Reaching and running conditions for the whole fleet
Finally, after 12 days of racing, the northern group in La Solidaire du Chocolat fleet have found fast reaching conditions. Overnight, the breeze shifted southerly and in the 0800 GMT position poll this morning, the boats are picking up the pace with Tanguy de Lamotte and Adrien Hardy on Initiatives-Novedia furthest south in second place making the best average at 10.5 knots, currently 24 miles behind the race leader, Giovanni Soldini and Pietro d'Ali on Telecom Italia. Trailing the leader by 62 miles, Damien Seguin and Armel Tripon in 3rd on Cargill-MTTM and Bruno Jourdren and Bernard Stamm on Cheminées Poujoulat in 4th are separated by under one mile.
In the southern trio of Class40s, Erik Nigon and Marc Jouany on Axa Atout Coeur Pour Aides overtook David Consorte and Aubry Arnaud on Adriatech when Consorte and Arnaud made the decision to dive south on Friday night as the boats finally dug into the North-East Trade Winds. Nigon and Jounay currently hold 13th place, with Adriatech in 15th while Mike West and Paul Worswick in 16th on Keysource are furthest north in the trio and are averaging the fleet’s highest speed at just over 11 knots.
Publié le 31/10/2009 11:02
