este and started this
leg with a l5-hour lead over Intrum Justitia. The European
W60's fortunes have been transformed since Lawrie Smith took
over as skipper just one week before the Leg Two start.
The closest finish is set to be between the leading Maxi, New
Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and the third W60, Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN]. If the wind holds they are due to arrive
early on December 9, just in time for the launch of the Kiwi
Maxi's namesake, Endeavour, a replica of the boat in which
Captain Cook discovered Australia. Despite losing the top third
of her mizzen mast last week New Zealand Endeavour has continued
to hold off the second Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI]
and at 0755 GMT was going one knot faster. Fehlmann will be
praying for light winds so that he will be able to utilise his
greater sail area to maximum advantage. Dalton meanwhile is
looking forward to being warm and dry. "Endeavour is wet inside
and out, there is sea water dripping down into the crew's
quarters and bilge water sloshing around inside," said Dalton.
"None of us can remember being this wet for this long."
The third Maxi, La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], has now parted
company with the W60, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] following
last night's storm where both boats endured 60 knots under bare
poles. "Brooksfield passed an extreme sea trial that proved her
seaworthiness following her rudder repair," said La Poste's
watch leader Joao Cabecadas. "La Poste broke her vang and the
spreaders were in the water at one stage." Brooksfield asked La
Poste to go as the Italian crew now have their generator,
desalinator, radar, engine and electronic instruments working
and they have enough diesel and food to last until their
arrival. Brooksfield is due in Fremantle in l0-l3 days time.
In a telex via La Poste to Race Headquarters, Brooksfield's
skipper Guido Maisto explained that the rudder stock had snapped
below the deck bearing while the lower bearing dropped away
completely. Immediately the aft section flooded. In the hour
that it took the crew to clear the rudder it inflicted
considerable damage on the hull. "We were left with a hole of
350 mm diameter surrounded by a delaminated area of
approximately one square metre." The crew patched up the hole
with a bucket, a sail bag, a bunk mattress and the spinnaker
jockey pole. The hole is currently leaking about 80 litres an
hour but Maisto said the bilge pumps are coping with that. "We
would officially like to thank La Poste and their crew for all
their help and sincere willingness to assist us. We would also
like to thank Winston for their immediate change of course to
assist us."
Also enduring strong winds was the rudderless Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB] who have finally reached the Kerguelen
Islands. The yacht was forced to shelter in the Baie de
Morbihan. "We have finally arrived in one piece after battling
with 50 knot headwinds," reported Matthew Humphries yesterday.
"It was too windy to arrive in port. At the moment we are under
shelter on a mooring with a French survey ship. All the crew
are fit and well."
The remaining W60s Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR],
Women's Challenge [Dawn Riley, US] and Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] have all passed Dolphin and are due in Fremantle next week.
For further information contact Kate Whowell, Public Relations
Officer on +44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 l53.
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| 2083.47 | December 7, 1993. Leg 2, Day 25 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Tue Dec 07 1993 18:15 | 81 |
| 2083.48 | December 8, l993. Leg 2, Day 26 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Dec 08 1993 18:07 | 112 |
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December 8, l993. Leg 2, Day 26, Press Bulletin Ho. 74
[As the yachts approach the finish, the latest information will be added
to the Race News at 6 hourly intervals from 0800 GMT]
STOP PRESS
Due to technical difficulties the 1400GMT poll was delayed until 1634GMT.
Intrum Justitia still has a good lead on Tokio but it has reduced to 48
miles. The wind is increasing and there is a strong wind forecast for
Fremantle. Intrum is now expected to finish at around 0400 GMT on Dec 9th
but this could well change over the next 12 hour period. The next update
on positions will be at 2000 GMT.
PRESSURE ON IN CLOSING STAGES
In less than 24 hours the world will know the Heineken Leg
Trophy winner for the second leg of the Whitbread Round The
World Race from Punta del Este, Uruguay to Fremantle, Australia.
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has consolidated her lead
and at 0800 was 5l miles ahead of the second Whitbread 60 Tokio
[Chris Dickson, JPN]. Intrum's lead was seriously under threat
yesterday when she was slowed to stopping point by the Southern
Indian Ocean High that all boats must get through before
reaching Fremantle.
On the third Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], the
skipper and crew are optimistic that they can catch Tokio. "We
have finally picked up some breeze and making good progress at
l0 knots," said Field "The boys are working really hard and are
all suffering from a lack of sleep," said Field. "Goddy [Cray,
navigator] and I were both watch leaders on Steinlager 2 last
time and Jeff Scott was on Fisher & Paykel and we all keep
reminding the boys how Steinlager came through in the last days
from fourth overall to win. The first boats have a good lead,
but there are lots of parking lots between here and Fremantle."
Field said Yamaha had incurred a lot of damage on the second leg
and will be pulled out of the water on arrival in Fremantle.
"The Maxis are much more of a stable platform, these boats are
like windsurfers. They are very hard to control, very wet, very
fast and on occasion can be very scary. Four nights ago,
visibility was really bad, we had 30-35 knots of wind and were
doing 22-30 knots with spray flying everywhere and one of the
boys said to me 'this is bordering on madness'. He was right."
Field said he was also keeping an eye on Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] who is currently l8 miles behind
him. On the first leg Galicia slipped past Yamaha and Winston
to take second place in the 60 Class during the last 24 hours.
In the Maxi class Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has moved
past the disabled New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and
at 0800 GMT was l7 miles ahead of her. Even so, Fehlmann had a
frustrating night. At l000 local time he reported just 8 knots
of wind from the south. "We have been becalmed most of the
night with a big swell from the south-west," said Fehlmann.
"Our westerly position was better than New Zealand Endeavour and
we were able to overtake. Either they have problems in the
erratic winds or they really have a disadvantage missing part of
their mizzen."
Dalton is finding the approach to Fremantle particularly
difficult as the Western Australian port holds no good memories
for him. In l989 he had lead the second leg in Fisher & Paykel,
then had to sit becalmed as three Maxis reduced his lead to
nothing then overtook. "We have no wind now and we are paying
the price of having two-thirds the horsepower. All we can do is
work hard not to lose too much overall," said Dalton. "Coming
out of the Southern Indian Ocean you have to cross from one side
of the Indian Ocean high to the other. We are now wallowing in
it and are the biggest losers because we don't have the sail
power to get through. Three nights ago we were risking our
lives, surfing at great speeds while last night we hardly moved.
The next 24 hours will be the most critical in the entire race."
The fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] has chosen a more
westerly approach towards Fremantle in an effort to avoid the
high. In the six hours from 0200-0800 she made l6.l knots. The
third Maxi, La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], has not been so
fortunate and in the last six hours only made nine knots.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] is back on course and
expected in Fremantle within the next ll days, following a
detour to the Kerguelen Islands to refit their rudder. "We
managed to re-use the old rudder, and with the help of the Kerguelants
we fabricated new rudder pintles of mild steel. The whole assembly is
only slightly heavier than the original. We look like we are in for a
fair bit of breeze over the next few days and are pushing hard to make
up the lost ground," reported Humphries.
Dolphin had to return to the point where they accepted a tow from a
French Navy vessel before they could begin racing. "Our first job is to
get back into a low pressure system to find more favourable winds.
We will then have a go at catching the four boats ahead."
The first boats are expected to arrive on Thursday morning
European time, afternoon local time.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, WRTWR Press
Officer, Paul McDonnell, Fremantle Press Officer on +6l-9-430
8636 Fax +6l-9-430 8646 or Kate Whowell, Public Relations
Officer on +44-4889-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 l53.
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December 9, 1993. Leg 2, Day 27, Press Bulletin No. 76
INTRUM JUSTITIA TAKES W60 HEINEKEN TROPHY
TOKIO STILL LEADING OVERALL
The European W60, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], has won
the longest and hardest leg of the Whitbread Round The World
Race for the Heineken Trophy. Intrum Justitia swept across the
line flying her spinnaker in 17 knots of breeze at 05.39.06 GMT
[1339 Western Australian time] to take her first Heineken
Trophy. The thirty boats that came out to greet her and the
hundreds of spectators lining the docks had a glimpse of the
power of a Whitbread 60 as she surfed on the three foot high
swell. She completed the leg in 25 days, 14 hours, 39 mins, 06
secs, over a day and a half inside Steinlager 2's time for
the 1989-90 Whitbread.
"We beat them [Tokio], we can beat them again and once they get
used to it they might even give in," said Smith [37, GB]. "We
have a good crew and there was nothing wrong with the boat, they
were just unlucky on the first leg. We've got more skill on the
boat and she is as good as the rest of them. The navigation was
superb."
Smith said the key point for this leg was the approach to Prince
Edward Island, which all the boats had to round. "We had lost a
crucial sail, a small gennaker, and had lost about 50 miles to
Tokio. As we rounded Prince Edward Island they were just two
miles away from us and we had to get away from them. Marcel [van
Triest, navigator] said go south. We were sailing on the wrong
gybe and I wasn't very happy about it," said Smith. Van Triest
[29, NED] said it had not been too difficult to convince Smith
to go south. "I said we had a two-thirds chance of gaining 20
miles or a 1/3 chance of losing 10 so he said do it. Then he
moaned about it all night!" joked van Triest. "In the end we
gained 100 miles."
Smith said one of the worst aspects of this leg was watching
that lead being eaten away by Tokio in the approach to
Fremantle. Tokio crossed the line at 07.39.36 GMT [15:39:36 WA
time] to claim second place on this leg and to retain the
overall lead of the W60 class. Tokio started this leg with a 10
hour lead over Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP]
and 16 hours over Intrum Justitia. "We started this leg with a
10 hour lead over the second boat and we finished with a 15 hour
lead, so we feel we have improved," said Dickson [32, NZ].
Tokio's navigator Andrew Cape [31, AUS] praised his European
rivals. "Intrum Justitia got it spot on by going south," said
Cape. "By going south after Prince Edward Island they gained 50
miles just like that. We were hoping that we could catch them in
the lighter airs but they sailed really well then too."
YAMAHA TAKES THIRD PLACE W60
MERIT CUP WINS MAXI HEINEKEN TROPHY
GALICIA AND ENDEAVOUR LIMP IN WITH GEAR PROBLEMS
The third boat to cross the line was the W60 Yamaha [Ross Field,
NZ/JPN]. Like the first two W60s, Field said there were
occasions when he slowed the boat down. "There was one time when
we had 38 knots and we broached and we had to pull back," said
Field. "Everyone had to because otherwise the boats would have
self destructed."
Yamaha crossed the line just under six hours after Intrum
Justitia which now puts Intrum ahead of her in the overall
times, although Yamaha has moved ahead of the fourth W60 and
fifth boat to finish Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP]. "Of course we are disappointed in our position," said
Field. "We were amongst the leaders at Prince Edward Island but
we didn't go south quick enough. We wished we had."
A much happier crew was found on the Maxi division Heineken
Trophy winner, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] who crossed the
line at 12.11.34 GMT [20:11:34] to a rapturous welcome. However
the victory was not as sweet as Fehlmann would have liked as he
did not pass New Zealand Endeavour with her broken mast until
yesterday.
"We have a big problem with the speed," said Fehlmann. "This
boat simply doesn't surf like UBS or the old Merit did. I think
that one half is not the same as the other. We had the same
problem at the Fastnet Race. New Zealand Endeavour and Merit Cup
rounded the rock together then New Zealand Endeavour left us
behind."
Fehlmann said that Merit Cup had suffered a number of breakages,
including a winch being pulled out of the deck, but Merit Cup's
main problem was a lack of speed. His worst moment during the
leg was when Merit Cup broached in the approach to Prince Edward
Island. "We were flat on the water for about three minutes. I
could see the mast was about one metre underwater and the keel
must have been out of the water.
The next two boats to finish, the W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova, and
the Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], both came in
with equipment problems. New Zealand Endeavour had lost the top
third of her mizzen mast and Galicia 93 suffered severe
delamination.
De la Gandara said that Galicia's delamination problem was found
almost by accident. "We broke our spinnaker pole and when one of
the crew went forward to get out the spare he noticed something
was wrong," said de la Gandara. The team immediately contacted
Bruce Farr and was told to take it easy for the rest of the leg.
"It is impossible to quantify how much time was lost," said the
navigator Juan Vila. "Initially we stopped for an hour to stop
it from spreading and then whenever the wind picked up we had to
go slowly."
Also going slowly was watch leader Jan Santana. Santana badly
hurt his knee when a wave plucked him from the steering wheel
and threw him down into the cockpit. He was out of action for
seven days.
New Zealand Endeavour's arrival was a more subdued affair. The
yacht lost the top third of her mast, yet managed to hold off
Merit Cup until just before Fremantle. "This was the toughest
leg," said Dalton. "When it blows you can't afford to be
conservative which makes it mentally tougher."
Three W60s arrived before the first Maxi Merit Cup, but Dalton
refused to be drawn on whether he would have collected line
honours if his mizzen hadn't failed. "Intrum Justitia sailed a
great leg tactically and by sailing powerfully. They won and
that's that. I wouldn't dream of taking away from their victory
by speculation."
New Zealand Endeavour is still ahead of Merit Cup and Dalton said he was
confident he could still win overall.
Intrum Justitia now lies in second place in the W60 Class, 14 hours behind
the leader, Tokio and just 39 minutes ahead of Yamaha who is in third
place.
JBF
For further information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, WRTWR Press
Officer, Paul McDonnell, Fremantle Press Officer on +61-9-430
8636 Fax +61-9-430 8646 or Kate Whowell, Public Relations
Officer on +44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489-790 153.
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| December 12 1993. Leg 2, Day 30, Press Bulletin No. 78
LA POSTE TO COME INTO A HERO'S WELCOME
Fremantle is gearing up to give the French Maxi, La Poste [Daniel Malle].
a hero's welcome when she crosses the line on Monday morning. Already 1245
people have visited the race Village today and thousands have turned out
to welcome each boat as they have raced over the line. La Poste, will
however get a specially warm welcome as she found the Italian yacht
Brooksfield [Guildo Maisto, ITA] following Brooksfield's emergency signal
transmissions on December 3 and escorted her until December 6, when the
yacht was able to continue alone.
Malle and his crew are expected between 2200- 2400 GMT today,
[06-0800 local time]. On Tuesday, the International Jury which is chaired
by Marcel Leeman, will meet to consider what redress to give La Poste and
Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] for assisting Brooksfield.
The jury will also be considering a protest lodged by the Race Drirector,
Ian Bailey-Willmot, against the leading W60 Tokio[Chris Dickson, JPN]. The
Race Director alleges that Tokio sailed part of leg two without her radar
fitted, a breach of Arcticle A15.1 of the Notice of Race. Bailey-Willmot
noticed when Tokio finished she did not have the radar fitted and asked
Technical Co-ordinator Mark Ballard to search for photographic and video
evidence. Tokio had in fact been photographed during the last 400 miles of
the second leg without the radar attached to the mast.
The sixth W60 Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] appears to be
winning their battle with the Women's Challenge [Dawn Riley, US]. Hetman
has extended her lead to 62 miles, however, the Women's Challenge may
still have an opportunity to catch up if the breeze fills in from behind.
In a telex to Race Headquarters Platon said he was hoping to attract
support from the Australian and New Zealand Ukranian communities.
Women's Challenge reported as duty yacht that the only boat not to come in
on the 1100 radio schedule was Brooksfield whose long range communicatiuon
equipment was destroyed when the boat flooded. The yacht does have
hand-held VHF radios but the range is limited and unless one of the other
competitors passes very close to them they are unlikely to hear her. The
Whitbread TV Pool is planning to send out an airplane to search and film
Brooksfield within the next two days.
Women's Challenge reported they are enjoying the tail end of the Southern
Ocean conditions. "We are surfing along in a 30-knot South-easter with a
poled out No.3 and three reefs in the main while we are still repairing
the main and jibtop", said Australian navigator Adrienne Cahalan. "With
under 48 hours to go we are fighting hard to hold onto Hetman."
Hetman and Women's Challenge are due to arrive on December 14, with Odessa
and Uruguay about December 15/16. Dolphin & Youth with its makeshift
rudder is also due in about the same date, but may be even later if the
yacht meets heavy weather and is forced to slow down to protect the
fragile rudder mechanism.
JBF
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December 13, 1993. Leg 2, Day 31, Press Bulletin No. 80
HEROIC LA POSTE FINISHED
Hetman Sahadaichny and Womens Challenge Finished
The French Maxi La Poste [Daniel Malle] arrived at 19:29:39 GMT [0329 WA
time] with the first hand accounts of their successful search for the
Italian Whitbread 60 Brooksfield and the first footage of the boat since
her rudder post snapped on December 3. The footage shows Brookfield's
transom-hung emergency rudder and both boats rising and falling violently
in a 60-knot gale that lasted for six hours.
That La Poste found Brooksfield so quickly once she got in the area of the
last known position was a testament to the skill of Malle and his crew.
"We were the boat in the best position to go to the rescue with a course
of 172, the wind from the north west. My navigator Dominique Conin and
Joao Cabecadas calculated a search area triangle of 100 square miles and
we are all proud that within 45 minutes of arriving in the search area
we had a spot on the radar. However, it was just a target and we didn't
know if it was an iceberg, or a boat or a raft, until we sighted them we
were all very anxious. We were so happy when they said they were well."
La Poste and Brooksfield stayed together during a gale, an experience that
led Malle to comment, "Even a Maxi is small when the wind is gusting 70
knots for six hours!" Malle paid tribute to the Brooksfield crew for
coping with their emergency so well. "They had 1.3m of water in the boat
and it was a great achievement to be able to stop the water and seal the
hole so well."
Malle and his crew were particularly distressed by allegations of an
Italian newspaper that the Brooksfield incident had been exaggerated as
part of a publicity stunt. "As soon as we realised that Brooksfield could
be in danger, our only thought was to get there," said watch leader Joao
Cabecadas [32, POR]. "I think that it is not up to the people ashore to
judge what people at sea think at the right moment," said Cabecadas.
"It's up to them [Brooksfield] to decide whether to switch on an EPIRB
or not. Those people ashore should be down there in the same conditions -
in the cold, with a water temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, 50 knots of
breeze with the rudder moving and breaking up the hull. They had three
tonnes of water inside the boat. In that kind of situation it is up to
them to decide. No one else, not even us, who were very close to their
situation it is up to them to decide. Whether it is right to switch it on
or not. If they did it, it was because it was right."
Later, at the press conference Cabecadas elaborated and said that the
whole crew had been happy and proud to find Brooksfield "They are very,
very good seamen I hope that some of you would have the chance of sailing
with them as I have had before. Especially on this race or when you are
cruising that we can count on the other competitors to help each other.
When we started the second leg we knew that it [an emergency] can happen
to us or to others. It was not an abuse of us, its just the rules of the
game. I hope that I will never hear again the stories that I have been
hearing for the five hours since we got in here."
La Poste will be submitting a request for a redress to the International
Jury tomorrow. Malle refused to be drawn on how much he would be asking
for, but he said that the Maxi had spent approximately 60 hours searching
for and escorting Brooksfield.
The French press are apparently impressed with La Poste's exploits. "On
the first leg you gave us a dismasting, on the second a search and rescue,
what do you have planned for the third leg," asked one journalist. "Well,
the only thing left to do is win," responded Malle with a smile.
Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] finished this morning [Monday
December 12] at 0929.30. Women's Challenge [Dawn Riley, USA] finished this
afternoon [Monday] at 1629:42.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto,It] who lost her rudder ten days ago and has
since been sailing with a jury rudder and without communications has
reported via a merchant ship that she expects to arrive in Fremantle at
midnight tonight, Monday, 0800 Tuesday local Fremantle time.
For more information please contact - Jennie Fitzhardinge, press officer
or Paul McDonnell, Fremantle Press Officer on +61-9-430-8636, fax
+61-9-430-8646 or Kate Whowell on +44-489-799-000 Fax +44-489-790-153.
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December l5, l993. Leg 2, Day 33, Press Bulletin No. 82
STOP PRESS. Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Pons, URG] crossed the
finishing line at 23 hrs 25 min and 03 secs on the 15th Dec.
INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARD WINSTON AND LA POSTE REDRESS
Controversy has already erupted in Fremantle over the
International Jury's decision to award Winston [Brad
Butterworth, US] and La Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA], 2l hours, 28
minutes, 30 seconds and 2 days 23 hours and 33 minutes,
respectively for their roles in assisting the Italian W60
Brooksfield. The International Jury is a body independent of
both the competitors and the race organisers.
The amount of redress was decided taking into account the time
each boat spent assisting, the distance sailed by the leaders in
this time, and the position relative to the rest of the fleet at
the beginning and end of the search period. This now puts
Winston in second place on Leg 2, just over one minute behind
Intrum Justitia, the first boat to arrive in Fremantle and in
second place overall in the Whitbread 60 class, ll hours behind
Tokio and three ahead of Intrum Justitia. La Poste's new time
keeps her in third place in the IOR Maxi class and overall.
Butterworth, Tokio's skipper Chris Dickson and New Zealand
Endeavour's skipper Grant Dalton said they were happy with the
result. However, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP] has already lodged a request for redress with the
International Jury as they claim to be materially prejudiced.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith,
EUR] are also unhappy with the result and are expected to ask
for redress.
"I think it is a fair result," said Butterworth, who had asked
for 26 hours. "We are a contender in this race and we want to
stay a contender. We have done the right thing by the race
competitors and by the race organisation and we have not been
penalised for it."
"It's absolutely ridiculous," said Yamaha's skipper Ross Field
who has been displaced from third place for leg two and overall.
"I can't see how the Jury worked it out. They did not ask for
submissions from any of the other skippers. It would be fair if
she [Winston] finished just behind Galicia. That's where she
was placed on the race course. She was l04 miles behind us at
the time she departed the course. Good on Bill [Brad
Butterworth] for making the claim but he was out in left field
anyway, he was north and in a very, very bad position."
Lawrie Smith, whose yacht has been displaced from second overall
agreed with Field. "They needed to be encouraged to help people
in distress, I am all in favour of that, but from the Kerguelen
Islands onwards nobody overtook anyone. There was no place
changing. Yet, the Jury thinks that Winston would have
overtaken everyone and almost overtaken us. What has been given
to them is almost embarrassing," said Smith.
"Winston did a very good rescue, but that is a lot of hours,"
said Javier de la Gandara. "Normally they would have been given
l2-l5 hours. No more." Galicia's request for redress will be
heard at 0930 WA time tomorrow.
The only people to speak out in favour of the decision, other
than the boats concerned, have been Grant Dalton and Chris
Dickson. "It was a pretty rugged night when they went back and
we certainly didn't envy them having to go back upwind in 50
knots," said Dickson. "They gave all the assistance they could
and we aren't going to hold anything against them. Certainly
the time allowance was a generous one and I don't think we were
going to see them sail past us, but they spent the best part of
a day going back. The jury made the fairest decision they can
and we don't have any problem with it."
"It's a great decision," said Dalton. "If La Poste had been
given more, you would have heard a grumble from me. It's a
milestone decision, in the future boats will never hesitate to
turn back and boats in distress can be confident that a boat is
definitely coming back for them. Nothing should be put above
life." Dalton went on to praise the race organisers handling of
the search and rescue. "The Race Committee has acted
responsibly. They kept boats informed and we were one of the
boats [as duty yacht] to keep informed. They told us exactly
what was going on. I think that Ian Bailey-Willmot has
acquitted himself extremely well."
The International Jury has dismissed the Race Director's protest
against Tokio for allegedly sailing without the radar fitted.
"We have managed to amicably resolve a trivial issue," said
Dickson.
The Race Committee has also laid to rest allegations that some
boats would not have turned back for Brooksfield. "The Race
Committee has decided that Fundamental Rule A, which requires a
yacht to render assistance when in a position to do so, was not
broken," said Admiral Sir Jeremy Black, Chairman of the Race
Committee. "The Committee has accepted assurances that if it
had been necessary the yachts would have joined the search."
LAST THREE YACHTS DUE
The last Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] the only
Maxi sloop and boat to have competed in a previous Whitbread, is
expected to cross the line at 07:24 local time tomorrow. She
will be followed l4 hours later by the Ukrainian W60 with an
international crew, Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR]. The only
British entry, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] is still
hoping to catch Odessa. "She is 89 miles ahead of us. To
overtake them by the time they reach Freo we need to be
averaging just under two knots quicker than them. We are giving
it our all but are being slightly cautious due to the rudder
starting to work its way loose again." Dolphin's performance
has been severely handicapped by losing their rudder over a week
ago. The yacht had to limp to the Kerguelen Islands where
another, hurriedly constructed, rudder was fitted. Australian
crew member Simon Cunnington is particularly looking forward to
their arrival.
JBF
For more information contact Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer or Paul McDonnell, Fremantle Press Officer on +6l-9-430
8636, fax +6l-9-430 8646 or Kate Whowell on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 l53.
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| This will be the last report for a while as christmas approaches and I am
taking my summer vacation returning to work until on the 17th Jan.
The restart from freemantle is 9 Jan.
4 of the crew that I sail with here in Auckland and I are taking our
holidays in Freemantle and we will be there for the start of the 3rd leg to
Auckland. :-) We arrive on New Years Eve after a 7hr40min flight so it'll
be a long day.
December l9, l993. Fremantle Stopover, Press Bulletin No. 87
FREMANTLE WELCOMES WHITBREAD FLEET
JURY STILL OUT
The Whitbread Round the World Race for the Heineken Trophy fleet was given
a formal welcome to Fremantle that the organisers, Eventscorp, hope the
fleet will not forget. Thousands of people lined the streets of Fremantle
to see the yachts crews parade past in everything from Fire Engines to
purpose built floats. The crews of Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB]
and the former Women's Challenge now known as Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]
were each chauffeur driven in vintage sports cars such as Jaguars and MGs.
Travelling in less style, but with plenty of spirit were the crews of New
Zealand Endeavour, Merit Cup and La Poste. The three Maxi crews took
on-the-water rivalry onto shore and waged a war that had water bombs,
shaving cream and flour as the principal weapons! Just to confuse them the
Spanish crew of the W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova, mounted raids on all three.
While some crews were releasing the tension of the last months, Intrum
Justitia, Yamaha and Galicia 93 Pescanova were waiting for news from the
International Jury. Yesterday, all three boats requested a reopening of
Winston's redress case on a variety of grounds. The Jury is expected to
issue a statement overnight either denying or accepting the requests.
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WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
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FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
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RACE NEWS - Date: 05 Jan 1994; Time: 12:50 GMT;
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January 5, 1994. Fremantle Stopover, Press Bulletin No. 97
DENNIS CONNER LOOKING FORWARD TO THE THIRD LEG
Dennis Conner, the skipper of the Whitbread 60 Winston, arrived
in Fremantle ready to race amongst the 'best sailors in their
field' he said at a press conference today. Conner, a four-time
winner of the America's Cup said it was the high level of
competition in the Whitbread fleet that kept him coming back.
"The first five boats [in the W60 fleet] are very comparable in
speed and are very consistent," said Conner. "It is very
competitive until like in a marathon one gets a jump and pulls
away." He said the major tactical decisions of the leg will be
whether to head down south or stick to the Great Circle Route.
"The conditions will be very good for the W60s with a lot of
reaching and running but it will be the final run into Auckland
that will be very tricky."
Arrival in Auckland will once again raise the question of the
amount of redress given to Winston for turning back to look for
the Italian W60 Brooksfield. "I was very proud of the crew for
acting in a responsible manner," said Conner. "They were heroes
for acting in a way that could have endangered their own boat
and crew. I will be standing by with great interest because the
International Jury have to decide firstly if they will reopen
the hearing at all."
Conner skippered Winston for the first leg, but could not sail
in the second leg due to prior commitments in the Etchell World
Championships. He was uncertain which of the remaining three
legs he would sail on. "I will be taking it one leg at a time
due to prior commitments with the America's Cup which starts in
one year's time. I'll see how the fundraising is going and
establish priorities in about five weeks time."
He paid tribute to his co-skipper, New Zealander Brad
Butterworth. "I knew my responsibilities in other areas of
yachting precluded my 100 per cent involvement in this project,"
said Conner. "I chose Brad because I knew he would give me the
best chance of winning. Brad really is the skipper, he is
better suited and knows the boat better. He asks me for my
opinion every now and then."
Amanda Davison of RJ Reynolds said the company was delighted
with the partnership. "Through the press coverage of Dennis and
Brad we have received wider brand exposure than we imagined. If
Dennis and Brad bring in a result it [continuing their
involvement in the race] will be a serious consideration."
Conner said that as well as the Whitbread and the America's Cup
he was considering renewing his acquaintance with the Olympics.
"I would like to compete in the Soling class but I would have to
lose 70 pounds to be competitive. As a former Olympic medallist
it would be fun to upgrade my bronze to a gold."
Upcoming Events
Friday January 7.
1930 Yothu Yindi Farewell Concert
Saturday January 8.
1130 Skippers Press Conference, Fremantle Sailing Club
1230 Organisers' Press Conference, Fremantle Sailing Club
Sunday January 9.
1400 [0600 GMT] Restart, Leg 3, Fremantle to Auckland 3272 nautical
miles.
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on +61-9-430-8636 fax
+61-9-430-8646 or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799-000 fax +44-489-790-153.
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730-614 Fax
+44-903-730 618.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 03 Jan 1994; Time: 15:44 GMT;
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January 4, 1994. Fremantle Stopover, Press Bulletin No. 96.
TABARLY ARRIVES IN FREMANTLE
RADIO LOLLIPOP RAISES 4285 Pounds
The new skipper of La Poste, Eric Tabarly [62, FRA], arrived in
Fremantle yesterday and went out for his first sail on his new
charge today. Tabarly took over the helm of La Poste at the
request of the former skipper Daniel Malle [47, FRA] who had
been having crew problems.
"It is a problem that all skippers have, but the other skippers
are professionals and my background is as a postman, so for me
the problem just crystallised," said Malle today. "I asked
Tabarly to come because he is one of the few people who could
sort out the problems."
Tabarly, a three-time veteran of the Whitbread, said he was glad
to join the race even at this late stage. "I would have
preferred to have been involved from the start, but I didn't
have a sponsor," said Tabarly. "It is nicer to be doing over
half of the race than none at all. I have always wanted to do
the race again and it is great to have a second chance."
Tabarly's last Whitbread was in 1985-86 when he skippered Cote
d'Or. His navigator from that race, Halvard Mabire, is taking
over that role on La Poste. Tabarly has brought three other new
crew with him, Jacques Delorme, Marc Guillemot and Nicolas
Raynaud. Most recently, he raced the Open UAP Round Europe Race
with them. Dominique Conin, Luc Bartissol, Benoit Caignaert,
Hugues Destremeau and Eric Pallier have left the boat.
Despite bringing in such a wealth of experience, Tabarly is not
promising any miracles. "The gap [between La Poste and leading
Maxis] is too great to make up at this stage." Malle was more
optimistic. "On the first leg we lost a lot of ground with the
damage to the mizzen and that caused the difference," said
Malle. "In the last two legs, three boats have had problems
with their masts and if it happens again we could move up."
Malle could not be specific about his role on board. "I am very
happy to race on the boat without the pressure, Tabarly will
have that!"
Radio Lollipop
The Official Charity to the Whitbread Round The World Race for
the Heineken Trophy had a profitable evening yesterday. The
Charity, which helps sick children in hospital, held an auction
of Whitbread memorabilia after the Prize Giving and raised an
astounding 4285 Pounds.
The biggest contribution to the overall total was an Argyle
Diamond yacht pin donated by Charles Edwards Jewellers. The pin
is worth approximately 1904 pounds and was bought by the Chief Executive
of Intrum Justitia, Bo Goransson for 2380 pounds. The head
of the European debt collection company said he wanted to
celebrate the yacht's second leg win by helping Radio Lollipop.
The second most expensive item of the night was the bucket and
foam padding that plugged the hole of Brooksfield where her
rudder had been. Brian Adams, General Manager of the Fremantle
Sailing Club, bought it for 297pounds. Hot on its heels was a framed
Whitbread Round The World Race T-shirt signed by all the
skippers - it went to David Glen, Yamaha project manager, for
295 pounds. Other t-shirts also contributed to the grand total. A
Heineken t-shirt, signed by all skippers raised 123 pounds; a Tokio
t-shirt signed by the crew raised 57 pounds; Race Board Chairman
Martin Findlay paid 104 pounds for a Dolphin & Youth t-shirt signed by
Matthew Humphries and an Intrum Justitia t-shirt signed by the
crew was sold for 57 pounds.
Posters also brought in good returns. The framed BT poster
raised 133 pounds while Geoff Plant, Manager of Pier 21, bought the
Fremantle Heineken poster, signed by all the skippers, for 214 pounds.
Bjorn Tallberg, Intrum Justitia's shore manager bought a limited
edition print donated by Western Australian artist Ann Buckley
for 285 pounds.
The night was so successful that the Chairman of Radio Lollipop,
Hedley Finn, said that he hoped auctions could be held in each
stopover.
Upcoming Events.
Wednesday January 5.
0900 Dennis Conner Press Conference
1000 Compuserve on-line conference
0700 La Poste Press Conference
Friday January 7.
1930 Yothu Yindi Farewell Concert
Saturday January 8.
1130 Skippers Press Conference, Fremantle Sailing Club
1230 Organisers' Press Conference, Fremantle Sailing Club
Sunday January 9.
1400 Restart, Leg 3, Fremantle to Auckland 3272 nautical miles.
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on +61-9-430-8636 fax
+61-9-430-8646 or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799-000 fax +44-489-790-153
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After reading these articles, I been wondering how is it the boats have
all these failures. Well, I think I have found the answer in two videos
I just saw. The first was a how-to on heavy weather sailing. All the
presentors were top notch (owner of shore sails, bruce farr etc). And
almost all of them were Whitbread alumni. Hummmmmm....
