Around the World of Sailing
20 February 2002
News: Leg 4 finish
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0220/ms.htm
illbruck's 3rd 1st place celebration
Credit: ©Rick Tomlinson Electronic Image
Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean race came to a slow finish in Rio
De Janeiro Brazil. After a fast and at times terrifying
spring across the Southern Ocean the boats rounded Cape and
Horn and headed north. Along the way News Corp's rudder
gave in, tactical options were employed. As the boats got
within a day of Rio there was a park up and positions 2 thru
5 were decided in the final hours.
2nd place Djuice enters Rio
Credit: ©Rick Tomlinson Electronic Image
illbruck was 1st for the 3rd time in 4 legs. This increased
their points lead to 7. This means they could finish last
in the next leg and at worse be tied for the lead.
Djuice came 2nd their best finish of the event. Djuice's
2nd came as a result of a call made by navigator Jean Yves
Bernot. Skipper Knut Frostad described it this way:
"[Bernot said] I don't have a clue whether it's going to go
wrong, but all my instincts say, go to the land, because if
something's going to come good, it will come from the land,
and we did it."
An hour back came Tyco into 3rd. Assa Abloy the only leg
winner besides illbruck was 4th. Amer Sports one, which had
been 2nd for most of the leg dropped to 5th in the end game
with Grant Dalton saying, "Three weeks in second and six
hours in fifth is a bit of a tough one."
From left : Bowe Bekking, Paul Cayard and Amer Sports One navigator Roger Nilsen very disappointed at their result in the leg 4
Credit: © Carlo Borlenghi / SEA&SEE Electronic Image
Still sailing are News Corp. trying to hold off Amer Sports
II for 6th place. illbruck now has a significant 7 point
lead over Amer Sports One. Assa Abloy moves to 3rd with 20,
then News with 19, Tyco with 18 and Djuice with 17. If
illbruck is the unbeatable class of the field, then the rest
of the boats still look to provide close racing all the way
to the finish.
News Corp's jury steering set up
Credit: ©Nick White
Links:
illbruck wins
http://www.illbruck-challenge.com/en/news/cgi-bin/showdetail.cgi?id=00558&b=challenge
Djuice's 2nd
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020219_djuicefin.html
Djuice is pink right down to the post it note!
Shoebridge on Tyco's 3rd
http://www.teamtyco.com/teamtyco/FullStory.jsp?story=1280
4th for Assa Abloy
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020219_assaarrival.html
Cayard's post race thoughts
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020219_amerarriverio.html
News Corp loses rudder
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020215_rudder.html
SEB Update
http://www.teamseb.com/teamseb/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=428&a=2485
Theme: Radar Part III
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0220/ms.htm
The past weeks we have looked at radar antennas and how to
mount them. Once they are secured and the antenna is on you
need a display to show you the results.
They Raytheon Pathfinder system has a number of display
options. These include single and dual station, LCD, full
color and more.
Most sailboats probably fall under a single station set up.
The display is mounted near the nav station.
Pathfinder displays come in 3 sizes. These are 7" and 10.4
inches.
The 7" display comes in either monochrome or color. This
display can also be purchased with a built in chart plotter
that uses C-Map cartridges.
The RL 80 series of displays is the 10.4" size. This RL 80
series is a full color VGA display. Again, a version with a
fully integrated chart plotter is available.
The most affordable display is the R70 7" CRT (think green
screen) display. This also can be integrated to a chart
plotter.
Links:Raymarine http://www.raymarine.com
Event News: IACC Regatta
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Four America's Cup teams have concluded 6 days of racing in
Auckland. They sailed 2 fleet races and match raced the
rest of the time. Conditions were mostly light and fluky.
This skewed the results of several races and curtailed the
match racing. Results were: 1. Team NZL 2. One World 3.
Victory Challenge 4. GBR.
Team New Zealand: When you have their track record it's new
when you lose a match as they did to One World. When they
matched up with Victory Challenge's new boat they won by
1:04.
One World: Both Peter Gilmour and James Spithill steered.
Their top achievement was a 1:06 victory over Team NZL.
Victory Challenge: Only team racing a new boat. Boat
appeared faster as it should, especially upwind. They were
especially displeased with their starts and downwind legs.
GBR Challenge: With only one match race win they claim to
be happy. The team wanted good starts, which they got from
Andy Beadsworth and Andy Green and sail well which they feel
they did.
Conclusion: Fairly meaningless. All challenging teams
involved have new boats building (One World IACC 65&67, GBR
IACC 70, Victory IACC 73) which will have much more
influence than this regatta.
Links:
LV Site
http://www.lvcup.com
GBR Satisfied:
http://www.gbrchallenge.com/gbr/default.asp?m=displayarticle&id=4373
Victory Challenge
http://www.victorychallenge.com/start.phtml?lang_id=1
One World Ships Boats to NZL
http://www.oneworldchallenge.com/news/archive/01232002/
Event News: Jules Verne Trophy
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http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0220/ms.htm
Last Thursday the maxi cat Orange crossed the starting line
set between Ushant Island (France's most western tip) and
Cape Lizard (GB).with first mover advantage. One half hour
later that edge was gone when Orange's mast tip broke off.
Orange crew Nick Maloney described it this way: "I was head
down at the time flaking the Gennaker Halyard for a drop
hopefully in 3 days time, when Kaboom! An enormous bang. I
knew it was the mast even before I looked skyward to see a
shower of carbon pieces blowing away with the wind. The top
mast had snapped right off."
This left the way open for the 110 foot trimaran Geronimo.
Monday morning Olivier de Kersauson and crew began their
record attempt.
Geronimo has watches named after sponsors with Yves
Pouillaude running the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young watch while
de Kersauson's other long term crewman Didier Ragot runs the
Schneider Electric watch.
On the third day out Geronimo has covered over a 1000 miles
and is already ahead of the record.
Meanwhile Orange's mast is being repaired at Multi Plast
boat yard. The current plan is for Orange to start a second
attempt by 10 March.
Links:
Orange
http://www.maxicatamaran-orange.com/site/en/index2.cfm
Geronimo Update
http://www.grandsrecords.com/ker/display.jsp?srv=rec&typ=docs&lang=en&cmd=view&style=styles/affdoc.xsl&select=DOC%5B@ID$eq$61%5D
Multi Plast
http://www.multiplast-yachts.com/
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