{"id":72,"date":"2005-06-05T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-06-05T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T22:27:07","slug":"day-15-transatlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/day-15-transatlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 15 – Transatlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bugs Baer <\/o:p><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/tt>Tempest Passes Lizard Point<\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/tt>
\n<\/span><\/strong>
\nAt 1623:31 UTC (12:23 PM on the East Coast), Tempest passed through the<\/span><\/tt> first of the finishing lines at Lizard Point, on the tip of Cornwall<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, after<\/span><\/tt> a fast day of sailing. <\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n

Land itself was almost invisible, and a foghorn sounded steadily in the<\/span><\/tt> grey, misty air as Tempest sped by. For the preceding four hour watch, the<\/span><\/tt> boat averaged almost exactly 12 knots in 20 knot air, heeled over under<\/span><\/tt> spinnaker, staysail, full main and full mizzen to seize the wind. This is<\/span><\/tt> about maximum speed in flat seas.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n

There are 143 miles left to the final finishing line at the Needles, the<\/span><\/tt> western point of the Isle of Wight<\/st1:place>. Weather forecasts show the wind becoming<\/span><\/tt> lighter overnight, the strengthening again in the afternoon. This may hurt<\/span><\/tt> Tempest's lead after her two closest competitors, Selini and Whisper, finish<\/span><\/tt> ahead of her, but Tempest is now projected to hold most of her lead on<\/span><\/tt> handicap. Her ETA at the Needles is estimated for midday Monday, tomorrow.<\/o:p><\/span><\/tt><\/span>
\nAlmost There<\/span><\/strong><\/tt><\/p>\n

After passing Lizard Point<\/st1:place>, Tempest has stayed in decent wind and averaged<\/span><\/tt> around seven knots toward the finishing line at the Needles, ninety miles<\/span><\/tt> away.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n

Everything is focused on the finish and the end of the race. We are jibing<\/span><\/tt> downwind for the better wind offshore. We passed Plymouth<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> and Start Point<\/span><\/tt> against a strong tidal current. We are under strict orders from the<\/span><\/tt> navigator not to be sucked up into Lyme<\/st1:placename> Bay<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, where Tempest and the wind will<\/span><\/tt> die.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n

Whisper has lost another twenty miles to us, and Selini is not gaining. The<\/span><\/tt> wind will almost die at dawn as a new front arrives from the north. We will<\/span><\/tt> beat into the wind for the last few hours. We will have eighteen hours after<\/span><\/tt> Selini finishes to hold our handicap, but should finish by noon local time<\/span><\/tt> to claim our prize.<\/span><\/tt><\/p>\n

We are aware that we are doing everything for the last time. Last dinner.<\/span><\/tt> Last look at ''Band of Brothers.'' For my Black Watch, probably midnight<\/span><\/tt> will start our last four-hour duty. Then the last dawn, the last miles, and<\/span><\/tt> the last of a great adventure.<\/o:p><\/span><\/tt><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bugs Baer \u00c2\u00a0Tempest Passes Lizard Point At 1623:31 UTC (12:23 PM on the East Coast), Tempest passed through the first of the finishing lines at Lizard Point, on the tip of Cornwall, after a fast day of sailing. Land itself was almost invisible, and a foghorn sounded steadily in the grey, misty air as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}