The second video was the 2 hour Whitbread special from 1989. Along the
doldrums, these guys start sailing into waterspouts, thunderstorms etc
because the cold front has all the wind. (This is when the lightbulb
goes on) These sick puppies go looking for trouble because that is
where the best winds are. It doesn't matter if they are half out of
control in 40knts winds and they see a shot at 50knt winds. They are
going to go for the 50 knt winds. They know if they don't, some
lunie-tune navigator on the boat next to them will.
Being out there on the line all the time must make it feel normal to them
after a while.
Guess we ought to be happy these folks are doing the non-lab
destructive tests while we bop around the harbor and eat salt spray in the
occational squawl.
john
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Tokio |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 50.02S|115 41.75E|131|09.7|3052|08.1
02 Yamaha |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 52.33S|115 38.50E|128|10.2|3053|08.0
03 Intrum Justitia |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 48.67S|115 39.40E|132|09.6|3054|08.0
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|10 JAN 07:55|34 48.45S|115 38.67E|132|09.5|3055|07.9
05 New Zealand Ende|M|10 JAN 07:55|34 47.68S|115 38.86E|132|09.2|3055|07.9
06 La Poste |M|10 JAN 07:55|34 45.10S|115 35.69E|132|09.2|3058|07.8
07 Merit Cup |M|10 JAN 08:44|34 50.30S|115 40.47E|134|09.1|3052|07.8
08 Dolphin & Youth |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 44.45S|115 33.44E|133|09.5|3060|07.7
09 Brooksfield |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 42.66S|115 32.28E|133|09.1|3062|07.7
10 Winston |W|10 JAN 07:55|35 07.03S|115 09.43E|148|09.8|3066|07.5
11 Heineken |W|10 JAN 07:56|34 40.34S|115 28.75E|133|08.7|3066|07.5
12 Uruguay Natural |M|10 JAN 07:55|34 26.03S|115 06.23E|133|08.7|3089|06.6
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|10 JAN 07:55|34 26.10S|115 03.81E|136|08.9|3091|06.5
14 Odessa |W|10 JAN 07:55|34 18.50S|114 59.63E|142|07.3|3098|06.3
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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RACE NEWS - Date: 09 Jan 1994; Time: 11:56 GMT;
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January 9, 1994. Leg 3, Day 1. Press Bulletin 101
SPECTACULAR START FOR AUCKLAND SPRINT
Fremantle, Western Australia, gave the 14 entries in the Whitbread Round
the World Race for the Heineken Trophy a magnificent send off today at
1400 WA time [0600 GMT]. Over 500 boats and thousands of spectators lined
the start course that took the fleet from the entrance of Fremantle
Harbour, north to a Heineken buoy just off North Cottesloe Beach, then due
west leaving the Fairway buoy and Rottnest Island to port before heading
due south to the south-western corner of Western Australia. The 18-20
knot South-westerly was just the right conditions to show the full
potential of the ocean-racing greyhounds.
The Italian Whitbread 60, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto], was the first boat
to hoist a spinnaker, but it was the W60 Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] who
won the start. Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] soon overtook Tokio
when the Japanese W60 had to gybe to lay a mark, but was in turn overtaken
by the Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ].
In the 4.5 mile run to the turning mark, the Maxis were able to pull away
from the smaller Whitbread 60s. New Zealand Endeavour rounded the
Heineken buoy first at 14:24:30 [local time] and was followed 30 seconds
later by arch-rival Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI]. The first W60,
Intrum Justitia, rounded just a nose ahead of the third Maxi La Poste
[FRA] with new skipper Eric Tabarly at the helm, and the second W60 Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN] at 14:25:30. Tokio had started at the windward end
of the line and got caught in the wash of the spectator fleet and did not
round until 30 seconds later with Brooksfield. Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] was the next boat to round at 14:26:15,
closely followed by the Reebok-sponsored Dolphin & Youth [Matthew
Humphries, GB] who had torn a spinnaker almost immediately after the
start. Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US] had lost ground when
she gybed inshore and rounded five seconds after Dolphin. Hetman
Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] followed them at 14:29:00. The last
Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, UKR], rounded at 14:30:30 followed
by Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] at 14:31:40.
The all-women's team on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] lost a lot of ground
when they tore a spinnaker at the start during a gybe. They were not able
to hoist a new spinnaker immediately, and then overstood the North
Cottesloe mark which they rounded at 14:32:30. However, they were able to
make up ground and by the Fairway buoy Heineken had overtaken Odessa and
was in touch with Uruguay Natural.
The two leading Maxis, New Zealand Endeavour and Merit Cup, were able to
hold off the Whitbread 60s over the 5-mile close reach to the Fairway
buoy. Intrum Justitia was the first W60 to round at 14:52:30.
Brooksfield, who started right on Intrum Justitia's stern quarter, rounded
inside Tokio at 14:52:55, showing no signs of missing America's Cup
helmsman, Mauro Pelaschier who left two days ago. La Poste was next at
14:53:15 and followed at 15 second intervals by Yamaha and Galicia 93
Pescanova. Dolphin & Youth and Winston rounded five seconds apart.
As the wind freshened, Hetman Sahaidachny and Uruguay Natural were both
putting reefs in the main as they rounded at 14:56:55 and 14:58:35
respectively. Heineken rounded two minutes later followed by Odessa one
minute later.
As the boats rounded Rottnest Island, New Zealand Endeavour was still in
the lead, but the main group of the fleet was so tightly bunched that
anyone could move ahead overnight. The boats are due to arrive at Cape
Leeuwin in the early hours of tomorrow morning [local time] from where
they are expected to dive south in order to pick up following westerlies.
The first yachts are due in Auckland in 12-13 days time, where a huge
welcome awaits them. The 3272 mile leg is infamous for the fickle nature
of the weather patterns and skippers and navigators will be studying
weather charts very carefully. None more so than the New Zealanders who
are all looking forward to arriving first in their home port.
For more information:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on +61-9-430 8636, fax
+61-9-430 8646 or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on
+44-489-799 000, fax +44-489-790 153
For copyright free or exclusive photographs of the start contact Whitbread
Digital Image Base c/o PPL tel +44-903-730 614 fax +44-903 730 618.
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Tokio |W|10 JAN 13:56|35 24.44S|116 34.85E|128|09.2|2997|08.3
02 Yamaha |W|10 JAN 13:55|35 24.98S|116 31.80E|127|09.1|2999|08.2
03 New Zealand Ende|M|10 JAN 13:55|35 23.93S|116 30.66E|131|09.3|3000|08.2
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|10 JAN 13:55|35 22.54S|116 29.82E|129|09.0|3001|08.1
05 Intrum Justitia |W|10 JAN 13:56|35 20.77S|116 30.91E|127|08.8|3002|08.1
06 La Poste |M|10 JAN 13:55|35 19.25S|116 28.79E|128|09.2|3004|08.0
07 Merit Cup |M|10 JAN 13:55|35 20.28S|116 27.02E|128|09.4|3005|08.0
08 Dolphin & Youth |W|10 JAN 13:54|35 16.36S|116 23.53E|128|08.7|3009|07.9
09 Brooksfield |W|10 JAN 13:55|35 19.92S|116 14.63E|137|08.5|3014|07.7
10 Heineken |W|10 JAN 13:57|35 13.85S|116 18.31E|130|08.8|3014|07.7
11 Winston |W|10 JAN 13:55|35 49.13S|115 45.41E|145|08.5|3021|07.5
12 Hetman Sahaidach|W|10 JAN 13:55|34 58.00S|115 53.95E|128|08.7|3039|06.9
13 Uruguay Natural |M|10 JAN 13:55|34 56.00S|115 54.69E|127|08.3|3039|06.9
14 Odessa |W|10 JAN 13:55|34 46.11S|115 47.88E|125|08.1|3049|06.6
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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RACE NEWS - Date: 10 Jan 1994; Time: 12:49 GMT;
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January 10, 1994. Leg 3, Day 2, Press Bulletin No. 102
FLEET CLOSELY BUNCHED AS THEY ROUND AUSTRALIA
The Whitbread Round The World Race fleet, racing for the
Heineken Trophy have already rounded the two capes of Western
Australia, Capes Leeuwin and Naturaliste, and are now heading
south-east towards New Zealand.
At 0755 GMT, the Whitbread 60, Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] was
leading the whole fleet, but only by a narrow margin. In terms
of distance to finish, fellow W60s Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN],
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] and Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] were strung out with one mile
between each of them. The W60s were able to overhaul the Maxis
on the long beat down the Western Australian coast, as their
ballast enables them to carry more sail area for longer.
Sharing the same distance to finish as Galicia, but racing in a
different class, was the leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour
[Grant Dalton, NZ]. Hot on Dalton's heel was La Poste [Eric
Tabarly, FRA] with her new skipper and five new crew. She was
closely followed by Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI].
Choosing to go it alone was the American W60, Winston [Brad
Butterworth/Dennis Conner, US] who, rather than follow the Great
Circle Route, has stuck out on a more southerly course hoping to
reach the westerly wind gradients further south. Winston's
meteorological adviser Roger Bannon is Australian and may have
given them some local knowledge during his briefing sessions
prior to the start. Winston is currently the seventh W60 on
this leg, but her radical move may show dividends in the coming
days.
Not so extreme, but away from the main group is Yamaha who has a
new navigator in Murray Ross. Yamaha has been averaging higher
speeds in the last six hours and may overhaul Tokio. Rivalry
amongst the New Zealand-based boats is particularly fierce on
this leg as they all want to be holding the Heineken Leg Trophy
high in Auckland.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] and Dolphin & Youth [Matthew
Humphries, GB] are just five miles behind the leading four W60s
and are closely followed by the all-women team on Heineken [Dawn
Riley, US].
The trailing three boats, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini,
URU], Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] and Odessa
[Anatoly Verba, UKR[] all lost ground overnight when they headed
southwest, away from the WA coast on the shortest route to
Auckland. The Australian Meteorological Bureau predicts south
to south-east winds 10-15 knots tending south to south-west
winds with a 2 metre swell.
For more information please contact :
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel/Fax +61-9-385-3730
or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on +44-489-799-000 Fax
+44-489-790-153
Photographs are available from PPL +44-903-730-614 Fax
+44-903-730-618
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Winston |W|11 JAN 13:55|39 13.99S|117 46.17E|151|10.9|2848|07.4
02 New Zealand Ende|M|11 JAN 14:27|37 21.17S|118 17.69E|141|10.3|2870|06.9
03 La Poste |M|11 JAN 13:55|37 08.63S|118 07.92E|142|10.1|2882|06.8
04 Tokio |W|11 JAN 13:56|37 09.87S|118 07.82E|143|09.6|2882|06.8
05 Yamaha |W|11 JAN 13:55|37 09.16S|118 06.74E|142|09.5|2883|06.8
06 Merit Cup |M|11 JAN 13:55|36 40.69S|118 22.61E|147|08.5|2884|06.7
07 Intrum Justitia |W|11 JAN 14:00|36 47.66S|118 14.61E|146|09.0|2887|06.7
08 Brooksfield |W|11 JAN 13:55|37 06.19S|117 55.21E|144|09.5|2893|06.6
09 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|11 JAN 07:55|36 08.47S|117 34.92E|153|04.7|2933|06.6
10 Dolphin & Youth |W|11 JAN 13:55|36 30.69S|118 12.53E|139|09.0|2896|06.5
11 Heineken |W|11 JAN 14:02|36 30.55S|118 13.25E|139|08.7|2896|06.5
12 Hetman Sahaidach|W|11 JAN 13:55|36 41.23S|117 39.94E|145|09.7|2915|06.2
13 Uruguay Natural |M|11 JAN 13:55|35 47.30S|117 54.78E|131|06.4|2929|05.9
14 Odessa |W|11 JAN 13:55|36 12.77S|117 31.19E|138|08.5|2934|05.8
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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Acknowledgement
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RACE NEWS - Date: 11 Jan 1994; Time: 15:15 GMT;
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January 11, 1994. Leg 3, Day 3, Press Bulletin No. 103
WINSTON JUMPS INTO THE LEAD
MERIT CUP LEADS MAXI FLEET
Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US] has jumped into the
lead of the Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken
Trophy fleet following their dramatic dive south. Winston
separated from the rest of the fleet at Cape Naturaliste,
standing further west of Cape Leeuwin, initially losing ground
on the gamble, but was repaid generously today. At 0800 GMT she
was 34 miles in front of the next four W60s and had an average
speed of 11.2 knots compared to the 4 to 5 knots her rivals are
enduring.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] was the first to follow
Winston's dive south, but has since taken a more easterly course
and is now the sixth W60. Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] and Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN] also went due south after the last position
report, and are comfortable in equal third position in terms of
distance to finish. "We have positioned ourselves OK in the
race track with Tokio just behind us and NZE off our bow,"
reported Ross Field. "We are all amazed that the Maxis haven't
taken off in these light downhill conditions. We have settled
into life on board and look forward to being back in Auckland -
first." Only two miles in distance to finish separated the
second W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and
the fifth W60 Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR]. Both W60s
have chosen a more easterly course than their kiwi-based rivals.
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI], the Heineken Leg 2 Trophy Maxi
winner, has now moved into the lead of the Maxi fleet, just two
miles ahead of the second Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant
Dalton, NZ]. However, her lead looks tenuous as NZ Endeavour
has averaged 6.7 knots to Merit Cup's 4.6. At 0200 GMT, Merit
Cup reported "very light air with an average of 6 knots from
330, swell about 2-3 metres. All the boats are stuck : we can
see five of them." The third Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA]
is the most southerly of the Maxis, just nine miles behind Merit
Cup, and in a good position to benefit from the stronger winds
further south.
New Zealand Endeavour's skipper Grant Dalton is watching
Winston's southerly move with interest, but is not certain it
will be a good move in the long run. "Out interpretation of the
weather data indicates that once we are through the high
pressure area the wind will start to come from astern. Then we
will set the spinnakers and turn more to the east."
Winston's move is in line with the strategy that Conner outlined
to his shore crew before the start on Sunday. "We know there
should be good breezes down there," said Conner. "We are
prepared to go 600 miles further south to have the shortest
distance to sail on the Great Circle route."
The seventh and eighth Whitbread 60s, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]
and Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] are racing within
sight of each other. Riley reported a frustrating night dealing
with communication equipment problems and the lack of wind. "At
one point we were only making one knot and actually stopped for
a while when we had to drop the mainsail to fix a sail batten."
Heineken's Inmarsat-A terminal is not working, having sustained
damage during the first night when the W60 had to beat into
30-knot winds down the Western Australian coast. The Inmarsat-C
is also not working properly although the Englishwoman, Jeni
Mundy, an Electrical Engineer, is hopeful of repairing both
systems.
The latest weather prediction from the Australian Bureau of
Meteorology indicate that tomorrow the boats that are the
closest to 40 degrees south will get the most benefit from a low
pressure system that is passing to the south of New Zealand,
while those boats to the north are anticipated to get light
variable breezes. At her present speed, Winston should be at 40
degrees south at midnight.
Tokio intending to protest Winston and Intrum Justitia
The overall leader in the Whitbread 60 class, Tokio, has
notified the Race Committee that she intends to protest Intrum
Justitia and Winston for using fittings on their masts that are
made from material which is not permitted in the Whitbread 60
Rule. Tokio has also indicated that she intends to make a
request for redress because the International Jury's decision
regarding radars "materially prejudices Tokio".
For more information please contact :
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel/Fax +61-9-385 3730
or Kate Whowell, Public Relations Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 fax
+44-903-630 618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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| 2083.60 | January 16, 1994. Leg 3, Day 8 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Jan 17 1994 03:59 | 93 |
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INTRUM JUSTITIA MOVES UP THREE PLACES IN BOISTEROUS CONDITIONS
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] is now the third W60 having
overtaken La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA], Yamaha [Ross Field,
NZ/JPN], now fourth, and Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP] fifth, in the last 24 hours. She is now within
sight of and only 2 miles behind New Zealand Endeavour [Grant
Dalton, NZ] and, if she continues travelling at her present
three knots faster, she will quickly overtake.
The second Whitbread 60 and overall leader after two legs of the
Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy, Tokio
[Chris Dickson, JPN], is within striking distance of the leading
W60, Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US]. Tokio has
taken 60 miles out of Winston overnight and is now just 32 miles
behind her. Just two days ago, Winston had what appeared to be
an unassailable lead of 140 miles.
Winston, the most southerly boat of the fleet, was first slowed
by a high pressure system, then the wind filled in from the
north, giving all the advantage to her rivals. Overnight she
was making just 12 knots while Tokio and the first Maxi, New
Zealand Endeavour were making 14.8 and 14.4 knots respectively.
However, earlier today she picked up speed and is now holding
off all of her rivals with the exception of Intrum Justitia.
The crew on Winston are still hopeful of holding on to their
lead however. "It is still a long way to Auckland and anything
can happen in the Tasman Sea, but we will certainly sail as hard
as possible to defend our lead," wrote navigator Matteo Plazzi.
"Today we lost a few miles on the fleet because we sailed for
more than 24 hours upwind on port tack in a north-easterly
breeze ahead of a front while the other boats were sailing
behind the front reaching in a north-westerly breeze. Finally
the front passed us and now we are enjoying reaching with jib
top in 25-30 knots of wind."
New Zealand Endeavour's navigator, Mike Quilter, said his team
is desperately trying to hold off the W60s. "We are tight
reaching along in 25-30 knots at present. Not exactly ideal
ketch weather. I feel sorry for the Winston boys, but we have
our own problems. We've got W60s coming at us like bloody
cruise missiles from every direction! I thought it was a Class
One power boat going past us yesterday but it turned out to be
Dicko [Chris Dickson], going about two knots faster. We need
the weather to moderate soon or they will do a horizon job on
us," said Quilter this morning. "The Winston boys did a good
job to build up a handy lead, only to be foiled by the fickle
finger of fate. They must be hating it at the moment. However,
they are still ahead so good luck to them." Quilter said the
crew were all looking forward to reaching their home port. "I
have just pulled out the chart with the centre of the universe
on it - yippee!".
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB], the only Rob
Humphreys-designed W60, is revelling in the boisterous
conditions, having achieved the fastest speed of the fleet
overnight. She now has a substantial lead over the third Maxi,
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and the remaining W60s. The
all-women crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] have chosen the most
northerly route of the main group and are set to pass below
Tasmania tonight. Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has
lost 40 miles to Heineken overnight, having suffered from her
more southerly route. Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] has also
dropped back, but she is to the north of the whole fleet.
In the Maxi division, La Poste, has remained 33 miles behind New
Zealand Endeavour. Merit Cup, the third Maxi, is some 31 miles
behind La Poste. The fourth Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU], who is 300 miles behind the leaders, has reported
trying conditions. "Days six and seven of this leg gave us an
uncomfortable ride to Tasmania. The wind is blowing now at over
40 knots and everything is wet on and below deck. We are
sailing with two reefs and a storm jib, sometimes we can hoist a
heavy reacher. Everybody is okay as the boat behaves very well
in this weather."
The first boats are expected to arrive in Auckland on January 22
to a rapturous welcome. The Heineken Trophy Village will be
opened tomorrow by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jim Bolger.
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel/Fax +61-9-385-3730
or Race HQ on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax
+44-903-730 618.
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| 2083.61 | January 17, 1994. Leg 3, Day 9 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Jan 17 1994 19:26 | 91 |
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January 17, 1994. Leg 3, Day 9, Press Bulletin No.109
URUGUAY NATURAL SUFFERS RUDDER DAMAGE WHILE INTRUM JUSTITIA
MOVES INTO SECOND PLACE
The Maxi Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini Pons,URU], reported
rudder damage at 12.16 GMT: "We felt a crash in the propeller
and rudder section and the boat is now suffering from vibration
in the rudder area," reported Pons. "Everyone on board is well
but we are steering to Storm Bay, close to Hobart, to anchor and
check it out. Conditions are rough with winds of 40 knots
gusting from North West but we hope to make Storm Bay in about six
hours."
The damage to Uruguay Natural happened when she was lying in
fourth position in the Maxi division, almost 400 miles behind
the American W60, Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US],
which is retaining her lead after a harrowing 24 hours during
which the rest of the fleet closed to within 30 miles of her.
The biggest mover, however, has been the European W60 Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith].
In the last 24 hours, Intrum Justitia has rocketed up the fleet
from sixth to second place overall. In the process she averaged
19 knots for one six hour period, and between 2000 and 2000 GMT
16-17 January, covered 401 miles. It is the best 24 hour run
for this leg, but falls short of Intrum Justitia's own Omega
24-Hour Challenge run of 425 miles set during the second leg.
She has gone from being one of the most northern boats to one of
the most southern. Intrum Justitia has 14 miles to make up on
Winston but is averaging a slightly higher speed.
As well as aiming for Winston, Smith will be looking over his
shoulder at the two New Zealand-based W60s, Yamaha, skippered by
Ross Field,[NZ/JPN] and Tokio [Chris Dickson,JPN], four and six miles
behind respectively. Tokio, who was in second place yesterday, seems
to have lost ground by being too far north when the front came
through. The fifth W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP], also lost ground overnight, and is currently 20
miles behind Tokio, despite being on a similar course.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] also lost ground, due to
sail damage. "Last night, our Reebok mainsail split between the
second and third reefing points. We dropped the whole sail and
within three hours, in fairly rough conditions, it was back up
again," reported Humphries this morning. "We managed to keep
the loss of ground to a minimum but we were left with a fairly
difficult decision: do we keep pushing the yacht in these strong
winds in the hope of catching Yamaha but with the chance of
splitting the main again; or do we sail conservatively to
Auckland and make do with a sixth place. We are fighters and
having had disappointment on Leg Two, we want a good result on
this one." Humphries has another reason for wanting to get to
Auckland early - the crew only has provisions for 12 days.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has also had problems with
sails. "Today is a day to forget," reported watch leader Andrew
Proto. "Me, Herve Jan and Peter Tans are taking it in turns up
the mast, cutting to pieces a brand new spinnaker which is
wrapped around the forestay. All of this in gale force winds."
The all-women crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, USA] has also had
some wild rides. "We are experiencing gale force winds and one
hour ago we were hit by a 60 knot squall," reported navigator
Adrienne Cahalan at 09.32. "We are surfing downwind in gale
force westerlies of 30-40 knots and doing speeds of 15-25 knots.
Very exciting sailing."
In the Maxi division, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]
and La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] have pulled away from the third Maxi,
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann,SUI]. Fehlmann acknowledges he made a
mistake by staying north. "The high pressure system I was
waiting for eventually moved in exactly as expected but it was
slow to arrive, then swept swiftly over us," reported Fehlmann
to his shore base. The gap between New Zealand Endeavour and La
Poste is set to widen as the Kiwi boat has an average speed two
knots faster than her rivals.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a series of
cold fronts moving across the Roaring Forties that should give
the boats a quick run to Cape Reinga before the final sprint to
Auckland. The first boats are expected in Auckland on January
22.
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel/Fax +61-9-385 3730
or Heather Dallas at Race HQ on +44-489-799 000 Fax +44-489 790 153
Photographs are available from PPL, Tel+44-903-730614 Fax+44-903-730 618
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| 2083.62 | January 18, 1994. Leg 3, Day 10 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Tue Jan 18 1994 19:20 | 76 |
| 17:55 GMT 18 JAN.
January 18, 1994. Leg 3, Day 10, Press Bulletin No.110
LEADING YACHTS NECK AND NECK AS FINISH BECKONS
With only five days to go before the first yacht is expected to
cross the Leg 3 finish line in Auckland on the Whitbread Round
the World Race for the Heineken Trophy, the leading yachts are
neck and neck as they head north from Tasmania towards Cape
Reinga on the northernmost tip of New Zealand.
Still maintaining her lead, but only just, the W60 Winston
[Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, USA] is currently one mile
nearer the finish than Lawrie Smith's Intrum Justitia [EUR]
who, in turn, is one mile in front of Yamaha [Ross Field,
NZ/JPN]. The fourth placed Whitbread 60, Tokio, is now six
miles astern of Intrum Justitia.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZE], still leads the Maxi
class some 24 miles behind Winston and lying in fifth position
overall is the W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP] two miles further back. Dalton reported: "The forecast for
the next few days is for light winds and with four W60s so close
to each other, everything can happen."
There is stiff competition among the yachts with New Zealanders
on board to get home first but the American yacht Winston,
which has seen her 150 mile lead whittled away in the past two
days, reports: "With six Kiwis on board going to their home town
we are very determined to get there first but with Cape Reinga
less than 900 miles away we need a break if we are to get there
first."
Intrum Justitia and Yamaha have chosen a course well to the
south of the Great Circle in the hope of finding more wind while
Winston, Tokio and New Zealand Endeavour are following a more
northerly line.
The fastest yacht in the fleet over the past 24 hours has been
the all-women's entry, Heineken [Dawn Riley, USA], who reports:
"We have had an eventful day. The crew made eight sail changes
in the four and a half hours before breakfast. At one stage we
were hit by a 60 knot squall and the speedo leapt to 25 knots
and Heineken was flying." Riley added that the water maker had
been out of commission: "It didn't work for about 36 hours but
Gloria, our drag race car mechanic finally found the problem and
put it right."
The Maxi Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini Pons, URU] which was
delayed after suffering rudder damage yesterday is racing again.
" Everything is under control" reports Pons, "and the crew is
in good condition. We are now heading for New Zealand under
spinnaker and working to get closer to the fleet." Uruguay
Natural is now the back marker, almost five hundred miles behind
Winston but only three adrift of the W60 Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR]. Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GBR] is 78 miles
behind the leader but maintaining sixth position amongst the
W60s.
According to the BT Race Information system, the yachts are due
to arrive in Auckland early on Saturday morning [GMT], January
22nd. While it is a little early to predict their precise time
of arrival, should the leaders race into the City of Sails in
the middle of what will be a weekend afternoon in New Zealand,
the fleet can be guaranteed a sell-out crowd both on the
Waitemata Harbour and in the newly-opened Heineken Trophy
Village at the Viaduct Basin.
For more information:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on +64-9-309 8440, Fax
+64-9-366 6647
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489 799 000, Fax
+44-489 790 153
Photographs from PPL Tel +44-903 730 614, Fax +44-903-730 618
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| 2083.63 | January 19, 1994. Leg 3, Day 11. | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Jan 19 1994 20:17 | 118 |
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January 19, 1994. Leg 3, Day 11, Press Bulletin No.111
INTRUM JUSTITIA AND YAMAHA FIGHT IT OUT
Decreasing winds are causing a shift in fortunes for the 14
yacht fleet on Leg 3 of the Whitbread Round the World Race for
the Heineken Trophy. The 1400 GMT poll today, 19 January,
indicates that the European Whitbread 60, Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR], which took a slim lead this morning, has
been caught by Yamaha[Ross Field, NZ/JPN]. Both yachts currently
have 640 miles to go to the finish in Auckland. Hot on their
tails is the first Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton,
NZ] nine miles away and the third W60, Tokio [Chris Dickson,
JPN] is a further three miles back.
At the present speeds, the BT Race Results System is predicting
that Auckland could see the closest group finish in the
Whitbread's history. The first seven boats, five W60s and two
Maxis, are all expected to finish within five hours of each
other. All will be fighting hard for the honour of collecting
the first Heineken leg trophy in Auckland, especially Grant
Dalton's crew on New Zealand Endeavour.
Dalton reported this morning that now that the wind had
moderated he was more hopeful of arriving in Auckland first.
"The weatherman had promised us this weather for almost four
days," said Dalton. "Now that it's here, we're going to make
the most of it and we hope that it will last long enough for us
to overtake the W60s and establish a lead before we round the
top of New Zealand." The yacht is currently racing under
spinnaker in 14 knots of breeze. "Morale had started to sag a
little when the wind didn't moderate. Watching the 60s scream
past doing two to three knots more than us was not a pretty
sight. Now the boys are confident that if weather holds we can
be first into Auckland."
Doing their best to claim that honour are the 10 New Zealanders
and one Japanese on Yamaha. "The tension is rising," said
skipper Ross Field. "We can't see any of the other boats
because we are spread out across the water but I get terrified
every six hours when we are waiting for a new position update
on the computer." [The BT-Race Results System polls the boats
every six hours and the positions are then sent to the fleet via
Inmarsat-C.] "We are slightly south with Intrum Justitia
because we believe there is more breeze down here. Hopefully,
we are right but as we close on Cape Reinga the options are
becoming more limited." While Field says he is concentrating on
his fellow W60s he is also watching New Zealand Endeavour's
progress. "They will mow us down if it stays light. In fact, I
am surprised they are not miles ahead of us already in the
conditions we have had on this leg."
This is an opinion with which Chris Dickson agrees. "The light
conditions should favour the Maxis and although I expect them to
beat us this leg there is no way they will beat us by the 13
hours they are supposed to." Tokio is further north than Yamaha
and Intrum Justitia who hold the most southerly positions of the
fleet. "The boats to the south have had more wind and may do
for a little longer but with more north-westerly winds coming I
hope we'll come out okay," reported Dickson. "It's tough
sailing as you have to sail the optimum track for the wind you
have, and our position to the north of Intrum and Yamaha is
locked in and was set two days ago. It's something I regret but
have to battle on with. There are lots of holes in the wind, so
some quick losses. There can be 20 knots of wind then a drop to
14 knots for two hours which results in a four mile loss.
Still, we all get our fair share of this."
To the north of Tokio is yesterday's leader, Winston [Dennis
Conner/Brad Butterworth, US]. She is now 13 miles behind Tokio
and 25 behind Intrum Justitia and Yamaha. She seems to have
found one of Dickson's 'holes' as for the last six hours she has
averaged 7.3 knots to Tokio's 8.3. Winston is now lying fifth
amongst the W60s, having been overtaken by Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] who is three miles ahead of her.
"Yacht racing sometimes is very frustrating," reports Matteo
Plazzi, navigator of Winston, "and we look forward to seeing a
report where we will be sailing two knots faster than the other
boats, not two knots slower."
The second Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] has lost a few
miles to New Zealand Endeavour by staying further north but is
keeping the pressure on. She is 24 miles ahead of Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and 27 miles behind New Zealand Endeavour.
The biggest loser by going north has been the Italian W60
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto]. She is now 118 miles behind her
nearest W60 rival Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and is
averaging the slowest speed of the fleet. Her fortunes could
change if two cold fronts from Australia come through, bringing
more wind to the northern boats. However, at this stage, it is
likely she would only be improving her time, not her placing and
in the past six hours the all-women crew on Heineken [Dawn
Riley, US] have passed Brooksfield and are 2l miles ahead.
The ninth W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has
suffered from a lack of new sails and is now 119 miles behind
Heineken. Bringing up the rear are the last W60 Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR], which has recorded the highest average speed of
11.1 knots between 0800-1400 GMT and the Maxi Uruguay Natural
[Gustavo Vanzini, URU] which had to shelter in Tasmania's Storm Bay
to investigate her damaged rudder.
Light north-westerly winds are predicted for the next two days
and the first seven boats are due on Saturday, January 22.
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel +64-9-309 8440, Fax
+64-9-366 6647
or Heather Dallas at Race HQ on +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489 790 153
Photographs are available, and can be wired directly back, from
PPL, Tel +44-903 730 614, Fax +44-903 730 618 or in New Zealand
on Tel +64-9-309 8055, Fax +64-9-309 8434 contact Mark Pepper.
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| 2083.64 | BT race results s/w for sale | GVPROD::WENGER | Max Wenger @GEO | Wed Jan 19 1994 20:42 | 14 |
| 2083.65 | January 20, 1994. Leg 3, Day 12. | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Thu Jan 20 1994 19:57 | 131 |
| This information is from the BT software program, there is a copy of the
Database here in NZ. There is a table available giving a lot of good
information but I dont seem to be able to include it, I have not being
able to format the datafile using one of the VAX editors it has some
chartactors in it that are not liked. Any ideas welcome. I have the tables
available in Postscript format.
All NZ are much happier now that DC is not out in front, there couldn't
be a worst scenario than Winston sailing into Auckland in front.
DC has a "high" public profile here in NZ.
cheers
revel
January 20, 1994. Leg 3, Day 12, Press Bulletin No.112
TOKIO AND NZ ENDEAVOUR NECK AND NECK
The race to be the first boat into Auckland, home base of three
Whitbread campaigns, has reached fever pitch. At the 1400 BT
Race Results System report, the leading Whitbread 60 Tokio
[Chris Dickson, JPN] and the leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour
[Grant Dalton, NZ] had 412 miles to the finish but,
significantly, Tokio had a slightly higher average speed.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] which was eight miles behind them at
the 0800 GMT poll failed to report her position at 1400 but
Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US], was only 13 miles
behind the leaders, closely followed by Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith,EUR].
The second Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] is a further 38
miles back, the gap then widens to Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann,
SUI] and Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GBR]. One hundred
miles back Heineken [Dawn Riley, USA] is just holding off
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] although the boats are widely
separated in terms of latitude.
The fleet is so close now that the boats are often racing within
sight of each other. "We currently have Endeavour in sight yet
again for about the tenth time this leg," said Dickson. "They
are south east of us about three miles away, with the two of us
matching boat speed. It makes for a bit of excitement to be
visually pacing another boat rather than electronically.
However, there is little chance, if any, of a W60 beating a Maxi
in, unfortunately. In this lighter air their extra length and
double our sail area is just too much for us."
Dickson, who has represented New Zealand in the America's Cup
and on the world match racing circuit, reported that his chances
of coming in first improved a little today when he was able to
escape the clutches of what he thought was a huge plastic bag
after two days. "We couldn't get it off with all the usual methods
so when it turned light yesterday we stopped the boat and sent
TA McCann [US] swimming to remove it," reported Dickson. "The
plastic turned out to be the complete skin of a one metre long
shark. The boatspeed is now better since drag from the keel was
removed. Good for us, not so good for everyone else," he added
ominously. Commenting on Winston's fall in fortune Dickson
quipped: "Guess Dirty Dennis got the message. A Kiwi boat for
first of each class, we hope.
