April 19, 2002
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Tyco nips djuice with Amer Sports Too close behind
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is safely tucked away in Baltimore’s Inner Harbour.
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet is safely tucked away in Baltimore’s Inner Harbour.
The final three boats finished under the shadow of a giant thunderhead, the weather signalling the first break in the record-setting high temperatures on the American East Coast this week.
The final three boats in the fleet sailed their own private race over the last 36-hours, at times separated by just minutes on the position reports. But Kevin Shoebridge’s Team Tyco outduelled the others to claim sixth place on the leg-standings.
Amer Sports Too, led by Lisa McDonald, at times looked as though they might earn their first finish with at least one boat behind them on the water, but in the end, Knut Frostad and his djuice Dragons proved too quick in the light shifty conditions that dominated the final 24-hours of racing.
As djuice replaced Tyco on the arrival pontoon, and Amer Sports Too crossed the finishing line, the heavens opened and a flood of rain ushered McDonald’ s crew into the inner harbour.
Subject to possible protests, the final points table below leg six shows Assa Abloy chipping away one point at illbruck’s still formidable seven-point lead. Amer Sports One and Team News Corp. are holding close to Assa.
Leg Positions pending protests
| Position | Yacht | Elapsed Time | Combined Time | Overall |
| 1 | News Corp | 003d 13h 12m 32s | 110d 03h 43m 50s | 4 |
| 2 | Amer Sports One | 003d 13h 38m 48s | 107d 19h 07m 37s | 3 |
| 3 | Assa Abloy | 003d 13h 58m 44s | 110d 22h 14m 48s | 2 |
| 4 | Illbruck | 003d 14h 01m 44s | 106d 20h 57m 14s | 1 |
| 5 | Team SEB | 003d 21h 42m 23s | – | 6 |
| 6 | Team Tyco | 004d 01h 00m 18s | – | 5 |
| 7 | djuice | 004d 01h 10m 58s | 115d 08h 12m 47s | 6 |
| 8 | ATOO | 122d 13h 48m 07s | 9 |
Leaderboard
1illbruck 41 pts
2ASSA ABLOY34 pts
3Amer Sports One32 pts
4News Corp31 pts
5Tyco27 pts
6SEB21 pts
7DJCE21 pts
8Amer Sports Too 9 pts