Ice Berg Clear Ahead

Even though the wind went slightly down, it’s still full on for the Volvo Ocean Race Yachts. djuice had scary moments last night, when they were shooting with an average of 28 knots straight at an iceberg just eight miles in front of them.

With this speed the distance is covered in less than 20 minutes. When they had finally dropped the spinnaker, they had to change course for 35 degrees to avoid the berg.
Another shark was caught, this time with illbruck’s rudder. They had to drop the spinnaker and sail backwards to clear the shark in more than 30 knots of wind. Before they realised that the reason for losing control of the rudder was the shark, they feared being victim of another rudder failure.

News Corp’s track in the north is getting better by the hour. They gained remarkable 38 miles or did a more than six-knot higher average speed than the race leading yacht illbruck. ASSA ABLOY is back in full racing mode after the backstay failure earlier on.

Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 12, 0350 GMT

PSYachtLatitude LongitudeDTFCMGSMGTFHRDTLDTL-C ETA PO
1ILBK58 28.76S099 59.80W0331507012.64030+018 FEB 0229
2AONE58 41.72S101 42.60W0336708113.941452-1018 FEB 0225
3TYCO58 14.68S102 05.36W0338206611.540567+1118 FEB 0218
4AART58 39.08S104 17.40W0344707415.0397132-1119 FEB 0220
5DJCE58 40.12S104 47.96W0346308715.0396148-1719 FEB 0214
6NEWS56 56.36S104 45.12W0348109418.0437166-3819 FEB 0219
7TSEB58 10.84S108 16.12W0357506416.4394260-819 FEB 0213
8ATOO58 08.12S115 02.16W0378409114.2331469-1320 FEB 026