‘Ouch, that hurt’ as front hits Volvo OR

by Lizzie Green on 9 Jan 2006 The front that has been threatening to roll over the fleet during the night has had a devastating effect on movistar (Bouwe Bekking), causing massive losses. Early this morning Bekking wrote, ‘Ouch, that hurt. The fear of not being able to hang on to the front has come true. The predictions were wrong and were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.’

ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) on the other hand, seems to be in exactly the right place and her average speed has rocketed up to 21.4 knots. Bekking will be feeling a little better now as movistar picks up the pace to 16.8, while Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard), who has managed to keep ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) at bay, are both averaging 12.5 knots.

The loser now is ING Real Estate Brasil (Grant Wharington) as this team feels the effects of the front which has knocked them back to an eight knot average.

LEG TWO DAY 7, 8.1.06, 1000 GMT POSITION REPORT
YACHT Latitude Longitude DTF SMG 24 Hour Run 24 Hour Speed DTL DTLC ETA TLPTS RPTD RACE POS
1 ABN1 41 55.44S 052 17.42E 04390 21.4 383 15.9 00000 +00000 23/01/06 __:__:__ 7.0 22.0 1
2 POTC 41 32.38S 049 46.51E 04505 12.5 320 13.3 00115 -00060 25/01/06 __:__:__ 6.0 11.0 5
3 ABN2 41 26.82S 049 38.06E 04512 12.5 319 13.3 00122 -00059 25/01/06 __:__:__ 5.0 17.0 2
4 MOVI 41 01.78S 048 43.45E 04557 16.8 329 13.7 00167 -00037 26/01/06 __:__:__ 4.0 10.0 6
5 AUS1 43 46.48S 046 05.62E 04707 08.0 288 12.0 00317 -00080 28/01/06 __:__:__ 3.0 8.0 7
6 BRA1 33 57.96S 025 38.06E 05736 00.0 000 00.0 01346 -00128 20/04/06 __:__:__ 2.0 14.5 3
7 ERIC 33 57.54S 025 37.95E 05737 00.0 000 00.0 01347 -00128 20/04/06 __:__:__ 1.0 12.5 4

ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
AUS1 ING Real Estate Brunel
BRA1 Brasil 1
ERIC Ericsson Racing Team
MOVI movistar
POTC Pirates of the Caribbean

DTF: Distance to finish, 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 at first scoring gate

TLPTS: total leg points to date inc. scoring gate points if yacht maintains current position

RPTD: Race points to date inc. in-port race points, scoring gate points and leg points the yacht would score if yacht maintains current position.

OVERALL: position in race overall if yacht maintains current position.