Marco Nannini - Ocean Racing

Few minutes past 4am this morning june 12th, Italian Skipper Marco
Nannini and British racing partner Paul Peggs, sailing the SunGard Front
Arena sponsored Class 40, have crossed in first place overall the finish
line of the second leg of the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland yacth
race organised by the Royal Western Yacht Club of England.

For us on class 40 this leg was pretty much a fleet restart, although
each had to respect the time of departure, exactly 48 hours from the
arrival in Kinsale, the differences where very small, and very light
winds at the start meant big gains and losses could be made over a puff
of wind in the bay, when building a little advantage over the followers
had taken the whole 36 hours of the first leg...

Phesheya did a good start, found some wind under the cliffs and slowly
but surely was first to round the headland.

Marco Nannini and co-skipper Paul Peggs sailing on Class 40 SunGard Front Arena have arrived in Kinsale taking second place overall, just moments after the leading boat, Phesheya Racing sailed by Nick Legatt.

we just downloaded the latest position report via satellite phone, a
little text file that gives us the positions of all boats in the race
which we can then plot on our navigation software...

it is always hard to tell the exact pegging order while the wind is
shifting but i's say that among the class 40s Spliff is first, we may be
second but it is difficult to judge how Phesheya is doing as they are
quite a long way north of us although a little further west...

we can see Solo and Orca's navigation lights just to our right a little
back...

Livewire and Fujifilm seem to have gone