Decisions in the Doldrums! | Leg 2 30/1 | The Ocean Race Show

With our five Airmocker crews all flying south toward the equator, there's nowhere to

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er and clean up on board except braving the spray that's thrown across the bow. Welcome to the Ocean Race

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, where it's all about preparing for the best possible crossing of the infamous gridlocks, but before we get into any of that, let's turn back the clock and take a look at where our boats were when we left them after Friday's show , the battle of gybing to the southwest resulted in the boats carrying the Spinnaker downwind looking good. Biotherm 11th Hour racing team and prb healthy team heading west with the Guion environment team Europe heading east and with the risk of being too far east when it goes into crisis, the boat struggling to stay in touch appears to be a team of militia a few miles north and significantly slower than the others.

It's very frustrating for us because, you know, we spend two days trying absolutely everything and playing with different settings, different sales, and you know the worst thing or the most imposing thing is when you're slower than everyone else because you're never satisfied. so you're always trying to think in your head what to do next, so um, yeah, no, we haven't gotten much sleep, but now we think we've had a little bit of a quicker mode, feel the relief. That's because I'm sleeping very deeply right now and they are sleeping very well at first, but now, to find a little more speed, we have to try to find a way to catch up to each other.

Now to give you an idea of ​​what it's really like in the immokale, we had to edit that clip, we had to filter the hydrofoil wine, so as I go into

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control, listen to that clip again without the filtering. A fairly large difference can be up to 20 speed difference, sometimes we saw and um, the team militia found some speed and began to regain contact with the leaders, but everyone, as the stalemate approached, was on guard not to slow down. This is the view from 11. The mast camera of the hour racing team as they avoid the large patches of algae on the

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track, while the healthy team is right in front, we have a lot of grass so I guess it's a lot , a lot, so all the covers are covered when we go very fast, it's good because you cut it, it is divided into quite small parts that, when you go slow, it fills all the appendages in quite a while, taking it all out, so yes, there is a lot, there is a lot.

There all the boats suffered from the algae and not only from the speed of the boat, the hydraulic generators that power the electronic components on board the boat also suffered a hard blow, so last night one of those blades broke and now we have the leftover part trapped in the head of the hydro. luckily we have enough spares to get the other hydro working again, but now we have to drill a hole in the middle, put a screw in and take out the broken part, voila, we run into Seawood, it will slow it down and it could get lost.

Your places in this race, but it could also be something much more serious, as Biotherm discovered hitting a fishing net in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but it's amazing for the organization to let the girls know that there's something here. A quick check. underwater revealed no damage or anything hanging from the keel to slow the ship, so with speeds of around 18 knots they moved south. The problems didn't end there for the biosignature and we noticed something in the background of one of the transmissions they sent us, but before we get into the details, a little background information, so on board the Arrow Mockers we have four sailors and then a reporter on board those four sailors because the ship sails 24 hours a day, including two at night.

Of those sailors will be rotated to sleep perhaps two hours in carefully choreographed spaces, so that two people on deck will be working hard on the boat now that they have an extra pair of hands and an autopilot, and the autopilot system has evolved a lot since so. Those early explorers used them in the 1960s. It's no longer just a weather vane on the back of the rudder. It's now an electronic system, but it still uses basic information, whether it's the ship's compass heading or the wind angle. Take a look at what happened here for Biotherm. more so, it's windy and they are obr on board questions why if it's so windy why are they using their big sales is a window sensor is threatening the truth uh 18 20 minutes this is really serious this is not just a case of your wind the data is inaccurate, that information shows that somewhere in the calculations there is an error and if one number is out, all of your numbers could be out and the pilot is using those numbers to decide if he should go straight or if he should turn. and just watch what happens next here look at the moon in the window behind Paul Mayer's head as the pilot suddenly violently turns the boat upwards 30 strange degrees as the boat rocks upwards and the angle of the wind changes, so Paul has to do this enormous ease. the foresail sheet to keep the boat a little more under control now if in fact this is a problem with your wind sensor and that crazy data is being transmitted to your pilot and they can't fix it at the moment When they get to Ciudad del Corporal, we will have some very tired sailors aboard Biotherm, just behind Biotherm, the team was healthy and they knew that the tactical game would soon come to an end and it was all about positioning themselves in the The consequences of stagnation if you get up too much Soon you can't pick any more, where you'll cause some drops, so it's generally easier to be a little further West than East, so Kevin Escoffier seemed happy with how they were lining up.

