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11 February 2003Jules Verne Challenge Update: Days 12 & 13Click here for previous update | Click here for next update
Ellen and Crew in Kingfisher 2www.ellenmacarthur.com
Day 12 from startSadly Kingfisher 2 is thoroughly in the Doldrums, making hardly any headway in sweltering heat of some 30‚ C. Seriously losing time but there is nothing that can be done other than to take every opportunity of any breeze that should come along, but little wind is predicted for some two days. Let us hope it is not as bad as that, but the Router, Meeno Schrader, will no doubt have a pretty good idea from his land base in Germany with the world’s meteorology at his digital disposal (www.wetterwelt.de).
Becalmed in a race of Flying Fifteens on Loch Earn, Scotland can be frustrating enough - but for these guys it must be desperately demoralising. At least they do not have water skiers to rock the boat with their wake! The Chronobiology Research Institute, Newton (near Boston) Massachusetts, USA who are monitoring certain biological functions of Ellen, and some others of her crew, must be recording a lot of sweat.
On the scale of things they are a little north of Rio de Janeiro, the land mass shown to the left in the position diagram being South America.
Day 13 from start
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Position
of Geronimo on their day 30.
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The record for the whole course presently stands at 64 days, 8 hrs, 37 min, 24 sec.
Further Reading Recommended by Land-Care
Land-Care book review: Taking
on the World. Ellen MacArthur. (Click
here to view).
Round the World Ocean Sailing - the Jules Verne Trophy. Land-Care
(2003).
(Filed 7 February 2003, www.land-care.org.uk.
click
here to view).