Grands Records - Shivers Down The Spine For Geronimo
17 March 17:08

Since midday yesterday, the 11-man crew of the Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric trimaran have finally been able to see the sky after three days of fog. But as soon as the fog lifted, the temperature fell rapidly to zero, as the first iceberg was sighted at 47°57S, 38°39E. "What sends shivers down your spine even more than usual is that as soon as visibility returns, you spot an iceberg. So how many bergs did we sail through in the past two days?", muses one of the watch captains.

As the convergence moves slowly south, so does Geronimo, but always staying the positive side of freezing point (between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius). Day 20 ended with over 520 nautical miles point-to-point and was the 4th day that the trimaran has clocked up over 500 miles since entering the Southern Ocean - and the same pace continues today. In the first twelve hours of today, her point-to-point average was over 22 knots.

She is now 800 nautical miles ahead of the record and seems set to move further ahead over the coming days. They may be cold and they may have shivers down the spine, but that doesn't stop them from racing flat out...

DAY 20

GERONIMO (Cap Gemini / Schneider Electric)
48.46°S - 43°56E
520 nautical miles in 24 hours, at an average speed of 21.7 knots

2002 record
39°15S - 30°36E
500 nautical miles n 24 hours, at an average speed of 20.80 knots

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