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Day 5 - Avoiding another storm
Monday, 07 May 2007

DateMay 7 2007 05:14GMT
Position52' 14"S  168' 15"E
Speed7 knots
Course62 Degrees True
Wind Conditions  NNW 20knots

Vicious low pressure system forces Bullimore north on 6th day of Blue  Ocean Wireless Round the World Challenge.

British round the world yachtsman Tony Bullimore has been forced to  head north east to climb out of the way of a vicious low pressure  system sweeping up behind his 102ft catamaran Doha.

The Low, highlighted in yesterday’s report, is due to bring storm  force winds to the region on May 9, and after the battering he  received a few days ago from another Southern Ocean buster, Bullimore  took the prudent decision today, to get out of its way.


 

Lee Bruce, Team Bullimore’s weather guru, predicts that the winds  will increase to 30-40kt from the NNW in the near term, and then back  through to the NW later.

Doha’s subsequent drop in speed puts Bullimore behind the 71day 14  hour solo circumnavigation record he is chasing, and will require a  superhuman effort once the Low has passed by for Bullimore to get  back on track before Cape Horn.  It is still early days into the Blue  Ocean Wireless Round the World Challenge and Bullimore remains  confident that his bigger multihull has the legs to catch up on Dame  Ellen MacArthur’s benchmark time in the lighter winds of the Atlantic.
 
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