Bowling along on final leg of Volvo OR

by Sacha Oswald on 16 Jun 2006 The six boats racing in the final stage of the Volvo Ocean Race from Rotterdam in Holland, to the finish in Gothenburg, Sweden are bowling along nicely upwind, doing 11 or 12 knots in eight knots of wind.

Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) leads the chase from Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) who is two miles astern and the fleet is now parallel with Terschelling, the third in the string of Friesland Islands on the corner of Holland, 17 miles off the coast.

The two Dutch yachts, ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) and ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) are struggling in the light upwind conditions, something that Brasil 1 has proved to be very good at. ABN AMRO ONE is now the yacht furthest seaward and Pirates of the Caribbean closest to the island shore. Ericsson (Neal McDonald) has now rejoined the pack and is positioned in the middle of the group.

LEG NINE DAY 01, 2200 GMT POSITION REPORT

Leg Standing	Yacht	Latitude	Longitude	Distance To Finish	Speed Made Good	Distance To Leader	Distance To Leader Change	Projected Leg Points	Estimated Time of Arrival	Projected Race Points	Projected Overall Standings
1	BRA1	53 44.90N	005 14.83E	00374	10.3	00000	+00000	7.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	69.0	3
2	POTC	53 42.32N	005 15.94E	00376	10.2	00002	+00000	6.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	72.0	2
3	AUS1	53 41.86N	005 13.69E	00377	09.9	00003	-00001	5.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	16.5	7
4	ERIC	53 41.31N	005 12.72E	00378	10.1	00004	-00001	4.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	56.0	4
5	ABN2	53 40.74N	005 13.63E	00378	10.1	00004	+00000	3.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	55.5	5
6	ABN1	53 42.51N	005 06.56E	00379	09.3	00005	-00004	2.0	17/06/06 11:__:__	96.0	1