Less than 5.000 nautical miles to the finish line for Maserati Multi 70: at 7.57 UTC ranking, the cartography marks 4.997 remaining miles until London, on the shortest theoretical route.
Less than 5.000 nautical miles to the finish line for Maserati Multi 70: at 7.57 UTC ranking, the cartography marks 4.997 remaining miles until London, on the shortest theoretical route.
This morning Maserati Multi 70 is sailing 250 miles off the coast of Namibia at 22° S, the latitude of Walvis Bay.
During the first day in the Atlantic, Maserati Multi 70 has sailed from the parallel 34° S (latitude of Cape of Good Hope) up to 28° S taking advantage of the southerly wind that will first turn to SE then to E as the trimaran continues to sail northwards in the “elevator for the Equator”.
After 16 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes of navigation, Maserati Multi 70 rounded Cape of Good Hope at 12.20 UTC. After a night spent fighting with light winds, the landing on South Africa occurred a few hours earlier, at dawn, near Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the African continent that by geographical agreement marks the limit between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
38° 51’S, 27° 03’E: this is the position of Maserati Multi70 this morning at 8.00 UTC. With an advantage of 580 miles over the reference time, Giovanni Soldini and the crew of the trimaran are about 500 miles south-east of the Cape of Good Hope. A maritime region characterized by the meeting of two oceans (the Indian to the East and the Atlantic to the West) and by the clash of strong sea currents
The second week of sailing of Maserati Multi70 ends at 800 miles from Cape of Good Hope with a 564 miles advantage on the roadmap of the record to beat. The Maserati Multi70’s crew is getting ready to face the last difficulty in this portion of the route: the crossing of a cold front associated with a deep depression positioned in the Roaring Forties.
+521 miles at 8:21 UTC this morning: Maserati Multi 70‘s advantage has grown again (120 miles earned in the last 12 hours)
At 21 UTC Maserati Multi70 is at 37° South and 49° East. The trimaran travels at 23 knots towards Cape Town, which is around 1500 miles ahead. The advantage over Lionel Lemonchois’ record rises to 400 miles.
“It looks like the South”, says Sébastien Audigane at 14.50 UTC. “Maserati sails at 35° South and since this morning the albatrosses are there, the big ones, imperial, always majestic. They fly with other smaller albatrosses and brown plumage.” “Apart […]
