Lousy Lumpy Seas

Being about 230 miles away from land the yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race are all trying to get their bow as far West as possible for the expected change in wind direction.

As the yachts are still very close together, getting into the wind shift half an hour later than the opposition could decide about being in front or behind. Assa Abloy, sacrificed pointing in order to speed up. This puts pressure on illbruck, Tyco and Amer Sports One to follow for not losing control on Assa Abloy. What we can see in the open Atlantic right now is pure fleet racing “boat to boat tactics”, pure, intense and determined.

Team News Corp are still furthest to the west and on distance to the finish just 14 miles behind even though their straight line distance to illbruck is about twice as much. SEB and Amer Sports Too are in between and to the East.

Djuice is opting for a different track, sailing higher than everybody else and after crossing the other yachts track, still making more way to the South than anybody else. As this is all about weather and probabilities of anticipated wind changes, djuice’s tactician, the French weather guru Jean Yves Bernot might have found something different.

Position Report Day 5, 1600 GMT

PSYachtLatitude LongitudeDTFCMGSMGTFHRDTLDTL-C ETA PO
1ILBK40 50.40N013 53.16W0653323409.72320000000.023 OCT 01 8
2TYCO40 51.64N013 50.24W0653523109.62300000200.023 OCT 01 7
3AONE40 55.40N013 56.40W0653723309.523200004-00.223 OCT 01 6
4AART40 59.96N014 00.64W0653923109.12370000600.223 OCT 01 5
5NEWS41 12.76N014 14.44W0654723909.42340001400.323 OCT 01 4
6TSEB41 11.60N013 53.04W0655223309.523000019-00.223 OCT 01 3
7ATOO41 22.72N013 35.60W0656824109.323100035-00.223 OCT 01 2
8DJCE41 14.52N012 57.84W0657323811.22300004000.523 OCT 01 1

PS – Position; DTF – Distance to Finish; CMG – Course made good; SMG – Speed made good; TFHR – 24 hours run; DTL – Distance to leader; DTL-C – Distance to leader change in kn; ETA – Estimated time of arrival; PO – Points; ND – No data

ILBKillbruck Challenge
AONE Amer Sports One
ATOOAmer Sports Two
AARTASSA ABLOY Racing Team
NEWSNews Corporation
TYCOTeam Tyco
TSEBTeam SEB
DJCEdjuce dragons