Sport-heute: Sailing - TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG ONE DAY 25 QFB: received 04.11.08 1009

04. November 2008, 16:58

TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG ONE DAY 25 QFB: received 04.11.08 1009

TELEFONICA BLACK HEADS TOWARDS CAPE TOWN

Telefónica Black (Fernando EchÃ¡varri/ESP) will be the last of the eight boats racing in leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race to cross the finish in Cape Town later today. Her estimated time of arrival is 1546 GMT and, at 1000 GMT today, she still had 78 nm to run. Her boat speed was averaging 13.3 knots.

Cape Town (mk) In the last message from the boat for this leg, received today at 1009 GMT, MCM Mikel Pasabant wrote:

'And last but not least! Here we go the Blackies! As if it couldn't be in any other way, hard beating in 25 knots to the finish line!

'Another lovely roller-coaster-like welcome (or farewell, it depends)! It is 0930 UTC and there are still 80 miles to the finish line, and they are going to be long, very long, not only because of the conditions, but also because we are so looking forward to being there at last!

'We all are expecting to see the mythical Table Mountain in the horizon, and docking in under its protection. So, these are, let's hope, the last quotes from the boat for this first leg. We have sailed from Alicante in Spain to Cape Town in South Africa, passing the coasts of Brazil, sailing more than 6500 nautical miles and spending 24 days onboard. It has been full of experiences, highs, and lows (more highs than lows, isn't it), difficulties and relaxing moments...But we will keep in touch from land.

Kind regards and thanks for being out there.'

Leg One Finishing Order into Cape Town
1. Ericsson 4 SWE (Torben Grael/BRA)
2. PUMA USA (Ken Read/USA)
3. Ericsson 3 SWE (Anders Lewander/SWE)
4. Green Dragon IRL/CHN (Ian Walker/GBR)
5. Telefónica Blue ESP (Bouwe Bekking/NED)
6. Team Russia RUS (Andreas Hanakamp/AUT)
7. Delta Lloyd IRL (Ger O'Rourke/IRL)

Overall Leaderboard (Provisional)
1. Ericsson 4: 14 points (FINISHED)
2. PUMA: 13 points (FINISHED)
3. Green Dragon: 11 points (FINISHED)
4. Telefónica Blue: 10 points (FINISHED)
5. Telefónica Black: 6 points (RACING)
6. Ericsson 3: 5 points (FINISHED)*
7. Delta Lloyd: 4 points (FINISHED)
8. Team Russia: 4 points (FINISHED)

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TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG ONE DAY 25 QFB: received 04.11.08 1009

And last but not least!!! Here we go the Blackies!!

As if it couldn't be in any other way, hard beating in 25 knots to the finish line!!

Another lovely roller-coaster-like welcome (or farewell, it depends)! It is 0930 UTC and there are still 80 miles to the finish line, and they are going to be long, very long, not only because of the conditions, but also because we are looking forward to being there at last!

We all are expecting to see the mythical Table Mountain in the horizon, and docking in under its protection. So, these are, let's hope, the last quotes from the boat in this first leg, from Alicante in Spain to Cape Town in South Africa. We have passed by the coast of Brazil, sailed more than 6500 nautical miles and spent 24 days onboard. It has been full of experiences, highs and lows (more highs than lows, isn't it), difficulties and relaxing moments...But we will keep in touch from land.

Kind regards and thanks for being out there.
Mikel Pasabant - MCM

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Telefonica Black. Having already shredded four sails, Fernando Echavarri’s boat loses a rudder, wipes off the bowsprit and breaks one of its daggerboards.

Santiago Lange onboard Telefonica Black. Having already shredded four sails, Fernando Echavarri’s boat loses a rudder, wipes off the bowsprit and breaks one of its daggerboard

Telefonica Black. Having already shredded four sails, Fernando Echavarri’s boat loses a rudder, wipes off the bowsprit and breaks one of its daggerboards.

Santiago Lange onboard Telefonica Black. Having already shredded four sails, Fernando Echavarri’s boat loses a rudder, wipes off the bowsprit and breaks one of its daggerboards.

A view of Cape Town from the top of Table Mountain