Movistar on Melbourne waterfront

by VOR media/Sail-World on 22 Jan 2006 Slow progress this morning on the race track as movistar (Bouwe Bekking) edges their way towards the Melbourne finish line at what must seem like a snail’s pace in time for Sunday lunch.

Movistar’s estimated time of arrival has been swinging back and forth for the last 24 hours with the wind as it dies and picks up again. She has gone through Port Phillip Head is making her way up to Mornington, 21 miles from the finish, but since she turned towards Mornington, her speed has dropped to five knots.

She is currently expected to cross the finish line off Williamstown, Melbourne around Sunday lunch time (13:00 Melbourne time) 0200 GMT tomorrow morning.

Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) still has 407 miles to the finish and are currently doing 11 knots in 17 knots of wind, 220 miles off the coast.

ING Real Estate Brunel has 746 miles to run and will be the final boat to finish this leg in their home port of Melbourne. They have 14 knots of boat speed in 17 knots of breeze and sailing a much more northerly course than the course the rest of the fleet took, 500 nm from the Australian coast.

Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) has officially retired from leg two and is partly sailing and partly motoring towards Fremantle, Western Australia. The team had originally hoped to make it to the scoring gate at Eclipse Island, but it was going to take too long. They are expecting to pick up a tow from a fishing vessel sometime in the next 24 hours and the crew has already started to remove all the fittings from the broken rig, The boat will be shipped by road to Melbourne. .

LEG TWO DAY 20, 21.1.06, 2200 GMT POSITION REPORT

YACHT SGPTS LPTS TLPTS RPTD FINISH TIME (GMT) ELAPSED TIME OVERALL

1 ABN1 7 7.0 14.0 29 21/01/06 09:08:40 018d 22h 08m 40s 1

2 ABN2 6 6 12 24 21/01/06 13:20:23 019d 02h 20m 23s 2


YACHT LAT LONG DTF SMG 24 Hour Run 24 Hour Speed DTL DTLC SGPTS PLPTS PTLPTS POP ETA OVERALL

3 MOVI 38 18.77S 144 55.54E 00029 07.3 198 08.3 00000 +00000 4.5 5.0 9.5 15.5 22/01/06 02:05:59 3

4 POTC 41 03.32S 137 36.32E 00407 09.3 228 09.5 00378 +00001 4.5 4.0 8.5 13.5 23/01/06 07:29:51 5

5 AUS1 38 11.70S 129 53.17E 00746 17.9 386 16.1 00717 +00026 3 3.0 6.0 11.0 24/01/06 15:20:10 7

6 BRA1 RTD - - - - - - - - - 14.5 - 4

7 ERIC RTD - - - - - - - - - 12.5 - 6