![]() Volvo Ocean Race Control says they they would have loved to hear the banter between the teams, all saying hello to each other in this most bizarre leg five twist. Once all four boats were squashed together, they could not only see each other on AIS but struck up a conversation on VHF radio. The leading ones, Team Alvimedica and Team Brunel, only just crossed ahead of Mapfre forcing them to gybe back towards the limit line. ![]() The rest of the fleet descended on the point, sailing southeast on a collision course with the Spanish and the Chinese boats. ![]() Mapfre and Dongfeng were the most southerly boats and had to come back up, sailing northeast approaching Ice Limit Waypoint 7 from below its latitude. The real Antarctic ice coast is over 1,300 nautical miles to the south, but after Race Control had information regarding an iceberg in the vicinity only 75nm away, the exclusion zone was moved north yesterday. The first five boats are now short-gybing up a virtual coastline to within just 300 metres of the virtual boundary which they are not permitted to cross without penalty. The ice limit coordinates, as decided by Race Control, have been dictating the action in the last eight hours of Day 7, Leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race.
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