Fila © Foto Marek SlodownikHurricane Georges rammed into Biloxi, Mississippi on this morning. Reports showed a wind gust up to 172 MPH! Hurricane Karl has become extra-tropical storm as it headed for Europe and Jeanne was going to weakening more as it accelerated to northeast. None were a concern to the fleet at this time. Weather recommendations to the fleet was to continue just south of east course and north of 31N - to avoid high pressure and light winds around 29N and 73W.
Fila © Foto Marek Slodownik
Giovanni Soldini's Class I entry FILA was the northernmost boat in the entire fleet. While the other skippers went to the south, Soldini was flying along at well over 10 knots, a result of the proximity of a cold front. But despite that he was still fifth in his class.
Team Group 4 © Foto Marek Slodownik
At the top of the Class I was English skipper Mike Golding on Team Group 4. He was able to pass yesterday's class leader Isabelle Autissier and Marc Thiercelin. Today, both fell behind, to be followed by Josh Hall, Sebastian Reidl and Fedor Konioukhov.
Cray Valley © Billy Black
In Class II, J.P. Mouligne was ahead of Mike Garside and Brad Van Liew. Like Soldini, Mouligne was the farthest north in his class. But only time would tell if that was a good move.
Michael Garside mentioned in his E-mail that he misread JP's position. Thinking JP was way behind, he let him haul out to the left of the fleet, where Michael knew he himself should be. In trying to get back into contact with him he gave up 20 valuable miles. Only then did his Magellan Alpha reached the light airs that she likes more than Cray Valley does. He has been able to cut Mouligne's lead to 7 miles.
No Barriers © Foto Billy Black
Neal Petersen was making 5 knots under a spinnaker. He was slowly settling down to life at sea when some ship woke him up as she entered his radar guard zone. Then he got a problem with COMSAT-C communication. It jammed and would not transmit. Neal came to the conclusion that the technology is great only when it works. Even with the shore help he could not solve the problem. It started working only after re-powering. Nobody could figure why?
Place |
Skipper |
Boat |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Dist. to go |
Speed |
Dist. to first |
Time |
1 |
Golding |
Team Group 4 |
31 26N |
072 26W |
6453 |
7.6 |
0 |
1540 |
2 |
Austissier |
PRB |
31 28N |
072 26W |
6453 |
7.6 |
0.9 |
1540 |
3 |
Thiercelin |
Somewhere |
31 21N |
072 56W |
6473 |
7.2 |
20.2 |
1540 |
4 |
Hall |
Gartmore Inv Mg |
31 46N |
072 45W |
6477 |
7.1 |
24.3 |
1540 |
5 |
Soldini |
Fila |
32 47N |
073 00W |
6518 |
8.3 |
65.1 |
1540 |
6 |
Reidl |
Project Amazon |
32 41N |
073 48W |
6550 |
5.6 |
97.5 |
1540 |
7 |
Konioukhov |
Mod Univ Human |
30 35N |
075 57W |
6587 |
4.8 |
134 |
1540 |
Place |
Skipper |
Boat |
Latitude |
Longitude |
Dist. to go |
Speed |
Dist. to first |
Time |
1 |
Mouligne |
Cray Valley |
31 37n |
072 48W |
6474 |
7.2 |
0 |
1544 |
2 |
Garside |
Magellan Alpha |
30 58N |
073 38W |
6493 |
6.8 |
18.1 |
1544 |
3 |
Van Liew |
Balance Bar |
31 07N |
073 45W |
6502 |
6.6 |
27.7 |
1544 |
4 |
Davie |
South Carolina |
31 36N |
073 31W |
6506 |
6.5 |
31.5 |
1544 |
5 |
Saito |
Shuten-dohji II |
31 54N |
073 39W |
6521 |
6.2 |
46.4 |
1544 |
6 |
Petersen |
No Barriers |
31 25N |
074 11W |
6530 |
6 |
55.9 |
1544 |
7 |
Stricker |
Rapscallion III |
31 35N |
074 16W |
6539 |
5.8 |
64.4 |
1606 |
8 |
Hunter |
Paladin II |
32 24N |
077 51W |
6723 |
2 |
248.8 |
1544 |
9 |
Yazykov |
Wind of Change Rus |
32 51N |
079 56W |
6829 |
0 |
354.5 |
1544 |
© Richard Konkolski
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