GOR UPDATE – After nine days of upwind and offwind, stop-start racing since starting Leg 4 in Punta del Este, the Global Ocean Race (GOR) fleet of Class40s are in touch with the South East Trade Winds in their ascent along the coast of Brazil.

Double-handed leaders, Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough, were first to feel  the fresh easterly breeze on their Akilaria RC2 Cessna Citation late GMT on Tuesday at 18S and the increase in average speeds rippled south through the fleet with Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo on Financial Crisis simultaneously picking up the pace three hours later with the South African duo, Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire andPhesheya-Racing in third, followed shortly afterwards by the Dutch duo of Nico Budel and Erik van Vuuren in fourth with Sec. Hayai.  For MORE STORY