On Yamaha, Field reported morale was high on board. "Right now
we are sailing on the wind in a light northerly. The seas are
smooth and we are carefully planning each move. Everyone aboard
is aware that we can't afford the slightest mistake in either
the way we sail the boat or the tactics." Brad Butterworth,
co-skipper of Winston, predicts yet more close racing. "I see
four boats rounding North Cape together, and the race starting
again with 200 miles to go."
Intrum Justitia, the Leg 2 Heineken Trophy winner, has lost her
lead and 25 miles as the winds have favoured the boats further
north. "With only a few days left, the Race is tighter than
ever and we are not planning to concede our lead!" said Smith,
just hours before he did. Navigator Marcel van Triest said he
felt the yacht was well positioned. "It's going to be a slow
race to Cape Reinga but we're in a good position further south
than the others and we should have the better wind angle. Right
now our biggest threat is Yamaha, which is the next most
southerly yacht and has the added advantage of local Kiwi
knowledge! The race could start all over again at Cape Reinga
with the fluky winds up there. If there's a breeze, we could be
home and dry. If not, we could all bunch up again and
effectively have a match race to the finish."
Fifty miles behind Intrum Justitia, the young crew on Dolphin &
Youth are pushing their yacht as hard as they can. "We are
sailing as if we we're doing an inshore race around Auckland
harbour," said the only New Zealander on board, David Munday.
"We are changing sails every hour and catching sleep whenever we
can. The wind has eased which is good news due to the rip we
have in our Reebok mainsail." Dolphin & Youth will have to keep
on the speed as the all-women crew on Heineken, buoyed up by
their success in overtaking Brooksfield, are determined to take
one more scalp before Auckland.
Brooksfield lost out by going north but she has regained some
miles on Heineken and is now six miles behind her. "The
decision to go north was a gamble motivated by Guido's opinion
that our position was already not enviable," explained watch
leader Andrea Proto. "The idea was to leave the centre of the
high to starboard to beat in light airs to Cape Reinga. It is a
gamble that has not paid off so far."
Eugene Platon, the skipper on the Ukrainian W60 Hetman
Sahaidachny reports high crew morale despite the yacht's
disappointing position. "Our position in the fleet reflects the
relative inexperience of our crew at sailing such a temperamental and
sensitive yacht that is the W60," explained New Zealander Dale Tremain.
"Severe financial restrictions due to political upheaval in the Ukraine
left us without the opportunity to replace any sails after the long second
leg, which left the sail wardrobe patched, tired and depleted.
Particularly missed was the heavy weather tight reaching spinnaker as
conditions often required its use."
Bringing up the rear of the fleet is the Maxi Uruguay Natural
[Gustavo Vancini, URU] and the W60 Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR].
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on Tel+64-309 8055
Fax+64-9-366 6647
or Heather Dallas at Race HQ on Tel+44-489-799 000
Fax+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available, and can be wired directly back, from
PPL, Tel+44-903 730 614, Fax+44-903 730 618 or in New Zealand on
Tel+64-9-309 8055,Fax+64-9-309 8434, contact Mark Pepper.
NB Positions will now be updated every three hours from 1400 GMT
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| 2083.66 | January 23, 1994. Leg 3. Day 15
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January 23, 1994. Leg 3. Day 15, Press Bulletin No. 119
THREE YACHTS YET TO FINISH AT AUCKLAND
Following the euphoria of the past 24 hours which witnessed one
of the tightest and most exciting leg finishes in the history of
the Whitbread Round the World Race, eight Whitbread 60s and
three Maxis have now completed the 3272 mile leg from Fremantle
to Auckland while Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] and [Uruguay Natural,
Gustavo Vanzini, URU] have yet to round Cape Reinga, on New Zealand's
north coast, and Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has only just
begun her 200 mile downwind run from the North Cape.
20,000 spectators and a flotilla of around 500 boats were
treated to a magnificant spectacle, even at 3.00 am local time,
as the Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and the W60
Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN] battled for line honours with Dalton
claiming a march over his fellow Kiwi with only one mile to go.
"It didn't really sink in until we were 100 metres in front that
we had passed them," said Dalton. "Then the boat just erupted.
I don't normally hug guys, butI did then."
Altogether, seven yachts crossed the line within five hours of
each other, including the long time leader, Winston [Dennis
Conner/Brad Butterworth, US], who finished second in the W60
class. Admitting that he was disappointed at losing a 146 mile
lead Conner said: "There was nothing we could do. If you're
parked and can't move either way and the fleet brings up the
weather, that's yacht racing." Commenting on the rousing
reception in Auckland, Conner added: "I have never had a welcome
like this; this is truly a wonderful place to be this morning."
Following Winston in were Yamaha [Ross Field, JPN/NZ] and
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], which was just
12 seconds astern of the Maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] as
they crossed the line. Lawrie Smith's European W60 Intrum
Justitia finished at 19.15 and 2 seconds GMT and Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] was the third Maxi to arrive in Auckland
at 22.26.04 GMT, some eight hours after New Zealand Endeavour.
Two hours later, the W60 Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,
GBR] crossed the line, at 00.10.55 GMT [23 January] giving her
young crew their best finish so far, only 10 hours behind the
winner. "We are a set of young lads all trying to prove
ourselves against some of the best sailors in the world," said
Humphries who, at 22, is the youngest skipper in the history of
the Race. Commenting on the fact that the crew's average age is
23 and includes six who have minor disabilities, he added: "The
average age of Dickson's crew is 31 and Smith's is 39. Most of
the guys on those yachts have either done The America's Cup, The
Admiral's Cup or The Whitbread - or all three. On Dolphin &
Youth, barring myself who did the last Whitbread on an old Maxi,
none of the crew has had the opportunity to do such events
before."
Dolphin & Youth was followed in four hours later, at 04.04.57 by
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], who eventually got the better
of his tussle with the all-women's entry, Heineken [Dawn Riley,
US] who finished at 06.08.10 GMT.
The BT Race Results System estimates that Hetman Sahaidachny
should finish at around 10.00 GMT on Monday 24th January while
Uruguay Natural, who has 403 miles to go and Odessa, who has 428
miles left are expected to arrive some time on Tuesday 25th.
The fleet will now have almost four weeks before the start of
Leg 4 to Punta del Este in Uruguay, on February 20th. As Matt
Humphries said: "Leg 4 is going to be a 'who dares wins'
scenario. Whilst we have safety at the forefront of our mind we
are going to go for it even harder than we did this leg.
Everyone on board is learning so much every leg and, as you can
see, we are getting faster and faster."
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel+64-9-309 8055
Fax+64-9-366 6647, Mobile 025-728 531 or Heather Dallas at Race
HQ on Tel+44-489 799 000 Fax+44-489 790 153
Photographs are available and can be wired directly back from
PPL, Tel+44-903 730 614 Fax+903-730 618 or in New Zealand on
Tel+64-9-309 8055 Fax+64-9-309 8434 contact Mark Pepper.
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| 2083.67 | Auckland Finish | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Mon Jan 24 1994 22:25 | 29 |
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I went along to the Auckland greeting of the yachts as they entered the
lighter basin that will be their home for the next 4 weeks as they arrived
at 03:30 in the morning, the place was packed with people all cheering
and having a real good time. I didn't go out on the water as it was just
choas so I got some sleep.
The finish was shown live on TV here, yachts racing in the dark makes for
great TV, the radio coverage was as good.
With about a mile to go NZ Endeavour passed Tokio as the wind started to
drop and the waterline and sail area advantage that Endeavour has started
to tell they passed them within sight of the finish. This was after chasing
them down the northern coast for 200Miles, they started about 12 miles
behind Tokio at 7:00 am the previous morning when interveiwed at this
time Grant dalton was very despondant saying that he didn't think they
could catch them. The watch system the crew usually operates broke down
2 days earlier with the crew catching sleep when they could. They where
shattered when they arrived but the Mount Gay tasted great.
Chris Dickson was a bitter and twisted man at the dock for the presentations
saying that if Grant Dalton had of being sailing a W60 he would have finished
a day and a half behind along with other not so nice things.
He has since apologised to Dalton for the comments.
This is it for a while.
cheers
revel.
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| 2083.68 | Excellent Reporting | SWAM2::SEYMOUR_DO | You got a pool over there? | Tue Jan 25 1994 16:15 | 5 |
| Thanks for all the great reports. There is nothing in the media here
which is depressing. I really, really appreciate your entries.
Reading them is the highlight of my day.
Don
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| 2083.69 | I second that motion | OTOOA::MOWBRAY | This isn't a job its an Adventure | Thu Jan 27 1994 07:51 | 5 |
| I second the thanks for the reports and results, I have a small
"telephone-net" of friends that I call after I have read the results
and give them
a synopsis. They look forward to the calls and send their thanks as
well.
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| 2083.70 | | USDEV::OLSALT::DARROW | Boat's in the shop, RV aint ready ...... | Thu Jan 27 1994 15:28 | 0 |
| 2083.71 | More Tkanks! | USDEV::OLSALT::DARROW | Boat's in the shop, RV aint ready ...... | Thu Jan 27 1994 15:38 | 6 |
| I have been printing these reports and my wife takes them to work to share
with a number of fellow workers, both sailors and non sailors, and we both
thank you.
I sure would like to see Heineken [Dawn Riley, USA] do even better on the
remaining legs.
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| 2083.72 | Protest Verdicts | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Fri Jan 28 1994 01:36 | 98 |
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January 27, 1994. Auckland stopover. Press Bulletin No.123
WINSTON LOSES ONE AND WINS ONE
The International Jury, chaired by Staveley Roberts, has reduced
the time awarded to Winston [Dennis Conner/Brad Butterworth, US]
for her role in the Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] Leg 2
rescue. It also dismissed the Tokio [Chris Dickson, JPN]
protest against Winston for allegedly using mast fittings
constructed from a higher tensile steel than allowed under the
Whitbread 60 Rule.
The International Jury has reduced the time awarded to Winston
for the second leg by four hours, following submissions from
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], Intrum
Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] and Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]
that a significant error had been made by the original jury
"primarily concerning itself with a period during which Winston
was fulfilling her obligations under Fundamental Rule A by not
giving sufficient consideration to the events which occurred
after she recommenced racing."
Winston has now dropped to third place for the second leg,
behind Tokio and Intrum Justitia, but ahead of Yamaha and
Galicia. In overall standings, Yamaha has moved up to second
place behind Tokio, and Winston has dropped to third. Winston,
Yamaha. Galicia 93 Pescanova and Intrum Justitia have all
described the decision as "disappointing."
Brad Butterworth, who is recovering from an operation on his
gall bladder, says that he will be considering further action
tomorrow. "We are disappointed that the decision was turned
against us. We are going to go home tonight and look at the
rules they used to turn it around. We are not going to make it
easy for them."
Galicia's navigator, Juan Vila, said that on the positive side
Winston had been awarded less time than before but it was still
not enough. "In a normal situation, if he hadn't gone to the
rescue, he would not have passed us. We still feel prejudiced,
but it is better than nothing."
"The Jury was in a no-win situation," said Russell Green, a
spokesman for Intrum Justitia. "Whatever they decided, people
would be unhappy. A fair decision would have been close to or
just behind Galicia." Yamaha maintains that six hours should
have been taken from Winston's awarded time.
The Jury noted that from the point where Winston recommenced
racing she gained an advantage over the other yachts ahead of
her which may be attributed to her own tactical decisions,
changes in weather patterns and her prior position west of the
other yachts. It also stated: "Some allowance must be made for
the different weather conditions encountered by Winston in the
remaining days of her race and that an equitable allowance,
required under IYRR 74.2.c, must take into account the effect of
any adjustment on the finishing places of all the yachts
concerned."
On the issue of Tokio's protest against Winston's mast fittings
the jury referred the matter to the Chief Measurer of the
Whitbread 60 Rule, John Warren. He found that he was "satisfied
that the Whitbread 60 Rule and Interpretations have not been
infringed by the yacht Winston by the use of high tensile
stainless steel fittings on the mast. Finally I am of the
opinion that no material advantage has been gained by the yacht
through the use of these components.
MERIT CUP'S KEEL DAMAGED
Merit Cup is now on the dry dock following the discovery by
diver, Rudi Guerrini, that a large section of the casing around
the fin had broken away. Project Manager Hans Bernhard said
that cracks had probably developed in the fin and the pressure
of the water flow had torn half a square meter of the casing
away. The metal structure that supports the keel bulb is now
clearly visible.
"To repair this is going to be extremely complicated," said
skipper Pierre Fehlmann. "You cannot simply patch the place!
Most likely we will have to entirely rebuild the fin section of
the keel.. My only luck is that this happened to her in
Auckland where one can find appropriate logistics and technical
support. Nevertheless, the timing will be extremely tight to be
ready for the start in three week's time."
For more information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel+64-9-309 8440
Fax+64-9-388 6647 Mobile 025-728 531 or Heather Dallas at Race
HQ on Tel+44-489-799 000 Fax+44-489 790 153 Mobile 0850 772060
Photographs are available and can be wired directly back from
PPL, Tel+44-903 730 614 Fax+44-903-730 618 or in New Zealand on
Tel+64-9-309 8055 Fax+64-9-309 8434 contact Mark Pepper.
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| 2083.73 | leg4 - day2 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Feb 23 1994 20:29 | 71 |
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February 21, 1994. Leg 4, Day 2. Press Bulletin No. 142
INTRUM JUSTITIA AND TOKIO TAKE AN EARLY LEAD
In near gale force conditions of 33 knot NNW winds and very rough and wet
weather the European Whitbread 60, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith] and
Chris Dickson's Tokio [NZ/JPN] have opened up a useful lead only 38 hours
after the start of the 5,914 mile Leg 4 of the Whitbread Round the World
Race for the Heineken Trophy.
With the winds helping to push the fleet south, away from New Zealand and
into the wastes of the Southern Ocean, the BT Race Results System at 1400
GMT today put Smith ahead with 5,287 miles to go. In the 24 hours between
1400-1400 GMT 20/21 February, Intrum Justitia covered 410 miles [the
record so far on this Race was set by Smith on Leg 2 when he won the Omega
24 Hour Challenge for covering 425 miles in a 24 hour period.]
Tokio is 7 miles behind Intrum and the third W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] is 12 miles adrift of the leader. Eight miles
behind Galicia is Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]. These four W60s have left
the rest of the 14-yacht fleet behind them. In the W60 class, Winston
[Brad Butterworth, US] is lying fifth, 34 miles behind Intrum
Justitia, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] sixth, the all-women crew on
Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] seventh, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB]
eighth, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] ninth and Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR] bringing up the rear some 157 miles behind the leader.
In the Maxi division, overall leader New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton,
NZ] is 19 miles behind Intrum Justitia. 10 miles further back is La Poste
[Eric Tabarly, FRA], Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is six miles behind
La Poste and Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vancini, URU] is fourth, 117 miles
behind Dalton.
The fleet is due to pass the remote Chatham Island sometime within the
next 12 hours and from there they will see no further land until they have
braved the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties, where they face the
danger of icebergs, before heading back north towards the notorious Cape
Horn.
Smith has more than made up for his false start on Sunday. He was one of
the first yachts to recover and went into the lead between 0200 - 0800 GMT
today, recording an average speed of 18 knots. Of the other five yachts
to obey the recall after being over the line at the start [eight jumped
the gun altogether], Yamaha and Winston have made good progress and have
overtaken both Heineken and Brooksfield who did not turn back, for which
they incurred a 17 minute time penalty.
Heineken had a traumatic beginning to Leg 4 when, shortly after the start,
the 26 year old sailmaker, Leah Newbold, suffered a badly gashed hand. As
she put tension on the pulley system attached to the runner a wave knocked
her over and the pulley went straight through her hand. "As I was holding
on with the other hand I couldn't do anything about the clip as there was
heaps of water putting pressure on it" explained Leah. "I guessed the
damage was quite serious. The clip entered between my thumb and finger
and out through the other side below my thumb. Marleen Cleyndert and Sue
Crafer took me below and had to put 17 stitches into the gash which was
about an inch long." Leah's hand is now heavily strapped and she is
confined to working below for the time being.
The weather forecast predicts lighter weather within the next few days and
Yamaha skipper Ross Field said: "A forecast of lighter weather could mean
a split in the fleet with some of the boats standing east while others
dive south as fast as they can."
For further information please contact:
Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, or Heather Dallas at the
Race HQ on Tel+44-489-799 000 Fax+44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available and can be wired back directly from
PPL on Tel+44-903 730 614 Fax+44-903 730 618.
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| 2083.74 | Leg 4 - Day 4 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Feb 23 1994 21:50 | 79 |
|
February 23, 1994. Press Bulletin No. 144
FAST PROGRESS TOWARDS THE HORN
The Whitbread fleet is making fast progress towards their next landmark,
Cape Horn, and the pace is predicted to increase tomorrow. Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR] still leads the fleet, but is coming under pressure
from Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] who is 12 miles behind but averaging
one knot faster. Sixty-one miles behind Intrum Justitia is the leader of
the Maxi class New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ].
Intrum Justitia is 3,160 miles from Cape Horn and if she maintains her
current speed could round a week earlier than expected ie in eight days
time. This year there has not been the traditionally slow start to the leg
and the yachts got into Southern Ocean speeds from the first day. Tomorrow
the wind is expected to swing to the west and to take advantage of this
the yachts have already started to steer a more easterly course.
There is no change in the W60 positions, however, Tokio has opened up
another 10 miles on the third W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP]. Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] is still 11 miles behind
Galicia after overcoming a hitting a shark with the keel. The shark then
got caught in the rudder.
"It took us about 30 minutes to get underway again because we had to drop
the sails and bring the boat to a stop," said Field. "Eventually we had to
back up to get the shark off the rudder so we were relieved to finally see
it float out the back." Field said he estimated Yamaha lost five miles
during the manoeuvre. "We certainly know we are back in the Southern
Ocean. We have now dropped below Stewart Island at the southern tip of New
Zealand and we won't see land again for at least a couple of weeks. We are
back into the relentless pattern of six hour position reports and
constantly planning our next moves."
Winston was able to take advantage of Yamaha's pause by gaining eight
miles on her and is now 19 miles behind her. Brooksfield [Guido Maisto,
ITA] has lost speed and distance overnight and is now 35 miles further
back from Winston. Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] has gained 12
miles on Brooksfield and 30 miles on the all-women team on Heineken [Dawn
Riley, US] having overcome their problems with the mainsail which ripped
two days ago. The young sailors spent 16 hours stitching up a three-metre
gash. Humphries said today in a clip sent via the BT Yacht Video System
that he was pleased that the repair had lasted so well and he was looking
forward to a good leg.
In the Maxi division Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has now overtaken La
Poste [Daniel Malle, FRA] and is 12 miles ahead of her. Merit Cup has not
been able to make a dent on New Zealand Endeavour's lead despite Dalton's
Maxi being handicapped by a plastic bag wrapped around the keel. Bowman
Sean Clarkson [24, NZ] had to take a midnight swim to remove it.
"There was only one thing for it," said Dalton. "We turned into the wind
and dropped the sails, Sean put on a dry suit and went swimming. The very
big plastic bag was wrapped right around the keel. It took only a few
minutes to cut it away and get Sean back on board but it would have cost
us a precious two miles."
Merit Cup has chosen a more northerly route than his Kiwi rival. "I'd
rather stay somewhat closer to the Great Circle Route," said Fehlmann.
"According to Meteo France, we should avoid to be south of 52 degrees in
48 hours, as they forecast light winds there and even headwinds south of
56 degrees. Anyway I have nothing to gain by following the same route as
New Zealand Endeavour. I must try different options but this is a very
tricky business because we all receive the same weather data and Dalton's
navigator is a top weather analyst. So, one has to be daring if he intends
to succeed doesn't he?" Fehlmann has a slight handicap as his electronics
expert Dede Loepfe [32, SUI] is suffering from the flu and cannot stand
duty. In the close confines of the racing yacht the danger of other crew
members coming down with the flu is very real.
The two underfunded Ukrainian W60s Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon] and
Odessa [Anatoly Verba] bring up the rear of the W60 fleet and Uruguay
Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] is the last Maxi. Vanzini reports 27 knots
of WNW wind, 17 degrees air temperature and good visibility.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer
or Heather Dallas at Race HQ on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
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| 2083.75 | Leg day 8 | GVPROD::MAX333::wenger | Max Wenger @GEO | Tue Mar 01 1994 10:07 | 61 |
| 13196, 15:20 GMT, 27 Feb 1994
February 27, 1994. Leg 4, Day 8, Press Bulletin No. 148
MAXIS COME INTO THEIR OWN IN SOUTHERN OCEAN
The Maxis New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI] continue to lead the fleet as they enjoy conditions
tailor-made for their ketch rigs. In light to medium reaching conditions
the Maxis can carry up to five sails, almost twice the sail area of the
smaller W60 class. The third Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] reported
20 knots of wind from the north-west at 11:30 GMT.
The southern option is continuing to pay for the European Whitbread 60
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] who is leading the W60 fleet by seven
miles. Smith could further widen the gap if he gets the stronger
westerlies promised by Meteo France. For his more northern rivals, Winston
[Brad Butterworth, US], Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP]
and Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN], the prediction is for 15-knot
northerlies.
In terms of distance to finish the BT Race Results System puts Intrum
Justitia only seven miles ahead of Winston while more than 240 miles
separates them on a north-south axis. The danger for Smith is that being
so much further south than the other W60s he may end up on the wrong side
of a low pressure system and have to beat to Cape Horn while his rivals
have a fast downwind ride.
Winston meanwhile has a more comfortable lead of 37 miles over Galicia 93
Pescanova and 48 miles over the overall race leader Tokio. Chris Dickson
can afford to play this leg conservatively as he has a 17hr, 40min lead
over the next W60 Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]. Yamaha has not yet
recovered from tacking north when she ran into light winds two days ago
and she is some 60 miles behind Tokio. La Poste also lost out in the same
light patch and went from being on the heels of Merit Cup and New Zealand
Endeavour to 120 miles behind.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] lost a position to Yamaha but is
still in touch. "We have been in sight of Yamaha for most of the day,"
said Humphries. "The repair in the mainsail is holding again for the
moment and Colin Richardson is getting better after part of the winch hit
him in the face."
The all-woman crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] is continuing to hold off
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] who is now suffering from having taken a
much more northerly route. Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] is also
further to the north and 44 miles in front of the 10th W60 Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR].
Verba reported that his crew was buoyed by news of Ukraine's gold medal in
the Olympic figure skating and sent a special message to Oksana Bauil.
"Our warmest congratulations from the cold of the Southern Ocean for your
great victory in winning an Olympic Gold Medal." Verba reported that his
W60 is being tossed around like a baby's toy in a washing machine. Unlike
his rivals 300 miles ahead Odessa has 30-35 knots of wind, gusting to
40-45.
Five miles in front of Odessa, the fourth Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU] reported that the fast sailing had taken its toll on the
boat. "Sailing in 35 knots with a boat speed near 15-20 we developed a
crack in the boom near the mast," said Vanzini. "Part of the crew is
working to solve the problem while we sail under reduced sail area.
Everything should be fixed in a few hours."
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer or
Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
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| 2083.76 | Leg 4, day 13 | GVPROD::WENGER | Max Wenger @GEO | Fri Mar 04 1994 17:13 | 76 |
| 13204, 15:45 GMT, 04 Mar 1994
March 4, 1994. Leg 4, Day 13, Press Bulletin No. 153
GALICIA 93 PESCANOVA TAKES THE LEAD
Situation stable on Dolphin & Youth
The Spanish W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova, skippered by Javier de la
Gandara, has jumped into the lead of the fourth leg of the
Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy. The BT
Race Results System gives yesterday's leader Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] the same distance to finish, but Galicia 93
Pescanova has an average speed two knots faster than Tokio.
However, Galicia's lead may be short-lived as arch-rival Intrum
Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], 82 miles to the north and three
miles behind Galicia in terms of distance to finish, is in a
more favourable weather pattern and is screaming along at 14 knots.
The leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is
bemoaning the constantly changing weather conditions in the
Southern Ocean. "Two days ago we were enjoying a following
breeze of 20-25 knots - ideal conditions for maxis. We were
hoping that they would last for a couple of days at least," said
Dalton. "Of course they didn't. Now its blowing like crazy and
we are hard on the wind. Sooner or later we've got to have a
decent spell of weather that's ideal for us." Dalton reports
that conditions are hard on both crew and boat as she falls off
some nasty waves and the crew is wearing full face masks as
protection against the freezing spray.
The fleet has now split into three groups with New Zealand
Endeavour, Intrum Justitia, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], Winston
[Brad Butterworth, US], Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB]
and Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] in the middle group with Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI], La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] and
Brooksfield to the north. Tokio and Galicia 93 Pescanova are the
most southern boats at 60 degrees south.
Winston has made a big gain overnight, taking 50 miles out of
the fourth W60 Yamaha, but at the same time Yamaha has lost some
50 miles to the leaders. Winston's new recruit Godfrey Cray
reported this morning that Winston had 30 knots from the north
and the sea state was rough. "The fleet continues to battle on
in the grips of an extremely deep and complex low pressure
system. Most of the fleet is experiencing the light and
changeable conditions at its very centre. Now on the north-east
side we are starting to feel its full effects," reported Cray.
"We are reaching with double-reefed main and number two jib top."
Fifty-one miles behind Winston, Dolphin & Youth reports that she has much
milder conditions with 8-knots wind from the north-west. The problem with
the keel has remained stable and the boat is continuing to sail towards
Cape Horn. In the last six hours Dolphin & Youth has averaged eight knots.
Heineken, who is 95 miles due west of Dolphin & Youth, has made
a gain of 54 miles on the seventh W60 Brooksfield following a
morning of constant sail changes. "Our heavy no. 1 [spinnaker],
no. 3, jibtop and every reef in the main have seen the rain
today. We are now back to beating in 20 knots with a heavy one
up and rain squalls coming through. It is definitely warmer with
wind out of the northerly quadrant."
Two hundred and thirty miles behind Heineken, Eugene Platon skipper of
Hetman Sahaidachny described the Southern Ocean as a freezing washing
machine. "It is environmentally friendly as it does not use electricity or
detergent. Another incredible feature is that it can wash from your
underwear to your oilskins - while you wear them!" joked Platon. "The
heavy duty cycle is set with a 30 degree wind angle and continuous rinse.
This has proved unpopular. We are now using the normal cycle, with is set
at 60 degrees wind angle with rinsing every three waves and lasts four
hours. The only problem is the dry cycle is still 10 days away."
The leading yachts are expected to round Cape Horn on Sunday afternoon
European time. However their progress may be painful as strong headwinds
are forecast. The first yachts are expected in Punta on March 11.
res
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| 2083.77 | First 6 boats round Cape Horn | GVPROD::WENGER | Max Wenger @GEO | Mon Mar 07 1994 12:07 | 60 |
| 13210, 10:07 GMT, 07 Mar 1994
March 6th, Leg 4, Day 15, Press Bulletin No. 155
UPDATED AT 1000GMT MARCH 07 [Next update at 1600GMT]
FIRST SIX BOATS AROUND CAPE HORN
The first six boats in the Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken
Trophy fleet have rounded the infamous Cape Horn. The European Whitbread
60 Intrum Justitia, skippered by Briton Lawrie Smith, was the first
around, followed closely by the Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton,
NZ]. The next two W60s, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] rounded neck and neck. Yamaha has made remarkable
progress in the last 48 hours, moving from a distant fourth to second.
Intrum Justitia is reported to have "flown" around the Horn with a 30-knot
north-westerly while her rivals that stayed further offshore were thrown
around in big seas. Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and
Maxi Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] were the next boats to round. La
Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] is the next boat due to round this morning.
Hours before rounding the Horn Smith said: "It's been pretty miserable
out here the last few days - close reaching in choppy, wet and
bouncy conditions. The racing has been really exciting and
we've been struggling to push the boat as fast as possible,
which seems to have paid off at last. But it's not easy when
the boat's jumping around like this. You can't sleep and
walking on deck is almost impossible."
Conditions comprised typical Cape Horn weather with overcast skies and
winds from the north west of 30-35 knots. Navigator Marcel van Triest
said the crew was enjoying the race: "We're now power reaching in 30 knots
plus of north north-westerly," he said, "but despite being wet and
exhausted, everyone's in extremely high spirits - it's almost like we've
been at battle for two weeks, but we can now see the end in
sight and feel we've nearly won the war. For the past week
we've been in very choppy seas, sailing very narrow angles, so
we're all looking forward to heading north again."
Smith regained the lead he had last held on March 2nd by
sacrificing miles and heading north in order to benefit from the
predicted north westerlies. These tactics worked to huge
advantage and he was back in the lead by 0200 GMT on Saturday,
5th March.
The fifth and sixth W60s, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] and Brooksfield
[Guido Maisto, ITA] are due to round the Horn this morning. The
British entry Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries] is continuing
to make good progress in spite of keel problems. She is expected to round
the Horn tonight.
The all women's W60, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] is expected to round on
Tuesday while the two Ukrainian W60s, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon,
UKR] and Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR], plus the Uruguayan maxi, Uruguay
Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU], continue to be the back markers.
For further information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press Officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489 799 000 Fax+44-489 790 153.
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| 13215, 14:54 GMT, 09 Mar 1994
March 9, 1994. Leg 4, Day 18. Press Bulletin No.158
INTRUM JUSTITIA POWERING TOWARDS FINISH
The European Whitbread 60, Intrum Justitia, [Lawrie Smith, EUR]
has extended her lead on Leg 4 of the Whitbread Round the World
Race for the Heineken Trophy, as the countdown to the finish at
Punta del Este, Uruguay, begins.
At the 1400 GMT position report today, the BT Race Results
System gave Intrum 650 miles to go to the finish with an
estimated arrival time of 1830 GMT on Friday, March 11th.
Intrum, which averaged 9.7 knots between 0800-1400 GMT today has
a 91 mile lead over the next W60, Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN],
averaging 9.1 knots, and should present speeds be maintained
Intrum could wipe around eight hours off Tokio's overall lead of
18 hours. Intrum Justitia is also on course to break the record
for this leg of 22 days, 20 minutes, set by Steinlager 2 in the
1989/90 Race.
Lawrie Smith reported: "We've made really good progress in the
past 24 hours, focusing mainly on the currents. We're now going
with 1.6 - 1.7 knots of Falkland current, but if we edged
further east we'd get into the Brazilian current, which would be
against us - so it's a tricky patch of water but, so far, we
have managed to stay in the strongest stream, giving us the
advantage over the others."
According to Navigator Marcel van Triest, the next 24 hours will
be vital for the overall result of Leg 4. He says that although
it is hard to predict conditions in the transition area of the
Southern Ocean and the Atlantic, he intends to stick with the
low pressure system forming off the coast of Argentina. The
leading yachts are currently going through an area of low
pressure with it's consequent slack gradients and variable
winds. The forecast is for the wind to veer gradually until it
heads the fleet on Friday afternoon at a strength of 10 knots.
A tremendous battle is going on for second place among the W60s
since the leading yachts rounded Cape Horn. Tokio is only three
miles ahead of Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] which, in turn, is
six miles in front of Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP]. These three W60s have been match racing up the
coast of Argentina although weed around Yamaha's keel slowed her
up for a while overnight. Ross Field reported: "Tokio sailed
around us in patchy wind conditions last night and then a whole
bunch of weed wrapped itself around the keel, putting us further
behind. It's all on now though" added Field, "we're reaching in
a north westerly of 25 knots and we've got Dicko in our sights."
Yamaha is currently lying in second place to Tokio on combined
times after the first three legs and Field continued: "If the
weather forecast is to be believed, it looks like it will be a
procession into Punta. But we've still got 744 miles and about
two days to go so we'll be fighting all the way. At this stage,
our primary aim is to just get past Tokio." Reviewing the
fourth leg so far Field said that the Southern Ocean had been
tactically hard but physically not so hard. "We had a lot of
light winds on the nose which is not what the tourist brochures
say normally happens" he quipped.
The US W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth] is holding on to fifth
position, 196 miles astern of Intrum Justitia and Brooksfield
[Guido Maisto, ITA] is 35 miles further back. Sole British
entry, Dolphin & Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] is maintaining
seventh position, 134 miles behind Brooksfield and problems with
her keel remain stable. Regarding their ripped mainsail,
Humphries reports today that in place of the mainsail they have
hoisted a genoa which is working well. He also said that as
they are moving into calmer waters the waves are becoming a lot
smaller than they were 12 hours ago. They are, however, only
averaging 5.9 knots.
Catching up Dolphin fast and now only 10 miles behind is the
all-women challenge, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]. Riley says they
have been experiencing strong westerlies of up to 30 knots and
says of her rudder problem: "The bottom half snapped off some
time last week when we were sailing in 40 to 50 knots. It
makes steering the boat very tricky and we are not going to push
her dead downwind with a spinnaker because of the danger of
rounding down and breaking something. Conditions have been
pretty treacherous over the past 12 hours. We've had gusts of up
to 60 knots and mountainous seas. At the moment our rudder is
under control but causing us to broach on several occasions."
The ninth W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] rounded
Cape Horn this morning. Platon commented: "We pased the Horn in
very strong winds of 55-60 knots. The crew had the traditional
Ukrainian vodka as well as some Kiwi rum. As we are an
international team different traditions and cultures interfere
and permeate the atmosphere." Only two of the 14 yachts are
left to pass Cape Horn - the 10th W60 Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] and the fourth maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini,
URU].
