After a beautiful breezy start on July 6th, but a tough first night and early morning spent fighting zephyrs getting through the Cyclades, at the end of today’s daylight the AEGEAN 600 fleet is back on the move.
The fastest boats have already made their iconic transit of the volcanic caldera at Santorini and are heading southeast towards Kassos in the Dodecanese at the southernmost point of the race and close to its halfway mark.
This is the 5th edition of the AEGEAN 600 organized by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club with co-organizers being Olympic Marine and Region of Attica. Rolex is the official timepiece, and other sponsors include the Greek National Tourism Organization, D. Koronakis SA, and this year Mercedes-Benz has joined the AEGEAN 600 as the event’s Official Mobility Partner.
The two leaders in the fleet have been dueling with each for the elapsed time lead nearly all day long since their rounding at Milos in the pre-dawn hours this morning. It was here that just a little light and building breeze of 6-8 knots got them moving enough to start separating from those in the parking lot behind them north of the island.
For the next 55-mile leg from Milos east-southeast towards the next mark of the course at Santorini it was George Procopiou’s Volvo 70 AIOLOS (GRE) and Frédéric Puzin’s bright green Carkeek 54 DAGUET 5 (FRA) who led the pack by deliberately sagging well south of the rhumb line where the forecast models indicated slightly more wind (shown in green in the image below).
The northerly breeze of yesterday had not only died out last night but had shifted to the west, turning this next leg into a downwind VMG match race for the lead.
For the next 55-mile leg from Milos east-southeast towards the next mark of the course at Santorini it was George Procopiou’s Volvo 70 AIOLOS (GRE) and Frédéric Puzin’s bright green Carkeek 54 DAGUET 5 (FRA) who led the pack by deliberately sagging well south of the rhumb line where the forecast models indicated slightly more wind (shown in green in the image below). The northerly breeze of yesterday had not only died out last night but had shifted to the west, turning this next leg into a downwind VMG match race for the lead.
For the next 55-mile leg from Milos east-southeast towards the next mark of the course at Santorini it was George Procopiou’s Volvo 70 AIOLOS (GRE) and Frédéric Puzin’s bright green Carkeek 54 DAGUET 5 (FRA) who led the pack by deliberately sagging well south of the rhumb line where the forecast models indicated slightly more wind (shown in green in the image below). The northerly breeze of yesterday had not only died out last night but had shifted to the west, turning this next leg into a downwind VMG match race for the lead.
For the next 55-mile leg from Milos east-southeast towards the next mark of the course at Santorini it was George Procopiou’s Volvo 70 AIOLOS (GRE) and Frédéric Puzin’s bright green Carkeek 54 DAGUET 5 (FRA) who led the pack by deliberately sagging well south of the rhumb line where the forecast models indicated slightly more wind (shown in green in the image below). The northerly breeze of yesterday had not only died out last night but had shifted to the west, turning this next leg into a downwind VMG match race for the lead.
Throughout the race, from start to finish, race participants can be followed by the YB tracker system found at this link: https://aegean600.com/tracking/ and there is an abundance of media resources – photos, videos and news stories – made available at https://aegean600.com/media-services.
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