Mapfre closing once again

Mapfre on the charge as GAES jumps from ninth to sixth in the Barcelona World Race

Monday March 14th 2011, Author: James Boyd, Location: none selected

Image above courtesy of Expedition Navigation Systems and PredictWind. If you can't see the whole of the table below (this depends which browser you use), scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Pos Crew Boat Lat Long Spd Crs VMG Dist DTF DTL
          Inst   24 hours      
1 Jean Pierre Dick - Loick Peyron VIRBAC-PAPREC 3 13 47.09' S 27 00.44' W 10.7 353 8.1 194.3 3779.3 0
2 Iker Martinez - Xabi Fernandez MAPFRE 20 10.98' S 24 59.57' W 10.5 342 8.6 209.6 4127 347.8
3 Pachi Rivero - Antonio Piris RENAULT Z.E Sailing Team 35 26.38' S 43 40.33' W 9.7 44 6.2 148.1 5318.2 1538.9
4 Boris Herrmann - Ryan Breymaier NEUTROGENA FORMULA NORUEGA 38 53.64' S 44 29.06' W 13.2 47 11.8 283.6 5519.5 1740.2
5 Alex Pella - Pepe Ribes ESTRELLA DAMM Sailing Team 40 29.93' S 45 20.64' W 8 62 8.5 208.4 5623.2 1843.9
6 Dominique Wavre - Michele Paret MIRABAUD 45 23.97' S 52 49.81' W 5.1 320 -0.4 -9.4 6044.9 2265.7
7 Dee Caffari - Anna Corbella GAES CENTROS AUDITIVOS 46 49.41' S 55 31.09' W 17.1 52 13.4 321.1 6179 2399.7
8 Wouter Verbraak - Andy Meiklejohn HUGO BOSS 52 08.07' S 59 06.10' W 0.1 281 2.7 63.7 6516.9 2737.7
9 Gerard Marin - Ludovic Aglaor FORUM MARITIM CATALA 49 06.65' S 109 31.33' W 14.5 117 10 240.9 8450 4670.7
10 Jaume Mumbru - Cali Sanmarti WE ARE WATER 46 29.45' S 159 29.84' W 11.9 55 10.7 256.5 10409.1 6629.8
11 Juan Merediz - Fran Palacio CENTRAL LECHERA ASTURIANA 41 17.42' S 174 47.14' E 0 254 0   11550.3 7771
ABD Kito de Pavant - Sebastien Audigane GROUPE BEL                
ABD Michel Desjoyeaux - Francois Gabart FONCIA                
ABD Jean le Cam - Bruno Garcia PRESIDENT                

They have 3790 miles left to go but Virbac Paprec 3, which at the latest sched is level with Salvador, Brazil, is looking in increasingly good shape to take victory in the second Barcelona World Race. With Mapfre having closed in on the race leaders, getting within 130 miles of them by last Wednesday, so Virbac Paprec 3 was the first to emerge from the clutches of the St Helena high and promptly over the course of Thursday and Friday opened up their lead once again to 550 miles ahead of the dogmatic Spanish Olympic 49er medallists. Since Friday the elastic has been contracting again and at the latest sched Mapfre is 347 miles adrift of the leaders.

The two boats are currently negotiating northeasterlies trades - to the north Virbac Paprec 3 are lifted, but in less pressure (or soon will be) compared to their rivals.

Meanwhile the boats behind have been enduring a nasty depression that emerged from the River Plate over the weekend and claimed the rig on Mirabaud. Over the course of Saturday night and Sunday day third placed Renault put in a costly tack to the northwest to cover Estrella Damm and Neutrogena which had taken a course closer to the Argentinian coastline. For the latter two last night must have been very unpleasant with the depression passing just to the south of them. This depression is forecast to continue on a southeasterly course leaving strong southerlies in its wake.

These southerlies will be good for GAES girls Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella. While it has not been for the best of reasons, this weekend has been most profitable for them. They overtook Hugo Boss on Friday night moving them up to eighth, then up to seventh with the announcement of Groupe Bel's retirement due to her keel being on the verge of falling out and most recently the dismasting of Mirabaud which will see them pull up to sixth this afternoon. 

Hugo Boss meanwhile has stopped in the south of the Falklands to carry out work on their main track.

 

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