Still maintaining the lead in the maxi class is Grant Dalton's
New Zealand Endeavour [NZ], lying second in the water, 56 miles
astern of Intrum Justitia. 70 miles separate Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI] and the French maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA],
Merit Cup being 56 miles astern of New Zealand Endeavour.
For further information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press Officer or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489-799 000 Fax+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614
Fax+44-903 730-618.
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| 2083.79 | Light winds towards finish of leg 4 .. | GVPROD::WENGER | Max Wenger @GEO | Thu Mar 10 1994 16:32 | 120 |
| 2083.80 | First 7 boats finished leg 4 ! | GVPROD::MAX333::wenger | Max Wenger @GEO | Mon Mar 14 1994 08:04 | 117 |
| 2083.81 | | LARVAE::CSOONE::BARKER | | Fri Mar 18 1994 06:48 | 7 |
| It has been announced that the next Whitbread race will be raced in W60 yachts
only. This means the end of the IOR class which has been the mainstay of the
event since the first race in 1973. There was some hope that there might be
a new larger Whitbread 80 or even 90 class, but that appears to have been
sidelined for now.
Chris
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| 2083.82 | W60 Skippers in Club Race | BELFST::HARRINGTON | BuckyBall, The C-60 Fullerene. | Tue Mar 29 1994 11:33 | 7 |
| I cought the end of a report the other night, that stated the W60
skippers where enterring a race while in NZ. Did anyone see this, or
get more details? I would be interested to hear how they farred against
the top club players.
Regards,
John
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RACE NEWS - Date: 23 Mar 1994; Time: 15:51 GMT;
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March 23, 1994. Punta del Este Stopover, Press Bulletin No. 17
SOME OF LA POSTE CREW DETAINED
Four people associated with La Poste's entry in the Whitbread
Round the World Race have been charged with offences arising
out of an incident in which an alleged burglar was detained
and assaulted.
A statement issued by Police Headquarters in Maldonado, said
that the duty judge has charged the crew members Patrick Deloffe
[35, FRA] and Florent Rupert [26, FRA] with deprivation of
liberty and assault and shore crew Yves Kernaleguen [40, FRA]
and Pascal Lassus [29, FRA] with deprivation of liberty. Two
other shore crew were released without charge. The four that
have been detained are now awaiting a court hearing. As yet, a
date has not been set for the hearing.
According to the Police press statement the crew had been
arrested following "notification at approximately 2200 on the
day of the 20th, to the Tenth Section of the Police, that there
was a person tied up; this fact was verified in situ, and that
this person's initials are R.C.D.L.H., a Uruguayan, aged 23
who, when about to commit burglary was surprised by the
inhabitants of the building." Under Uruguayan law, first
offenders are only identified by their initials. The statement
continued: "The Uruguayan citizen was charged without
imprisonment with the crime of Attempted Burglary."
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer on +598-42-99510, Mobile +598-9-441 411, Fax +598-42-99
547 or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
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Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 30 Mar 1994; Time: 15:29 GMT;
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March 30, 1994. Punta del Este Stopover, Press Bulletin. No. 179
GETTING READY TO GO
BT IN NEW CHALLENGE
Chris Dickson, the skipper of the leading Whitbread 60 Tokio, arrived in
Punta del Este, Uruguay this morning ready to "sail his own race." The
5,475-mile leg to Fort Lauderdale, USA starts on Saturday and Dickson said
he is confident he will be able to repeat earlier Heineken Trophy
victories. While he acknowledged that second-placed, Intrum Justitia,
skippered by Briton Lawrie Smith, will be aiming to win this and the
subsequent leg, he was confident that he could hold on to claim the
overall Heineken Trophy. "We have a 14-hr lead which is comfortable," said
Dickson. "Intrum shouldn't worry about us, because we will beat them. They
should worry about Yamaha." Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], the third W60, is
three and a half hours behind Intrum Justitia.
Dickson said he was looking forward to the next leg. "It's a warm weather
leg in warm water which will make it more bearable. We will still have
three weeks of racing, 24 hours a day, but while we will still be battling
the other competitors we won't be battling the elements as well." Tokio
will sail with a new watch leader, Gunnar Krantz [36, SWE] who is
replacing Peter Heck [USA]. Krantz sailed the first three legs on Intrum
Justitia.
Intrum Justitia, meanwhile, will sail the fifth leg with only 10 crew.
Markus Mustelin [33, FIN] and onboard cameraman Rick Tomlinson [36, GB]
will stand down for this leg and rejoin the European W60 in Fort
Lauderdale. "We expect light airs and moderate conditions on this leg up
to Fort Lauderdale and we need to keep weight to a minimum. We don't need
as much man-power in these conditions and two less guys means less food
and gear, which in turn means less weight. Markus and Rick are on opposite
watches and are both happy to step down for this leg."
Britain's only entry in the Whitbread, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,
GB], also has a change of crew due to injury. Spike Ramsden [29, USA] has
returned to the UK to recover from a head injury sustained in Punta del
Este and will be replaced for this leg by Brendan Darrer [22, IRL].
Dolphin & Youth went sailing for the first time today following repairs to
her loose keel. The keel attachment has been strengthened by adding eight
new keel bolts, bringing the total number of vertical bolts to 10, and all
the flange bolts have been replaced. "The lads have worked around the
clock to get us back to where we are today," said Humphries. He said he
was looking forward to the next leg.
"I was hoping we would have had the Reebok-sponsored Dolphin & Youth up to
seventh place overall when we arrived here, ahead of the girls on Heineken
and in a strong position to attack Brooksfield's place over the remaining
two legs. As it happens, we are in eighth place some 48 hours behind
Heineken and 889 hours behind Brooksfield," said Humphries. "Therefore, we
have nothing to lose by venturing away from the pack and going on a
calculated flyer. Lawrie Smith did a similar thing with Rothmans four
years ago and at one point was 100 miles ahead of Steinlager 2."
The crew of La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] is continuing to prepare the Maxi
for the fifth leg pending a decision from the French Post Office as to
whether the boat will continue. Four crew members are still being held in
Uruguay.
BT'S NEW CHALLENGE
"BT has recently announced that it is to become the title sponsor of what
has hitherto been known as The British Steel Challenge. While the
Whitbread Round The World Race regret that this will end an eight year
association between BT and the Race which has been of great benefit to
both parties, we fully understand BT's desire to emulate Whitbread as the
title sponsor of an event.
"This possible eventuality was foreseen some time ago and while it is not
possible at present to be specific about the Race Results system which
will be used for the next Whitbread, we have the right to continue to use
the existing very effective system.
"The other major contribution made by BT to this Whitbread is providing
the facility to transmit video from yachts at sea, we perceive this as
having contributed substantially to the TV coverage achieved during this
Race and we will continue to provide this service for the next Whitbread,
using an alternative system, further enhancing the volume of coverage
from the boats at sea," said Ian Bailey-Willmot, Race Director.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer on
+598-42-99510, Mobile +598-9-441 411, Fax +598-42-99 547 or Heather
Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL.Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730 618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 01 Apr 1994; Time: 15:40 GMT;
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April 1, 1994. Punta del Este Stopover, Press Bulletin. No. 181
LA POSTE TO CONTINUE THE RACE
FLEET READY TO GO
The French maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] is to continue
with the Whitbread Round the World Race for the Heineken Trophy
in spite of two of her crew, and two shore crew remaining in
jail following an incident in Uruguay last week.
A Statement issued today says that after a lot of thought
the management and crew of La Poste had decided to start Leg 5
in Punta del Este tomorrow [Saturday] and the four crew members
in jail would also prefer to see the boat carry on the race. La
Poste will sail with 11 crew and even though this represents a
handicap they wish to show team solidarity. M. Rene Limat, Deputy
Director of La Poste [the French Post Office] said: "The help we
received from the Whitbread Race Organisers was extremely positive and
played an important part in helping us to come to this decision."
The La Poste managament is doing everything it can to support the four
crew in jail, and the crew on board tomorrow will be starting
with even more determination and particularly strong motivation
to do well for their friends.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Whitbread fleet is ready for
tomorrow's start tomorrow at 1200 local time [1500GMT, 1600BST]
of the 5,475 mile leg 5 to Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. The start
gun will be fired from the Frigate Montevideo and the yachts
will head to the south-west to round a Heineken buoy off Punta
Ballena before returning to round a buoy off the point and start
their long trek up the South American coast. If the start is as
competitive as in Auckland and boats are over the line,they will
either have to return or incur a 10 minute penalty plus one
minute for every second they are over.
Weather forecasters are predicting light northerlies and
sunshine for the start, meaning a reach to the first buoys, then
a beat for most of the first day. The Whitbread 60s with their
water ballast should perform well. Although if the wind frees,
the Maxis will be able to take advantage of their huge sail area
and pull away. The W60s will have their masthead spinnakers,
which were banned for the Southern Ocean legs, for this leg.
"This leg will be all about who makes the least mistakes and who
is first out of the Doldrums," said Intrum Justitia's navigator
Marcel van Triest. "The most interesting parts of the leg will
be the first day and a half in the approach to Cabo Freo, then
the approach to Recife which is almost the most north-easterly
point of Brazil and finally the way though the doldrums. After
the Doldrums there will be very few oportunities to do anything,
so whoever is first through is likely to hold that lead until
the finish."
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
The Whitbread 60 Class Association has announced an
international series of regattas for the Whitbread 60 Class
starting with a regatta in Cowes, UK from July 8-10. The regatta
will comprise three races including a Round the Island Race and
be supported by participants and Press hospitality functions.
The Royal Yacht Squadron will officially host the event in
conjunction with the Whitbread 60 Class Association.
"The announcement of the Challenge Series is excellent news and
we are thoroughly supportive of its establishment," said Race Director
Ian Bailey-Willmot. "The Cowes Regatta, the first of many such Whitbread
60 events, has the potential of being a great showcase for this new,
extremely fast class of offshore racing keelboat."
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer on +598-42-99510, Mobile +598-9-441 411, Fax +598-42-99
547 or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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April 2, 1994. Punta del Este Stopover, Press Bulletin. No. 182
BOATSPEED KEY TO SUCCESS ON FIFTH LEG
Chris Dickson, skipper of the leading Whitbread 60 Tokio
[NZ/JPN] said that he will not be sailing conservatively to
preserve his 14-hour lead over the second W60 Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR]. "We will be sailing our own race while
keeping an eye on Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and Intrum
Justitia," said Dickson. "We will be on the attack rather than
defence."
Dickson said that he was confident that pre-race preparation
would pay off on this leg. "We did a lot of testing in lighter
conditions with masthead spinnakers and we are comfortable that
we know our boat - how to use the water ballast and the sails -
in these conditions," said Dickson.
Smith is emphatically on the attack. He has reduced his 12-man
crew to 10 people for this leg to save weight and will not be
taking a spare spinnaker pole, boom repair kit, or any other
heavy equipment. He estimates he has saved over 300kg in this
way. "I am told that the design bias of the boat was for the
lighter conditions, but with the cockpit so far aft, we have a
problem taking the weight out of the stern, maybe we should have
done more of that before," said Smith. "It is pretty hard to
beat Chris anyway, but with a 14-hr deficit it will be even
harder."
Grant Dalton, skipper of the leading Maxi, New Zealand Endeavour
will not be drawn on whether this leg will favour the Maxis or
the W60s. "It depends on the wind strength - if it is lighter
then it will be the Maxis, if it is heavier then the W60s will
do well," said Dalton. He said he saw this leg as essentially
straightforward. "There aren't as many options as in the
Southern Ocean. There is an inshore or an offshore option. Last
time it was expensive to go offshore and it will all depend on
the weather when we get to Rio. The quickest boat to Recife will
get there [the finish] the quickest."
Brad Butterworth, skipper of Winston [US], said that he was
still looking for good results on the remaining two legs, even
though Winston was out of the running for overall victory. "We
are motivated to win a leg and there is no real difference on
this leg," said Butterworth. "Anything could happen and we could
get time back."
American skipper Dawn Riley said she was looking forward to
taking Heineken back into American waters. "Arriving in Fort
Lauderdale will be very special as we have four Americans on
board and it is going to be good sailing in more comfortable
conditions," said Riley. While she said she was not expecting to
win this leg, the boat was in good shape. "We are improving all
the time, the crew has really come together and we will be
trying to beat one boat at a time."
One of Heineken's principal rivals, Britain's sole entry Dolphin
& Youth [Matthew Humphries] is hoping for an uneventful leg. "It
would be nice to do a leg without major gear failure," said
Humphries. "We feel like we are going home and some of the
tension is off."
After the icebergs and whales of the Southern Ocean legs, the
hazards of the fifth leg are a little more prosaic. At the
skipper's briefing yesterday, the Race Director, Ian
Bailey-Willmot warned the Whitbread fleet to keep a weather eye
out for pirates and drug smugglers when sailing past the
Caribbean Islands and on the approach to Florida. He also
reminded the yachts to keep their navigation lights on at all
times, to avoid the risk of the US Coastguard mistaking them for
drug smugglers. "It could ruin your race if they stop you," he
warned.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer on +598-42-99510, Mobile +598-9-441 411, Fax +598-42-99
547 or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax
+44-903-730 618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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Race Leg 5 - Punta del Este to Fort Lauderdale
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 New Zealand Ende|M|02 APR 18:53|34 53.34S|054 42.17W|073|06.6|5367|05.8
02 La Poste |M|02 APR 18:53|34 52.85S|054 42.51W|067|06.6|5367|05.8
03 Tokio |W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.53S|054 42.67W|069|07.1|5367|05.8
04 Merit Cup |M|02 APR 18:56|34 53.23S|054 42.03W|082|05.9|5367|05.7
05 Winston |W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.45S|054 42.87W|080|04.9|5368|05.5
06 Yamaha |W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.49S|054 42.88W|074|06.7|5368|05.5
07 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.57S|054 42.86W|080|06.0|5368|05.5
08 Heineken |W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.20S|054 43.53W|061|07.3|5368|05.5
09 Brooksfield |W|02 APR 18:53|34 53.06S|054 43.70W|062|07.3|5368|05.5
10 Intrum Justitia |W|02 APR 18:55|34 53.69S|054 43.07W|076|06.2|5368|05.4
11 Dolphin & Youth |W|02 APR 18:56|34 54.61S|054 44.77W|071|06.2|5369|05.2
12 Uruguay Natural |M|02 APR 18:53|34 55.35S|054 47.50W|068|06.8|5372|04.5
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|02 APR 18:57|34 58.25S|054 59.03W|134|02.0|5382|01.9
14 Odessa |W|02 APR 18:57|34 57.97S|054 59.29W|133|01.9|5382|01.9
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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Acknowledgement
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RACE NEWS - Date: 02 Apr 1994; Time: 19:25 GMT;
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April 2, 1994. Leg 5, Day 1. Press Bulletin. No. 183
SLOW START TO FIFTH LEG OF THE WHITBREAD
The Whitbread fleet had a slow start to the 5,475-mile fifth leg
from Punta del Este, Uruguay to Fort Lauderdale, USA. Thousands
of people and hundreds of spectator craft turned out to see the
fleet and enjoy the sunshine, especially to say farewell to
their own Maxi Uruguay Natural. The light winds favoured the
Maxis with their huge sail area and even though the W60 Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN] was the first yacht over the line, she was
soon rolled by the bigger Maxis.
The Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] led around the
first mark at Punta Ballena, closely followed by fellow Maxis
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and La Poste [Eric Tabarly,
FRA]. Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] was the first W60 to round
the Heineken buoy and the first to break out her masthead
spinnaker in the approach to the mark. This leg is the first
time since leg one that the Whitbread 60s have been allowed to
use their masthead spinnakers which are ideal for the light
conditions.
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP] and Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] rounded within
20 seconds of each other while Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith,
EUR] followed 90 seconds later. The all-female team on Heineken
[Dawn Riley, US] had a reasonable start, rounding the first mark
well ahead of Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB] and the last Maxi Uruguay Natural
[Gustavo Vanzini, URU].
The starting line-up was depleted by two boats as the Ukrainian
W60s Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon] and Odessa [Anatoly
Verba] were still tied to the dock waiting for crew members and
equipment from the United States to arrive. Vladimir
Kulinenchenko from Hetman and Nick Nichols from Odessa had been
booked to fly out from Miami yesterday, but when the flight was
cancelled, could not make it on time. The two boats started
approximately two-and-a-half hours after the rest of the fleet.
By the second mark, Bajo del Este, fortunes had changed during
the four mile beat in the light and variable conditions. New
Zealand Endeavour and Tokio once again showed why they are at
the front of their respective fleets as they lead around the
mark. Rounding the mark was complicated by a strong current and
Merit Cup was one of the first victims when she had to tack at
the last minute to lay the mark. The Swiss Maxi spent several
moments in irons while Tokio sailed through her.
Galicia 93 Pescanova showed her light weather skills, by
overtaking Yamaha to claim second place. Intrum Justitia was
unable to improve on her poor start and rounded in fifth place
behind Winston. Four minutes later, Brooksfield rounded,
followed by Heineken some two minutes later. Dolphin & Youth and
Uruguay Natural brought up the rear of the 12-boat fleet.
Grant Dalton said he was pleased to have done so well at the
start. "We had a good start even though it was quite tricky in
the beat to the second mark," said Dalton via Inmarsat-A. "We
are hard on the wind now and we expect to be like this for the
next few days. We are settling down now with about 8 knots of
breeze from the East-South-East." New Zealand Endeavour and
Merit Cup were both flying protest flags. Dalton said he was
protesting La Poste for flying a spinnaker without a spinnaker
pole. "The IOR clearly forbids flying a spinnaker without the
pole and we have informed La Poste that we are protesting them."
Merit Cup has not said what her protest was over.
La Poste started with a reduced crew of 11 as two of their crew
members and two shore crew are still being held in a Uruguayan
jail. As a gesture of solidarity to their friends the crew of La
Poste wrote the word 'Libertad' [Spanish for freedom] on the
back of their shirts and a letter each on the front of their
shirts. As the yacht left the dock, the crew turned to face the
crowd and spell out Libertad again. There was added poignancy to
La Poste's departure as one of the crew members in gaol, Florent
Rupert, turns 26 today. Following an initiative from Pierre
Fehlmann, all the skippers signed a letter to the Uruguayan
justice authority requesting that the La Poste case be dealt
with "quickly and generously".
Before leaving the dock, British skipper Lawrie Smith said he
was not too concerned about the start. "It will be a tactical
inshore race to start with and we are not worried about any
other boats in these conditions," said Smith. "The first two
days will be in light airs with a front coming through. Whoever
predicts the front most accurately will get the first break. It
would be nice to win the start but it is not at all relevant to
the result of the leg."
Chris Dickson said that he will not be sailing conservatively to
preserve his 14-hour lead over the second W60 Intrum Justitia,
which has reduced the crew from 12 to 10 to save weight. "We
will be sailing our own race while keeping an eye on Yamaha and
Intrum Justitia," said Dickson. "We will be on the attack rather
than defence."
American Dawn Riley said she was looking forward to sailing her
boat into home waters. "Arriving in Fort Lauderdale will be very
special as we have four Americans on board," said Riley.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer on +598-42-99510, Mobile +598-9-441 411, Fax +598-42-99
547 or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax
+44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Tokio |W|03 APR 13:56|34 04.77S|051 40.10W|064|09.1|5226|07.1
02 Yamaha |W|03 APR 13:56|34 04.61S|051 41.15W|064|09.0|5226|07.1
03 New Zealand Ende|M|03 APR 13:54|34 06.46S|051 41.87W|066|09.0|5228|07.0
04 Merit Cup |M|03 APR 13:55|34 05.63S|051 41.94W|065|09.1|5228|07.0
05 La Poste |M|03 APR 13:55|34 06.01S|051 42.09W|065|09.0|5228|07.0
06 Intrum Justitia |W|03 APR 13:55|34 07.58S|051 42.59W|065|08.9|5229|07.0
07 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|03 APR 13:55|34 06.55S|051 45.13W|066|09.0|5230|07.0
08 Winston |W|03 APR 13:55|34 09.21S|051 42.86W|066|08.9|5231|06.9
09 Heineken |W|03 APR 13:55|34 09.19S|051 46.13W|065|08.8|5233|06.8
10 Dolphin & Youth |W|03 APR 13:55|34 13.07S|051 53.23W|067|08.4|5239|06.6
11 Brooksfield |W|03 APR 13:54|33 52.69S|052 54.24W|049|05.7|5259|05.7
12 Uruguay Natural |M|03 APR 13:55|34 30.97S|052 20.04W|078|07.5|5267|05.3
13 Odessa |W|03 APR 13:56|34 44.16S|052 38.70W|089|07.5|5287|04.5
14 Hetman Sahaidach|W|03 APR 13:55|34 19.91S|053 26.08W|057|03.8|5297|04.0
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
---------------
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Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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==========================================
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RACE NEWS - Date: 03 Apr 1994; Time: 15:10 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
April 3, 1994. Leg 5, Day 2. Press Bulletin No. 184.
SLOW SLOG FOR WHITBREAD FLEET
The first 24 hours of Leg 5 of the Whitbread Round the World
Race for the Heineken Trophy has seen a slow slog up the coast
of Uruguay for the 14-yacht fleet, which remains closely bunched
together as it heads into a warm NNE wind of 15 knots.
The 1400 GMT BT Race Results System today put the two W60s Tokio
[Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] and Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] level,
with 5,226 miles to go to the finish at Fort Lauderdale. They
have a three mile lead over the third W60, Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR], with Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP] one mile further back. Lying fifth amongst the
W60s, a mile astern of Galicia, is the Amercian yacht, Winston,
whose skipper Brad Butterworth said before the start: "The
hardest part of this leg is going to be from the start to just
above Rio de Janeiro. If there is going to be a big break on
this leg that is where it is going to happen. We will be
looking at sailing north east out of Punta and then up along the
South American coastline past Recife in Brazil, meeting the
South Easterly Trade Winds, and then through the Doldrums."
As yet, no-one has attempted to break away from the fleet although
Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] and Brooksfield [Guido Maisto,
ITA], are hugging the coast in the hope of making use of the north-
flowing Brazil current. Hetman, however, has recorded the slowest
average speed over the last six hours of 3.8 knots.
The weather forecast predicts a shallow depression forming to the
East of the fleet which is where the leaders are heading in search of
stronger breezes. So far, the light winds have not, as
expected, favoured the maxis, with New Zealand Endeavour [Grant
Dalton, NZ],La Poste [Eric Taberly, FRA], and Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI], in line abreast two miles astern of Tokio.
Fehlmann reported via Inmarsat-C today that sea conditions are
"nice." All the skippers are going to extremes to try to
reduce the weight on board and 'Chang', the cook on Merit Cup,
has decided that the crew's daily Mars Bar ration must be cut in
half!
The light conditions have meant slow progress for the fleet
since yesterday's start. In the 24 hours since they crossed the
line at Punta del Este the leaders have managed to cover only
about 160 miles and Tokio and Yamaha have averaged 7.1 knots in
that time. In the six hours between 0800 - 1400 GMT today Tokio
averaged 9.1 knots and covered 55 miles to Intrum Justitia's 8.9
knots, covering 54 miles. Lawrie Smith is aiming to make
inroads into Tokio's overall 14 hour lead by the time they reach Fort
Lauderdale in three weeks time and commented: "It will be a
tactical inshore race to start with. The first two days will be
in light airs with a front coming through. Whoever predicts the
front most accurately will get the first break."
The two Ukrainina W60s, Hetman Sahaidachny and Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] crossed the start line over two hours behind the rest of the
fleet yesterday having been held up in Uruguay waiting for crew members
and equipment to arrive in port. Odessa currently lies 61 miles behind
Tokio with Hetman 10 miles further back.
For further information please contact Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489-799 000, Fax+44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614,
Fax+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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| I heard a one-liner on the radio a few minutes ago, that said that Tokio
had lost her mast and was limping into the nearest port. Dolphin and Youth
has a large crack in her hull and is also heading for safety.
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|04 APR 01:55|32 58.74S|050 39.27W|025|07.8|5143|07.1
02 Tokio |W|04 APR 01:55|32 55.48S|050 45.20W|015|08.6|5144|07.0
03 Merit Cup |M|04 APR 01:55|32 51.45S|050 53.45W|010|08.8|5145|07.0
04 La Poste |M|04 APR 01:55|32 53.39S|050 51.09W|013|08.6|5145|07.0
05 New Zealand Ende|M|04 APR 01:55|32 52.95S|050 53.24W|012|08.6|5146|07.0
06 Intrum Justitia |W|04 APR 01:55|32 58.29S|050 48.55W|022|07.9|5148|06.9
07 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|04 APR 01:55|32 52.11S|050 57.71W|014|08.4|5148|06.9
08 Winston |W|04 APR 01:55|32 58.08S|050 49.95W|018|08.1|5148|06.9
09 Heineken |W|04 APR 01:55|32 55.86S|051 06.34W|008|08.5|5156|06.7
10 Dolphin & Youth |W|04 APR 01:55|33 06.09S|051 01.52W|016|08.2|5161|06.5
11 Brooksfield |W|04 APR 01:55|32 28.80S|052 08.54W|021|08.3|5173|06.2
12 Uruguay Natural |M|04 APR 02:09|33 33.13S|051 18.12W|016|08.0|5190|05.7
13 Odessa |W|04 APR 01:54|33 30.61S|052 24.62W|006|07.7|5226|04.7
14 Hetman Sahaidach|W|04 APR 01:55|33 23.43S|052 33.67W|022|06.6|5226|04.7
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
---------------
BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
==========================================
FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
=========================
RACE NEWS - Date: 03 Apr 1994; Time: 15:10 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
April 3, 1994. Leg 5, Day 2. Press Bulletin No. 184.
SLOW SLOG FOR WHITBREAD FLEET
The first 24 hours of Leg 5 of the Whitbread Round the World
Race for the Heineken Trophy has seen a slow slog up the coast
of Uruguay for the 14-yacht fleet, which remains closely bunched
together as it heads into a warm NNE wind of 15 knots.
The 1400 GMT BT Race Results System today put the two W60s Tokio
[Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] and Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] level,
with 5,226 miles to go to the finish at Fort Lauderdale. They
have a three mile lead over the third W60, Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR], with Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP] one mile further back. Lying fifth amongst the
W60s, a mile astern of Galicia, is the Amercian yacht, Winston,
whose skipper Brad Butterworth said before the start: "The
hardest part of this leg is going to be from the start to just
above Rio de Janeiro. If there is going to be a big break on
this leg that is where it is going to happen. We will be
looking at sailing north east out of Punta and then up along the
South American coastline past Recife in Brazil, meeting the
South Easterly Trade Winds, and then through the Doldrums."
As yet, no-one has attempted to break away from the fleet although
Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] and Brooksfield [Guido Maisto,
ITA], are hugging the coast in the hope of making use of the north-
flowing Brazil current. Hetman, however, has recorded the slowest
average speed over the last six hours of 3.8 knots.
The weather forecast predicts a shallow depression forming to the
East of the fleet which is where the leaders are heading in search of
stronger breezes. So far, the light winds have not, as
expected, favoured the maxis, with New Zealand Endeavour [Grant
Dalton, NZ],La Poste [Eric Taberly, FRA], and Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI], in line abreast two miles astern of Tokio.
Fehlmann reported via Inmarsat-C today that sea conditions are
"nice." All the skippers are going to extremes to try to
reduce the weight on board and 'Chang', the cook on Merit Cup,
has decided that the crew's daily Mars Bar ration must be cut in
half!
The light conditions have meant slow progress for the fleet
since yesterday's start. In the 24 hours since they crossed the
line at Punta del Este the leaders have managed to cover only
about 160 miles and Tokio and Yamaha have averaged 7.1 knots in
that time. In the six hours between 0800 - 1400 GMT today Tokio
averaged 9.1 knots and covered 55 miles to Intrum Justitia's 8.9
knots, covering 54 miles. Lawrie Smith is aiming to make
inroads into Tokio's overall 14 hour lead by the time they reach Fort
Lauderdale in three weeks time and commented: "It will be a
tactical inshore race to start with. The first two days will be
in light airs with a front coming through. Whoever predicts the
front most accurately will get the first break."
The two Ukrainina W60s, Hetman Sahaidachny and Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] crossed the start line over two hours behind the rest of the
fleet yesterday having been held up in Uruguay waiting for crew members
and equipment to arrive in port. Odessa currently lies 61 miles behind
Tokio with Hetman 10 miles further back.
For further information please contact Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489-799 000, Fax+44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614,
Fax+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results System (BTRRS) database)
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YACHT DATA - Report: 19; Date: 04 APR 1994; Time: 13:57 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|04 APR 13:55|32 16.55S|049 12.04W|061|06.9|5064|06.9
02 Tokio |W|04 APR 13:55|32 17.45S|049 14.60W|062|07.2|5066|06.9
03 La Poste |M|04 APR 13:55|32 20.26S|049 15.64W|072|07.9|5069|06.8
04 Merit Cup |M|04 APR 13:55|32 21.84S|049 14.50W|071|07.6|5069|06.8
05 New Zealand Ende|M|04 APR 13:56|32 22.07S|049 15.01W|064|06.9|5070|06.8
06 Intrum Justitia |W|04 APR 13:55|32 23.02S|049 15.78W|068|07.2|5071|06.8
07 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|04 APR 13:55|32 28.23S|049 10.81W|077|08.2|5072|06.8
08 Winston |W|04 APR 13:57|32 30.37S|049 05.55W|071|07.8|5072|06.8
09 Heineken |W|04 APR 13:56|32 27.52S|049 21.56W|079|09.1|5077|06.7
10 Dolphin & Youth |W|04 APR 13:55|32 01.19S|050 21.38W|028|06.1|5090|06.4
11 Uruguay Natural |M|04 APR 12:00|32 42.00S|050 30.00W|038|06.6|5125|05.9
12 Brooksfield |W|04 APR 13:55|31 53.97S|051 14.17W|038|05.5|5115|05.8
13 Hetman Sahaidach|W|04 APR 13:55|32 37.50S|051 18.41W|052|06.7|5149|05.1
14 Odessa |W|04 APR 13:55|32 39.71S|051 25.19W|051|06.0|5154|05.0
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
---------------
BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
WHITBREAD ROUND THE WORLD RACE 1993-1994
==========================================
FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
=========================
RACE NEWS - Date: 04 Apr 1994; Time: 16:05 GMT;
------------------------------------------------
April 4, 1994. Leg 5, Day 3. Press Bulletin No. 185
SLUGGISH SITUATION NECESSITATES MENTAL GYMNASTICS
AS DOLPHIN & YOUTH TAKES A 'FLYER'
Sole British entry, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries] has
broken away from the rest of the pack on the third day of the
5,475 mile Leg 5 of the Whitbread Round the World Race for the
Heineken Trophy. In the six hours between 0800-1400 GMT today,
following 24 hours of tacking into light NNE winds, the nine
leading yachts are still tacking towards the east, away from the
coast, while Dolphin & Youth is continuing on a course due north
but is 26 miles astern of the leaders. Before the start of Leg
5, however, Humphries, who is 11 days behind the overall W60
leader, Tokio, said that he had nothing to lose by taking a
'flyer' in an endeavour to make up time
At 1400 GMT the BT Race Results System gave the first boat in
the water, the W60 Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], 5,064 miles to
go to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Tokio [Chris Dickson,
NZ/JPN] two miles further back. Lying third amongst the W60s is
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], who has lost two miles in
the last six hours and is now five miles astern of Tokio.
Between Tokio and Intrum Justitia are the three maxis, Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA], in line
abreast two miles behind Tokio, with New Zealand Endeavour
[Grant Dalton, NZ] a mile further back.
Also amongst this pack are Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] and
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], both one mile
astern of Intrum Justitia, and the all-women's entry, Heineken
[Dawn Riley, US] five miles further back. Earlier today Marcel
van Triest, navigator on board Intrum Justitia, reported that
the top 5 60s and top 3 maxis were all in sight of each other.
In the 46 hours since the start of Leg 5 at Punta del Este the
leaders have managed to cover only 329 miles as they leave
Uruguay behind them and enter Brazilian waters. This compares
with the Omega 24-hour Challenge record of 428.7 miles which
Intrum Justitia set on the last leg. Every ounce of mental
agility is being required to get the boats to respond to the
light winds of 8-13 knots, and the crews are having to contend
with the frustrations and inactivity of slow sailing. Godfrey
Cray, on the American W60 Winston, reported: "The conditions are
warm and overcast. No nuclear strikes or acts of piracy at this
stage. There is, however, a real risk that we could all die of
boredom if we carry on on the wind for too many more days.
Either that or Dave's [Hurley} cooking will kill us. No whales,
no sharks, no birds."
As in previous years, this fifth leg up the coast of South
America is a bit of a lottery, conducted through fluky airs and
calm seas. Four years ago Lawrie Smith, on Rothmans, made a
bold move by heading to the east of the rest of the fleet. This
paid off initially when he had gained 100 miles over his rivals
but, on reaching the doldrums, Rothmans was caught by the New
Zealand ketch, Steinlager, with her greater length and sail
area. It is an accepted fact that sailing in light and fickle
airs is much more demanding mentally than the conditions
encountered in the Southern Ocean as in the previous leg.
Three yachts, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], and the two late
starters, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] and Odessa
[Anatoly Verba, UKR] have remained close inshore, hugging the
Uruguayan coast and hoping to be less affected by the strong,
south-flowing Brazil current. Their gamble does not look like
paying off, however, as in the 6 hours between 0800-1400 GMT
today Brooksfield was the slowest yacht in the fleet, averaging
only 5.5 knots and she was 51 miles adrift of Yamaha. Hetman
and Odessa are 34 and 39 miles astern of Brooksfield.
