| At sea. Volvo Ocean Race: Pirates and Brasil 1 lead ABN AMRO ONE at 0400 |
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| Sunday, 14 May 2006 | |
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Event media: ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) is currently heading south-east after tacking onto port at 2225 GMT last night. The decision to head south has momentarily knocked them off the top spot into third position. Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) are now leading with Brasil1 (Torben Grael) in second position. The rest of the fleet continue on a north-easterly course on starboard tack and wind speeds have now dropped to below 20 knots. movistar (Bouwe Bekking) have made good progress in the last six hours with consistently higher boat speeds than their rivals. Even though they started two hours later than the rest of the fleet, they have already caught up with Brunel (Matt Humphries). Leg 7 day 4 0400 positions: 1 POTC Pirates of the Caribbean 2 BRA1 Brasil 1 DTL: 13 3 ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE DTL: 21 4 ERIC Ericsson Racing Team DTL: 22 5 ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO DTL: 23 6 MOVI movistar DTL: 38 7 AUS1 Brunel DTL: 39 DTL: distance to leader |
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