Dongfeng just raced into Sanya harbour at the Volvo Race village, completed and won leg 3. Congratulations to the entire race team for their amazing display of seamanship and competition. Since this morning 9:40 Dongfeng has progressively gained speed, only covering about 16 nautical miles in the three hours before midday. Then they progress some 20 nautical miles in the next three hours leading to mid afternoon. Through dusk and early evening they covered about 27 nautical miles and in the past 3 hour slot covered about 40 nautical miles racing through the Chinese sea. They are sailing a good three knots faster than the rest of the fleet. At this rate they are destined to beat the clock and arrive in Sanya China shortly before 00 UTC. This is really astounding, covering some 4670 nautical miles in 23 day 14 hours, which roughly equates to an average of 8.25 nautical miles per hour. Their time at sea was a little more than 550 hours at sea in constant motion.
Meanwhile the rest of the fleet lost momentum and time, with the closest competitor - Abu Dhabi, followed by Alvimedica then Mapfre, Brunel and lastly Team SCA who is expected to arrive by Thursday 29th. But they are doing really great in the Volvo Ocean Race considering the were short of "dead reckoning" when when their electronic navigation system gave up the ghost and their main head zero tore and the bowman suffered a back injury and forced to take shore leave.
Meanwhile the rest of the fleet lost momentum and time, with the closest competitor - Abu Dhabi, followed by Alvimedica then Mapfre, Brunel and lastly Team SCA who is expected to arrive by Thursday 29th. But they are doing really great in the Volvo Ocean Race considering the were short of "dead reckoning" when when their electronic navigation system gave up the ghost and their main head zero tore and the bowman suffered a back injury and forced to take shore leave.
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| The Dongfeng Race Team |
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