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The table gives details about each leg. The Stopover table provides details of the maximum number of days the teams will stay in each port. The Currents Part of why this race is special is that the fleet will pit itself against not only contrary winds, but currents too. In the southern hemisphere, ocean currents flow in an anticlockwise direction. But the fleet should have assistance from the currents on the first leg to Rio - first riding the South Equatorial Current and then, closer to the South American coast, the Brazil Current which sets to the south. Then from Rio it is all uphill! The Southern Ocean Current flows strongly to the east. Nevertheless, on the leg from Cape Town, the yachts will be assisted as far as the equator by the Benguela current which runs north up the African coast and, on the final leg from Boston, the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current are both favourable. |
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