Barcelona World Race

Just as winds have not been steady for this double handed around the world race nor has the order of the fleet been static. The top 2 of Virbac Paprec and PRB remain unchanged but behind them change is the norm. From PRB Vincent Riou says, "when you’re in this high pressure area you have to set up your own objective which is your way out and you do your best with the conditions you have."

Veoila is up to 3rd followed by Delta Dore, Temenos 2 and then Hugo Boss down from 3rd, with Estrella Damm 7th.

Veoila is the farthest to the west and sailed the most miles of any of the top 6 boats. Veoila is 7 degrees of longitude to the west with most of the boats sailing the African coast. About their strategy Roland Jourdain says, ""If we follow them, we won’t be 130 miles behind the others, we’ll be 150 or 200. So, we’ve spotted an opening that’s a bit tentative, but as we’re the ones doing the attacking, we have to try something."

Steady trade winds are expected tomorrow. Until then J.P. Dick describes the racing in less certain conditions, "It reminds me of a pack of dogs trying to find a way through a barbed wire fence. We all go one way and then the next, and in trying to find the way, we get caught, and there should be a solution but in the meanwhile we exhaust ourselves trying to find it."