| At sea. Atlantic Rowing Race: Under a thousand miles to go for Row4Life |
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| Sunday, 15 January 2006 | |
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Gill Tickner: Charlie and Phil are now firmly under the 1,000 mile mark with 926 statute miles to go! Yesterday’s call came from a happy Charlie Fisher, “Nothing much to report, we are fine, putting reasonable miles in, another degree to the West again and really, really looking forward to the end. Incredible to see some of the others put 100 miles in – not quite sure how they do it. The weird thing is that we aren’t really rowing at the moment in this race – we’d expected trade wind conditions for most of the race, and now we are in them, we’ve sort of stopped rowing. It’s not through lack of trying, we grab the opportunities when we can, but they are few and far between. We hope we haven’t been pushed too far south today, we’ve been really trying not to, but some southeasterly winds to push everyone north, would be great!” Phil rang in with a special message to his daughter Jess, who turns 7 today. “Jess, Happy, happy birthday! Lots and lots of love from Daddy and really sorry I can’t be there with you today. I promise to make up for it when I get back! Also love to Sasha, be a good girl and be nice to your sister on her birthday!” EDF have now overtaken the team of 4 in front of them and have pulled away from the boats behind. They have only 320 miles to go with an ETA of Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Date : Sunday 15th January 2006 Polling time : 04:50 Ranking / Boat / Long-Lat (Dec) / Distance to finish / Miles made good / Miles since yesterday / (Miles to EDF) 1) EDF Energy / 17.272N 56.928W /320 /2611 / 95 2) C2 / 17.318N 55.058W /443 /2488 / 83 (123) 3)Cornwall / 17.696N 51.390W /685 /2246 / 69 (365) 4) Bout de Vie / 18.620N 51.221W /702 /2229 / 82 (382) 5)Scandlines / 18.130N 49.097W /837 /2094 / 63 (517)(81 miles further west than you) 6)Atlantic Prince / 18.687N 48.920W /852 /2079 / 57 (532)(70 miles further west than you - you have gained .2 of a mile on them!) 7)Row 4 Cancer / 19.743N 49.009W /857 /2074 / 61 (537)(76 miles further west than you, 4 more than yesterday.) 8) Row4Life / 17.130N 47.732W /926 /2005 / 52 (606) (Atlantic Prince, Scandlines and Atlantic Warrior are the boats closest to you and likely to be in similar weather.) 9)Mayabrit / 21.326N 47.743W /961 /1970 / 64 (641) (Now very slightly further west than you, but so far north they are registering behind you. Would be good to keep them behind!?) 10) Atlantic Warrior / 17.640N 47.084W /969 /1962 /66 (649) (The young lads are having to go onto 1/2 food rations.) 11) Gurkha Spirit / 19.656N 44.927W /1118 /1813 /33 (798) 12) Sun Latte / 18.216N 44.809W /1119 /1812 / 45 (799) 13) Serenity Now / 18.262N 43.979W /1173 /1758 /66 (853) 14)American Fire / 17.984N 42.531W /1268 /1663 /46 (948) 15) Making Waves / 20.550N 42.517W /1281 /1650 /29 (961) (Charmed Life / 17.650N 41.481W /1337 /1594 / ) 16) Mark 3 / 18.661N 41.247W /1353 /1578 / 66 (1033) 17) Christina / 17.650N 35.604W /1724 /1207 / 38 (1404) Row 4 Life is crewed by Charles Woodward-Fisher Philip Harris http://www.row4life.com/ Event website http://www.atlanticrowingrace.co.uk |
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