Suitably refreshed the fleet move out of Sydney to begin the final leg in the southern hemisphere.
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Leg 4 Update - Gameweek 21
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Leg 3 Update - Gameweek 18
A belated update for Leg 3.
The fleet sail into Sydney and then take a break over Christmas and New Year before beginning the next leg to cape Town
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Leg 3 Update - Gameweek 17
One of the shortest Legs of the Race sees the fleet leave Wellingtion and head for Sydney.
With only 2 Gameweeks making up this section the quick sprint could easily change the overall standings.
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Leg 2 Update - Gameweek 16
The final week of Leg 2 sees the port of Wellington welcome the boats of the fleet. The winners of 2 Pools had already been decided but the remaining 2 were still up grabs.
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Leg 2 Update - Gameweek 15
Ronaldo may be a great footballer - but a great sailor he isn’t. Following on from 2 weeks ago when he took 35 boats onto the rocks he surpassed himself this time round by falling overboard from no less than 57 of the 60 boats taking part in the Challenge.
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Leg 2 Update - Gameweek 14
The 3rd week of a possible 5 in the Leg from Buenos Aires to Wellington. Will the fleet avoid repeating the distastrous previous week in which there were 35 run-agrounds?
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Leg 2 Update - Gameweeks 12 & 13
To bring this blog up-to-date below are the positions of the participating boats after the first 2 weeks of Leg 2 (Gameweeks 12 and 13) - racing from Buenos Aires to Wellington.
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Leg 1 Results
Leg 1 finished prior to this blog being created and rather than recreate the 5 weekly updates I’ll just link to the thread on the FISO forum.
However for the sake of completeness below are the results for the 4 pools in the Portsmouth to Buenos Aires section of the race.
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