Second rough night in NZLYT Auckland Suva Race

by Sail-World NZL on 4 Jun 2006 Competitors in the NZL Yachting Trust Auckland Fiji Race face another rough night, except that they will probably be hard on the wind on port tack instead of starboard.

Race Director, Fendall Halliburton told Sail-World that conditions in the Race Fleet were likely to be 30knot winds with four to six metre seas (about 20ft).

Tomorrow winds were expected to go around to the south west, but still remain very fresh.

We are not expecting to see single digit windspeeds until Tuesday at the earliest, said Halliburton.

While conditions were very tough in the race are, there no reports of serious damage, however daily runs were down. Truxton is the seond boat to withdraw, after A Southern man AGD pulled out just after the start with steering problems. the The conditions were expected to improve as the wind swung and the runs would improve dramatically as the boats started reaching.

Ahead of the Racing fleet, the Corinthian and Bula fleets had enjoyed more moderate conditions after starting on Wednesday. The boats at the tail-end of this group were experiencing light winds as the breeze clocked.

In the Racing Group, Pussy Galore, the Cookson 50 is leading the Elliott 50 Sportivo, by about 11 miles, with the former Whitbread maxi, Lion New Zealand in third place on line. Pussy Galore is also the only boat to crack the 10kt average for the past 12 hours.

For further information see www.rayc-live.org.nz/Fiji2006/

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

A Southern Man AGD and Truxton have withdrawn from racing.

Boats' positions at Sun 04 Jun 2006 18:40

Previous sched

Name	Lat	Long	Covered	To Finish	ETA
Archon	26°44'S	178°09'E	631	531	Thu 08 Jun 07:24
Aurora Lights	28°20'S	179°04'E	555	633	Fri 09 Jun 13:31
Bullrush	33°49'S	175°28'E	185	958	Sat 10 Jun 23:14
Drina	34°18'S	175°28'E	156	987	Mon 12 Jun 07:38
Hot Shot	26°33'S	177°13'E	630	517	Thu 08 Jun 05:16
Kaitorete	26°12'S	178°10'E	662	499	Wed 07 Jun 22:34
Lady Mink	30°15'S	176°42'E	407	740	Mon 12 Jun 09:34
Lion New Zealand	33°42'S	175°46'E	195	950	Sat 10 Jun 14:27
Maeva	26°49'S	177°45'E	621	534	Thu 08 Jun 09:18
Pussy Galore	32°50'S	175°11'E	242	901	Fri 09 Jun 05:30
Quintessence	26°34'S	177°13'E	629	518	Thu 08 Jun 05:34
Skiddy Too	34°30'S	175°23'E	144	999	Tue 13 Jun 01:57
Sportivo	33°03'S	175°29'E	230	912	Fri 09 Jun 12:08
Tomodachi	25°15'S	176°49'E	704	440	Wed 07 Jun 09:33
Touchstone	34°21'S	175°16'E	152	991	Mon 12 Jun 13:58
Trance	25°21'S	177°10'E	701	445	Wed 07 Jun 10:37
Uncle Arthur	28°21'S	177°52'E	533	626	Fri 09 Jun 16:58
Wild Card	33°36'S	176°00'E	204	943	Sat 10 Jun 07:26
Wright One	28°05'S	177°16'E	541	609	Fri 09 Jun 12:07

 

NZL Yachting Trust 2006 Auckland-Fiji Race - Average Speeds

Name	Last 12 hours	Last 24 hours	Since start
Archon	64nm at 5.3kt	142nm at 5.9kt	631nm at 6.3kt
Aurora Lights	39nm at 3.3kt	120nm at 5.0kt	555nm at 5.5kt
Bullrush	85nm at 7.1kt		185nm at 6.5kt
Drina	81nm at 6.8kt		156nm at 5.4kt
Hot Shot	82nm at 6.8kt	162nm at 6.8kt	630nm at 6.3kt
Kaitorete	77nm at 6.4kt	159nm at 6.6kt	662nm at 6.6kt
Lady Mink	68nm at 5.7kt	34nm at 1.4kt	407nm at 4.0kt
Lion New Zealand	93nm at 7.8kt		195nm at 6.8kt
Maeva	88nm at 7.3kt	160nm at 6.7kt	621nm at 6.2kt
Pussy Galore	121nm at 10.1kt		242nm at 8.4kt
Quintessence	78nm at 6.5kt	155nm at 6.5kt	629nm at 6.2kt
Skiddy Too	73nm at 6.1kt		144nm at 5.0kt
Sportivo	118nm at 9.8kt		230nm at 8.0kt
Tomodachi	71nm at 5.9kt	154nm at 6.4kt	704nm at 7.0kt
Touchstone	76nm at 6.3kt		152nm at 5.3kt
Trance	80nm at 6.7kt	154nm at 6.4kt	701nm at 7.0kt
Uncle Arthur	58nm at 4.8kt	133nm at 5.5kt	533nm at 5.3kt
Wild Card	104nm at 8.7kt		204nm at 7.1kt
Wright One	66nm at 5.5kt	138nm at 5.8kt	541nm at 5.4kt

NB Yachts with only  a 12hr speed are in the Racing Fleet which left on Saturday afternoon, the others started on Wednesday afternoon, NZT