Beluga Racer took over the lead of the Portimão Global Ocean Race yesterday after 14 days behind Desafio Cabo de Hornos.
The team of Boris Herrmann and Felix Oehme on Beluga Racer grabbed the lead as the Chilean team sailed on a course which placed them furthest east in the fleet.
Felipe Cubillos and José Muñoz were trapped in an area of light wind and could barely average two knots as Beluga Racer was able to manage a five-knot average and extend the lead to 44 miles.
“The boat just swings around, unpowered and without a defined heading,” Boris Herrmann described early yesterday. “Waves occasionally pick up the stern and we lurch forwards and the sails pull with a jerk and slap about, but without any apparent reason,” he continues.
“Time stands still and there is no suitable time unit available as speed, course, and a stable heading are ideas from another world, a world of speed that we left behind last night.”
As Beluga Racer took the lead of the fleet, the westerly position held by third place Team Mowgli has created massive gains, and the British duo of Jeremy Salvesen and David Thomson have cut 66 miles from the leaders in the past 24 hours.
They are only 87 miles behind the leader and only 43 miles from second place Desafio Cabo de Hornos.
The fleet’s lone solo sailor, Michel Kleinjans, has also had a stunning 24 hours on board his open class 40 yacht “Roaring Forties”, taking 50 miles from the race leader. Roaring Forty now trails Beluga Racer by 174 miles.
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