djuice bow floods

djuice suffered a similar fate as that of illbruck when their two bow compartments started to fill with water

Last night djuice suffered a similar fate as that of illbruck close to Cape Town when their two bow compartments started to fill with water after a hatch started to leak. It took the crew’s combined efforts for one hour to dry out djuice and keep her on pace. Before that incident their mainsail came down the mast when they prepared to reef in the building breeze. djuice managed to resume racing and reports not having lost more than a mile or two on the leaders.
At the moment the yachts are in the middle of Bass Strait, 310 miles from Hobart and 100 from Flinders Island, fanned out over 17 miles. The course will lead the fleet close to the Tasman coast at Cape Sonnerat.

The conditions became lighter over the last hours with the wind down to 20 knots and the waves to four metres. illbruck, News Corp, ASSA ABLOY and Tyco are within a mile of each other, trying to find the fastest lane in the eddying current and changing wind conditions.

Ten miles back, djuice and SEB are neck-and-neck and Amer Sports One and Amer Sports Too bring up the rear.

Volvo Ocean Race Position Report, Day 2, 1000 GMT