Dongfeng leading The video above is the latest on-board footage,…
Dongfeng leading
The video above is the latest on-board footage, showing Dongfeng tacking through the islands on the southern side of the Strait of Hormuz. When the video was taken they were still trailing Brunel, but in the ensuing hours Dongfeng picked up some better wind, and Brunel had some sort of a run-in with a fishing net (or something?) that cost them some time. So as of the 1840 UTC tracker update Dongfeng had a 1.4 mile lead:
Winds between their current location and the finish line, 150 miles southwest at Abu Dhabi, look like light northeasterlies. So there’s still plenty of racecourse for any of the three leading boats to get in front. It should be a long gybing match through the night, with the finish sometime Saturday morning Abu Dhabi time (UTC+4).
VOR central at first said they’d be streaming the finish live starting around 0500 UTC Saturday, which would be 2100 (9 p.m.) tonight in California. But they have a live video feed running now with a countdown clock that looks like it goes boom at 0100 UTC / 1700 Pacific. So maybe the livestream will be the live version of the tracker with the endless music loop, and then Genny will appear to start doing the live stuff four hours later?
Not sure. Looking forward to seeing what happens. Go Dongfeng!
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Tags: vor, volvo ocean race, dongfeng race team.
