Valencia Eventos Náuticos

At 18:00 GMT on Sunday, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel re-took the lead in Leg 3 of the Global Ocean Race (GOR) with Cessna Citation as Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon climbed north with Financial Crisis, dropping back to second place as the new leaders built on their lead overnight.

In third place with Phesheya-Racing, the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire have reached 56S – the same latitude as Cape Horn 1,200 miles to the east – and have passed the area of iceberg sightings reported by Cessna Citation last Wednesday.

Week 3 (12-19 February) of the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) began with a taste of downwind sailing for the trio of Class40s in the Pacific.

For the fleet leaders, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel on the Akilaria RC2 Cessna Citation, swift progress was brief as the Kiwi-South African duo ran straight into a high pressure ridge with speeds dropping to sub-three knots.

At 01:00 GMT on Saturday morning, Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon stopped their dive south, bounced off latitude 60S within miles of a high pressure zone’s windless core and - three hours later – took the lead of the Global Ocean Race (GOR) with Class40 Financial Crisis.

Making the best speed averages of the trio, Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire continue to gain ground on the leaders with Phesheya-Racing as they approach the known iceberg area south-east of the bluQube Scoring gate below 55S.

Exceptional weather continues for the Global Ocean Race (GOR) leaders Cessna Citation and Financial Crisis below 56S, while Phesheya-Racing rapidly reduces the distance deficit as the South Africans drop deeper into the high latitudes following severe conditions.

At the front of the fleet, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel on Cessna Citation and the Italian-Spanish duo of Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon with Financial Crisis are confronted with very unusual weather as they close into 1,000 miles of Drake Passage and the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate.