| Velux 5 Oceans. Stamm & Shiraishi keeping pace; Golding & Thomson in tight formation off Portugal |
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| Saturday, 28 October 2006 | |
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Event media: Early this morning, race leader Bernard Stamm made a decisive bear away to keep his reaching speed on Cheminées Poujoulat at 15 knots and is now heading south-east, 180 miles west of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Kojiro Shiraishi took Spirit of Yukoh close to Madeira last night, but is now 60 miles south of the island, keeping pace with Stamm. As Alex Thomson predicted yesterday, Mike Golding has pulled away slightly from Hugo Boss and Ecover is currently 64 miles ahead as the pair reach parallel to the coast of Portugal with Thomson closer to the coast, 90 miles west of Lisbon. Tonight, both Golding and Thomson will be at the same latitude as the Straits of Gibraltar, racing through the busy commercial shipping lanes at the entrance to the Mediterranean. On Friday morning, Unai Basurko and Graham Dalton started racing from Bilbao. Basurko had returned to his home port to repair and replace sails destroyed in the violent Bay of Biscay gale last Monday and Tuesday. Dalton is starting the VELUX 5 OCEANS fresh, having remained in Bilbao to continue work on his Open 50, delaying his race start for five days. Both skippers are beating west along Spain's northern coast, Basurko's Open 60, Pakea, furthest offshore leading Dalton's smaller fifty-footer, A Southern Man - AGD, by just seven miles. In La Coruna, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston delayed his restart yesterday to continue with vital system checks and repair work to his Open 60, SAGA Insurance. Knox-Johnston plans to join the six other yachts on the race course within the next few hours Saturday 28 October 09:45 GMT VELUX 5 OCEANS positions 05:30 GMT 28/10/06 Positions Yacht Skipper Latitude/Longitude Course Speed DTL DTF 1 Cheminees Poujoulat Bernard Stamm 28° 22.20 N/021° 42.88 W 166° 15.1kts 10003(DTF) 2 Spirit of Yukoh Kojiro Shiraishi 31° 42.12 N/019° 01.20 W 235° 15kts 225(DTL) 3 Ecover Mike Golding 38° 25.56 N/013° 05.60 W N/A 699(DTL) 4 Hugo Boss Alex Thomson 39° 02.44 N/011° 23.32 W 182° 11.3kts 763(DTL) 5 Pakea Unai Basurko 44° 21.88 N/005° 32.64 W 302° 1kt 1242(DTL) 6 A Southern Man-AGD Graham Dalton 44° 00.36 N/005° 21.60 W 223° 4.1kts 1249(DTL) SAGA Insurance (Sir Robin Knox-Johnston): in-port La Coruna, restart this morning Margaret Anna (Tim Troy): in-port La Rochelle, restart date to be confirmed. DTL: Distance to leader DTF Distance to finish www.velus5oceans.com Velux 5 Oceans album |
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