For further information please contact Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press Officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489-799 000, Fax+44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614,
Fax+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results Database (BTRRdS))
===========
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YACHT DATA - Report: 28; Date: 06 APR 1994; Time: 19:56 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Intrum Justitia |W|06 APR 19:55|27 39.68S|042 33.76W|049|09.9|4654|07.3
02 Tokio |W|06 APR 19:55|27 40.31S|042 40.05W|052|09.8|4657|07.3
03 Yamaha |W|06 APR 19:56|27 40.29S|042 47.71W|053|09.6|4659|07.2
04 La Poste |M|06 APR 19:55|28 08.75S|042 22.92W|043|09.6|4678|07.0
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|06 APR 19:55|28 10.43S|042 26.39W|040|09.6|4680|07.0
06 New Zealand Ende|M|06 APR 19:55|28 14.92S|042 16.51W|043|09.4|4681|07.0
07 Merit Cup |M|06 APR 19:55|28 16.00S|042 13.35W|045|09.4|4681|07.0
08 Brooksfield |W|06 APR 19:55|27 47.37S|043 48.46W|045|09.1|4687|07.0
09 Winston |W|06 APR 19:55|28 28.09S|042 02.62W|050|09.1|4690|06.9
10 Heineken |W|06 APR 19:55|28 21.79S|042 49.22W|040|09.7|4698|06.9
11 Dolphin & Youth |W|06 APR 19:56|28 39.16S|043 21.31W|068|03.3|4725|06.6
12 Hetman Sahaidach|W|06 APR 19:55|28 47.53S|043 57.01W|052|09.7|4745|06.4
13 Uruguay Natural |M|06 APR 11:00|29 52.00S|044 11.00W|048|09.1|4809|06.3
14 Odessa |W|06 APR 19:55|29 28.81S|044 24.94W|055|08.2|4793|05.9
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Key
---
CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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Acknowledgement
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Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 06 Apr 1994; Time: 20:24 GMT;
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April 6, 1994. Leg 5, Day 5, Press Bulletin. No. 187
STOP PRESS
DOLPHIN & YOUTH has suffered delamination of the hull inner skin and is
heading West towards a Brazilian port for inspection and repair.
BATTLING IN SLOW MOTION
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has emerged the victor of an
intense battle that saw Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] and Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN] level pegging with her since 2000GMT
yesterday. Her victory may be short lived however as Intrum only
leads Tokio by one mile and Yamaha by three and neither boat is
showing any signs of letting her get away.
In the Maxi class the racing has been just as intense with La
Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] moving into the lead by just two miles
over Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and three miles over New
Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]. This is the first time
that New Zealand Endeavour has been third in the Maxi class
since the start of the race.
The fourth W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP], reported that she was racing in sight of the three top
Maxis. "We are sailing in a 20-knot northerly with 1.5m seas and
clear sunny skies," said navigator Juan Vila. "La Poste is on
our windward side and NZE and Merit are to our leeward. The wind is
shifting counter-clockwise and our speed and VMC are getting better now."
In terms of distance to finish Galicia is only divided by two
and four miles from her closest rivals, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US],
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] and Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,
GB]. Even though the BT Race Results System gives the four yachts similar
distance to finish figures, they are in fact about 80 miles apart across
the water. Winston is the most easterly boat of the fleet, while
Brooksfield is the most westerly. Brooksfield has been the fastest mover
of the fleet having gained 25 miles and overtaken Dolphin & Youth and
Heineken overnight.
The ninth W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has also gained
some miles overnight - putting another 10 miles on her compatriot Odessa
[Anatoly Verba, UKR]. She is now 43 miles behind Heineken. The last Maxi,
Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] is some 70 miles behind the main
group.
Yamaha's skipper Ross Field said he feels more like he is racing
on Auckland Harbour than doing a 5,475 mile ocean leg. "We're
crossing tacks every few hours and the boys are on the rail
spotting the wind shifts and keeping a close eye on what the
opposition is doing," he said. "It's nail-biting stuff I can tell you."
Yamaha's meteorologist Nik White [26, NZ] is spending an average
of eight hours a day in the navigation area analysing and drawing weather
maps. "The maps aren't too good down here. We get limited information out
of Buenos Aires and they don't seem to operate to any schedule," said
Field. "The only other source is the weather satellites and the lack of
information means Nik is really earning his keep. The boat is flying for
the conditions and we're working hard to maintain a good handle on
the weather. Tactically, we seem to be doing it right. We are
really just waiting for the forecasted north-westerly to come in
- it's slowly clocking that way."
The all-female crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] is finding the
constant slog upwind hard going and is also looking forward to a
change in wind direction. "The wind has gone a little to the
left so we are into head-on seas and slamming. It is only
blowing 20 knots so it could be worse," said Riley. "We are
hoping for a front to come through tomorrow night and then the
wind should finally go behind us. We have been going upwind
since we rounded Cape Horn. Things are starting to break under the
constant slamming. The port forward ballast tank has had one of it's
baffles break loose. We have reinforced the outside and I hope it holds.
Merrit and Sue are especially hopeful as their bunk attaches to the tank."
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000
fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614
Fax+44-903-730 618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
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| 2083.93 | WRTWR Stop Press April 7 | WASTED::map | Mark Parenti, OSG | Thu Apr 07 1994 13:55 | 31 |
| From P.H.Stern@bradford.ac.uk Thu Apr 7 09:50:08 1994
From: P.H.Stern@bradford.ac.uk (Paul Stern)
Subject: WRTWR - STOP PRESS
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.112817.2037@bradford.ac.uk>
Lines: 21
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 11:28:17 GMT
At 1830 GMT April 6th. Dolphin and Youth reported serious delamination
(1.7m crack) on the inner starboard side of her bow. She was advised to
head for the Brazilian coast and is approx. 270nM away from port.
At 0230 GMT April 7th. Tokio reported that her mast has snapped at the
lower spreader area. There was no injuries and they are attempting to set
a jury rig and sail to the nearest port. Tokio is 340nM from the coast.
Tokio currently has a 14 hour lead over Intrum Justitia in the W60 class.
THE ABOVE IS A PARAPHRASED VERSION OF THE STOP PRESS ADDED TO BULLETIN NO.
187 ISSUED BY BRITISH TELECOM AT 0758 GMT 7TH. APRIL.
PAUL STERN.
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| From O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk Thu Apr 7 14:43:36 1994
From: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Sender: ccobs@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Message-ID: <CnwF8B.50y@lut.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 17:00:11 GMT
Reply-To: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Lines: 202
Folks,
Thought this may be of interest, so I have done a special trek to work
to send it off!
I'll follow with later reports gathered today and the next few days,
and I'll try and ship them up ASAP.
Regular service (!??) resumes Monday!
Bertil.
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Intrum Justitia |W|07 APR 13:55|25 41.62S|040 03.42W|048|09.9|4498|07.5
02 Yamaha |W|07 APR 13:56|25 48.16S|040 11.58W|051|09.7|4507|07.4
03 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|07 APR 13:55|26 10.93S|040 03.89W|047|09.8|4527|07.3
04 Merit Cup |M|07 APR 13:56|26 24.65S|039 53.00W|048|09.2|4537|07.2
05 La Poste |M|07 APR 13:55|26 24.09S|039 58.32W|052|09.5|4538|07.2
06 New Zealand Ende|M|07 APR 13:55|26 27.66S|039 54.89W|051|08.8|4540|07.1
07 Winston |W|07 APR 13:55|26 32.64S|039 48.79W|046|09.3|4544|07.1
08 Brooksfield |W|07 APR 13:55|26 04.37S|041 31.93W|045|09.3|4545|07.1
09 Heineken |W|07 APR 13:56|26 25.05S|040 31.59W|051|09.3|4547|07.1
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|07 APR 13:55|27 10.83S|041 34.28W|048|09.0|4608|06.6
11 Uruguay Natural |M|06 APR 23:00|28 59.00S|042 41.00W|056|07.9|4730|06.3
12 Odessa |W|07 APR 13:55|27 42.82S|042 27.63W|032|09.7|4655|06.2
13 Tokio |W|07 APR 13:55|27 41.05S|042 44.22W|244|04.7|4659|06.1
14 Dolphin & Youth |W|07 APR 13:55|27 41.40S|045 09.29W|011|07.5|4718|05.6
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
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BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 07 Apr 1994; Time: 16:19 GMT;
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April 7, 1994. Leg 5, Day 6, Press Bulletin. No. 189
TOKIO DISMASTED AND DOLPHIN & YOUTH DELAMINATED
Two boats in the Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy
are heading for port following gear and structural failure. The leading
Whitbread 60, Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN], reported at 0230GMT she had
dismasted. Dickson reported to race headquarters that the mast had broken
in two places, but as yet he did not know what had caused the failure.
The sole British entry in the race, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries,
GB], has delamination in the starboard bow, caused when the Whitbread 60
crashed off a wave.
Tokio lost her mast as she beat into 25 knots of wind and choppy headseas.
None of the crew were hurt and the broken pieces of the mast have been
secured on board. The mast broke below the bottom spreader and the top
portion of the mast is still intact.
Tokio is now heading for Rio de Janeiro some 285 miles to the north. Tokio
has a spare rig in Auckland, New Zealand and the riggers, Southern Spars,
are ready to ship it as soon as they get more detailed information from
the boat. Dickson has already ruled out attempting to sail to Fort
Lauderdale under jury rig although is planning to rejoin the race once
repairs have been made.
Dolphin & Youth started to head west at approximately 1900GMT, April 6.
Humphries reported that the crew had discovered a 1.7m long crack on the
inner skin of the hull when checking the keel bolts and it is believed to
have occurred when the yacht crashed off a wave. Dolphin & Youth is
currently heading for Rio de Janeiro, 310 miles away, but she may change
destination to Santos if the wind direction changes. "Under the wind and
sea conditions we are currently laying Rio," reported Humphries via
Inmarsat-C. "We have a 27 knot northwesterly with four metre seas."
A specialist boat builder will fly to Brazil on Friday to coordinate
repairs which are expected to take between three to four days. On
completion of the repairs, the Reebok-sponsored Dolphin & Youth will
rejoin the race and sail on to Fort Lauderdale.
Dickson said that the rig came down in darkness at about 2000 ship time
[approx. 2300GMT]. "We were sailing on the wind in 22-27 knots all day in
lumpy seas," reported Dickson via Inmarsat-C. "We had a genoa three and
full mainsail up with 26 knots of wind, when the rig fell over the side.
It didn't make a lot of noise - the boat just came upright. I was down
below and a few seconds later the cries of 'oh no, no!' suggested the
worst. Then I heard that it was the rig and my worst fear was a reality."
The crew immediately set to work trying to salvage the rig, as Dickson
felt that it would be needed to sail to port as Tokio only had a limited
amount of diesel. In the choppy conditions there was a real danger that
the rig could have holed the boat. "At different times myself, Ken [Hara],
Jacques [Vincent], Jim [Close] and Gunnar [Krantz] all went into the water
to secure ropes so we could slowly winch the mess on deck," said Dickson.
"After four hours we finally got the upper section on deck. Another four
hours to get the mainsail off, in pieces and the genoa on deck and tidied
up." Tokio is flying a storm jib from the six metre stump. The 66 metre
middle section and 15 metre upper section were successfully salvaged.
"It is devastating to know all the months of hard work can be lost in a
moment by a major failure," said Dickson. "Progress all day had been good
with Intrum in sight a few miles to leeward and Yamaha in sight a few
miles astern. Tactically we were in the right place and making gains on
the rest of the fleet."
Dickson's nearest rival, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has
consolidated her lead over the second W60 Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and
is now well positioned to take the overall lead of the W60 fleet. Tokio
started this leg with a 14-hour advantage over Intrum, but this will soon
vanish as repairs to the mast will delay her by a minimum of at least four
days.
"Last night we could see Tokio just six miles to the west of us and this
morning they are already 88 miles behind," said Smith. "Although they have
been our main competitor, we all feel extremely sorry for them.
Unfortunately mast breakages are a part of the Whitbread Race and this
could have happened to any one of us. We have put a great deal of emphasis
on minimising breakages and this incident proves how important that is. "
Smith was forced to withdraw from the first leg when his Maxi Fortuna lost
her mizzen mast.
"We will continue to race hard, concentrating on beating Yamaha, now our
main competition," said Smith. "We will look forward to racing Tokio again
from Fort Lauderdale to Southampton as we have enjoyed a very exciting and
close race with them up until this morning." Intrum Justitia leads Yamaha
by 3hrs, 37mins and Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] by
7hrs, 49mins.
For the last five days, the Whitbread fleet has been sailing upwind into
choppy headseas, putting the boats under immense stress as they crash into
the headseas. Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] which is currently nine miles
behind fleet leader Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] , reported
uncomfortable sailing.
"Conditions are very rough with the wind against the current and frankly
its boring and bloody bouncy," said Field. He said he had been checking
the bow sections to ensure there was no damage due to the constant
pounding the boat had been receiving. "I bet everybody else is doing the
same."
Galicia 93 Pescanova has now moved into third place ahead of the three
Farr Maxis. Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] now leads La Poste [Eric
Tabarly, FRA] and New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] by one and
three miles respectively.
"We are still hard on the wind, but it has freshened," reported Dalton.
"We have had to reef the sails. We are leaping off waves and there is a
lot of banging and crashing. We are waiting for the promised southerly
change in a day or two. As long as we can hold the W60s to that and we get
a change for the better in the weather - we're OK."
The fourth W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] is struggling to hold off
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] and Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] who are one
and three miles behind her and have been for 24 hours. Hetman Sahaidachny
[Eugene Platon, UKR] is sailing on her own, 61 miles behind Heineken and
47 miles ahead of Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR].
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
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Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results Database (BTRRdS))
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|08 APR 19:55|20 11.41S|038 15.55W|006|11.7|4153|08.3
02 Intrum Justitia |W|08 APR 19:55|20 26.95S|037 58.56W|002|11.3|4164|08.2
03 Brooksfield |W|08 APR 19:55|20 09.58S|039 28.49W|010|13.2|4173|08.2
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|08 APR 19:55|20 41.96S|038 00.60W|000|09.8|4179|08.1
05 Merit Cup |M|08 APR 19:55|20 53.05S|037 56.21W|356|11.7|4189|08.1
06 Winston |W|08 APR 19:55|20 55.92S|037 47.90W|359|11.7|4190|08.1
07 Heineken |W|08 APR 19:55|20 56.38S|038 33.72W|000|10.8|4201|08.0
08 New Zealand Ende|M|08 APR 19:55|21 25.90S|037 22.83W|010|10.7|4215|07.9
09 La Poste |M|08 APR 19:55|21 40.92S|037 08.65W|009|11.6|4227|07.8
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|08 APR 19:55|21 31.01S|039 52.92W|003|10.5|4258|07.6
11 Odessa |W|08 APR 19:55|22 09.87S|040 28.10W|352|11.3|4306|07.3
12 Uruguay Natural |M|07 APR 23:00|26 29.00S|039 25.00W|040|10.0|4535|06.7
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|08 APR 19:55|22 54.65S|043 08.67W|000|09.0|4440|06.4
14 Tokio |W|08 APR 19:55|25 50.34S|044 27.19W|302|06.6|4607|05.3
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
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BT Race Information System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 08 Apr 1994; Time: 15:47 GMT;
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April 8, 1994. Leg 5, Day 7. Press Bulletin No. 190
'SOFTEST LEG' KICKS BACK
The Whitbread Round the World fleet is now officially in the tropics,
having passed through the Tropic of Capricorn earlier today, but the
weather experienced in the past 48 hours has been anything but tropical.
Five days of continuous beating, 7 metre seas and winds of 35 knots or so
have been wreaking havoc amongst the fleet
At 1400 GMT today the BT Race Results System gave the first boat on the
water, the Whitbread 60 Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] 4,223 miles to go to
the finish at Fort Lauderdale. Yamaha is leading Intrum Justitia [Lawrie
Smith, EUR] by eight miles, having been 11 miles astern at 0200 GMT today.
Intrum Justitia, aiming for her third Heineken Trophy, was overhauled
overnight by Yamaha after the European W60 experienced some damage.
Intrum's navigator, Marcel van Triest, reported via Inmarsat-C that a few
hours after Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] lost her mast the wind picked up
to 35 knots with really nasty seas. "We were bashing all over the place,"
he said. "Much worse than we have experienced so far in this race. The
radar has broken and one of my screens in the navstation just flew off the
wall. Early this morning we were totally becalmed for an hour in
thunder and lightening. A front has since come through shifting the wind
to the south east."
Lawrie Smith said that with Tokio out of the running for this leg Intrum
Justitia's strategy has changed. "Before, we were just aiming to take as
much time out of them as possible," he said. "That is obviously not a
priority for us anymore. We will continue to do our own thing and do not
intend to follow Yamaha unless we are ahead or close to them and unsure of
the weather situation. We will primarily race our own race and
concentrate on our own strategy."
Following Tokio's dismasting, Ross Field said he received a fax from
Dickson saying: "It's all yours, boys. Its up to you to beat the Euros."
He said that Yamaha had not escaped unscathed from the heavy conditions.
"We've got some minor sail damage and broke a couple of stanchions [safety
rails] when the crew were washed back against them during a sail change.
No-one was injured and the damage is really very minor."
nother boat reported to have experienced some damage is the overall Maxi
leader, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]. She is said to have
broken her traveller, and reefing points have torn out of the mainsail.
She has also lost her wind indicating instruments at the top of the mast.
Lying eighth boat on the water, 23 miles astern of the current leading
Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI], New Zealand Endeavour eased off to
make repairs but by 1400 GMT today she had been averaging the fastest
speed of the fleet for the previous six hours of 14.3 knots. The French
Maxi, La Poste, is 18 miles astern of the Kiwi Maxi but reports that the
reduced number of crew is not causing a problem for Eric Tabarly and his
men.
The third W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] is close
on Intrum Justitia's tail, just five miles astern and the fourth W60,
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] is 80 miles to the west of Yamaha but 51
miles behind.
The two American W60s, Winston [Brad Butterworth] and Heineken [Dawn
Riley] are involved in a duel for fifth place although it is being played
out 50 miles apart. At 1400 GMT today Heineken was six miles behind
Winston which is 35 miles astern of Yamaha. Dawn Riley reports that for
the past few days the wind has been 30 to 40 on the nose. Damage included
all of the slides pulling off the mast above the third reef. She added:
"The pounding was unbelievable, not quite as hard as around Cape Horn
but for a lot longer. It caused one of our fuel tanks to split, filling
the bilges with diesel." She also reported that she has been suffering
from stomach flu which is now affecting other members of the crew.
"Before this leg began, Lawrie Smith kept on teasing us about this being a
'Girlie' leg," she said. "Not so far. Today the wind has finally come
aft, at about 25 knots. It is supposed to swing further into the southeast
and then we will jibe and go for the trades. Today is the first day we
have seen the trades on any weather map and it is only the second
time we have had a spinnaker up since rounding Cape Horn." Riley says
that the girls on Heineken are "enjoying being ahead of Grant Dalton and
the boys."
The two Ukrainian W60s, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon] and Odessa
[Anatoly Verba] are following a course closer to land and at 1400 GMT
Hetman was 87 miles astern of Brooksfield with Odessa 46 miles further
back.
Meanwhile the two crippled yachts [Tokio, Chris Dickson] and Dolphin &
Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] are continuing to make their way to the
safety of port in Brazil. Dolphin & Youth is expected to arrive in Rio de
Janeiro at around 1800 GMT today [at 1400 GMT she had 48 miles to go] and
she will be met there by Giovanni Belgrano of SP Systems and Donald
Guiden, a freelance boat builder, who left Heathrow Airport this morning
bound for Rio. They have taken with them a complete repair kit to cure
the Reebok sponsored Dolphin & Youth's delamination problems and Matt
Humphries said: "It is great news to hear that they will actually arrive
in Rio before us. Such a quick reaction to our problems should see us
back on the race track within the next four days." He added that they had
made the decision to go to Rio rather than Santos because "Santos is dead
upwind and in our current predicament, going up wind in 40 knots is not
advisable. Last night we dropped our mainsail to slow the yacht down as
the high winds have caused a 6 to 7 metre sea. We'll be glad when we are
in."
Tokio has not yet made a decision on whether to go to Santos or Rio. She
is continuing to sail under jury rig attached to the remaining 6 metres of
her mast but the crew are wearing their safety harnesses at all times
because there is no stability on the boat. It is reported that the mast
from Dickson's second W60 in New Zealand is being packed up but it is
understood that the earliest flight obtainable from New Zealand to Brazil
is not until next Tuesday. Tokio hopes to make port sometime this coming
Sunday.
For further information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge,Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on Tel+44-489-799 000 Fax+44-489-790
153.
Photographs are obtainable from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614 Fax+44-903-730
618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
Any part of this document may be reproduced for information purposes in
any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results Database (BTRRdS))
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YACHT DATA - Report: 47; Date: 11 APR 1994; Time: 01:56 GMT;
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|11 APR 01:55|11 43.40S|035 28.74W|013|12.2|3622|08.7
02 Intrum Justitia |W|11 APR 01:55|11 58.75S|035 23.42W|006|12.1|3637|08.6
03 Brooksfield |W|11 APR 01:56|11 54.60S|036 10.06W|009|12.2|3643|08.6
04 Merit Cup |M|11 APR 01:55|12 09.18S|035 30.53W|011|12.0|3648|08.6
05 Winston |W|11 APR 01:54|12 28.57S|035 31.00W|011|11.7|3667|08.5
06 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|11 APR 01:55|12 30.15S|035 33.44W|014|11.9|3669|08.5
07 La Poste |M|11 APR 01:55|13 18.67S|034 46.68W|011|11.9|3714|08.3
08 New Zealand Ende|M|11 APR 01:55|13 22.26S|035 24.82W|009|11.9|3720|08.2
09 Heineken |W|11 APR 01:55|13 27.40S|035 57.24W|016|11.0|3729|08.2
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|11 APR 01:55|14 02.75S|036 33.65W|018|10.7|3772|08.0
11 Uruguay Natural |M|10 APR 23:00|15 49.00S|036 12.00W|017|08.7|3871|07.6
12 Odessa |W|10 APR 19:55|16 16.22S|037 48.41W|020|07.1|3921|07.5
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|11 APR 01:55|22 56.97S|043 10.46W|137|00.0|4442|04.7
14 Tokio |W|11 APR 01:55|24 03.14S|045 58.21W|089|01.4|4610|03.8
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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Acknowledgement
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RACE NEWS - Date: 11 Apr 1994; Time: 02:23 GMT;
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April 10, 1994. Leg 5, Day 9, Press Bulletin. No. 192
STOP PRESS. TOKIO has left Santos and is proceeding up the Brazilian
coast.
YAMAHA RECLAIMS LEAD AS FLEET REGROUPS
The New Zealand-Japanese Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field] has reclaimed
the lead of the Whitbread Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy as
yesterday's leader Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has slipped back to
third position behind Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR].
Yamaha currently has a 13 mile lead over Intrum Justitia, but the European
W60, is averaging one knot faster and is better positioned for the
predicted easterly. Brooksfield's sprint may have ended as she is closest
to the notorious calms near Rio de Janeiro. The weather in the area has
been difficult to predict as boats have found themselves in vastly
different conditions to their rivals. Intrum Justitia reported 10-15 knots
from ESE and less squalls at the 1100 GMT duty report.
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is now fourth on the water and is leading
the Maxi class by 61 miles from La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA]. New Zealand
Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], which lost time shoring up a delaminating
bow, is seven miles behind the French Maxi. Fehlmann said it was a relief
to be in front. "With still some 4000 miles to go, one has to consider our
position calmly, but it is certainly good for crew morale," said Fehlmann.
The veteran of five Whitbreads said his lead did not come without cost to
boat and crew. Two crew are out of watch, Gregoire Jaquet with a cut brow
bone sustained while putting a second reef in the main and the doctor for
this leg, Dieter Stadler, who is strapped to his bunk due to suspected
broken ribs. The boat's injuries include a crushed Inmarsat-A dome, a
crack in the first watertight bulkhead, two broken halyards, a destroyed
spinnaker, a shattered protection bar for the port wheel and lost wind
indicating instruments. The latter have been replaced while the stand-by
watch is kept busy repairing the other damage and nursing the crew.
Only three miles separates the fourth and fifth W60s Winston [Brad
Butterworth, US] and Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] who
are sailing very similar courses. The sixth W60 Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]
is more to the west and is 34 miles behind Galicia while maintaining a
56-mile buffer between herself and Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon,
UKR]. Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR], who was becalmed for some six hours
this morning, trails Hetman by 72 miles.
Riley said she was looking forward to more steady sailing. "We are
starting to get into the south-east trades and have 450 miles until we are
at Recife. The forecast looks to be relatively good for continuing with at
least 10 knots of wind," she said. "We have been experiencing a lot of
localised weather along with the rest of the fleet. Yesterday we were in
fourth place ahead of the other American boat, Winston, then last night we
dropped into a bit of a hole but are still hanging in there just behind
the top group. The sailing has been beautiful, especially at night, stars
out and warm winds. It only takes about three minutes before you are ready
to go on watch, a pleasant change from the 30 to 40 minutes required in
the Southern Ocean."
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN]
are both in Brazilian ports. Dolphin & Youth is in Rio de Janeiro where
repair work has already begun on the delamination in the starboard bow.
Fortunately, the outer skin of the hull has not been damaged, so it may be
possible to repair the section while the boat is still in the water.
Faced with a five or six day wait for Tokio's spare mast to reach him in
Brazil, Chris Dickson has decided to sail up the coast of Brazil under
jury rig until the new rig is ready. Tokio arrived in Santos on Saturday
evening and the crew have been working on improving their current jury rig
ready for their next stage. Dickson has not yet decided on which port he
will head for, but is expected to leave Santos late today.
The spare mast section will be flown from Auckland to Buenos Aires on
Tuesday with two riggers from Southern Spars. In Buenos Aires they will be
met by Peters & May shipping agent Jimmy Rohr. He will then arrange for
the section to be shipped to whichever port Dickson selects. He hopes that
repairs will begin on Thursday and Tokio will be ready to rejoin the race
on Saturday or Sunday.
Kristen Sneyd from Dickson Yachting said the crew was buoyed by the
outpouring of support in New Zealand. "We have received an overwhelming
amount of heartfelt support and calls from the New Zealand public for the
crew and the assistance received from the South American people in aiding
Tokio's situation has been wonderful," she said.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790
153Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
618.
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|11 APR 13:55|09 33.26S|035 02.00W|013|10.6|3490|08.8
02 Intrum Justitia |W|11 APR 13:55|09 49.22S|034 56.84W|011|10.5|3505|08.8
03 Merit Cup |M|11 APR 13:55|09 58.13S|035 00.01W|012|10.7|3514|08.7
04 Brooksfield |W|11 APR 13:56|10 03.25S|035 40.45W|018|08.5|3528|08.7
05 Winston |W|11 APR 13:57|10 16.07S|035 07.26W|009|10.9|3533|08.6
06 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|11 APR 13:55|10 16.46S|035 10.81W|008|11.1|3534|08.6
07 New Zealand Ende|M|11 APR 13:55|11 03.40S|035 01.15W|009|11.9|3579|08.4
08 La Poste |M|11 APR 13:55|11 07.33S|034 23.65W|010|11.1|3584|08.4
09 Heineken |W|11 APR 13:56|11 21.39S|035 22.64W|014|10.8|3599|08.3
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|11 APR 13:55|12 06.51S|035 48.07W|021|10.3|3649|08.1
11 Uruguay Natural |M|11 APR 11:00|13 53.00S|035 44.00W|013|09.9|3752|07.7
12 Odessa |W|11 APR 13:55|13 46.24S|036 50.72W|014|08.6|3761|07.6
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|11 APR 16:50|23 05.88S|042 59.19W|136|05.0|4437|04.4
14 Tokio |W|11 APR 13:55|23 46.60S|044 45.97W|066|05.8|4543|03.9
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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RACE NEWS - Date: 11 Apr 1994; Time: 16:40 GMT;
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April 11, 1994. Leg 5, Day 10, Press Bulletin. No. 193
STOP PRESS - DOLPHIN & YOUTH have completed repairs and left Rio de
Janeiro at 1515 GMT today.
YAMAHA HOLDING THE LEAD IN THE TRADE WINDS
The New Zealand-Japanese Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field], is continuing
to hold off the European W60, Intrum Justitia, skippered by Briton Lawrie
Smith as the fleet enjoys the first day of trade wind sailing. The
conditions are perfect for the Maxi ketches and Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI] has moved up to third on the water and is just 24 miles
behind Yamaha.
Ross Field said conditions were now very pleasant compared to the hard
beating of the last week. "We are slowly stretching our advantage but we
are in a difficult sailing situation. We are tight reaching in 14-18 knot
SSE winds and we have Intrum off to our east," said Field. "The others
might get the changing pressure systems before us although right now we
are holding our own and things are going very well. The seas are
relatively smooth although the breeze is ruffling the water. It is warm -
a bit like being in an oven - and we can now get on deck in just a
T-shirt. After the pounding we took last week, these are very pleasant
sailing conditions and Yamaha is revelling in them."
The leading yachts are expected to pass Recife, the most easterly city of
Brazil and be into the doldrums tomorrow. The unusual weather has meant a
much slower start to the 5,914 mile leg and with 3,500 miles still to go,
the second yacht, Intrum Justitia, does not expect to arrive in Fort
Lauderdale until April 27.
"This has been the first day of relatively normal trade wind sailing.
Jibtop, gennaker, jibtop, gennaker.... still the occasional squall around
for a bit of refreshment," said Intrum Justitia's navigator Marcel van
Triest. "It took us much longer than expected to reach the trades and it
looks like we'll already be into the doldrums tomorrow. We're now sailing
in 14 knots easterly breeze, but the high on the South Atlantic is much
further east than normal, which means the doldrums have moved further
south. Anything could happen in the next two days as the system is really
hard to predict. There are two small low pressures lying south of the
equator, which could change a lot during the transition between the trades
and the doldrums. We anticipate that the doldrums could be quite bad and
according to my weather information, the wind should start to swing to the
south and slowly die off. " All the boats in the fleet are sent via their
Inmarsat-C systems weather information compiled by Meteo France.
The third W60, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], has lost some ground
overnight and is now 23 miles behind Intrum Justitia and just five miles
ahead of Winston [Brad Butterworth, US]. Winston, meanwhile is battling to
hold off Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], just one mile
behind her and travelling 0.2 knots faster.
New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] has rediscovered some form
following delamination problems and is now five miles ahead of La Poste
[Eric Tabarly, FRA], but has not made any inroads on Merit Cup's 65-mile
lead. Also trying to eat into a 65-mile lead is the all-female crew on
Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]. However, their sixth position looks safe as
their nearest threat is Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] some 50
miles behind them.
Platon reported thunder squalls this morning, but a steady 13-15 knot
south-westerly. "The sea and air temperature is 28 degrees Celsius which
is hard to believe after the Southern Ocean," said Platon. "It is strange
to see the watch on the foredeck dropping a spinnaker and being
practically naked. Our survival suits are packed and forgotten."
Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] has dropped to 112 miles behind Hetman, but is
not the last W60 on the water, as Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] put to sea
again early this morning. She is still under jury rig and is making for
the port of Vitoria some 550 miles from Santos where she hopes to complete
rig repairs.
"We have tidied up the broken spar and now have a new improved jury rig
and are able to carry three times the sail area of the previous jury rig -
which is still not much," reported Dickson via Inmarsat-C. "Nevertheless,
the wind is blowing the right way and the forecast is good and we hope to
make between five and 10 knots depending on conditions. All in Santos were
fantastic and helped tremendously with facilities, tools, sail repairs and
jury rigging. The crew worked with little or no sleep and I'm thrilled we
are sailing again, albeit slowly, after only a 24-hour stop. The new mast
section is expected Thursday and wind permitting we hope to assemble the
new rig and step it in Vitoria."
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] is expected to leave Rio de
Janeiro later this afternoon. The project reports that the delamination to
the bow was not as serious as first thought. The repair took 16 hours
followings some difficulty in finding an area in Rio de Janeiro harbour
deep enough to accommodate the W60 and equipment. "We are all fired up to
get going again. In Leg One, Brooksfield caught up a huge amount in the
doldrums having made an emergency stop with rudder problems," said
Humphries. "Let's hope we can do the same."
The unexpected weather conditions has caught some of the crews short. Most
have foregone sleeping bags and extra clothing and have only stowed food
for 22-23 days. Many also reduced the quantity of food per day to save
weight and are now regretting their decision.
Lawrie Smith said the crew on Intrum were already watching their food. "We
already cut down our intake of food on this leg, to save weight and
because we simply didn't expect the conditions we've experienced," said
Smith. "We've catered for 24 days and it would be very difficult to start
rationing our supplies since we are already eating relatively little."
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790
153Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
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RACE NEWS - Date: 12 Apr 1994; Time: 15:38 GMT;
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April 12, 1994. Leg 5, Day 11, Press Bulletin. No. 194
WHITBREAD FLEET SAILS INTO THE DOLDRUMS
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] has further stretched her lead over the
Whitbread 60 fleet, as Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has dropped
from second to third place. The American W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth]
overtook Intrum Justitia during the last six hours and is now 33 miles
behind Yamaha. The BT Race Results System gives Intrum and Winston the
same distance to finish but the American yacht has a higher average speed.
Intrum Justitia has slowed dramatically and between 0200-0800 GMT averaged
only 5.8 knots to Yamaha's 9.7 and Winston's 9.9 knots. She is still one
knot slower than Yamaha. Winston has made the most remarkable progress,
going from fifth W60 to second in just six hours. Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] is, as ever, just one mile behind her.
