NZLYT Auckland Suva, Pussy Galore leads Premiers

by Sail-World on 5 Jun 2006 Pussy Galore the Cookson 50 skippered by Anatole Masfen continues to lead the Premier or racing division in the NZL Yachting Trust Auckland Suva race. She is eight miles ahead of her canting keel rival – the Elliott 50, Sportivo (Wayne Tomlinson).

Both yachts are making excellent progress now that the headwinds and big seas have moderated and swung. However the margin between them has changed little since the last sked.

The reports from the yachts in the Cruising divisions indicated that they had WSW winds. Trance reported a southerly at about 20 knots, and all yachts were expected to start starting to Fiji.

Bullrush was flying a small spinnaker.

Race organisers expect the winds to shift to SSW and blow at about 15 knots which should make an easy ride.

Truxton which withdrew from the race for unknown reasons arrived home early this morning

NZL Yachting Trust 2006 Auckland-Fiji Race - Boats' Positions

Use this page to view the boats' positions at each radio sched time during the 2006 race.

Boats in the Premier Division are only shown after the morning sched on Sunday 4 June.

Two boats, A Southern Man AGD and Truxton, have withdrawn from racing; all other boats are racing. At the morning and evening sched on Monday 5 June, Maeva had transmission problems and their position could not be read.

Boats' positions at Mon 05 Jun 2006 18:40

Name	Lat	Long	Covered	To Finish	ETA
Archon	24°09'S	178°05'E	781	376	Thu 08 Jun 06:45
Aurora Lights	25°55'S	179°32'E	699	496	Fri 09 Jun 11:09
Bullrush	30°26'S	175°40'E	388	755	Sat 10 Jun 01:17
Drina	31°09'S	175°57'E	347	797	Sat 10 Jun 19:36
Hot Shot	23°51'S	177°12'E	790	355	Thu 08 Jun 02:42
Kaitorete	23°34'S	177°49'E	812	340	Wed 07 Jun 22:49
Lady Mink	25°40'S	176°49'E	679	465	Fri 09 Jun 07:59
Lion New Zealand	29°56'S	176°48'E	427	721	Fri 09 Jun 11:34
Pussy Galore	28°22'S	176°19'E	515	628	Thu 08 Jun 10:56
Quintessence	23°47'S	177°22'E	795	351	Thu 08 Jun 01:43
Skiddy Too	31°27'S	176°11'E	331	813	Sun 11 Jun 04:00
Sportivo	28°30'S	176°20'E	507	636	Thu 08 Jun 12:44
Tomodachi	22°27'S	176°52'E	871	272	Wed 07 Jun 09:34
Touchstone	31°18'S	175°44'E	336	807	Sun 11 Jun 00:58
Trance	22°36'S	177°11'E	864	280	Wed 07 Jun 11:04
Uncle Arthur	26°07'S	177°46'E	662	492	Fri 09 Jun 15:24
Wild Card	29°56'S	177°29'E	436	721	Fri 09 Jun 09:40
Wright One	25°30'S	177°06'E	691	454	Fri 09 Jun 04:35

NZL Yachting Trust 2006 Auckland-Fiji Race - Average Speeds

Two boats, A Southern Man AGD and Truxton, have withdrawn from racing; all other boats are racing. At the morning and evening sched on Monday 5 June, Maeva had transmission problems and their position could not be read.

Name	Last 12 hours	Last 24 hours	Since start
Archon	77nm at 6.4kt	155nm at 6.5kt	781nm at 6.3kt
Aurora Lights	177nm at 14.8kt	147nm at 6.1kt	699nm at 5.6kt
Bullrush	110nm at 9.2kt	203nm at 8.5kt	388nm at 7.4kt
Drina	75nm at 6.3kt	191nm at 8.0kt	347nm at 6.6kt
Hot Shot	82nm at 6.8kt	162nm at 6.8kt	790nm at 6.3kt
Kaitorete	84nm at 7.0kt	159nm at 6.6kt	812nm at 6.5kt
Lady Mink	76nm at 6.3kt	275nm at 11.5kt	679nm at 5.4kt
Lion New Zealand	121nm at 10.1kt	232nm at 9.7kt	427nm at 8.1kt
Pussy Galore	150nm at 12.5kt	274nm at 11.4kt	515nm at 9.8kt
Quintessence	82nm at 6.8kt	167nm at 7.0kt	795nm at 6.4kt
Skiddy Too	93nm at 7.8kt	187nm at 7.8kt	331nm at 6.3kt
Sportivo	150nm at 12.5kt	277nm at 11.5kt	507nm at 9.6kt
Tomodachi	81nm at 6.8kt	168nm at 7.0kt	871nm at 7.0kt
Touchstone	96nm at 8.0kt	185nm at 7.7kt	336nm at 6.4kt
Trance	81nm at 6.8kt	165nm at 6.9kt	864nm at 6.9kt
Uncle Arthur	71nm at 5.9kt	134nm at 5.6kt	662nm at 5.3kt
Wild Card	122nm at 10.2kt	233nm at 9.7kt	436nm at 8.3kt
Wright One	78nm at 6.5kt	155nm at 6.5kt	691nm at 5.5kt