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Around Alone • Leg 5
Alan Paris collides with two whales; Bernard Stamm leads the leg
The temperatures are rising on the racecourse as the Around Alone fleet skirt the coastline past Recife with a light easterly breeze and at 7 degrees south are nearing the brutal heat of the Equator. The Class 1 boats are still within 40 miles of each other averaging 10 knots boatspeed and yet again the leaderboard has been shaken (...) -
Around Alone •Leg 5
4,000 nm last sprint for solo sailors to Newport
After 24,000 miles of solo ocean racing around the globe, only two points and a matter of 10 hours and 50 minutes on elapsed time separates the leading two contenders for overall Class 1 victory in Around Alone 2002-03 before the restart of the fifth and final 4,000 mile leg from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil to Newport, (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Bermudian skipper Alan Paris has crossed the finish line in Salvador
After nearly 7 weeks at sea, Bermudian skipper Alan Paris on Open 40 BTC Velocity crossed the finish line in Salvador, Brazil at 12:40:23 GMT (09:40:23 local time) in 4th place for leg 4 of Around Alone just as the skies cleared after a huge front had drenched the city with rain. His relief was obvious after sailing for 1,650 miles from the (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Tim Kent takes 2nd for third time
Open 50 Everest Horizontal, skippered by Class 2 American Tim Kent, ghosted into Salvador de Bahia under cover of night to cross the finish line at 03:03:58 GMT (00:03:58 local time) in second place for Leg 4 of Around Alone. Kent not only notched up his third 2nd place finish in Around Alone, but also achieved a life-long ambition in the (...) -
Around Alone
Canadian class 2 skipper 80 nm from Cape Horn
Canadian skipper Derek Hatfield has sent in his progress report "from World’s End" as he calls Ushuaia, less than 80 miles away from Cape Horn, where dismasted Open 40 Spirit of Canada is being rebuilt in record Record #sailingrecord time to complete Around Alone Leg 4 from Tauranga, NZ to Salvador, Brazil. The team is working 14hr (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Graham Dalton has withdrawn with the round the world race
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Race Chairman of Around Alone 2002-03, received the confirmation this afternoon from New Zealand skipper Graham Dalton on Hexagon that he has withdrawn from the race. Dalton is currently in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, having dismasted 250 miles off the coast during Leg 4 after Hexagon experienced a crash gybe. He had (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Simone Bianchetti takes third place in Savador de Bahia
From the humid glaze off the horizon, the blue hull of Open 60 Tiscali came reaching in at 10 knots to the finish line in Salvador, Brazil. Italian skipper Simone Bianchetti somersaulted from the boom as soon as he realised his first podium position in the fourth leg of Around Alone, crossing at 18:43:13 GMT (15:43:13 local time). Bianchetti (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Line honours for Stamm in Salvador de Bahia
In the final 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records of the 7,880 mile fourth leg of Around Alone, overall Class 1 leader Bernard Stamm, Swiss skipper of Bobst Group-Armor Lux, stole a march on the leg leader Thierry Dubois to take the line honours in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil at 12:39:07 GMT (09:39:07 GMT). To his credit, (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Spirit of Canada dismasts off Cape Horn
Canadian skipper Derek Hatfield reported in at 16:53GMT on 7th March to Around Alone Race HQ that his Open 40 boat Spirit of Canada had just been dismasted at 55 48 S 66 12 W, 30 miles to the ENE of Cape Horn. Derek confirmed that he was safe and has cut away the rig; that the boat is stable, although extensively damaged. The keel is loose (...) -
Around Alone • Leg 4
Graham Dalton is motoring towards Mar del Plata
There are as little as 4 - 5 days racing left for the leaders in Class 1 of Around Alone on Leg 4 from Tauranga, NZ to Salvador, Brazil and the gaps have closed up to as little as 30 miles between leader Thierry Dubois on Solidaires and Swiss skipper Bernard Stamm on Bobst Group-Armor Lux. The complex high pressure system ahead is the common (...)
Tour du monde en solitaire avec escale : Velux 5 Oceans ex-BOC Challenge, ex-Around Alone