© Photo Richard Konkolski
© Photo Richard Konkolski
A passing by tropical cyclone Dani stirred the region and Neal and Minoru were blessed with some wind. Neal reported: "I have wind. Can you believe it, after 110 hours I am off sailing again… The winds are 25 knots, sometimes close to 30 knots. What a contrast to yesterday. My last 24-hour run was 39 miles. Minoru managed to get some wind and while I was doing 0.2 knots going northwest, he managed to open a lead of 34 miles on me. These are his conditions, so I might have to bow to the old man of the sea on this leg… Even Neil Hunter has been able to close up his gap and now trails me by 260 miles. So it looks like 5 or 6 days to go if I can keep the wind."
Minoru Saito © Photo Marek Slodownik 
By the end of the day Minoru gained another 10 miles on Neal and let him stay behind a full 49 miles. Saito had still 414 miles to go. Robin Davie, 1673 miles from finish, had a day of light winds and near calm, warm sunshine, and no gear failures or dramas. "It's quite unbelievable," he wrote, "here we are at nearly 49 degrees south enjoying as nice a day as you could wish for anywhere - but then we are at the same latitude south as Seattle WA, or Cornwall UK, and even they have nice days... " The situation was not good for Robin. With his distance to the finish line he would have to average at least 186 miles a day to come in time.
Konioukhov was also making progress. He was left with 941 miles to go and he was making nice 10 knots of speed. This left him with the average of 105 miles a day to cover in order to finish on time. Hopefully the wind would blow over the Tasman Sea for some time.
© Photo Richard Konkolski
Place |
Skipper |
Boat |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Dist. to go |
Speed |
Dist. to first |
Time |
1 |
Soldini |
Fila |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Thierceli |
Somewhere |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
Autissier |
PRB |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Hall |
Gartmore |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
Konioukhov |
Mod.Univ.Human. |
38 57S |
157 45E |
941 |
10 |
941.4 |
1901 |
6 |
Golding |
Team Group 4 |
Retired |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Place |
Skipper |
Boat |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Dist. to go |
Speed |
Dist. to first |
Time |
1 |
Mouligne |
Cray Valley |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Garside |
Magellan Alpha |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
Van Liew |
Balance Bar |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Yazykov |
Wind of Change |
Auckland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
Saito |
Shuten-dohji II |
36 57S |
168 52E |
414 |
8 |
413.6 |
2144 |
6 |
Petersen |
No Barriers |
37 20S |
167 55E |
463 |
6.7 |
463.4 |
2144 |
7 |
Hunter |
Paladin II |
39 18S |
163 01E |
722 |
5.9 |
721.9 |
2144 |
8 |
Davie |
South Carolina |
46 56S |
143 52E |
1673 |
5.2 |
1672.5 |
2144 |
9 |
Stricker |
Rapscallion III |
Retired |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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