Lion N.Z. leading
Peter Blake and his 22-man crew had last evening hauled Lion New Zealand ahead of the other maxis in the Whitbread round-the-world yacht race. The lead in the Portsmouth to Cape Town leg of the 45,000 km race has changed hands several times and there is little more than 65km between the first five contenders, all of whom have held the lead at some stage. NZU Enterprise is bolding thirdraosition, about 40km behind Lion and slightly to the east
The leaders have been through ‘bumpy” weather to the west of Lisbon. Crews on all the 15 competing yachts were reported to be seasick. The forecast for the next 24 hours is for gale force 8 winds, from the south-west The provisional order of the 1 first six yachts given by the race organisers this morning put Lion New Zealand 25km ahead of the United Statesregistered Portatan, with both NZI Edrerprise and ÜBS Switzerland ft. further 15km astern The British yacht Drum, was another 36km back.'
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Press, 4 October 1985, Page 4
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