a buena velocidad llegaran al estrecho
alli un par de dias de levante los frenarán
http://es.windfinder.com/weatherforecast/tarifa
y luego el mediterráneo incierto
Report 2014/06/10 a 16:15 UTC
1Safran Sailing Team Marc Guillemot / Morgan Lagravière 951.7 nm +0.0 nm
Heading : 111° •
Speed : 14.0 kts
2 Hugo Boss Pepe Ribes / Ryan Breymaier 1004.0 nm +52.3 nm
Heading : 99° •
Speed : 16.6 kts
3 Team Neutrogena Guillermo Altadill / Jose Muñoz 1010.5 nm +58.8 nm
Heading : 102° •
Speed : 16.3 kts
4 Gaes Sailing Team Anna Corbella / Gérard Marin 1076.9 nm +125.2 nm
Heading : 112° •
Speed : 17.7 kts
Spirit Of Hungary
Nandor Fa / Marcell Goszleth
retired
DAY 9 EVENING UPDATE: SLOW, FRUSTRATING NIGHT AHEAD
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Posted on June 10, 2014
Mid-afternoon
Safran, race leader of the IMOCA Ocean Masters New York to Barcelona Race,
was just over 200 miles due west of Lisbon.
However while in terms of an Atlantic crossing this is the equivalent of being able to ‘smell’ the land, a night of pain looks set to be in store for the French team.
Between Safran’s present position and the Portugese coast lies a high pressure ridge. Assuming the weather forecast files are correct, then Safran will ghost into the west side of this in ever lightening southsouthwesterly winds this evening. When she reaches the centre of the ridge there will be precious little wind and Marc Guillemot and Morgan Lagravière will be focussing on the hunt for the slightest zephyr. They will only know they have escaped the clutches of the ridge when the wind fills in from the northnortheast.
According to the high resolution GRIB files, the distance across the ridge, or the distance between
the SSWerly wind dropping below five knots and it filling in at this speed from the NNE is around 130 miles.
Over the course of today, the teams have been positioning their boats according to where they believe it will be best to cross the ridge - typically where the passage across is shortest. GAES has already committed to a southerly route, and
Safran has also been putting some more south into her heading over the course to today. In comparison the present trajectories of Hugo boss and Neutrogena suggest they will cross further north than the race leader.
High pressure systems are notoriously difficult to forecast accurately, but there will be two points to watch come tomorrow morning – how much the chasing boats, in particular Hugo Boss and Neutrogena have caught up on Safran as she has slowed going into the ridge and whether Hugo Boss has managed to hang to second place.