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    Posted: 05 Mar 05 at 6:53am
Originally posted by Phil eltringham

Well something has happened, poor whale/orca thing.  Still they are flying, if they could keep up the speed they are doing now they will be inside 50 days.  Realisticly that is impossible (especially if they have to stop and put the rudder back together), but 55 is definately possible and that would be simply amazing!!

40 days in and only 3800 miles to go - they could do sub 50 days. That will be amazing and very difficult to beat.

They have not had any major calm periods and apart from the whales they have not had any major problems. So I don't see how someone can go faster.
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50 days and 16 hours, now THAT is FAST, the question is now 45 days??
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I reckon they could perhaps knock off a couple of days but they would need to be very lucky with the weather and have no equipment failures.

They can already outrun weather systems so what will happen if they consistently sail faster than the weather and sail right through the systems?

In other words is it possible to go much faster?
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