Team Legato is just against the Clock

by Barry Pickthall on 20 Mar 2001 07:00 GMT TEAM LEGATO
Position: 24 20'S 34 17'W
Speed at time of satellite poll: 11.0 knots
Average speed for last hour: 14.0 knots
Course: 309 Degrees
Distance covered over 24 hours: 241 miles
Target 24 hour distance: 348 miles.


Now down to the wind gods

With the demise of the Poles on Warta Polpharma on Monday following their
retirement from the RACE, the Race for Tony Bullimore and his TEAM LEGATO
crew is now strictly against the clock.
With 4,697 miles still to cover in the 13.5 days that remain before the
clock stops in Marseilles at 19:56 on April 2, the crew are desperate to
find the stronger trade winds that will carry them up to the Equator.
St James's Yachting, TEAM LEGATO's weather routers are hopeful that Tony &
Co will experience 15-18knot winds from the South East on tomorrow which
will then carry them at high speed right up to the Doldrums currently some
1,600 miles to the north.
'If we get these winds soon, and can pass through the Doldrums without too
much of a hold-up in the calms, then we have a chance to beat the time
limit.' Said Tony today. 'It's all down to what the wind gods give us this
week.'

Leading positions at 07:00 GMT today
1. Club Med Finished Marseilles 19:56GMT 3.03.01
2. Innovation Explorer Finished Marseilles 11:32GMT 6.03.01
3. Team Adventure +1,196 miles - Crossed Equator 13.03.01
4. Team Legato +3,501 miles - Cape Horn 11.03.01
5. Warta Polpharma RETIRED 19.03.01
6. PlayStation - RETIRED 14.01.01