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GOR - Global Ocean Race Class40s - Leg 4
Punta del Este - Charleston
http://globaloceanrace.com - Übersicht
2 April 2012
Into the South Atlantic for the GOR Class40s
At 15:00 local (19:00 GMT) on Monday, the four Class40s in the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) crossed the Leg 4 start line in Punta del Este and are now heading for Charleston, South Carolina.
Throughout a windless and cloudless morning, the GOR teams continued to load their Class40s with the final necessities of fresh vegetables and bread on the shadeless pontoons in the blistering sun.
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Start in Punta del Este
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At 13:00 local, the teams motored out of the marina to the Leg 4 start managed by Pablo Elola and Alvaro Robaina and their team from the Yacht Club Punta del Este with the line positioned between the Puerto Punta del Este harbour breakwater and the small, uninhabited island, Isla Gorriti, just minutes from the pre-race pontoons.
In around nine to 12 knots of south-easterly breeze, the majority of the Class40s chose to hit the line on starboard with the Dutch team of Nico Budel and Erik van Vuuren heading close to the harbour breakwater on Sec. Hayai before tacking onto port and hitting the line first, chased by Conrad Colaman and Scott Cavanough on Cessna Citation. Colman and Cavanough pulled ahead as the fleet raced parallel to Las Mesitas with the South African duo on Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire staying close to the rocky shoreline on Phesheya-Racing and Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo trailing with Financial Crisis.
Leggatt and Hutton-Squire played hard and kept their nerve, cutting the corner through a narrow channel in the shallow water off La Salina and were first into the South Atlantic with Cessna Citation in hot pursuit and first to hoist their Code 0 as the fleet sailed towards the island of Isla de Lobos and the gathering clouds on the eastern horizon.
For more information, please go to globaloceanrace.com.
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