{"id":5622,"date":"2017-08-29T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2017-08-29T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:25:27","slug":"round-the-world-marks-team-great-britain-now-in-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"Round the World: Mark\u2019s team Great Britain now in second place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horsington\u2019s \u00a0Mark Tucker is taking part in the Clipper Round the World Race, now in its 9th<\/sup> day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Round the World Fleet. Great Britiain is the Dark Blue boat in second place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fleet is heading south in mid Atlantic, west of the Straits of Gibraltar. Mark\u2019s boat, Great Britain, has stormed from 11th<\/sup> to second place, having taken a westerly course to pick up more wind, and is now pursuing the leader, Qingdao, out of sight but less 20 miles ahead.<\/p>\n

So far there have been no major incidents (although one boat has put ashore for a crew injury), but the crews have been frantically busy with sail changes to meet the varying weather conditions which can change minute by minute.<\/p>\n

Only 4750 miles or so to the finish of the first race in Punta d\u2019Est in Uruguay. In a week\u2019s time they will be near the equator and the dreaded doldrums, where fortunes can be reversed in the tricky light, or non-existent winds.<\/p>\n

The GB team has played its \u201cJoker\u201d. Teams can do this one only during the entire race. It means that at the end of this leg, whatever points they score will be doubled, so there\u2019s everything to play for<\/p>\n

Conditions on board are tough, but the crew seem to be melding together, and their dramatic improvement in position will have raised their sprits enormously.<\/p>\n

You can follow the race on the Clipper website<\/a>. Each ship reports daily, with every crew member taking turns to write the diary. Mark has yet to make his debut.<\/p>\n

Current position and chart<\/a>. (In real time)
\nCrew diaries\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark is supporting \u00a0UNICEF, the Round the World Race official charity. You can donate to Mark\u2019s cause by visiting his \u201cJust Giving\u201d page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horsington\u2019s \u00a0Mark Tucker is taking part in the Clipper Round the World Race, now in its 9th day. The fleet is heading south in mid Atlantic, west of the Straits of Gibraltar. Mark\u2019s boat, Great Britain, has stormed from 11th to second place, having taken a westerly course to pick up more wind, and is … Continue reading “Round the World: Mark\u2019s team Great Britain now in second place”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1sG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}