The fifth W60 Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has also suffered Intrum
Justitia's fate in the last six hours having dropped two places and only
averaged 5.9 knots. Neither yacht has reported gear failure, so it may
just be the effects of moving out of the trade wind belt and into the
notoriously fickle doldrums. At 1200 GMT Yamaha reported being surrounded
by black squally clouds and being frustrated by making small gains only to
see them evaporate.
Field said he does not expect the doldrums to be as crucial as it was on
the first leg. "It will get lighter but I do not expect anything worse
than a gradual transition between differing wind patterns on either side
of the equator. However, we are going to be later reaching Fort Lauderdale
than originally estimated, maybe two or three days which means we will
have at least another 13 days at sea," said Field. However at 1500 GMT he
wasn't enjoying the doldrums. "We parked and I can tell you no-one has
fingernails left and the cigarettes were taking a hiding. As you can
imagine, we have high stress on occasions with the fleet moving in for the
kill."
Yamaha and Winston have both reported that they did not escape from the
pounding of the first week unscathed. Yamaha has discovered delamination
near the starboard chainplate [one of the mast anchorage point on the side
of the hull] and Winston has delamination in the forward and aft sections
of the hull.
"It is hard to see the extent of this with the boat in the water," said
Butterworth. "but with the boat in the water, but there are some forward
[where the boat has taken the greatest hammering] and some aft, which is
something of a mystery." Field said he was not overly concerned about
Yamaha's delamination. "I have been in contact with the Farr office in
America to discuss the risks and I am reasonably confident that it will
not deteriorate further. We are aware of it and if conditions get rough we
will obviously be careful that we don't overload the rig. At the end of
the day it comes down to boat preparation before the race and then
seamanship. This is a gruelling event and we are all pushing to the limit
but there comes a time when you have to back off to preserve your boat."
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is continuing to lead the Maxi class and
is now just 10 miles behind Yamaha. In the light conditions New Zealand
Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] has managed to make up miles lost while
shoring up a delaminating section in the bow and is now 38 miles behind
Merit Cup and 10 miles ahead of La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA]. As the most
easterly boat of the fleet, La Poste is currently enjoying the fastest
average speed of the fleet of 12.8 knots. Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU] has problems with the Inmarsat-C and is reporting her
position via radio to the duty yacht who is then relaying that to Race HQ.
The all-women crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has also managed to make
up some miles and is now 33 miles behind Brooksfield, a 30 mile
improvement on yesterday. Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has the
fastest average speed of the W60 fleet and has made a small gain of six
miles on Heineken, but is still trailing by 44 miles. Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR] trails her compatriot by 172 miles.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] put to sea again yesterday at 1515
GMT and is making steady progress following repairs to the delaminating
bow section in Rio de Janeiro. She is 1,100 miles behind Yamaha and 771
miles behind Odessa but will be welcoming the light weather at the head of
the fleet.
The previous Whitbread 60 leader, Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] is making
slow but steady progress up the coast of Brazil from Santos to Vitoria,
where Dickson plans to fully repair the mast. Tokio is currently sailing
with an 11 metre high jury rig. Terry Gillespie and Glenn Simpson from
Southern Spars have already left New Zealand with a new mast section,
fittings, rigging and tools and are planning to set up a temporary
workshop with floodlights and compressor on the dockside. The mast will be
repaired with a new middle section and all new rigging. Dickson Yachting
say that they expect Tokio to be back in full race mode on Sunday.
Chris Dickson's father Roy said that the project had received many offers
of support and money from New Zealanders and ex-pats in South America. "It
seems to have caught the public's imagination that Kiwis haven't given up
when the going got tough," said Roy Dickson. "Their message to New Zealand
is that they're down, but not out and they're determined to get back in
the race." Dickson said that offers of support were also flowing in for
the America's Cup campaign.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
ENDS
Acknowlegement
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|14 APR 19:55|00 16.84N|040 47.22W|312|10.3|2763|09.0
02 Merit Cup |M|14 APR 19:55|00 04.29S|040 21.52W|315|08.0|2796|08.9
03 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|14 APR 19:55|00 56.36S|040 45.75W|313|07.8|2813|08.8
04 New Zealand Ende|M|14 APR 19:55|01 06.55S|040 20.80W|316|05.2|2838|08.7
05 Winston |W|14 APR 19:55|00 41.46S|039 39.34W|311|07.1|2852|08.7
06 Intrum Justitia |W|14 APR 19:55|01 18.13S|040 10.87W|292|05.4|2853|08.7
07 La Poste |M|14 APR 19:54|01 13.53S|039 53.66W|302|07.1|2863|08.6
08 Brooksfield |W|14 APR 19:55|01 13.49S|039 19.84W|317|06.1|2888|08.5
09 Heineken |W|14 APR 19:55|01 20.87S|039 18.55W|310|05.0|2894|08.5
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|14 APR 19:56|01 24.86S|038 03.77W|311|06.8|2953|08.3
11 Uruguay Natural |M|14 APR 11:00|04 02.00S|037 08.00W|296|08.4|3099|08.1
12 Odessa |W|14 APR 19:55|03 04.09S|036 59.63W|314|10.6|3066|07.9
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|14 APR 19:55|14 22.14S|036 41.83W|019|07.7|3793|05.4
14 Tokio |W|14 APR 19:55|20 19.28S|040 18.86W|237|00.0|4200|04.1
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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RACE NEWS - Date: 14 Apr 1994; Time: 15:48 GMT;
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April 14, 1994. Leg 5, Day 13, Press Bulletin. No. 196
WHITBREAD FLEET SPLITS AT EQUATOR
Today could be a turning point in the battle for the Heineken Trophy as
the leading yachts have split into two distinct camps. Current Whitbread
60 and fleet leader Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and Maxi leader Merit Cup
[Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] have chosen to head north in a bid to get into the
north-east trade winds as quickly as possible, while the second and third
boats in each class have chosen to stay in the Brazilian current and on a
more westerly course.
The second, more southerly, group has made some big gains overnight with
the W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] moving up into
second place from fourth and taking 14 miles out of Yamaha's lead in the
process. In the Maxi class, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], has
taken 12 miles out of Merit Cup and overtaken one of the W60s. The third
Maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] has lost 28 miles overnight.
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] has managed to hold onto third place
while Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], who has chosen the northern option,
has dropped back into fourth place, 71 miles behind Yamaha. Heineken [Dawn
Riley, US] has made the biggest gain, having taken 50 miles out of
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] to overtake her and 34 miles out of
Yamaha. Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] some 69 miles behind
Brooksfield is the most offshore boat of the fleet. In contrast, the last
Maxi Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] has chosen to stay inshore.
The fleet is now making about eight knots average speed but last night
Yamaha was surrounded by black squally clouds and only had two knots of
breeze from the north. "These are still transition zone conditions - not
true doldrums because the breeze is coming from a constant direction,"
said Field. "Right now we are the most northerly boat and the most
westerly and I hope that means we will break out into the north-east trade
winds first. Its in the lap of the Gods, although we are trying everything
to maintain our advantage and our boat speed. Up ahead it looks like trade
wind skies so I am feeling a bit more optimistic. In these conditions
everyone is likely to suffer but our attention is still focused on Intrum
Justitia."
Yamaha is due to cross the equator this afternoon and will be into the
north-east trades soon. The Meteo France weather files which are sent to
the fleet via Inmarsat-C predict the north-easterly wind will increase
over the next few days. "It's a nervous time for us all, but even more so
for Nik White our meteorologist," said Field. "He's the only ocean racing
novice on board and he's trembling at the thought of what the boys might
have planned for him when we cross the equator."
Winston will be looking forward to increased wind. "We have begun food
rationing by slightly reducing the daily intake but it really is no
problem as you drink more and eat less in the hot climate," said skipper
Brad Butterworth.
Despite the temperate conditions and steady breezes, New Zealand
Endeavour's skipper Grant Dalton is not finding this a relaxing race.
"This is tricky sailing," said Dalton. "The weather is pleasant and the
sailing easy but we can't let our concentration wander for even a second.
The wind is from the east-north-east at 12 knots and should go round to
the north-east for a long reach to the Caribbean."
The women on Heineken are enjoying their progress. "Our weather charts
show that we may have already gone through the doldrums, and we are hoping
this is true," said Riley. "It is still very hot, but sailing at night is
most comfortable. We are wearing no more than a T-shirt and shorts at
night and a lot less during the day - mostly sunscreen." Riley said that
the fuel situation did not seem as dire as it did yesterday. "We figure we
can just make it if we don't use any lights at night and of course the
stereo and fans are off limits."
The sole British entry, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] has the
honour of posting the highest speed for the last six hours. Averaging 11.8
knots, the now-repaired yacht, has clawed back 60 miles from Odessa
[Anatoly Verba, UKR] and 100 miles from Yamaha. Despite this good
progress, Dolphin still trails the fleet by some 700 miles. The other
wounded W60, Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] has put into Vitoria, Brazil
where a new mast section will be fitted and stepped. Tokio is expected to
rejoin the race on Sunday.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|15 APR 13:55|02 25.21N|043 20.84W|308|11.5|2563|09.1
02 Merit Cup |M|15 APR 13:56|02 01.76N|042 56.65W|311|11.0|2596|09.0
03 New Zealand Ende|M|15 APR 13:55|01 04.51N|042 19.59W|313|10.7|2662|08.8
04 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|15 APR 13:55|00 14.96N|042 00.44W|328|06.2|2710|08.6
05 Intrum Justitia |W|15 APR 13:55|00 15.93N|041 48.67W|315|05.8|2718|08.6
06 La Poste |M|15 APR 13:55|00 19.95N|041 39.00W|316|04.7|2722|08.6
07 Brooksfield |W|15 APR 13:55|01 03.93N|040 39.67W|327|10.0|2738|08.5
08 Winston |W|15 APR 13:55|00 21.75N|041 04.67W|317|06.6|2746|08.5
09 Heineken |W|15 APR 13:55|00 04.48S|040 47.90W|291|04.3|2776|08.4
10 Uruguay Natural |M|14 APR 23:00|02 53.00S|038 44.00W|306|09.8|2981|08.1
11 Hetman Sahaidach|W|15 APR 13:55|00 47.27S|038 48.08W|303|04.0|2895|08.0
12 Odessa |W|15 APR 13:55|01 35.67S|038 59.20W|318|07.8|2918|07.9
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|15 APR 13:55|11 50.29S|035 56.13W|016|08.7|3635|05.6
14 Tokio |W|15 APR 13:55|20 19.36S|040 19.90W|263|00.2|4201|03.8
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
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April 15, 1994. Leg 5, Day 14, Press Bulletin. No. 197
YAMAHA BREAKS INTO THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
The New Zealand-Japanese Whitbread 60 Yamaha has broken into the northern
hemisphere and away from the rest of the fleet and looks like she has the
Heineken leg trophy within her grasp. She is 147 miles ahead of her
nearest W60 rival Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and
more crucially 155 miles ahead of Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR].
Intrum Justitia had a 3hr, 37min lead over Yamaha at the start of this
leg.
Thirty-three miles behind Yamaha, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is
still leading the Maxi class having put another 41 miles between herself
and New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]. Dalton will be able to draw
some consolation from the fact that he in turn has been able to put
another 40 miles on La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA].
The huge gains and losses of the past 24-hours are due to the fact that
the boats have either passed or are passing through the doldrums and the
transition zone before the steady winds of the north-east trades. With an
average speed of 11.5 knots, Yamaha is enjoying a fast escape while
Galicia and Intrum Justitia only have 6.2 and 5.8 knots respectively.
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] has been one of the boats to benefit,
shooting up from sixth to fourth by overtaking Heineken [Dawn Riley, US]
and Winston [Brad Butterworth, US].
Despite his healthy lead, Ross Field is being cautiously optimistic. "If
we have broken out first I will be pleased but there could still be light
patches ahead," said Field. "However, the trade winds will give us
consistent sailing conditions and we might be able to hold on to this
advantage. But I am mindful that we still have more than 2,000 miles to
cover before reaching Fort Lauderdale. That's still a lot of ocean racing
miles..."
Fehlmann reports that Merit Cup did not get through the doldrums unscathed
even though she now has a big lead. "Yesterday was a difficult and hot day
with a lot of squalls and rain," said Fehlmann. "After each squall the
wind veered 180 degrees and then dropped completely. We had gusts up to 30
knots and have also been becalmed for two hours. We endlessly changed
sails and I believe that the storm jib and the storm spinnaker were the
only sails not be hoisted during the last 24 hours. An exhausting, wet and
stressful day."
At least Fehlmann came out of it with his lead strengthened. For Intrum
Justitia the conditions were almost unbearable. "Luck just hasn't been on
our side on this leg," said Smith. "New Zealand Endeavour was 100 miles
behind us a few days ago and they just followed our tracks all the way,
got into a little rain squall and disappeared over the horizon, while we
were left in a hole just one mile to leeward! Yamaha has only had one bad
position report when they were doing under six knots, while we've had
about nine already. Our only consolation is that on legs two and four, we
had leads as big as Yamaha has now and we lost out both times. For now
we'll just do our best to get out of this mess as soon as possible and
push the boat and sail fast the rest of the way." Intrum's navigator
Marcel van Triest described the leg as a Russian Roulette. "Our hope is
that the doldrums will move further north and hit Yamaha again, enabling
us to gain on them."
Yamaha did not have an incident-free passage through the doldrums however
as they encountered a strange phenomenon possibly created by the effects
of an offshore current from the Amazon River. "We were 150 miles off the
coast and it was like hitting a brick wall," said Field. "We had been
making good progress under a shy gennaker when suddenly we had head seas
and Jeff Scott at the helm earned the speed record for sailing backwards.
It was a daunting experience. We were parked up in those turbulent
conditions for nearly two hours."
Heineken reported being almost becalmed in extremely light winds and
steady rain for over 24 hours. "Yesterday we had a bit of excitement as we
sailed right up to and past Brooksfield," said Riley. "They faxed us and
asked us to slow down because their tortellini was almost done and we
could join them for lunch. We weren't about to trade because it was
macaroni and cheese day. Since then they have gone high and we are still
going back and forth on positions, depending on who has had any wind
lately."
The doldrums have been kind to Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] who has taken
110 miles out of her compatriot Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon].
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] has also gained 100 miles on the
bulk of the fleet. Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] is still preparing a new
mast in Vitoria.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
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April 16, 1994. Leg 5, Day 15, Press Bulletin. No. 198
YAMAHA STREAKS AWAY
The New Zealand-Japanese Whitbread 60 Yamaha, skippered by Ross Field, is
continuing to streak away from her rivals and build up what is rapidly
becoming an insurmountable lead. In 12 hours she gained another 50 miles
to put 200 miles between her and the new second place holder Brooksfield
[Guido Maisto, ITA]. Yamaha has also stretched her lead over the leading
Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] who in turn has gained nine miles
on New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ].
The Italian W60, Brooksfield, has shot up from fourth to second place,
passing Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] and Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] by taking a much more northerly route than her
rivals. Despite being separated by some 120 miles across the water, in
terms of distance to finish the BT Race Results System the Intrum Justitia
and Brooksfield are only four miles apart. Galicia has dropped from second
to fourth and is now 17 miles behind Intrum Justitia.
The third Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA], had a near miss when her
forestay broke at 2200 GMT. Fortunately the main mast held and the crew
was able to repair the broken part with spectra-rope. "We are continuing
to Fort Lauderdale and if the trade winds are not too strongly north, hope
to arrive without stopping," reported navigator Halvard Mabire.
The fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], reported true trade wind
sailing conditions of jib top reaching in a 17-21 knot north-easterly
wind. The sixth W60, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has lost some 30 miles to
Winston, having been slowed by the northern equatorial counter current.
"Hopefully we will sail out of it soon as we all can't wait to get to
Florida," said Riley.
Heineken crossed the equator yesterday and the two initiates, Renee Mehl
[28, US] and Marleen Cleyndert [26, NED] were of course met by King
Neptune and Queen Codfish. "A list of their sins was read off - such as
not doing the dishes and using too much baby powder," wrote Riley. "To
appease the wind gods that had given us light winds as punishment of their
sins, we covered them in last night's freeze dried dinner. After the
ceremony they both jumped in the ocean holding onto a line [we were only
moving at 1-1.5 knots] but they claim that their hair still smells like
lamb chasseur."
The seventh W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] sustained some
damage yesterday after hitting an unidentified floating object. "Nothing
too serious," said Platon via Inmarsat-C. "Only three layers of Kevlar of
the five-layered outer skin have been cut and all repairs will be carried
out in the USA."
The fourth Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] is yet to pass
into the northern hemisphere and in common with the W60, Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR], 50 miles behind her, is only making 5 knots. This is to the
advantage of Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] which has made
another 90 miles on Odessa, but is still 627 miles behind. When Dolphin
left Rio, she had to make up 1000 miles on Odessa.
Also back in the race after putting into port for repairs is the previous
W60 leader Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN]. Tokio reported rejoining the
race at 17:44 GMT on April 15. "I am pleased to advise that we have
completed repairs in Vitoria and are now underway again," reported Dickson
in a message to the race director. "We are back to 100 per cent with full
sail inventory and repaired mast and a very tired crew. Thank you for your
assistance with our stop and for the navigation logistics and other
assistance." The race office sent Tokio navigation coordinates for
entering Santos harbour via Inmarsat-C as Tokio had no charts on board.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790
153Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
618
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April 17, 1994. Leg 5, Day 16, Press Bulletin No. 199
SMITH SLOWLY CLAWING BACK THE MILES
Lawrie Smith, the British skipper of the European W60 Intrum
Justitia, who saw his hopes of winning the Leg 5 Heineken Trophy
on the Whitbread Round the World Race take a dive in the
doldrums two days ago, can now take heart from the fact that he
has taken 18 miles out of the leader, Yamaha [Ross Field,
NZ/JPN], in the past 18 hours.
At the 1400 GMT position report today the BT Race Results System
gave Yamaha 1,955 miles to go to the Leg 5 finish in Fort
Lauderdale, with Intrum Justitia closing, albeit slowly, 191
miles behind. Intrum Justitia, which is the closest boat in the
fleet to the north coast of Brazil, has been managing the
fastest speed of the fleet in the past 24 hours, averaging 13.6
knots between 0800-1400 GMT today, to Yamaha's 12.9 knots and has
covered 337 miles to Yamaha's 323. Smith needs to gain as much distance as
possible to ensure that Yamaha's overall lead as they go into the final
leg will not be insurmountable.
The leading maxi, Merit Cup[Pierre Fehlman, SUI] continues to be
the second boat on the water, following the same course as
Yamaha but 67 miles astern. Merit Cup is 60 miles ahead of New
Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and will be hoping to make
a severe dent in New Zealand Endeavour's 19 hour overall lead
after the first four legs.
The Italian W60 Brooksfield [Guido Maisto] is holding on to
third place among the W60s, 22 miles behind Intrum Justitia but
146 miles apart. Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP] and Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] are battling for fourth
position, 42 miles and 60 miles respectively astern of Intrum
Justitia. 14 miles behind Winston is the third maxi, La Poste [Eric
Taberly, FRA] which broke her forestay yesterday but repaired it
with spectra rope. Daniel Malle on La Poste reports that
conditions are hot and sunny and that they have a good wind of
20 knots.
The sixth W60, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has had the misfortune
to suffer a broken rudder for the second consecutive leg. Riley
reports via Inmarsat-C that Leah Newbold, who was at the helm
yesterday [Saturday], felt something strange as they were
sailing along under a full main and jib. "We immediately
checked the steering cable and quadrant" said Riley, "but
nothing was wrong. Then we heard some cavitation and we looked
over the side and saw a crack in the rudder. It was getting
towards dusk so we dropped the sails and Merrit Carey and I went
over the side to see if we could shore it up. The bottom third
was at a 90 degree angle and there was not much we could do but
get rid of the broken piece." Riley added that she did not fancy the
prospect of using a hacksaw 6 ft below the water when the boat was
"rolling gunnel to gunnel" so she opted for a 360 turn and the bottom part
of the rudder snapped clean off and floated to the surface. "Its
just like the last leg" said Riley, "except that we don't have
to round Cape Horn." Heineken is continuing to sail , albeit
easily, 379 miles behind the leader.
The two W60s which had to put into port for repairs, Dolphin &
Youth [Matt Humphries, GB] and Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] are
continuing to make good progress up the north coast of Brazil.
Dolphin & Youth is 1,264 miles behind Yamaha, having passed Recife,
but she is now losing speed as she negotiates the tricky airs in this
area.
Tokio, which had a 14 hour overall lead after the first four
legs, is now approximately eight days sailing behind Yamaha and
has 3,758 miles to go to the finish in Fort Lauderdale.
Assuming the yachts were to finish this leg in their current
positions and speeds, Tokio could arrive in Fort Lauderdale in
sixth position overall - behind Brooksfield but ahead of
Heineken.
For further information please contact Jennie Fitzhardinge,
Press officer, or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on
Tel+44-489-799 000 Fax+44-489-790 153. Photographs are
available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614 Fax+44-903-730 618.
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April 18, 1994. Leg 5, Day 17, Press Bulletin. No. 200
YAMAHA SLOWED BY EQUATORIAL CURRENT
The leading W60, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and her nearest rivals are
complaining of having to sail against a two-knot counter current as they
race the last 2000 miles to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It has not slowed
Yamaha enough for the second W60, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, GB] to
take any more than two miles out of her 189-mile lead, however Intrum has
managed to pull 70 miles away from the third W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP]. Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], the most
northerly W60 has dropped a place to fourth.
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is continuing to hold onto her 60-mile
lead over New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] while losing some
ground to Yamaha. The third Maxi, La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] has lost
the most, dropping from 48 miles behind Endeavour to 173 miles behind in
the last 24 hours. Whether this is due to her broken forestay, or the
fickle weather is not clear.
The weather forecast from Meteo France that is faxed to the boats via
Inmarsat-C offers some hope for Smith as the wind looks like it will be
stronger inshore. Field said he had been expecting to lose some ground.
"We've been expecting the others to take some time out of us around here,
so we're not surprised about Lawrie's progress," said Field. "We are still
looking pretty good although I'm not counting any chickens."
The duty yacht, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US], reported that most of the fleet
was sailing in a 20 knot north-easterly with spinnakers up. "The wind is a
consistent north-easterly trade, but it has been up and down, varying
between 14 and 25 knots," said Field. "There's still 1,900 miles to go so
we're just concentrating on going as fast as we can in the right
direction." Like most of the fleet, Yamaha has started rationing food.
New Zealand Endeavour reported managing to escape from a 'hole' that
trapped yachts close to her. "We were quite close to Intrum Justitia and
Galicia 93 Pescanova then they just stopped. We made little headway for 12
hours on Saturday, then got some breeze and we sailed away from them.
Intrum slipped back to more than 200 miles off the pace. That made our 129
miles look really good by comparison," said Dalton. "The next 1000 miles
will be a procession. There are no passing lanes here. We might make a few
miles but we don't expect anything conclusive until we are out of the
trade winds and into the Caribbean."
Although Merit Cup is enjoying leading the Maxi fleet and hunting down the
leading W60 Yamaha it has not been all plain sailing over the weekend. "At
10pm we were changing the mizzen staysail, as it unfurled, the sheet got
entangled around the front coffee-grinder and simply tore the entire
column out of the cockpit floor. The coffee-grinder and two winches are
now out of use for the remainder of the leg," said Fehlmann via
Inmarsat-C.
"At 11pm we hoisted an asymmetric Kevlar spinnaker with a very flat cut.
It is pitch dark but we had excellent speed, right on the route. Then at
1am, the spinnaker halyard broke and the sail drags in the water, but is
quickly salvaged. At the end of the operation the sail fills again and is
once more dragged into the sea, but this time it is shredded by the
stanchions which are broken away in the process. Again we got the sail
back on deck on deck and hoisted a heavy spinnaker. At 4am the wind veered
somewhat and we changed it for a reacher. Thirty minutes later the block
of the reacher sheet exploded - luckily nobody was standing in the
trajectory." Fehlmann said he was reluctant to use the repaired asymmetric
spinnaker again in case he lost another halyard.
The fifth W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] has lost some 20 miles in the
last 24 hours, while the all-women crew on Heineken are making good
progress, despite having lost the bottom third of their rudder on Saturday
night. The eighth W60 Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] has lost 100 miles to
the seventh W60, Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] but this may be
because she is still in the transitional zone before reaching the true
trade winds. Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] seems to have found
the doldrums while Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] is making steady progress
after repairing her mast.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
ENDS
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|20 APR 01:55|18 04.73N|062 21.85W|302|13.3|1101|10.2
02 Merit Cup |M|20 APR 01:55|16 38.93N|060 25.75W|316|13.2|1242|09.9
03 New Zealand Ende|M|20 APR 01:55|15 53.42N|059 51.33W|313|13.2|1297|09.8
04 Intrum Justitia |W|20 APR 01:55|15 36.50N|060 04.17W|326|14.8|1302|09.8
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|20 APR 01:55|14 35.08N|059 33.96W|321|14.4|1369|09.6
06 Brooksfield |W|20 APR 01:56|14 52.27N|059 02.68W|312|13.8|1374|09.6
07 Winston |W|20 APR 01:55|13 47.89N|058 36.82W|312|14.1|1439|09.4
08 La Poste |M|20 APR 01:56|13 59.09N|057 16.82W|315|12.9|1484|09.3
09 Heineken |W|20 APR 01:55|11 58.54N|055 55.21W|311|12.8|1625|09.0
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|20 APR 01:55|11 08.75N|053 21.66W|313|12.1|1769|08.6
11 Uruguay Natural |M|19 APR 23:00|09 07.00N|052 05.00W|306|11.0|1907|08.4
12 Odessa |W|20 APR 01:55|07 59.50N|050 01.29W|310|10.3|2043|08.0
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|20 APR 01:55|00 00.75S|040 55.30W|294|07.8|2768|06.3
14 Tokio |W|20 APR 01:55|04 52.85S|035 15.64W|341|14.3|3216|05.2
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
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RACE NEWS - Date: 19 Apr 1994; Time: 15:31 GMT;
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April 19, 1994. Leg 5, Day 18, Press Bulletin. No. 201
INTRUM JUSTITIA GOING FOR DAMAGE CONTROL
As the leading Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] continued to pull
away from her opposition, Lawrie Smith, skipper of the second W60, has
signalled his intention to try and minimise Yamaha's lead and stay in the
running for the overall W60 Heineken Trophy. Over the past 24 hours Yamaha
has stretched her lead over Intrum from 189 miles to 210 and has put
another 45 miles between herself and the leading Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI].
"Although we haven't totally given up on our chances to beat Yamaha on
this leg, we're already eager for the last leg where we hope we can really
get to her," said Smith. "We feel we are within striking distance and are
determined to narrow that down to 100 miles in the next few days. We've
done okay compared to some of the others, Winston opted to go north and is
now over 100 miles behind us and Galicia is now 60 miles behind. A lot
depends on the conditions at the finish. As we've already seen, 30 miles
can mean five hours and so can 80 miles, so we just hope that luck is with
us for once and the finishing breeze is on our side!" Yamaha started this
leg 3hrs, 37mins behind Intrum Justitia. If she can hold her lead, then
Yamaha may have over 10 hours between her and Intrum by the last leg.
Intrum Justitia's navigator, Marcel van Triest is hoping for a change in
conditions when the boats round Barbuda, the most north-eastern of the
Caribbean Islands and a mark of the course, tomorrow. "Once Yamaha
reaches Barbuda, the wind will die down and hopefully this will give us a
chance to make even more gains," said van Triest. "It doesn't look like
she's going to have to park up at all from now until the finish, so we
won't have another restart situation unfortunately, although we do expect
the wind to run lighter. Conditions can be pretty light around Florida,
but right now we're gaining more and more speed and we have a perfect
angle with the current right with us."
Yamaha is also enjoying the sailing. "We're beam-reaching, sailing our
fastest angle to the mark, surfing on good waves in 22 to 25 knots of
breeze," said Field to his Auckland base via Inmarsat-A. "It's great
sailing, perfect Whitbread 60 weather." Field said Yamaha was back in the
current, slowing her speed made good by some two knots. Field turned 45
yesterday.
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and Brooksfield [Guido
Maisto, ITA] are engaged in a battle for third place in the W60 division.
Although the boats are 50 miles apart on a NE-SW axis, the BT Race Results
System gives them the same distance to finish. Being too far apart to
cover each other, the two boats have to push for boatspeed and hope that
the weather will favour them. "We are sailing with easterly winds of
around 20 knots, in waves one to two metres," said Galicia's navigator
Juan Vila. "There are no yachts near us that we can see. We estimate that
we will reach Barbuda tomorrow evening and we will probably see the
island." The Italian crew on Brooksfield is enjoying their race. "We are
all very motivated, like the last leg, there is good harmony between us,"
said Brooksfield's bowman Paolo Bassani. "The occasional shouts during
manoeuvres are useful to keep us in racing mode."
In the Maxi class, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], has managed
to scratch two miles off Merit Cup's 59 mile lead, while she is averaging
two knots faster. She has managed to put another 10 miles on La Poste.
Uruguay Natural is trailing by nearly 400 miles.
The fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], has had a bad day, loosing
50 miles to Yamaha and 18 miles to Brooksfield. The all-women crew on
Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has started to drop back, having lost the bottom
third of their rudder. "We have had some great sailing and having only
half a rudder has added to the excitement. It has got to the point that an
occasional broach is just routine," said Riley via Inmarsat-C. "Of course,
that adds loads to all of the other equipment, so we are checking
everything, trying to be as safe as possible. We are doing 12.5 to 13
knots over the bottom and everyone is smiling because our ETA is looking
better and better. We have a very close reaching spinnaker up and are
sailing on the edge."
Despite Heineken's problems, she has managed to hold off the seventh W60
Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR], 138 miles behind her. Dolphin &
Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] has lost 70 miles on Odessa [Anatoly Verba,
UKR] as she passes through the doldrums before reaching the equator. Tokio
[Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] is still making steady progress, some 500 miles
behind Dolphin & Youth.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790 153
ENDS
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|20 APR 19:55|20 18.32N|065 24.10W|312|10.8|0885|10.3
02 Merit Cup |M|20 APR 19:55|19 00.56N|063 38.83W|306|12.4|1010|10.0
03 Intrum Justitia |W|20 APR 19:55|18 25.69N|062 57.19W|302|12.5|1062|09.9
04 New Zealand Ende|M|20 APR 19:55|18 23.31N|062 57.19W|301|12.5|1063|09.9
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|20 APR 19:55|17 53.49N|062 02.60W|305|13.7|1123|09.8
06 Brooksfield |W|20 APR 19:55|17 50.42N|061 57.37W|307|13.1|1129|09.8
07 Winston |W|20 APR 19:55|17 06.06N|061 09.65W|324|13.5|1193|09.6
08 La Poste |M|20 APR 19:55|16 24.93N|060 16.68W|305|13.3|1258|09.5
09 Heineken |W|20 APR 19:55|14 32.18N|058 42.57W|314|12.8|1402|09.1
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|20 APR 19:55|13 37.02N|056 24.45W|307|13.1|1537|08.8
11 Uruguay Natural |M|20 APR 11:00|10 38.00N|053 46.00W|312|11.2|1772|08.5
12 Odessa |W|20 APR 19:55|09 51.99N|052 39.43W|304|10.8|1851|08.1
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|20 APR 19:55|01 46.63N|042 53.48W|314|08.9|2609|06.4
14 Tokio |W|20 APR 19:55|02 46.33S|038 04.12W|318|12.2|3006|05.5
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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Acknowledgement
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 20 Apr 1994; Time: 15:17 GMT;
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April 20, 1994. Leg 5, Day 19, Press Bulletin. No. 202
FLEET MOVES INTO FINAL STAGE TO FORT LAUDERDALE
Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and the leading boats of the Whitbread Round
The World Race for the Heineken Trophy fleet have rounded Barbuda, the
north-eastern corner of the Caribbean Islands, and are on the final 1000
mile stretch to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Yamaha is continuing to hold off
the fleet and is expected to arrive in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, April
24.
In the last 24 hours, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, GB] has managed to
claw back 23 miles from Yamaha but still has to make up another 187 miles.
Smith and his crew can take some consolation from extending their lead
over Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] by six miles and
overtaking the second Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ].
Following several days where Galicia and Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA]
have been battling for third place on opposite sides of the course,
Galicia has emerged two miles in front of Brooksfield. However,
Brooksfield is approaching Barbuda from a better angle and may overtake
Galicia in the next six hours.
Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is still leading the Maxi fleet by some
54 miles but has lost four miles to Yamaha. La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA]
has also lost ground and is now 198 miles behind New Zealand Endeavour.
As the Whitbread yachts round Barbuda they will bear away about 30 degrees
and will be able to fly spinnakers again. For Yamaha the rounding was
uneventful. "Barbuda is flat - we passed by just as the sun was setting
behind it and we cracked open a packet of biscuits to celebrate," said
on-board meteorologist Nik White. "Under 1000 miles to go and the others
are closing up, but that's only to be expected as they should bring better
breeze and angles up to the fair isle of Barbuda. We'll get a better idea
of how far ahead we are when they all round to head for the Providence
Channel, which is now 800 miles away. The boys are working well and are
getting every mile out of the boat, even though they seem to like throwing
sails over the side."
One hour before rounding Intrum Justitia reported having a 15-20 knot
easterly. "Antigua, Barbuda and New Zealand Endeavour are all in sight,"
said navigator Marcel van Triest. "We are looking forward to some downwind
sailing after the reach from the doldrums."
The two American boats, Winston [Brad Butterworth] and Heineken [Dawn
Riley], can look forward to rounding Barbuda tomorrow and arriving in
their home country on the night of April 25-26. Heineken is continuing to
lose ground to Winston, but is still holding off Hetman Sahaidachny
[Eugene Platon, UKR], 138 miles behind her. Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR]
has lost 50 miles to her compatriot.
