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Harding and Merron approach the finish
This morning, another Class40 completed La Solidaire du Chocolat race with the Chilean duo of Felipe Cubillos and Daniel Bravo Silva on Desafio Cabo de Hornos crossing the finish line off Progreso at 0218 GMT in 6th place. At 0800 GMT today, the British duo of Peter Harding and Miranda Merron in 7th on 40 Degrees have just a handful of miles remaining to the finish line. In 8th place, Jacques Fournier and Jean-Edouard Criquioche on Groupe Picoty remain isolated in the Yucatan Basin with 180 miles remaining until they sight Cape Catoche on the eastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and currently maintain a 184 mile lead over Denis Lazat and Frédéric Nouel in PLAN holding 9th place.
The two groups in the trailing pack are now regrouping south of Cuba after the different options presented by Jamaica. Lazat and Nouel still lead the group having left Jamaica to starboard with a 38 mile lead over Erik Nigon and Marc Jouany in 10th on Axa Atout Coeur Pour Aides who opted for the northern route. Averaging just under 10 knots at 0800 GMT this morning, Nigon and Jouany are enjoying the stable conditions. “It is really good to be moving again,” reports Erik Nigon this morning. “It’s a great pleasure to have the feel of spray on your face and your hand on the mainsheet, constantly trimming or easing by a few centimetres. We really started to miss this kind of sailing.” Weather models suggest that the group of five boats west of Jamaica should remain in 10-15 knots of north-easterly breeze for the next 48 hours. “The breeze in the Caribbean has rarely conformed to the weather model predictions,” adds Nigon. “But it now appears to be behaving itself.”
On Monday afternoon, Mike West and Paul Worswick on Keysource in the southern group briefly overtook Axa Atout Coeur Pour Aides, but the British duo have slipped back to 11th place although just 12 miles now separates West and Worswick from Nigon and Jouany in terms of Distance to Finish. Trailing Keysource by 46 miles having left Jamaica to starboard, the Franco-Mexican team of Patrice Carpentier and Victor Maldonado in 12th on Crédit Maritime hold a 77 mile lead over David Consorte and Aubry Arnaud on Adriatech who sailed very close to the northern coast of Jamaica in the early hours of this morning.
Meanwhile, the breeze has finally arrived for Stephen Card and Shaun Murphy on ORBIS, south-east of Jamaica. Card and Murphy remained stalled in light airs making averages of below three knots until the breeze finally arrived this morning and the British duo are currently on starboard gybe making slightly under ten knots having committed to the route south of Jamaica.
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