You can virtually "see" the high pressure system in this screen grab of the Race viewer! (HKT: 15:30, 29/10)
From the Clipper site, Race News:
Gold Coast Australia’s bold move to sail much further than the other teams in order to run around the high pressure system that has dominated proceedings for much of the last week seems to have paid off.
“We have successfully escaped the grasps of the massive high pressure system that is currently playing havoc with the rest of the fleet,” reports skipper, Richard Hewson. “Yesterday we set ourselves a goal to try to be in a certain position away from the light winds of the high, and we managed to reach it before the high pressure system caught up with us. This is a massive relief as now it looks like we will have good winds all the way to Geraldton.....[read more]
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| Check out the milling boats on the left! Gold Coast Oz went down and right and picked up the breezes filling in from the East |
Gold Coast Australia’s bold move to sail much further than the other teams in order to run around the high pressure system that has dominated proceedings for much of the last week seems to have paid off.
“We have successfully escaped the grasps of the massive high pressure system that is currently playing havoc with the rest of the fleet,” reports skipper, Richard Hewson. “Yesterday we set ourselves a goal to try to be in a certain position away from the light winds of the high, and we managed to reach it before the high pressure system caught up with us. This is a massive relief as now it looks like we will have good winds all the way to Geraldton.....[read more]
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