ORCV Melbourne to Vanuatu (M2V)

Race leader charges in towards Gabo Island.

Straight off Scarlet Runner this afternoon comes this report, "Nearing Point Hicks at 5pm. Sunny but cold. Beating into a 9 knot SE. Will be at Gabo (Island) before midnight. Most asleep and dinner soon."

Pic © Teri Dodds.

Earlier on in the day, we received this information about a good run overnight and a lot of sunbaking during the day!

"38 deg 01min Sth, 248 deg 27min East coming up on 3pm, Monday 5th July. Beautiful sunny day out in the Paddock today, very flat, not a lot of breeze.  Spent the first half of the day sailing through the oil rigs in a dying Westerly. Almost no breeze for a couple of hours now heading towards Gabo in a 5-10kn breeze with a lot of south in it – will be pretty chilly tonight. All well on board, not much sleep had last night but there’s been some catch up time in the sun on deck today. Looking forward to turning the corner (Gabo) and heading North."

"Morning - We are at. 38.28.196S and 147.36.755E. Great night with up to 20 knots wind. Surfing all the way. Now off Paynesville. Out to sea in oil rigs. Doing 4.9kn in 4kn pressure from 333degrees."

To find out who's where in the chase of the container full of humanitarian aid: Go to Sked information (Radio Schedules are when the fleet radios in to tell us where they are etc.), which is HERE and Tracker, which is HERE.

By John Curnow