Leaders are less than 1000nm from Cape Town on Day 18 of the Volvo OR

by Lizzie Green, Volvo OR Media on 30 Nov 2005 Leading the fleet, ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) and the youngsters on the second team boat ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) now have less than a 1000 miles to sail to Cape Town.

Based on their current speed, the estimated finish will be in the early hours of Thursday morning, while third place Brasil 1 could finish later that night.

Sunergy and Friends still have 2539 miles to run and their arrival into Cape Town is looking like 7 December, but they are still too far away to predict this with any accuracy.

LEG ONE DAY 18, 29.11.05, 1000 GMT POSITION REPORT
Yacht Latitude Longitude DTF CMG SMG DTL DTLC LPTS ETA Overall
1 ABN1 35 17.17S 002 04.15E 00813 097 18.3 00000 +00000 7.0 01/12/05 05:37:__ 1
2 ABN2 35 17.36S 000 31.06W 00940 102 18.2 00127 -00002 6.0 01/12/05 15:00:__ 4
3 BRA1 35 07.56S 002 34.24W 01040 096 18.2 00227 +00001 5.0 01/12/05 19:05:__ 2
4 ERIC 35 01.44S 004 13.72W 01122 101 14.4 00309 -00023 4.0 02/12/05 13:13:__ 2
5 SUNF 27 03.15S 030 27.18W 02539 164 13.0 01726 -00061 3.0 07/12/05 03:13:__ 5
6 MOVI 37 07.64N 008 31.80W - - - - - - - -
7 POTC 38 41.54N 009 24.95W - - - - - - - -

ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
BRA1 Brasil 1
SUNF Sunergy and Friends
ERIC Ericsson Racing Team
MOVI movistar
POTC Pirates of the Caribbean

DTF: Distance to finish, CMG: Course made good, SMG: Speed made good, DTL: distance to leader, DTLC: distance to leader change; the difference between the distance from the boat to the leader taken at the time of the last six hour poll, and the distance from the boat to the leader at the previous poll, LPTS: leg points, OVERALL: position in race overall if yacht maintains current position.
http://www.volvooceanrace.org/racedatacentre/positionmaps/