LMAX LEADING THE CLIPPER ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE

As mentioned at Sail-world.com, LMAX Exchange is still leading Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, followed by Qingdao at second position and Derry~Londonderry~Doire at third. The rest of the competitors are chasing hard in a close race frequently changing race positions. The weather conditions are predicted to stay equitably stable and balanced for the next few days. Most captains are still feeling calmed and comforted to be making decent way towards Albany despite some tough living conditions.

Garmin Skipper Ash Skett at the sixth position, middle of the fleet, said that “We are finally starting to make good progress and are clocking up decent mileage again after days of very little progress. The boat is sitting nicely on her chine, fully powered up and making a steady 10-12 knots through the water. Although life at this angle can be fairly tiring, all of us would take this over a flat boat going nowhere any day!”

Ash added that “Looking to the weather ahead it seems that the boats that are in front may run into some light stuff if they get away too far while we ride the edge of the system towards them, bringing the wind with us and hopefully not running into the same light airs.”

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