As people are so obsessed with social media challenges now a days that every phrase with a challenge sounds like it is related to any social media viral challenge.
But Nemo Point Challenge has nothing to do with the social media. It is more of interest for the clock and watch lovers and virtual sailors? Ulysse Nardin will be the official sponsor and timekeeper for this great event.
Nemo Point is a location furthest from landscape, nearly Km from the land mass. Similarly, Cape Horn is also another landpoint which the participants or the sailors of the must cross during their voyage. The difference that sets apart the fastest competitors is the way they pick between high and low pressure to optimise the wind conditions. The field strike south after leaving the Bay of Biscay, skirting around the west coast of north Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, passing south of Australia and New Zealand, coming round Cape Horn at the south tip of South America before heading north back up the Atlantic to France.
The route involves passing through the 'doldrums' - a belt around the Equator characterised by light winds that can leave boats struggling to make progress. The event has been characterised by extreme danger and extraordinary feats of endurance. In Britain's Ellen MacArthur was greeted by crowds of , people after she became the youngest person and fastest woman to complete the race, aged Four years before, her compatriot Tony Bullimore was presumed to have died when his boat was found capsized after encountering mph winds, 1, miles off the coast of Australia.
However the then year-old survived in an airpocket of the upturned hull, living off chocolate bars for four days before being rescued by the Australian navy. Others have been less fortunate. Briton Nigel Burgess is one of three men lost at sea in the race or on the way to the startline.
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Home News Game on. Thomson is passing to the east of the Falkland Island on the edge of a low pressure system which is travelling east, which is giving him kts of breeze. He will continue to benefit from this weather system for a few hours more. Considering the technical problems that the French skipper has had over his last month of the race this is a huge achievement.
Beyou has a lead of miles over Jean-Pierre Dick. Around miles back from him, the Hungarian Nandor Fa Spirit of Hungary is still in eighth place, but a little slower 12 knots , because of a small transition zone, which is affecting his westerly wind.
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