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] crossed the equator last night,
leaving Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] as the only racing W60 in the
southern hemisphere. Dolphin lost 73 miles to Odessa during her passage
through the doldrums, allowing Tokio to gain 110 miles on her.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799 000 fax +44-489-790
153Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730
618
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (Positions)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|21 APR 13:55|22 00.23N|068 06.42W|310|08.9|0704|10.3
02 Merit Cup |M|21 APR 14:07|20 32.66N|066 47.84W|279|10.6|0810|10.1
03 Intrum Justitia |W|21 APR 13:55|20 42.10N|066 02.41W|314|12.7|0842|10.0
04 New Zealand Ende|M|21 APR 13:55|20 35.26N|066 05.93W|312|12.4|0843|10.0
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|21 APR 13:55|20 04.05N|065 24.23W|309|12.9|0892|09.9
06 Brooksfield |W|21 APR 14:03|19 54.67N|065 09.28W|309|12.2|0909|09.8
07 Winston |W|21 APR 13:55|19 32.53N|064 30.82W|308|13.5|0952|09.8
08 La Poste |M|21 APR 13:55|18 47.17N|063 28.44W|302|12.0|1025|09.6
09 Heineken |W|21 APR 13:55|17 13.40N|061 10.42W|323|12.1|1187|09.2
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|21 APR 13:55|16 04.67N|059 14.22W|310|13.0|1317|09.0
11 Uruguay Natural |M|21 APR 11:00|13 44.00N|057 06.00W|314|11.2|1502|08.6
12 Odessa |W|21 APR 13:55|12 04.54N|055 03.87W|313|10.4|1657|08.2
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|21 APR 13:55|03 54.77N|045 17.53W|317|11.9|2416|06.5
14 Tokio |W|21 APR 13:55|00 05.49S|040 21.72W|325|10.8|2797|05.7
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 21 Apr 1994; Time: 15:43 GMT;
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April 21, 1994. Leg 5, Day 20, Press Bulletin. No. 203
INTRUM JUSTITIA CLOSES THE GAP
The European Whitbread 60, Intrum Justitia, skippered by Lawrie Smith, has
started to hunt down Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]. In the last 24 hours,
Intrum has slashed Yamaha's lead by 50 miles, gaining 22 miles in the last
six hours. Yamaha still has a 138 miles buffer but she has run out of wind
and Intrum is revelling in "perfect masthead spinnaker conditions for the
W60s".
At 1400 GMT, Yamaha reported sailing in frustratingly light 10-knot
south-westerlies and both she and the Maxi leader, Merit Cup [Pierre
Fehlmann, SUI], are gybing downwind towards the Providence Channel, 200
miles from Fort Lauderdale. "We are prepared for the others to take time
out of us and they could close to within 100 miles or closer," said Field.
"But we won't know exactly what the situation is overall until the first
boat crosses the line, then the clock will be running for the remaining
boats. It's a nervous time for all of us on Yamaha."
In a race where every tenth of a knot is crucial, Merit Cup has a
handicap. "Our boat speed indicator is becoming quite eccentric," said
on-board electronics expert Dede Loepfe. "The figures it displays,
frequently don't correlate with the data provided by the GPS or with the
theoretical speed the boat should reach with a given set of sails at a
given wind angle and force. The helmsmen and sail trimmers are disoriented
because they don't trust the system's figures anymore."
Intrum Justitia has once again passed the second Maxi, New Zealand
Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ], to be the third boat on the water, but
Dalton can take consolation from gaining 21 miles on Merit Cup. The third
W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] has also made gains,
taking 20 miles out of Intrum and putting another 15 miles between her and
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA]. Brooksfield is also coming under fire
from the fifth W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US], who has the fastest
speed in the fleet.
Brooksfield's watch leader, Peter Tans, said that while the Italian yacht
came out of the "doldrums lottery" well the crew is kept busy dealing with
sail damage. "The masthead spinnakers are old and keep blowing out," said
Tans. "Alby [Alastair Pratt] is doing a great job at repairing them. We
ran out of needles for the sewing machine so it had to be done by hand, an
endless job. Now we're also running out of sticky-back tape for the seams,
so now he's using grey tape. You can imagine that they really look like
pieces of art." Tans said the crew is also running short of food. "We only
have breakfast every second day and then many ingredients on the menu are
not to be found. I guess we're on a diet. Guido and I are slowly but
surely running out of cigarettes in this nerve-wrackingly slow race."
The all-women crew on Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has reached Barbuda and
has only lost eight miles to Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR]
despite losing the rudder five days ago. "Given the speeds we've been
travelling in the last few days, beam reaching at up to 20 knots, its no
wonder the rudder wasn't up to it," wrote navigator Adrienne Cahalan via
Inmarsat-C. "We are still sailing at an average of 13 to 14 knots but
broaching often due to the lack of rudder control." Cahalan, an Australian
and therefore very aware of the dangers of skin cancer, said most of the
girls were: "baking themselves stupid out here, I'm the only one wearing
sensible clothes, a hat and sunglasses!"
Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] is continuing to lose ground. Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB] reports being free of the doldrums while Tokio
[Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] is due to cross the equator today. She has gained
36 miles on Dolphin but still has 381 miles to go.
For more information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press Officer,
or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer on +44-489-799000 fax+44-489-790153
Photographs are available from PPL. Tel +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730618
ENDS
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (Positions)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|24 APR 13:56|26 03.29N|079 15.97W|266|07.6|0044|10.1
02 Merit Cup |M|24 APR 13:55|25 55.22N|077 54.94W|301|06.7|0118|10.0
03 New Zealand Ende|M|24 APR 13:55|25 50.05N|077 41.49W|293|08.0|0130|10.0
04 Intrum Justitia |W|24 APR 13:55|25 47.84N|076 53.41W|317|05.6|0174|09.9
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|24 APR 13:55|25 24.38N|076 14.91W|296|04.9|0212|09.8
06 Winston |W|24 APR 13:55|25 25.73N|075 51.03W|326|06.6|0233|09.8
07 Brooksfield |W|24 APR 13:55|25 18.88N|075 45.73W|332|05.1|0239|09.8
08 La Poste |M|24 APR 13:55|24 28.74N|074 14.22W|273|03.2|0335|09.6
09 Heineken |W|24 APR 13:55|24 15.23N|072 41.42W|305|06.7|0418|09.4
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|24 APR 13:55|22 51.23N|071 17.34W|296|09.4|0524|09.2
11 Uruguay Natural |M|24 APR 11:00|21 15.00N|066 47.00W|296|07.5|0790|08.8
12 Odessa |W|24 APR 13:55|20 23.86N|064 39.13W|294|09.4|0920|08.5
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|24 APR 13:55|13 48.68N|057 20.73W|312|13.3|1488|07.4
14 Tokio |W|24 APR 10:58|07 40.13N|049 45.26W|000|00.0|2067|06.3
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
----------------------
Acknowledgement
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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RACE NEWS - Date: 24 Apr 1994; Time: 14:46 GMT;
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April 24, 1994. Leg 5, Day 23. Press Bulletin No. 206.
FINAL DAY FRUSTRATIONS FOR LEADERS
The final 24 hours of 5,475 mile Leg 5 of the Whitbread Round
the World Race have proved to be frustrating for the fleet as
skipper Ross Field aims to collect his first Heineken Trophy of
the Race on the New Zealand/Japan Whitbread 60, Yamaha. To add
to the fleet's problems, the National Weather Service has put
out a warning for Water Spout Activity in the area of the finish
at Fort Lauderdale.
In the 24 hours since 1400 GMT yesterday, Yamaha has managed to
cover only 194 miles and although she has kept her rivals at bay
she is not now expected to cross the finish line in Fort
Lauderdale until 18.52 GMT today [14.52 local time]. At 1400
GMT today the BT Race Results System gave Yamaha 44 miles to go
to the finish while the second W60, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie
Smith, EUR], has dropped to 130 miles behind the leader, just
north of Eleuthera. The European W60 is due to finish at 09.12
GMT tomorrow, Monday 25th April.
Within the past three hours Intrum Justitia, Galicia 93
Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP], Winston [Brad
Butterworth, US] and Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] have all
altered their course towards the north in the hope of picking up
the forecast north east winds later today as the predicted cold
front passes through.
Overnight light headwinds slowed Yamaha down as she negotiated
the entrance to the NW Providence Channel almost 200 miles east
of Fort Lauderdale. At one stage Yamaha was averaging only 5.6
knots while Intrum Justitia averaged 10 knots and the European
W60 got to within 97 miles of the leader.
Ross Field, in a fax to his supporters in Fort Lauderdale, said:
"Don't panic. We expected the chasers to take some time out of
us because we are in front and have been hit by lighter winds.
Things are fine and we expect the wind to freshen shortly."
The light winds also held up the leading maxi, Merit Cup, 74
miles astern of Yamaha, who has seen her 26 mile lead over New
Zealand Endeavour of 24 hours ago cut to just 12 miles by 1400
GMT today. The third maxi, La Poste, 205 miles behind the Kiwi
maxi, was almost at a standstill for several hours, averaging
only 1.5 knots in the three hours between 0200-0500 GMT today.
Navigator Halvard Mabire [FRA] reported that there were no
problems on board, just "a personal hole in the wind which
followed us all night." Between 1100 -1400 GMT today La Poste
had only covered nine miles to New Zealand Endeavour's 22.
Galicia 93 Pescanova is holding on to third position amongst the
W60s, 38 miles astern of Intrum Justitia while, in the fight for
fourth position, Winston overtook Brooksfield early today.
Having been a mile behind at 0800 GMT, she was six miles ahead
of the Italian W60 at 1400 GMT. The sixth W60, Heineken [Dawn
Riley, US] has over 374 miles to go before reaching her home
port and Riley reported via Inmarsat-C that it will be nice to
be the first Americans into port. "The past 24 hours have been
very busy for me in the galley," said Riley. "My speciality for
lunch yesterday was Kraft Mac and Cheese, directly out of the
box. Then this morning I fried up last night's freeze dried
mashed potatoes with a few onion flakes and it was almost like
hash browns. Anything to keep my mind off the fact that we are
actually getting there but still have a couple of days to go."
While the fleet remains well spread out the back markers,
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] have been making good speed in the past 24
hours. Since 1400 GMT yesterday Dolphin & Youth, which has
1,444 miles to go to Fort Lauderdale, has covered almost 400
miles averaging over 14 knots as she closes in on Barbados,
while Tokio has now passed the Mouth of the Amazon and has 2,023
miles to go to the finish.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel+1-305- 522 0601, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax+1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK Press
Officer, on Tel+44-489 799 000, Fax+44-489-790 153. Photographs
are available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614, Fax+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (Positions)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|24 APR 20:13|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.1
02 Merit Cup |M|24 APR 19:55|25 59.04N|078 48.96W|272|07.1|0069|10.0
03 New Zealand Ende|M|24 APR 19:55|25 58.37N|078 36.71W|261|07.4|0080|10.0
04 Intrum Justitia |W|24 APR 19:55|26 07.34N|077 52.80W|303|09.0|0119|09.9
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|24 APR 19:55|25 42.56N|077 13.92W|284|10.2|0156|09.8
06 Winston |W|24 APR 19:54|25 37.40N|076 49.77W|278|10.9|0179|09.8
07 Brooksfield |W|24 APR 19:55|25 31.92N|076 31.77W|280|08.9|0196|09.7
08 La Poste |M|24 APR 19:55|24 41.82N|074 42.70W|300|09.4|0306|09.5
09 Heineken |W|24 APR 19:57|24 21.13N|072 58.31W|270|02.2|0402|09.4
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|24 APR 19:55|23 10.71N|071 51.84W|310|03.7|0487|09.2
11 Uruguay Natural |M|24 APR 11:00|21 15.00N|066 47.00W|296|07.5|0790|08.8
12 Odessa |W|24 APR 19:56|20 56.92N|065 35.71W|305|10.2|0858|08.5
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|24 APR 19:55|14 35.94N|058 14.32W|312|11.9|1418|07.5
14 Tokio |W|24 APR 19:55|08 45.67N|051 14.39W|299|12.1|1958|06.4
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
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RACE NEWS - Date: 24 Apr 1994; Time: 20:48 GMT;
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April 24, 1994. Leg 5, Day 23. Press Bulletin No. 207
TORRENTIAL RAIN WELCOMES YAMAHA IN FORT LAUDERDALE
The Whitbread 60, Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] crossed the Leg 5
finish line of the Whitbread Round the World Race in pole
position in torrential rain at Fort Lauderdale at 20 hours, 13
minutes, 50 seconds GMT today, Sunday April 24th. Skipper Ross
Field punched the air in delight as he finished, accompanied by
thunder and lightening, after 22 days 05 hours 13 minutes and 50
seconds since he left Punta del Este, Uruguay, breaking the
record of 22 days, 16 hours, 41 minutes, 11 seconds set by Peter
Blake's Steinlager 2 in the 1989-90 Whitbread.
Sailing in 8 knots of breeze along the coast of Fort Lauderdale,
Yamaha was close reaching to the mark in poor visibility. Hours
before the finish Ross Field, acutely aware that to finish
first, you first have to finish, had had to keep an eye open for
waterspouts as the National Weather Service had given out a
waterspout alert.
Yamaha received a huge welcome as she crossed the finish line
and collected her first Heineken Leg Trophy. Only one hour
before the finish the thousands of spectators in the Heineken
Trophy Village had been caught in a severe thunderstorm, as the
predicted cold front passed through, which blanked out the
gorgeous sunshine of the previous few hours.
Fort Lauderdale is home to 44,000 boats and many of them were
out on the water. After crossing the finish line, about one mile
off the coast, Yamaha motored the one mile down the Intercoastal
waterway to the Heineken Trophy Village which was opened at 1200
local time by Congressman Ted Clayshaw and Mayor of Fort
Lauderdale, Jim Naugle,and was buzzing with spectators.
Getting to the finish had been a slow process for the fleet as
the winds died and Yamaha had to watch the following W60s eat
into her lead. As she crossed the line Yamaha's biggest rival,
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] still trailed by 116 miles
and is not expected to arrive until tomorrow morning. At the
start of this leg, Intrum Justitia had a 3hr, 37min lead over
Yamaha and Smith will be working hard to get in as soon as
possible after Yamaha. Current estimates would give Yamaha a
10-11hr lead for the last leg from Fort Lauderdale to
Southampton - a comfortable, if not insurmountable lead.
In the Maxi class, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is
continuing to hold on to her lead over the race leader New
Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and is expected to follow
Yamaha across the line at 0355 GMT [2355local time]. New Zealand
Endeavour is expected just over one hour later.
Overnight light headwinds slowed Yamaha as she negotiated the
entrance to the NW Providence Channel almost 200 miles east of
Fort Lauderdale. At one stage Yamaha was averaging only 5.6
knots while Intrum Justitia averaged 10 knots and the European
W60 got to within 97 miles of the leader. However, she also
found the light winds and has lost speed.
Ross Field, in a fax to his supporters in Fort Lauderdale, said:
"Don't panic. We expected the chasers to take some time out of
us because we are in front and have been hit by lighter winds.
Things are fine and we expect the wind to freshen shortly."
Intrum Justitia, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara,
ESP], Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] and Brooksfield [Guido
Maisto, ITA] all altered their course towards the north in the
hope of picking up the forecast north east winds later in the
day as the predicted cold front passed through.
Galicia 93 Pescanova is holding on to third position amongst the
W60s, 37 miles astern of Intrum Justitia while, in the fight for
fourth position, Winston overtook Brooksfield early today.
Having been a mile behind at 0800 GMT, she was 17 miles ahead of
the Italian W60 when Yamaha crossed the line. Butterworth said
that he could see Brooksfield's navigation lights for most of
the night. "Then we lost them and we must have sailed past them
at about dawn today," he said. "The wind was very light and we
just slipped past them." The three W60s are expected to arrive
within three hours of each other.
The third Maxi, La Poste, 226 miles behind New Zealand Endeavour
was almost at a standstill for several hours, averaging only
1.5 knots in the three hours between 0200-0500 GMT today.
Navigator Halvard Mabire [FRA] reported that there were no
problems on board, just "a personal hole in the wind which
followed us all night." Between 1100 -1400 GMT today La Poste
had only covered nine miles to New Zealand Endeavour's 22.
The sixth W60, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has over 400 miles to
go before reaching her home port and is not expected until
Tuesday, April 26. Riley reported via Inmarsat-C that it will be
nice to be the first Americans into port. Four of her crew are
from America. "The past 24 hours have been very busy for me in
the galley," said Riley. "My speciality for lunch yesterday was
Kraft Mac and Cheese, directly out of the box. Then this
morning I fried up last night's freeze dried mashed potatoes
with a few onion flakes and it was almost like hash browns.
Anything to keep my mind off the fact that we are actually
getting there but still have a couple of days to go."
While the fleet remains well spread out the back markers,
Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] have been making good speed in the past 24
hours. In the 24 hours between 1400 GMT yesterday -1400 GMT
today Dolphin & Youth, which has 1,418 miles to go to Fort
Lauderdale, covered almost 400 miles averaging over 14 knots as
she closed in on Barbados, while Tokio has now passed the mouth
of the Amazon and has 1,958 miles to go to the finish. Despite
being out of the running, Dickson has not lost his sense of
humour. At the last position report poll he gave Tokio's
position as being 10 miles ahead of Yamaha. To achieve this,
Dickson would have had to average 30 knots and gone overland!
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (Positions)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|24 APR 20:13|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.1
02 Merit Cup |M|25 APR 03:30|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.0
03 New Zealand Ende|M|25 APR 04:15|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.0
04 Intrum Justitia |W|25 APR 10:16|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.8
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|25 APR 10:22|26 01.92N|079 18.40W|263|05.3|0042|09.8
06 Winston |W|25 APR 10:22|26 02.26N|079 09.06W|275|07.4|0051|09.8
07 Brooksfield |W|25 APR 10:22|26 13.28N|078 56.23W|264|09.6|0063|09.7
08 La Poste |M|25 APR 07:55|25 41.29N|076 33.88W|309|08.8|0192|09.5
09 Heineken |W|25 APR 10:22|25 15.95N|075 15.76W|300|09.6|0266|09.4
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|25 APR 10:22|24 03.46N|073 30.30W|303|08.1|0382|09.1
11 Uruguay Natural |M|24 APR 23:00|21 54.00N|068 07.00W|298|07.0|0706|08.7
12 Odessa |W|25 APR 10:22|21 40.13N|066 29.76W|327|03.3|0794|08.4
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|25 APR 10:22|16 35.51N|059 59.95W|323|09.3|1264|07.5
14 Tokio |W|25 APR 10:22|10 39.37N|053 43.97W|307|13.3|1772|06.6
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
Additional Information
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RACE NEWS - Date: 25 Apr 1994; Time: 11:14 GMT;
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April 25, 1994. Leg 5, Day 24. Press Bulletin No. 209
STOP PRESS - 1100 GMT MONDAY APRIL 25
INTRUM JUSTITIA CROSSES THE LINE AS THE SECOND W60
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith] crossed the line at Fort Lauderdale
at 10.16.44 GMT [06.16 local time] today, after an agonisingly slow
final eight miles which delayed her arrival for an hour.
By finishing 14 hours behind Yamaha, Intrum Justitia will need to
make up a ten and a half hour deficit on the final leg to Southampton
if she wishes to claim the Heineken Trophy outright.
(Previous report removed...)
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (Positions)
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* Yacht Name |C| Time of Fix| Latitude| Longitude|CMG|SMG |DTF |VMG*
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01 Yamaha |W|24 APR 20:13|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.1
02 Merit Cup |M|25 APR 03:30|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.0
03 New Zealand Ende|M|25 APR 04:15|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|10.0
04 Intrum Justitia |W|25 APR 10:16|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.8
05 Galicia 93 Pesca|W|25 APR 18:49|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.7
06 Winston |W|25 APR 20:10|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.7
07 Brooksfield |W|26 APR 00:31|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.6
08 La Poste |M|26 APR 07:08|26 05.50N|080 05.43W|000|00.0|0000|09.5
09 Heineken |W|26 APR 07:55|26 11.48N|078 47.27W|272|09.6|0070|09.3
10 Hetman Sahaidach|W|26 APR 07:55|25 43.27N|076 18.80W|307|09.6|0205|09.1
11 Uruguay Natural |M|25 APR 23:00|22 26.00N|069 35.00W|281|03.8|0619|08.5
12 Odessa |W|26 APR 07:55|22 40.06N|067 58.64W|291|03.9|0694|08.3
13 Dolphin & Youth |W|26 APR 07:55|18 35.44N|062 15.08W|323|09.2|1091|07.6
14 Tokio |W|26 APR 07:55|13 29.65N|056 48.43W|323|10.5|1524|06.8
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Key
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CMG = Course Made Good; course between last two known positions
SMG = Speed Made Good; speed between last two known positions in Knots
DTF = Distance To Finish; great circle distance via way points to end of
leg in nautical miles
VMG = Velocity Made Good; average velocity towards leg finish in Knots
C = Class of yacht; W - Whitbread 60, M - IOR Maxi
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RACE NEWS - Date: 26 Apr 1994; Time: 07:19 GMT;
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April 25-6, 1994. Leg 5, Day 25. Press Bulletin No. 212
STOP PRESS LA POSTE FINISHED AT 07HR 08MIN 11SEC ON 26TH APRIL
GALICIA 93 PESCANOVA CLAIMS THIRD PLACE AHEAD OF WINSTON &
BROOKSFIELD
The third, fourth and fifth Whitbread 60s had to endure a slow
and frustrating finish to the fifth leg of the Whitbread Round
the World Race for the Heineken Trophy. As Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and Winston [Brad Butterworth, US]
tried to negotiate the last miles of the 5,475 mile leg from
Punta del Este, Uruguay to Fort Lauderdale, Florida the wind
died and they found themselves being swept north by the 4.5 knot
strong Gulf Stream. Worst affected was Brooksfield who had
destroyed most of her masthead spinnakers and without the light
airs sail power could not get across the Stream quickly.
Eventually the wind filled in and Galicia crossed the line at
18:49:04 GMT [14:49:04 local] to claim third place. It had taken
her 8.5 hours to cover the 42 miles that had separated her and
the second yacht Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR]. Dennis
Conner's Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] was the next across the
line at 20:10:53 GMT [16:10:53 local], 24 hours after the W60
Heineken Leg Trophy winner and new overall leader Yamaha [Ross
Field, NZ/JPN]. Brooksfield did not cross the line until April
26, 00:31:58 GMT [April 25, 20:31:58], four hours after Winston.
Galicia's navigator, Juan Vila, said the crew was pleased with
their result. "At one stage we thought we could take second but
Yamaha and Intrum Justitia sailed a very good race," said Vila.
Just as Intrum Justitia had lost touch with Yamaha in the
doldrums, so had Galicia and Winston lost touch with Intrum
Justitia. "One day before, we had a big advantage over Intrum,
then we sailed into a calm patch and Intrum Justitia caught us
and moved one mile ahead. Then they must have had a gennaker
that we didn't have and they made a bigger lead."
Galicia had traded positions with Winston and Brooksfield
several times during the leg and for many days was only one mile
apart from Brooksfield in terms of distance to finish, but was
more than 120 miles apart across the water. Galicia was able to
slip past Brooksfield as their courses converged to round the
north-eastern tip of the Caribbean, Barbuda. "Brooksfield was in
a better position to windward and more speed, but after Barbuda,
we were faster downwind," said Vila.
Butterworth said the leg had been different from expectations
with the first week of beating into heavy seas and the larger
doldrums. "We were all banging and crashing into short steep
waves and nobody throttled back because everybody was trying to
make a break, hence the damage." said Butterworth. "We started
to go well after first week, then we went in to a light patch as
the second W60 and came out fifth. Because everybody came out at
different times, it was then very difficult to catch anybody. We
passed Brooksfield but Galicia was just that bit too far ahead."
Butterworth said he thought that the Whitbread should be raced
for points for each leg, rather than solely on elapsed time.
"Then Tokio's race wouldn't be over and the race would still be
open," said Butterworth. Tokio was leading the Whitbread 60
class by 14 hours when she dismasted on April 7. She re-entered
the race after effecting repairs in Santos and Vitoria in
Brazil, but is no longer in the running for the overall Heineken
Trophy.
"The fourth leg is what really broke our backs when we lost 24
hours," said Butterworth. "We have to work out what we are doing
wrong and get it right for the future."
Guido Maisto said he was disappointed with Brooksfield's result
after having lead the fleet for 12 hours in the second week of
the race then been in contention for third place. "During the
last five to six days we could not push the boat as hard as the
others because we had problems with the sails," explained
Maisto. "We had blown out most of the masthead spinnakers, then
we ran out of sewing needles, then sticky-back dacron, so
finally we had to use things like grey tape to hold them
together. That is not the way to get good performance."
Brooksfield made her first break by staying inshore immediately
after leaving Punta. "I did a lot of study before the restart
and had decided that was the right course," said Maisto. "But
then when we were crossing the doldrums the others caught up and
we were with Heineken and we had to do something so we went
north and that was a good choice."
Watch leader Peter Tans said that once the leading five W60s
rounded Barbuda, Brooksfield was fighting an uphill battle. "The
winds went very light and this boat is too slow in light air,"
said Tans. "We knew we had to get to Barbuda ahead of Galicia to
have a chance, they rounded one mile ahead, then we got a
lobster pot caught around the rudder. We had to stop the boat to
free it and by the time we got going again, Galicia was already
over the horizon."
The next yacht, Maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] is due at
0730 GMT [0330 local], and Heineken, the all-women crew led by
American Dawn Riley, is expected to arrive at midday on Tuesday.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
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Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (News)
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RACE NEWS - Date: 27 Apr 1994; Time: 13:18 GMT;
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April 27, 1994. Leg 5, Day 26. Press Bulletin No. 214
HEINEKEN ARRIVES TO RAPTUROUS WELCOME
Fort Lauderdale reserved its warmest welcome for the all-women
crew of Heineken, skippered by American Dawn Riley, and flying
the American flag. The American Whitbread 60 crossed the line at
20:23:15 GMT [16:23:15 local] and was escorted to the line by a
flotilla of spectator boats which included leg winner Yamaha. As
soon as the women doused their spinnaker, one gallant supporter
sped over with a bouquet of flowers for the crew.
Heineken arrived in sixth position in the W60 class, her best
result to date and the cheers that filled the Heineken Trophy
Village when the American boat rounded the corner gave the
impression that the women had won! Principal amongst their
supporters was America's first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"How excited and impressed everyone is with your
accomplishment," read her message. "You and the crew are great
role models for the young women of America. Bill joins me in
saluting you on this challenging leg of your journey, rest and
enjoy your time in Florida. We wish you good luck and God speed
on the rest of your journey."
"I am overwhelmed," said Riley as the cheers died down. "It was
nothing like this four years ago when I arrived on Maiden. And
who would have thought that Washington would take notice of
women in sailing!" Riley said that up until when the rudder
broke for the second time in the race, the women had been
enjoying their most competitive race to date. "We were fourth
and racing alongside the other boats a lot of the time," said
Riley. "The concentration and technical sailing ability of the
crew was really proven and I think we have a lot of potential."
Another high point for the women was when Yamaha won the
Heineken leg trophy. "Yamaha is like our brother ship, so we
were really pleased to see them win and then it was a nice
surprise to have them come out and meet us." Riley said that the
leg had been "harder than the brochure". "The first week of
beating was tough, but not as bad as after we rounded Cape Horn,
and the boat held together really well. The only problem was
that the fuel tank exploded and the bilges were filled with
fuel. The fuel shortage meant that we couldn't use the fans that
we'd had installed for this leg, the lights or the stereo."
Riley said she and the crew were looking forward to the last
leg. "We'll be treating it as a separate race," she said.
Twelve hours after Heineken, the seventh W60, Hetman Sahaidachny
[Eugene Platon, UKR] crossed the line at 10:10:36 GMT [06:10:36
local]. Given the early hour, Hetman Sahaidachny did not have
the crowds to greet them, but there was a small and enthusiastic
group of supporters just the same.
Hetman had had a close call during the 5,475-mile leg when she
collided with an unidentified floating object. "It was during a
thunderstorm and the rain was like a wall, the helmsman had no
visibility, he couldn't even see the bow, just the instruments
and we hit something," said Platon. "Fortunately we hit it side
on and it only scraped off three of the five outer layers of
Kevlar. There was no leak or other damage, but we were fortunate
that we didn't hit it bow on or near the keel, or we could have
had a big problem. We were only doing 5-6 knots so it didn't
cause too much damage."
Apart from the mystery collision, Platon said that the Ukrainian
W60 had sustained no other damage. "We had no delamination, or
broken sails. This proves the good technology of the Ukraine."
He said that this race was an important step towards an Eastern
European entry for the next Whitbread. "This race really is a
training race for us, we are learning about the sails, building
up the polars and training the team. We have a lot of
second-hand sails from the leading boats and this has proven to
be a unique opportunity to see the way that their sail
development programme has progressed and we can compare the
different approaches!"
The next yacht due to finish is the Uruguayan Maxi, Uruguay
Natural, which is due to finish tomorrow evening. Uruguay
Natural is the only boat from the 1989-90 Whitbread and is the
only Maxi sloop. The second Ukrainian entry, Odessa [Anatoly
Verba, UKR] is due on Friday. It will be a kind of homecoming
for the Ukrainian W60 as she was built in the Ukraine, then
shipped to Tampa, Florida for finishing. Dolphin & Youth
[Matthew Humphries, GB] is expected to finish on Saturday,
followed by previous race leader, Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN]
on Monday. The latter two had to put into Brazil for repairs.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
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| 2083.112 | April 29 News | WASTED::map | Mark Parenti, OSG | Fri May 06 1994 13:41 | 89 |
| From O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk Wed May 4 12:27:18 1994
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From: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (News)
Sender: ccobs@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
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RACE NEWS - Date: 29 Apr 1994; Time: 06:52 GMT;
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April 28, 1994. Leg 5, Day 27. Press Bulletin No. 215
STOP PRESS. URUGUAY NATURAL FINISHED AT 22HR 22MIN 49SEC ON 28TH APRIL
AND ODESSA FINISHED AT 06HR 42MIN 31SEC ON 28TH APRIL
TOKIO CATCHING UP DOLPHIN & YOUTH AS WEEKEND FINISH BECKONS
With four of the 14 yachts left to complete the 5,475 mile Leg 5
of the Whitbread Round the World Race for the Heineken Trophy
the last boat due to finish, the former overall W60 leader Tokio
[Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN], is set to cross the finish line at Fort
Lauderdale next Monday, May 2nd, nine days after the new W60
leader, Yamaha.
At the 1400 GMT position report today the BT Race Results System
gave Tokio 1,056 miles to go to the finish and estimated her
arrival time for 2300 GMT [1900 local time] on May 2nd. Tokio,
which has now passed the island of Barbuda, is only 374 miles
behind Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB], the British W60
which is due to finish this Sunday.
When Tokio left the port of Vitoria in Brazil with a new mast on
April 15th, nine days after she had been dismasted, she had
4,200 miles to go to the finish and was 566 miles behind Dolphin
& Youth. Dolphin, who had had to put into Rio de Janeiro to
repair delamination to the bow section of her hull, had rejoined
the Race on April 11th. In the intervening two weeks Tokio has
made up almost 200 miles on the British yacht. In the six hours
between 0800-1400 GMT today, however, Dolphin was averaging 10.6
knots to Tokio's 10.
The crew on Tokio will remember Leg 5 for more than one reason.
Having just about recovered from the shock of losing their mast,
they have now discovered that gear, equipment and some personal
belongings have gone missing from a container whilst in transit
from Uruguay to Florida.
The next boat expected to arrive in Fort Lauderdale is the
fourth maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU]. At 1100
GMT today Uruguay Natural, which is reporting her position via
the Duty Yacht every 12 hours, was negotiating the NW
Providence Channel and her estimated arrival time is 21.06 GMT
tonight [17.06 local time]. This will be the fifth time in five
legs that Uruguay Natural has finished in last position in the
maxi class and she is now 21 days overall behind the leading
maxi, New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]. The eighth
Whitbread 60, Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] has also passed
Eleuthera to enter the NW Providence Channel and has 177 miles
to go to Fort Lauderdale. She is expected to cross the line at
07.36 GMT tomorrow.
While the bustling Heineken Trophy Village is awaiting the
arrival of the stragglers, the yachts already in port are
undergoing inspections and refits at the Direcktor Gunnell
Boatyard close by and the crews are enjoying some relaxation
after a surprisingly feisty leg.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel+1-305-522 5455,
Mobile+1-305-648 9159, Fax+1-305-522 1211 or Heather Dallas on
Tel+44-489-799 000, Fax+44-489-790 153. Photographs are
available from PPL on Tel+44-903-730 614, Fax+44-903 618.
ENDS
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From: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (News)
Sender: ccobs@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
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RACE NEWS - Date: 30 Apr 1994; Time: 18:19 GMT;
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April 29, 1994. Leg 5, Day 28. Press Bulletin No. 216
STOP PRESS -
DOLPHIN & YOUTH CROSSED THE LINE AT 18HRS 10MIN 57SEC ON 30TH APRIL
Sole British entry, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] is due
to cross the line at Fort Lauderdale at around 1800 GMT [1400 local
time] where they will be assured of a big welcome by the huge crowds
in the Heineken Trophy Village today.
At 1540 GMT Dolphin & Youth had 26 miles to go to the finish and
was travelling at 12.5 knots. In the past 24 hours Dolphin & Youth
has stretched her lead over Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] by over 100
miles. Tokio, the former overall W60 leader, now has 640 miles to go
to the finish and is expected to arrive in Fort Lauderdale early on
Tuesday morning. Tokio is currently experiencing the same light weather
conditions east of the Bahamas which caused Dolphin & Youth to become
becalmed for almost for almost a whole day 48 hours ago.
