Melbourne to Vanuatu - First and Last

3:00 AM Mon 12 Jul 2010 GMT

'First and last displayed here. Note that Samskara is clearly visible in the middle. - Melbourne to Vanuatu' John Curnow Click Here to view large photo

Race leader, TevakeII have now covered 1363nm of the Melbourne to Vanuatu course, so that's 522nm to go. They are some 258.5 nm (478.7 km) WNW of Noumea, showing 9.7knots of boat speed, a heading of 008deg and positioned at 20.576S and 162.2E. The 51st Project is back in the game, at just some 17nm astern of TevakeII and even Turbo is inside that magic forty mile barrier, 32nm behind the leader, with The Secretary only another 7.5nm behind Turbo. It may not be surprising then, that we have a super short note from the 51st Project this morning, '500 ...

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by John Curnow

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