Tense Final Moments in Dying Breeze
ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) is leading the Volvo Ocean Race in the last push to the finish line in Gothenburg, Sweden, but the wind has dropped and they are sailing at less than one knot while the nearest boat, Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) is closing and still managing five knots. Cayard is now within a mile of the Dutch boat and Brasil 1 is only three miles behind her. Both boats still have wind and therefore speed.
“It’s a nervous time here on ABN AMRO TWO,” wrote navigator Simon Fisher this morning. “We are ghosting through the water at the head of the fleet and we are praying that we have enough breeze to carry us over the finish.”
The finish is only 17 miles away and the finish order is by no means certain.
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