URUGUAY NATURAL AND ODESSA ARRIVE
Two more of the 14-strong Whitbread fleet crossed the line at
Fort Lauderdale today, leaving just two Whitbread 60s still at
sea, Dolphin & Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB] and Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN]. Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] brought
home the Maxi fleet when she crossed the line in brilliant
sunshine on April 28, at 22:22:49 GMT [18:22:49 local]. The W60
Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] was the next to finish at 06:42:31
GMT [02:42:31 local].
Uruguay Natural has a crew made up of civilians and Uruguayan
naval staff and is mostly funded by the Uruguayan government to
help raise the profile of their country. As goodwill ambassadors
the Uruguayan crew is unsurpassed and received a boisterous
welcome from hundreds of people visiting the race village and a
contingent of Uruguayan ex-patriates.
"This is fantastic for us," said Vanzini. "We are improving
every leg and we are the only South American entry." In their
home country the Uruguayans were feted as heroes having
completed the circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean legs from
Punta del Este to Punta del Este. "Of course we were sad to
leave our family and our people at the start of this leg," said
Vanzini. "But we are also very proud because we are going to
finish this race and many people thought that we would not. We
are honoured to sail against the best sailors in the world in
the best boats in the world."
Having learnt so much on this Whitbread, Vanzini said the
Uruguayan team was now looking forward to the next one. "We are
trying to sell this boat so we can buy a second-hand Whitbread
60 to train up for the next Whitbread, then we would like to
build a new boat," said Vanzini.
There has been a steady 20 knot breeze most of tonight and
Odessa was able to use it to the full, arriving an hour earlier
than expected. Verba said that he was particularly pleased to
arrive for this stopover as it was a kind of homecoming for the
W60. "We spent seven months finishing building the boat in Tampa
[Florida] and we have many friends here who helped us and we are
looking forward to seeing them," said Verba. One of their
friends from Tampa, Nick Nichols, actually sailed this leg with
them.
"I helped them to finish the boat and when Anatoly offered me
the chance to sail with them, I grabbed it," said Nichols. "It
has been a really good experience and the boat is good and
strong - if we ever challenged any of the others to a demolition
derby, we would win!" Nichols had seen the project battle to be
ready for the start line, despite chronic underfunding. "It was
a combination of dedication and not having the sense to know
when to stop that got them here," said Nichols. "Of the 11 crew
that worked on the boat only three made it for a variety of
reasons, but they have done really well."
Dedication is a characteristic shared by the crew of Tokio who
still have 900 miles to go before they taste their next
Heineken. Now practically racing on their own, Dickson and his
crew have plenty of time to reflect on the bad luck that saw
their rig come down.
"Breaking the mast is a devastating experience for any team in
any race, but to do so in the Whitbread after coming so far has
been extra disappointing," wrote Dickson via Inmarsat-C. "In our
campaign, from day one the number one philosophy has been no
breakages. Our mast is deliberately a little heavier than most
others solely to add an additional safety margin. We have pushed
the boat harder in training than racing and our maintenance and
replacement schedule has been very extensive. All this has left
me knowing there is nothing more we could have done. I have to
put the breakage down to one of those unlucky incidents in life.
Yes, you do need a little luck to win this race."
Dickson said the crew was now aiming to secure fifth place
overall and to do well on the last leg. "Turning the boat around
so quickly in Brazil now means these aims are achievable." He
said the crew was still motivated and working hard.
"It is frustrating being in conditions in which the boat excels
but having nobody left to race. Where did all the boats go? We
know Yamaha sailed a great leg and being so far out in front of
the W60s as well as beating the maxi class so convincingly is a
huge achievement. Certainly we have gained a different
perspective from the back of the fleet. It serves to remind us
that sailing around the world is a huge task. Meanwhile we
remain a determined and motivated team, looking forward to the
next leg more than ever and eternally wishing this one would go
away."
THE RACE NEWS WILL BE RE-WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL OF DOLPHIN
& YOUTH IN FORT LAUDERDALE
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
(This file was downloaded from the BT Race Results Database (BTRRD))
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From: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (News)
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RACE NEWS - Date: 01 May 1994; Time: 15:18 GMT;
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May 1, 1994. Leg 5, Day 30. Press Bulletin No. 217
TOKIO MAKING SLOW PROGRESS
The only yacht yet to complete the fifth leg of the Whitbread
Round The World Race for the Heineken Trophy, Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] is making slow, but steady progress towards the
finish in Fort Lauderdale. At 1355 GMT [0955 local], Tokio still
had 417 miles to go and was averaging 9 knots towards the
finish. At the time of the BT Race Results System poll she was
making 13 knots and so may have picked up speed. The BT RRS gave
her an estimated arrival time of May 3, 0600 GMT [0200 local].
Tokio was leading the Whitbread 60 class by 14 hours at the
start of the 5,475 mile leg from Punta del Este, Uruguay to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, but just four days into the leg, disaster
struck. Several days of beating into short, sharp waves whipped
up by a northerly wind blowing against the Brazilian current
took their toll and with no warning, the mast came tumbling
down, taking with it Dickson's hopes of winning the Heineken
Trophy.
"Our aim from the beginning has always been to win the race and
we have quietly worked away at achieving that in our own way and
were well on target," wrote Dickson earlier in the week. "The
fact that in a matter of moments our winning chances evaporated
really left me wondering about the options. However, with so
many people part of our campaign, supporters, shore team,
sponsors, family and friends, finishing the race was really the
only decision.
"Sailing to Brazil under jury rig and putting a new rig in the
boat as fast as possible has given our crew something to focus
on, since we're going to finish what we started we may as well
still do as well as we can. All on board are competitive and we
have set our sights on fifth place and on the final leg of the
race. Turning the boat around so quickly in Brazil now means
these aims are achievable.
"Since restarting from Vitoria and more than a week of sailing
behind the leaders and two or three days behind the nearest boat
has made these two to three weeks of the leg to Lauderdale a
long process with motivation difficult but never lacking.
Certainly we have gained a different perspective from the back
of the fleet. It serves to remind us that sailing around the
world is a huge task. Racing at the intensity we all do adds
another element."
Seven out of the 14-boat Whitbread fleet are undergoing
maintenance at the Derecktor Gunnell yard in Dania. One of the
most serious repairs is being undertaken by the Maxi yacht La
Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA]. A whole section of her bow that
delaminated has been cut out and a replacement piece that was
built on the mould in France is being flown out this week.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
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any form, provided the reproduction is accompanied by the above notice.
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| From O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk Wed May 4 13:05:38 1994
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From: O.B.Schou@lut.ac.uk (Bertil Schou)
Subject: Whitbread RTW Race Result (News)
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RACE NEWS - Date: 02 May 1994; Time: 16:39 GMT;
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May 2, 1994. Leg 5, Day 31. Press Bulletin No. 218
TOKIO DUE TUESDAY MORNING
The arrival time of the last yacht of the Whitbread Round The
World Race for the Heineken Trophy, Tokio [Chris Dickson,
NZ/JPN], has slipped back as the Whitbread 60 fought a dying
breeze overnight. Tokio has 220 miles to go and her projected
arrival time of 1153 GMT [0753 local] tomorrow is under threat
as she has only managed to average 7.9 knots in the six hours
between 0800-1400 GMT today.
Being the last boat to finish is particularly frustrating for
Dickson and his crew, as up until now they have always finished
first or second in the W60 class. Her current predicted arrival
would put Tokio in fifth place overall.
The rest of the 14-boat fleet has embarked on a comprehensive
maintenance and repair programme. Fort Lauderdale's principal
boat repair yard, Derecktor Gunnell in Dania, is temporary home
to seven of the fleet. Heineken [Dawn Riley, US], Dolphin &
Youth [Matthew Humphries, GB], Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA],
Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR], Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon,
UKR] and Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] are all in the
village for public viewing from the docks.
Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] is due back into the Heineken
Trophy Village this afternoon having fixed the delamination in
the bow and stern. As Winston is in home waters she will be a
frequent sight sailing off Fort Lauderdale's beaches
entertaining the media and sponsors.
The next boat due to return to the village is the Maxi, Merit
Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] on Saturday, May 7. Unlike her
rivals, Merit Cup did not suffer any delamination, although the
crew has taken the precaution of adding stringers to the bow
section for extra reinforcement. Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] is
also due to return to the village on Saturday. "We had to make a
minor repair to delamination near the starboard chain plate,"
said project manager David Glen. "We were told that we have the
least problems of all of the boats."
Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] is due back in the Village
on Tuesday, May 10. The crew has thoroughly checked the mast and
carried out routine maintenance. The Maxis La Poste [Eric
Tabarly, FRA] and New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] have
had to contend with the most serious delamination. La Poste had
a whole section of the bow cut out and a replacement piece
measuring 1.5m x 1m flown out from France. She will be repainted
and have more anti-fouling applied. New Zealand Endeavour also
had to have delamination repaired and will put extra
reinforcement in the bow area. Endeavour is due back in the
Heineken Village on Friday, May 13.
For further press information please contact: Jennie
Fitzhardinge, Press Officer, on Tel +1-305- 522 5455, Mobile
+1-305-648 9159, Fax +1-305-522 1211, or Heather Dallas, UK
Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
Photographs are available from PPL on Tel +44-903-730 614, Fax
+44-903-730 618.
ENDS
Acknowlegement
BT Race Results System Data
Copyright British Telecommunications plc 1993, 1994
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| 13384, 15:32 GMT, 27 May 1994
May 27, 1994. Leg Six, Day 7. Press Bulletin No. 239
FOLLOWING PACK CLOSE IN ON THE LEADERS
The leads of Maxi Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] and Whitbread 60
Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA] are coming under threat as the high winds
from a low pressure system that passed to the north of the fleet have
passed over them and a high to the south has moved up to slow them.
While still under the influence of the low, the Whitbread fleet enjoyed
sailing conditions from the Southern Ocean without the debilitating cold.
Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN] narrowly missed taking Intrum Justitia's
Omega 24-Hour Challenge record of 428.7 miles with a run of 427.6 miles
which included a six-hour average of 20.7 knots - the highest six-hourly
average recorded so far. Tokio has moved up to fourth place behind Galicia
93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] and Winston [Brad Butterworth,
US] who averaged 20 knots in the same period. This group has taken 30
miles out of Brooksfield.
Merit Cup has lost 30 miles to New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]
but Fehlmann said he had been expecting this. "The Great Circle route is
now leading us away from the southerly wind stream between the low on the
US continent and the Azores High, currently centred at 40N and 45W," wrote
Fehlmann. "The wind is going to decrease while our pursuers will catch up,
still benefiting from the southerly wind stream. During the next two to
three days, our lead is going to melt away and we can hardly do anything
to avoid it."
In the Whitbread 60 fleet, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], has taken
a bold move north, sailing away from the most direct route to Southampton,
but climbing to where the isobars are thickest on weather maps. In the
process, she has lost three places to Tokio, overall W60 leader Yamaha
[Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and sole British entry Reebok [Matthew Humphries,
GB].
"We are prepared to take some risks to achieve our aim to get well ahead
of Yamaha," said Smith. "For us it is more important to win the race than
protect our current second position." Marcel van Triest, navigator on
Intrum Justitia said he expected the wind to increase again before running
into light winds. "The weekend could be very interesting with lots of ice,
heavy mist and variable wind conditions. We expect the water temperature
to drop from 19 to 1 degrees Celsius in half an hour some time tomorrow.
After that we will surely spot some icebergs since they are extremely far
south for the season."
Up until Intrum Justitia tacked north Reebok was racing within sight of
her. "Last night we were hitting speeds in excess of 25 knots and for 24
hours we had Intrum Justitia within sight," said Humphries via Inmarsat-C.
"It is really good for morale as Intrum Justitia is considered the fastest
W60 in heavy airs. There is a high over the East Atlantic that should slow
the front runners down and put us all back on the wind. We are currently
making 10.5 knots and are south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. We are
keeping a close eye on the radar and water as icebergs have been
reported."
The eighth W60, Heineken [Dawn Riley, US], has chosen a more southerly
route and lost some ground when they lost the Gulf Stream. "We seemed to
fall off the northern wall of the Gulf Stream into a bit of a back eddy,
so while the rest of the fleet was getting a one to two knot push we had
it against us," said Riley. "Also even though we are pushing it full on
with as much sail up as possible this boat is never going to be as fast at
this point of sail - kite reaching - as the newer, narrower boats. We are
holding our own today and hope to bring up the next weather system with
us. It is likely we will be able to stay in the south-westerly flow for a
few more days."
Apart from the extra speed the Gulf Stream brings, navigator Adrienne
Cahalan, said it is also thankfully warm. "Mikaela von Koskull has just
come below decks covered in perspiration from not only steering in big
winds and surf but also because we are still feeling the effects of the
Gulf Stream. Even though we are off Nova Scotia, Canada, it is still warm
and the water is still 22C. We are still in shorts and jackets when
normally it is too cold at these latitudes - especially as we expect to
see icebergs in a few days."
The third Maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] has lost 50 miles overnight to
New Zealand Endeavour and the fourth Maxi, Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU] has dropped back 110 miles. The ninth W60, Hetman
Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has lost 20 miles to Heineken, but has
gained 25 mile on the last W60, Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR].
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| 2083.117 | May 31, 1994 Leg 6 | PIHIA::ARLINGTON | | Wed Jun 01 1994 23:14 | 79 |
| Finally got my PC running properly, it only took until there is only 3 days
to go. This program runs in DOS low memory and it runs out if I load network
drivers the program wont load.
May 31, 1994. Leg Six, Day 11. Press Bulletin No. 243
FRIDAY ARRIVAL LIKELY
The first boats of the 14-boat Whitbread Round The World Race for the
Heineken Trophy are expected to cross the line on Friday evening, breaking
the existing record for the sixth leg by four days. Maxi New Zealand
Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] is expected to cross the line on Friday
evening to collect both the Leg Six Heineken Trophy and the overall
Heineken Trophy for the Maxi class.
She is likely to be followed some three hours later by Tokio [Chris
Dickson, NZ/JPN] who will win the Leg Six Heineken Trophy, but is unlikely
to win the overall Heineken Trophy for the W60 class. That honour is most
likely to go to Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN], currently 18 miles behind
Tokio. The third W60, Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] is also due on
Friday, despite losing 10 miles to Yamaha overnight.
The fast finish is due to a low pressure system that should sweep through
the fleet on Thursday and give it strong following winds through to
Saturday. Tomorrow the wind is expected to drop, but not enough to slow
the boats.
Chris Dickson said he was looking forward to an exciting finale to the
32,000 miles race. "The weather looks good for fast finish or at least
steady reaching with spinnaker and full water ballast tanks - power
sailing and surfing up to 19 knots," said Dickson via Inmarsat-C.
Yamaha's main threat for the overall Heineken Trophy, Intrum Justitia
[Lawrie Smith, EUR], is still in fifth place, but has closed to within
seven miles of the sole British entry Reebok [Matthew Humphries, GB] and
has enjoyed the highest average speed of the fleet of 14.8 knots for the
six hours between 0800-1400 GMT. However, Intrum still has 85 miles to
make up on Yamaha who made 12.9 knots.
"I am very happy with where we are in the same patch of ocean as our
nearest rival [for the overall W60 Heineken Trophy]," said Field. "The
forecast is for more of the same for some days but I expect the wind to
lighten once we get near the Scilly Isles. We deliberately went for light
air sails for this leg so we hope to do even better in those conditions."
The crew of Yamaha will be particularly glad of an early arrival. "We're
about to run out of gas for the stove," reported Field. "There is only
about a quarter of one bottle left and Gudgie [cook Steve Trevursa] is
busy trying to figure out how he's going to cook our freeze dried food
with cold water. I reckon we've got about two more hot meals and that's
it. It's on to cold coffee."
Reebok is also looking forward to what could be their best finish. "We are
delighted with the way things are going at the moment," said Humphries.
"We are ahead of Intrum Justitia and hope to keep it that way all the way
to the finish in Southampton which could be as early as Saturday morning.
We are giving it everything we have got, so expect a shattered crew when
we arrive home. What with all the disappointments over the past nine
months, a good result on this, the last leg, would make up for
everything."
In the Maxi class, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] has lost 70 miles to
New Zealand Endeavour and her second place to La Poste [Eric Tabarly,
FRA]. La Poste has found more wind to the north and is averaging 1.2 knots
faster than Merit Cup.
The seventh W60, Brooksfield [Guido Maisto, ITA], has opted to sacrifice
miles in favour of a better position for the predicted front. She has
steered a sharp north-easterly course to climb north, in the process she
has lost 50 miles to the sixth W60, Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la
Gandara, ESP]. Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] has moved up to within 30 miles
of Brooksfield and is three knots faster.
Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR], Odessa [Anatoly Verba, UKR] and
Maxi Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU], the last of the fleet, are
expected to finish on Monday, June 6.
For further press information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax
+44-489-790 153.
Photographs available from PPL on +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730 618
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June 1, 1994. Leg Six, Day 12. Press Bulletin No. 244
SCENE SET FOR A TREMENDOUS FINISH
Southampton may witness the most exciting finish in the Whitbread Round
The World Race for the Heineken Trophy to date. With just 642 miles to go,
only two miles separates the three leading yachts, Maxi New Zealand
Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and W60s Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] and
Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN].
In the light and variable conditions that the fleet is currently
experiencing, all three will be searching for a chance to break away from
their rivals. If they do not succeed, the scene will be set for an
exciting match race all the way up the English Channel to Southampton
Water and the finish on Friday afternoon. Weather forecasters predict
25-30 knot westerlies for tomorrow and Friday, and the tide should be with
the leaders in the closing stages.
New Zealand Endeavour looks set to claim victory in the Maxi class as her
main rival, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] is still 102 miles behind
her. However, Dalton has always stated his main aim is to be the fastest
boat around the world and on each leg regardless of class and he will be
aiming to be the boat to break Steinlager 2's 17day, 28min record.
Tokio, which is currently level-pegging with Yamaha, is keen to claim the
Leg Six Heineken Trophy, having lost her chance of winning the W60 class
overall after losing her mast off the coast of Brazil on the fifth leg.
Field, while anxious to win his second Heineken Leg Trophy, will probably
sail more conservatively than Dickson, so as not to jeopardise his grasp
on the overall W60 Heineken Trophy.
Twenty-two miles behind Yamaha and Tokio, the third W60 Winston [Brad
Butterworth, US] is determined to claim her first Heineken Leg Trophy. "We
are pushing our boat as fast as she will go, hoping we can sneak past the
two boats ahead of us," said Butterworth. "We are in a good position to
gain over the final three days. Looking ahead, the boats behind will
continue to bring the new stronger winds up with them making for a close
final two days."
In fourth place, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR], has given up all
hope of winning the W60 class overall but is still hopeful for a leg win.
"Although the fleet should compress a bit in the next few days with the
variable conditions, there should be some wind at the finish which means
there won't be much time difference between the boats," said Smith. "We'll
be the first to slow down when the wind drops today, but we'll gain that
back plus a bit more when it picks up again. The whole leg would've been
very different without the six-hourly reports. It's been impossible to
make any good breaks when the others can watch our every move. Yamaha is
sure to push hard in the last few days and things could still break, but I
think their overall victory is pretty well secure now."
Marcel van Triest, navigator on Intrum Justitia predicts variable winds
for the finish. "At the moment we're in 17 knots of north-westerly breeze,
but the next couple of days are going to be very patchy. The wind will
soon drop and swing to the west and the next 12 hours are going to be
pretty slow going," said van Triest. "The wind will fill in again later
this afternoon moving round to the south-west and we expect it to blow up
to 35 knots for the next day or so. We should finish in a north-westerly
and we'll slow right down, although there will still be a fairly good
breeze in the final stages."
The sole British entry, Reebok [Matthew Humphries, GB], has lost ground
overnight, losing a place and 12 miles to Intrum Justitia, but the biggest
losers have been the boats to the south. Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de
la Gandara, ESP] has lost 100 miles overnight as she has tried to climb to
a more northerly position as has previous leader Brooksfield [Guido
Maisto, ITA].
Adrienne Cahalan, the navigator on the eighth W60 Heineken said there are
few passing lanes left with less than 1000 miles to go. "We do not hold
high hopes for an extraordinary finish because Galicia, Brooksfield and
ourselves have not made the gains we'd hoped to by taking a risk and
staying south of the course to pull off a big wind shift," wrote Cahalan.
"It would be good to get a good 40-knot blast downwind into England that
will finish off what has been a frustrating but exciting race. I can't
decide which windshift, stopover or crew member is responsible for the
grey hair I have just found at the tender age of 29!"
The tenth W60 Odessa has gained 50 miles on the ninth overnight and is
enjoying the highest average speed of the fleet of 14.3 knots. Yesterday,
crewmember Rick Ott was not very optimistic about the Ukrainian yacht's
chances. "Wind conditions are not good. Yesterday evening the wind
virtually died and the calm conditions will almost certainly postpone our
arrival in Southampton. More importantly, our competition with Uruguay
Natural and Hetman Sahaidachny has taken an unhappy turn. We passed
Uruguay and felt that we were gaining on Hetman, now the outcome of the
competition may depend on when and from where the wind returns."
Uruguay Natural [Gustavo Vanzini, URU] brings up the rear of the fleet and
has 1294 miles to go.
For further press information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer or Heather Dallas, UK Press Officer, on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax
+44-489-790 153.
Photographs available from PPL on +44-903-730 614 Fax +44-903-730 618
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June 2, 1994. Leg Six, Day 13. Press Bulletin No. 245
HEINEKEN LOSES RUDDER
FAST FINISH FOR FRIDAY
Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] lost her rudder for the third time some 850
miles from the finish of the final leg of the Whitbread Round The World
Race for the Heineken Trophy. The women were surfing in 30 knot westerlies
when they suddenly lost the steering.
They are currently drifting at two knots towards the Scilly Isles while
the women wait for the weather to subside so they can fit a jury-rig
rudder. "At this time conditions are too rough to receive any assistance.
We are in about 30 knots of wind with next to no steering which makes
conditions all the more difficult." Their nearest rivals, Hetman
Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR], offered to stand by Heineken, but as the
yacht is still sound and the crew well, the women have declined their
offer of assistance. "Sadly, there is nothing anyone can do for us until
the weather improves." Heineken may put into a West Country port to rig up
a more effective rudder before continuing to race to Southampton.
FAST FINISH
The leading yachts are being driven towards a fast finish in Southampton
on Friday afternoon by a low pressure system that is giving them 30 knot
following winds. Just one mile separates the leading three yachts,
Whitbread 60s Tokio [Chris Dickson, NZ/JPN], Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN]
and Maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ]. In the last three hours
Tokio has overhauled Endeavour while Yamaha has drawn level.
"The leading boats are all within sight of each other," said Dickson. "It
looks pretty straightforward for much of the last 400 miles and we are
doing everything possible to stay ahead. We are working the boat hard,
trimming hard and gybing on even the smallest of wind shifts," he
continued. "Since it's an early finish we've had double food rations for a
few days - its good having too much food for a change so thought we may as
well eat it."
Ross Field is not prepared to say which of the three will cross the line
first. "It's a bit of a crap shoot at the moment," said Field. "However, I
am just very happy about where we are. It'll be great if the first four
boats home are skippered by Kiwis, but my only concern is to keep Intrum
where she is." Yamaha is currently leading the W60 class by 10hr, 26min
and her main rival Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] is 56 miles behind
and unlikely to be able to overtake the New Zealand - Japanese boat.
New Zealand Endeavour also has a comfortable lead over her rival for the
Maxi Heineken Trophy, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] some 73 miles
behind her. "During the last few days we have lost so much ground that
only some very improbable meteorological miracle could help us out of our
desperate situation," said Fehlmann. "We look forward to an interesting
match race with our sistership La Poste while sailing up the Channel and
to arrive in the middle of the night - as usual!" Merit Cup has pulled
away from La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] who is sailing with a reduced crew
of 10.
The following winds have enabled the following boats to close up the
leaders and the third W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth, US] has gained seven
miles to close to within 15 miles of the leading three. Intrum Justitia
slashed 50 miles off Yamaha's lead overnight and has an average speed two
knots higher than Yamaha, but it is unlikely to be enough to win through.
The sole British entry, Reebok [Matthew Humphries, GB] has lost some
ground overnight to Intrum Justitia and chasing W60 Galicia 93 Pescanova
[Javier de la Gandara, ESP]. Galicia has enjoyed some of the highest
speeds of the fleet in the last 24 hours, posting an 18 knot average
between 0200-0800 GMT. Seventy-seven miles behind her, Brooksfield [Guido
Maisto, ITA], has been averaging 17.2 knots for the last three hours, the
highest of the fleet. Hetman Sahaidachny [Eugene Platon, UKR] has
overtaken the stricken Heineken, having offered to stand by her if needed.
The strong winds have given the crew of Odessa an eventful night when
their spinnaker pole broke. "The whole crew flew out of our bunks and
scrambled through a spaghetti twist of flying clothes, tools and personal
gear. We were on the deck in less than 30 seconds. Our watch leader, Corin
Mackenzie was the first person on deck and ran about half naked, surveying
the damage," wrote crewmember Rick Ott. "The damage was not as severe as
we had thought. Our spinnaker pole had snapped like a pretzel and the
jockeypole had been shot through the rigging and out to sea like a rocket.
After making minor repairs and several sail changes, we are again under
way and making good time."
For further press information please contact: Jennie Fitzhardinge, Press
Officer on Tel +44-489 799 000, Fax +44-489-790 153.
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| 2083.120 | | NEWOA::GIDDINGS_D | The third world starts here | Fri Jun 03 1994 12:27 | 9 |
| Tokio crossed the finish line a few minutes below, with Winston due to finish
about half an hour behind. It's lunchtime in Southampton and despite the
slightly earlier than expected finish, there is a large crowd at Ocean Village
to welcome them.
The 35 knot westerlies forecast for today are expected to ease off tomorrow,
but at least the leading boats will get a fast finish.
Dave
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| 2083.121 | Leg 6 finish | GVPROD::WENGER | Max Wenger @GEO | Sat Jun 04 1994 07:15 | 158 |
| 13414, 02:40 GMT, 04 Jun 1994
June 4, 1994. Leg Six, Day 15. Press Bulletin No.249
YAMAHA AND NEW ZEALAND ENDEAVOUR WIN THE WHITBREAD ROUND THE
WORLD RACE FOR THE HEINEKEN TROPHY
URUGUAY NATURAL ASSISTS HEINEKEN
The maxi New Zealand Endeavour [Grant Dalton, NZ] and the
Whitbread 60 Yamaha [Ross Field, NZ/JPN] have won their
respective classes of the Whitbread Round The World Race for the
Heineken Trophy. There are two separate classes in the 32,000
mile event, who race for their own Heineken Trophies which are
awarded to the boat in each class with the fastest elapsed time
around the world.
New Zealand Endeavour has set a new race record of 120 days, 05
hours, 09 minutes, 23 secs, some 8 days, 04 hours faster than
Steinlager 2's 1989-90 record. Dalton said he was delighted
with the result. "We have achieved everything that we wanted to
achieve," he said. "We have set a new record, we have won legs
and we were fastest around the world and it is all down to
people. I have a great crew, good boat and we were pushed by
fantastic competition."
Two hours before Dalton held his Heineken Trophy aloft, Yamaha's
skipper Ross Field was holding his. Yamaha was the third boat
to cross the line, behind leg winner Tokio [Chris Dickson,
NZ/JPN] and the second W60 Winston [Brad Butterworth, US].
Yamaha's accumulated time of 120 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes puts
her some 14 hours ahead of her nearest rival in the overall
standings, Intrum Justitia [Lawrie Smith, EUR] who finished at
17.17 GMT.
"It was terrifying," said Field of the last days. "I was
terrified all the way up the Solent that something would break -
that the rig would fall down - and we would not win! The men
are stuffed, I am stuffed, but tomorrow it will sink in that we
have won and then we will feel the elation and then it will be
history and we will be looking at the next race."
Line honours for the sixth leg went to Tokio [Chris Dickson,
NZ/JPN] who took a massive four days, four-and-a-half hours off
Steinlager 2's record of 17 days, 23 minutes. It was a
bittersweet victory for Dickson who, up until Tokio lost her
mast on the fifth leg, had been leading the race overall.
Those that braved the 45 knot winds and high seas of the Solent,
were treated to the magnificent sight of a W60 at full throttle.
Flying her spinnaker and with one reef in the main, Tokio was
touching 25-knots boat speed as she surfed the six foot swell.
When she crossed the line at 12:51:27 BST she set a new record
for the Fort Lauderdale - Southampton leg of 12 days, 19 hours,
36 mins, 27 secs - smashing Steinlager 2's record by four days,
four hours.
The docks were packed for each arrival with a large contingent
of New Zealanders giving a particularly warm welcome to the
first four boats, all of which are skippered by New Zealanders,
however, the warmest welcome was reserved for local hero Lawrie
Smith and his European crew.
Smith said he was not disappointed by his overall result. "Its
gone pretty well. We haven't won but we came second and all
things being equal that's OK. We could have won but we lost it
all in the lighter winds of leg five. The boat was too biased
towards strong winds. Yamaha did everything right and it paid
off for them - they spent three years preparing for the race
with a two boat campaign and they did well."
The second Maxi, Merit Cup [Pierre Fehlmann, SUI] finished at
19:30:35 BST, 21 hours, 41 mins, 24 secs behind New Zealand
Endeavour on combined time. At one stage of the leg, Merit Cup
had threatened New Zealand Endeavour's overall lead when she was
leading by 150 miles. "It was a very interesting leg," said
Fehlmann. "Then there was a high pressure system between us and
the finish, the other boats went north, we went south hoping to
find a window to get through, but when we got there it was
closed." Fehlmann said Merit Cup had lost the race on the first
leg. "We had bad luck then and a big time difference, all the
other legs were quite close."
URUGUAY NATURAL ASSISTS HEINEKEN
In an act of great seamanship, the Maxi Uruguay Natural [Gustavo
Vanzini, URU], passed an emergency rudder to the stricken W60
Heineken [Dawn Riley, US] who had lost her rudder in the early
hours of Thursday.
Uruguay Natural had diverted course at 1030 GMT to assist the
women. When they reached Heineken the wind was a strong 40
knots with 35 foot waves. Despite these extremely difficult
conditions Uruguay Natural managed to complete the transfer.
"At 1715 GMT we picked up a towing transfer rope, floating with
four lifejackets, from Heineken. Big waves made the operation
even more difficult," wrote Vanzini. "After three attempts we
secured the rope and initiated the transfer. We transferred two
big pieces of wood from our floor, and a complete spare rudder
with all the fittings to be installed on the hull, all floating
with three fenders and five life jackets."
Heineken still must fit the rudder and she is waiting for
conditions to abate before doing so. Riley says that once the
rudder is fitted Heineken will be able to make up to nine knots
and will arrive in Southampton within three days.
LA POSTE AND REEBOK ARRIVE
The French Maxi La Poste [Eric Tabarly, FRA] crossed the line at
22:50:59 GMT to claim third place in the Maxi division for the
leg and overall. She had been match racing with Merit Cup until
two days ago when the crew discovered that yet again, they were
afflicted by delamination.
"We think it might have been caused by the wild surfing of the
last few days," said navigator Joao Cabecadas. "This time it is
abaft of the area that delaminated on the fifth leg and more to
the bottom of the boat. If we hadn't had this problem we could
have had a good race with Merit."
English crew member Ivan Bunner said he was particularly pleased
to arrive on home ground again. "Even this morning we didn't
know if we would make it," said Bunner referring to the
delamination. "There were bigger waves in the English Channel
than we saw in the Southern Ocean but the wind was not as cold.
It's a shame we couldn't have a spinnaker up because of the
delamination."
The Whitbread Race Village gave the sole British entry, Reebok
[Matthew Humphries, GB], the most raucous welcome of the eight
boats to finish the Whitbread Round The World Race for the
Heineken Trophy. Reebok, formerly Dolphin & Youth, was the
fifth W60 to finish, crossing the line at 23:49:21 GMT. This is
her best result and the misfortune of the all-female crew on
Heineken may result in Reebok climbing a place to eighth in the
overall standings.
As the cheers and chanting drowned out the presentation of crew
medals, Humphries said that such a welcome made doing the race
worthwhile. "The crew has really done Britain proud," said
Humphries. "We have really stuck together as a team and, even
if we saved our best result to last, this is just a training run
for us. The average age of the crew is 23 and there are at
least two more Whitbreads in all of us. The next time we'll be
half as young as the other 'Whitbread veterans' and we will win
it."
STOP PRESS
Galicia 93 Pescanova [Javier de la Gandara, ESP] finished at
01:43:18 GMT.
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| 2083.122 | BT Race Results software on net | GVPROD::MAX333::wenger | Max Wenger @GEO | Fri Jun 17 1994 14:49 | 16 |
| I've put the PC s/w which was used to monitor the Whitbread progress on the
net (see below). Even after the Whitbread is over it's still usefull to get
longitude and latitude of every point (+/- a few thousand miles) of the
course which was sailed. Simply by moving the mouse around on the screen you
get the Long/Lat. of all central Europe, north/south american east cost,
south Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
The software is on 4 diskettes, of which image copies are on GVPROD::
D1.IMG;1 2883/2883 4-FEB-1994 09:30:06.00
D2.IMG;1 2883/2883 4-FEB-1994 09:37:44.00
D3.IMG;1 2883/2883 4-FEB-1994 09:39:42.00
D4.IMG;1 2883/2883 4-FEB-1994 09:41:20.00
Use diskimag.exe to restore onto diskettes, from which you can install.
If desirable I'll also post the race data.
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