Details:
- Hugo Boss is 3rd 123 miles out, next being Delta Dore an even 300 miles behind 1st.
- Leader Paprec Virbac 2 has high speed of 20.6 knots.
- Veolia has top 24 hour run of 436 miles.
- Estrella Damm is making running repairs to a damaged rudder.
- Hugo Boss fastest thru Gate 4 passing the gate at 09/12/07 at 05:25 for an elapsed time of 10D 15H 24M and average speed of 14.66 knots
References: Brother Jonathan
Weather: West winds 25 to 30 knots.
Quotes:
Vincent Riou: "That’s life, it's not too serious - the events are quite simple, we were sailing about 20 knots under the big gennaker and Sebastien and I were down below with the auto-pilot on, looking at the weather conditions, when we hit a wave and heard a crack and we thought we had broken a halyard or something. At no time did we imagine that it could be the mast. When we went outside we saw the main sail was still in place but the top half of the mast was hanging down, the good thing is that we didn’t dismast, we can “recover” material and see if it is repairable or not."
Guillermo Altadil "en we finally got the boat under control we suddenly breached and saw that the leeward rudder was totally loose. We lowered the sail to have the boat totally flat, and took out the rudder to find that it was totally broken on one side as if it had received an impact from something in the water. We took the rudder down below to repair and laminate it, but the problem was actually putting it back in to the hull because of such big waves. We lost another part in the process and had to start all over again.
After about six hours of work we have managed to put the rudder back in and are able to control the boat. It’s not perfect but we are able to sail at quite a good speed."
Jonathan Mckee "The next 4 days look very windy. This could be one of the critical times in the race, to see who can make it through this first storm intact. We are hopeful."
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