We're set for a stalemate and if West is the best biotherm and the 11th Hour racing team will certainly win two, I think we're in a good place flea wise as the westernmost ship so I'm very happy with that and is going to Be a Love Tree, well it's not a lottery but anyway it will be a complete reset in the middle of the crisis so, just get there in one piece and keep in touch and then try to manage it well, it will be a cloud jumping and, uh, yeah, southern China. and all kinds of movies Google Europe's environmental team has not been able to get to the favorable side if Robert Stanjic and his team are going to take the initiative, the crisis will have to be weaker than expected, where to enter the crisis will be crucial As for How to finish this stage, the general rule is that you should enter as far west as possible, where the stagnation zones are thinner to spend more time with better breeze, but the question is how far west to go, we just take a look . here at the agony on the faces of the Team Healthy PRB crew as they debate putting in one more Jive which might get them into a better position but would mean a risky fleet separation, well we just had massive shifts left, can we ?

We've been doing it all day and maybe we're going to have everything go well all day and it's just not going well so we're being dragged more and more oriental adulterers that's where all the books say you shouldn't go here we are we're pretty much I think Let's go in the area well nothing I mean we could do half an hour that way and if no one follows us come back I'm very close yes let me see the MGM well for me it's still full DMG yes I think we'll wake up Tom and discuss it. I think so, if he were alone.

I do. You can lose more by driving, but you can gain a lot, a lot of support. Yeah, try a quick one to see the. angle we have on this side or not, we will see the future of the only window after they decided to jibe. All eyes were glued to the horizon, right. I shouldn't stress because it's a game, it's a game, well, an important one. I know that an important game perhaps became a little bit easier because there is a certainty that the wind is going to be light, very light, in fact, this does not mean a break, although a change in conditions means that you must adapt and balance the ship.

One hundred kilos of gear must be adjusted from the stern to the bow to rebalance the boat and glide better through calm seas. There is still some complicated navigation to be done, but this time it is at a very local level with large Atlantic forecast models exchanged. for local satellite images of the clouds, yes it's going to be a busy few days, we'll check out the sad images we haven't had a nice visible yet this morning to see, you really know where all the convection is, but at least the IR satellites give you an idea of ​​where the big cloud mines are and the boundaries, you know the big features that could be driving these local winds because suddenly everything is getting very local around here, so yeah, learning how to do it in the next few days, just keep going discarding.

And hopefully, we can get south a little faster than everyone else and, on the other hand, less wind and also more heat will be the story of the next few days. Soon our ships will turn anything that can be unlocked and left into ovens. Some air opens up in the boat. It's a great design to keep you protected in the Southern Ocean from waves in the cold. It does not fully adjust to the conditions of Ecuador. When was the last time you slept well? Thank you all. I'm pretty nervous trying to figure out what the breeze is going to do and why the stagnation is so complicated.

Well, I'll let Will Harris explain it, so the one in Belgium is basically a convergence of the two atmospheric cells and what you have is you. We have this circulation of the Earth and there is basically a zone in the middle of the Earth where the air rises and then you get very complicated winds here because when the air rises it forms clouds and this means that it is extremely chaotic, which means not You can't predict at all what the wind is going to do, the forecasts are often very wrong, so we had to cross this to meet the new winds on the other side, but crossing is the hard part, knowing where to cross how far arrive. east or west and also what cards they will give you if they will give you more victories or lessons. um, yeah, dalgencia is a complicated place.

Everyone's speed has slowed as the teams hit the wall of light winds that almost float on the seas. How long will the crisis slow our ship's progress southward? But surprisingly one bow doesn't seem to be suffering or at least not suffering as much. Their environmental team, Europe, to the east, in a position that no one thought was sensible, is actually making progress. In fact, they have taken the lead, the breeze that was waiting for them might not have been in any of the cards, but they have made the most of it and if Robert Stanjic and his crew can maintain this progress, they could break out of the pack.

The crisis is firmly looming, we will be back for another Ocean Race show in two days and we would like to hear from you in the comments below or you can email us your questions directly at

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