Around the World of Sailing
24 April 2002
Event News: Volvo Atlantic Leg
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ap/0424/ms.htm
News Corp crew celebrates
©Rick Tomlinson
The Volvo Ocean Race's first spring leg concluded Thursday
off Baltimore. For the first time News Corp netted a leg
win. Also, for the first time illbruck has gone consecutive
legs without a win. The 8 boat fleet finished within 12
hours and 38 minutes with Amer Sports One 2nd and Assa Abloy
pipping illbruck for 3rd. Remaining finishing order: SEB,
Tyco, Djuice and Amer Sports Too.
The main affect of the leg on the standings was Tyco's fall
to 5th. illbruck still leads with Assa Abloy, Amer Sports
One and News Corp queuing and scrumming for 3rd.
First to Cape Hatteras as the sun sets, - that's not a Volvo boat either
©Nick White/newscorp
Now up is the final ocean crossing from to La Rochelle
France via the Chesapeake and North Atlantic 3400 miles.
Leg 7 starts this Sunday.
This leg will once again bring up the possibility of ice.
There will be a waypoint set to keep the fleet below 40°
north and the ice. Of this Grant Dalton says, "I'm not
convinced that we need to be protected from the ice to this
extent. It will be only a couple of days and there are not
hundreds of bergs."
Grant Dalton and 2nd place Amer Sports
© Carlo Borlenghi / SEA&SEE
The boats are expected to spend 13 days racing across the
Atlantic. With only 3 legs left the points get fewer and
the desire to gain them fiercer.
3rd place Assa Abloy leads illbruck
©Rick Tomlinson
Links:
Standings
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/result/leaderboard/
News Corp Wins
http://www.teamnewscorp.com/news/latest/tnc_Latest_News_Leg6/0,1534,830,00.html
Fanstone tries baseball
http://www.teamnewscorp.com/news/latest/tnc_Latest_News_Leg7/0,1535,832,00.html
Inner Harbor Marina
http://www.innerharbormarina.com/
Assa Abloy Sail News
http://www.assaabloyracingteam.com/verktygsladan/nyheter/nyheter_detaljbild.asp?id=321&inter=False
Jez Fanstone
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/custom/oceanrace/bal-sp.fanstone19apr19.story?coll=bal-sports-headlines
Theme Article: Securing your boat
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ap/0424/ms.htm
This article concludes our April theme series docking and
docklines.
The topic is securing your boat to the dock by tying to
cleats or posts.
When you come to a dock that features a horn cleat you will
want to use a cleat hitch. Start at the horn of the cleat
furthest from the load of the line. Start with a round turn
and then a figure 8 on the opposite horn. Finish with a
half hitch turned under to lock the line in place. This
simple method is all that is required. For more on this
see: http://www.boatsafe.com/marlinespike/cleathitch.htm
Two basic knots for tying to posts are the clove hitch and
the round turn and two half hitches.
The clove hitch can be used to secure a line to a post, or a
fender to a lifeline. An animated demonstration of a clove
hitch is at: http://www.goals.com/vyc/knots/clove.htm. To
tie it, make a loop around the piling, following with a
second loop that crosses over the first. Go around the
piling and tuck in the bitter end and the tighten. For
another clove hitch demonstration see:
http://www.cptdave.com/clove-hitch.html
The second knot is the round turn and half hitches. This is
a versatile knot that takes strain well and can be readily
untied. To tie make a round turn around the dock post, put
the bitter end over the working part, then throw in 2 half
hitches and tighten. For a visual demonstration see:
http://www.scoutingresources.org.uk/knots_roundturn.html
Next month's theme is safety. Next week's article will be
on Inflatable PFD's followed by required equipment, 1st aid
kits, EPIRB's and watches and gathering a personal safety kit.
Event News: Jules Verne Trophy
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ap/0424/ms.htm
The maxi cat Orange is on her 52nd day at sea. The 13 man
crew is near the equator on the north bound/home bound
Atlantic leg.
The past week was bi-polar for Orange. From Thursday
through Sunday she battled contrary winds. Daily distances
ranged from 252 on Saturday to 396 last Friday.
To escape contrary winds Bruno Peyron chose an abnormal
route. Rather than sailing along South America he put in a
1500 mile leg to the east. This carried Orange away from a
nasty low, but towards a high devoid of good wind.
About his routing choice Peyron said, "It's not obvious
following a course around 60° off the direct route for such
a long time but it's interesting to see the result! And the
result today is concrete: We're doing 24 knots along the
direct route and our little comrades (of The Race and the
Jules Verne Trophy) were beating along the Brazilian coast
at 9 knots at this latitude and I don't like beating." The
route increased the distance by 23%. Peyron adds onto his
strategy saying, "I prefer covering 200 miles at 20 knots
than 100 at 10 knots upwind?"
Once out of the high and into the trades Orange streaked
north. The last 3 days have seen distances of 520, 539 and
515 miles.
Latest estimates have Orange circling the globe in 64 to 66
days compared to Club Med's 62 in The Race. However, Orange
crossed the equator in 7 days outbound. Add 7 to today
which is day 52 and you get 59, perhaps the first sub 60 day
circumnavigation....
Links:
Orange
http://www.maxicatamaran-orange.com/site/en/index2.cfm
Outbound Equator Crossing
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ma/0313/ms.htm and
http://www.rowingreporter.com/linky/ma02/index.htm#11
Jules Verne Record
http://www.torresen.com/sailingrecords/jverne.htm
Estimate
http://www.sailing.org/makingwaves/makingwaves93/
Nick Moloney
http://www.nickmoloney.com
News: College Sailing Report
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ap/0424/ms.htm
College sailors nation wide continue to attempt to make it
to the Spring championships in co-ed dinghies, women's
dinghies and team racing. These will be sailed at the
University of Hawaii from 29 May to 7 June.
Harvard has retained it's #1 spot in the co-ed rankings.
They posted wins at the Boston Dinghy Cup and Friis Team
Racing regatta. At both regattas 3rd ranked Tufts finished
2nd.
Over the past weekend Harvard was 1st at the Thompson Cup
hosted by Connecticut College. 4th was Georgetown which the
2nd ranked team.
St. Mary's, Old Dominion and Brown are the top 3 ranked
women's teams. At the Dellenbaugh's Women's Trophy sailed
13-14 @ Brown, the teams finished in the order they were
ranked with St. Mary's 9 points ahead of Brown and Old
Dominion's B division team finishing 1st.
In the Midwest this weekend will see the Midwest Collegiate
Sailing Association's Team Race championship. Teams will
sail 420's at Minnesota with 2 national berths on the line.
On the 4th and 5th of May MCSA dinghy eliminations will be
hosted by Wisconsin, with teams again sailing 420's. Top 2
head to Hawaii for the nationals.
Links:
MCSA
http://mcsasail.org/
Nationals Berths
http://www.collegesailing.org/2002/berths.htm
Harvard Team
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sailing/
SMC Varsity Sailing
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sailing/
Team Racing
http://www.ustra.org/
North American's Info
http://uhathletics.hawaii.edu/Sail/hostinfo.html
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