Jules Verne Trophy - Geronimo:
02.20.2003 11:00
The Cape Horn ?

It is the greatest boat cemetery in the world, haunted by wrecks of clippers before the Panama Canal.
Today a landmark for competitors around the world and some reckless sailors, this cape is often for them synonym of relief, as it announces return towards the North Atlantic.

An indefinite territory, savage until deeps, for which cartography had at competitors' disposal some 15 years ago encircled yet not without trouble.

Relief, most certainly, but often felt being in a blue funk, before prides take it away.
The sailor Titouan Lamazou expresses it this way: "what is good, in this attempt, is that there is fear, which allows you to be courageous, and by which you feel honourable".

Cape Horn: 182 nautical miles away at 09h00 UTC

Geronimo might pass the Cape Horn between 18h00 and 19h00 UTC at a mean speed of 19 knots.
The Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric trimaran was sailing at 19,16 knots of mean speed since this morning 03h00 UTC.
Wind is slowing down at 30 knots.

The record to Cape Horn is today held by the Orange catamaran and her 13 men crew in 42 days, 2 hours and 52 minutes.

For her 40th day of sea, Geronimo has sailed 18387 nautical miles at a mean speed of 19,15 knots.
Orange had sailed 18271 nautical miles in 42 days at a mean speed of 18,13 knots (the distances are based upon cumulated distances sailed per day).