Lily Whitehead, who sailed in the last two Youth Championships, and won the ladies prize in 2008, is taking part in the Clipper Round the World Race. Lily joined her team mates on Jamaica Lightning Bolt on November the 15th for the Southern Ocean leg from Capetown to Geraldton in Western Australia. They finished this leg in third place on 16th December in a very tight finish. Lily will be on board for the next three legs:-
- Geraldton – Singapore
- Singapore – Qingdao
- Qingdao – California
Crew of Jamaica Lightening Bolt celebrate in Geraldton, Western Australia. Lily on deck behind flag
Click here to read Lily’s really newsy blog, here to follow the progress of the race, and here for news on Jamaica Lightning Bolt.
After a very tricky sail into Singapore where the winds varied from exhilating to light and fluky Jamaica Lightening Bolt obtained another podium finish.
| |
LATITUDE |
LONGITUDE |
DTF |
DTL |
DIST MG
IN 12HR |
LAST
REPORT |
YACHT
STATUS |
|
| 1 Cape Breton Island |
1.11.48N |
104.5.49E |
|
|
|
17/01/2010 16:00:23 |
InPort
17/01/2010 02:14 |
 |
| 2 Spirit of Australia |
1.11.47N |
104.5.49E |
|
|
|
17/01/2010 16:00:29 |
InPort
17/01/2010 02:29 |
 |
| 3 Jamaica Lightning Bolt |
1.11.48N |
104.5.49E |
|
|
|
17/01/2010 16:00:23 |
InPort
17/01/2010 05:59 |
 |
Hot news - 20 Feb 2010
Lily and Jamaica Lightening Bolt are second into Qingdao. After exhillerating sailing on the approaches to, and off Taiwan, everything became very tense in the fickle winds near the finish at Qingdao. Right up to the finish there were hopes of catching Spirit of Australia, but the Austarlian boat just managed to stay ahead and win by 4 minutes. Jamaica Lightning Bolt has had a podium finish on every leg since Lily joined the boat.
Lily at prize giving in Qingdao with the pennant for 2nd place
Results
Race 6 - Singapore to Qingdao
| |
LATITUDE |
LONGITUDE |
DTF |
DTL |
DIST MG
IN 12HR |
LAST
REPORT |
YACHT
STATUS |
|
| 1 Spirit of Australia |
36.3.21N |
120.23.16E |
|
|
|
20/02/2010 12:00:42 |
Finished
20/02/2010 05:07 |
|
| 2 Jamaica Lightning Bolt |
35.58.1N |
120.42.46E |
|
|
|
20/02/2010 12:00:27 |
Finished
20/02/2010 09:27 |
|
| 3 Qingdao |
35.57.51N |
120.55.26E |
|
|
|
20/02/2010 12:00:33 |
Finished
20/02/2010 10:06 |
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18 March - Second at scoring gate at half way point on leg from Qingdao to San Francisco. Top 5 positions below.
Lily and Jamaica Lightning Bolt arrived safely in San Francisco lunchtime today (2 April) after a horrendous crossing. They were 3rd over the line but 2nd after redress. The redress was given for standing by the dismasted California and for the time taken transferring fuel. That's 4 podium finishes out of 4. What a star!
Results
| 1 Cape Breton Island |
37.48.24N |
122.26.40W |
|
|
|
30/03/2010 20:00:52 |
InPort
30/03/2010 14:25 |
|
| 2 Jamaica Lightning Bolt |
37.48.26N |
122.26.35W |
|
|
|
02/04/2010 21:01:22 |
InPort
01/04/2010 07:34 |
|
| 3 Qingdao |
37.48.24N |
122.26.41W |
|
|
|
02/04/2010 11:01:07 |
InPort
01/04/2010 22:40 |
|
| 4 Uniquely Singapore |
37.48.21N |
122.26.44W |
|
|
|
04/04/2010 15:00:14 |
Finished
03/04/2010 14:05 |
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The next item is taken from the Clipper round the World website. Click here for an extended version
"Extremely proud" - 02 April 2010
The lack of Californian sunshine couldn’t dampen the spirits of the crew on board Jamaica Lighting Bolt as the team sailed under a mist enshrouded Golden Gate Bridge to secure their fifth podium of the race. Despite being the third team to cross the Race 7 finish line, behind Cape Breton Island and Qingdao, the Jamaican team walks away with another second place pennant to join the one awarded in Qingdao for Race 6. This is due to a 32 hour and 15 minutes redress which was agreed by the Race Committee for the assistance the team provided following an incident packed race. The nine point result when added to the two scoring gate points for being the second team to cross the North Pacific gate gives the Caribbean entry an overall points tally of 59.
Another picture
However, for
Jamaica Lightning Bolt
, one of many teams which have been praised by the Race Committee for the assistance they gave when
California
lost her mast, the result comes second to the knowledge that not only have survived some of the harshest sailing conditions but that they have helped one of the fellow race teams do the same.
Skipper Pete Stirling says, “There was absolutely no hesitation in going to help
California
. We had no idea what we were going to find and they were in quite a bad state when we got there. Having said that they had an extremely buoyant attitude, they were upbeat and determined to just get on with it. For us, it was a great privilege to be able to come to their aid and as the first on scene we were with them for a period of about three days in total. We know some of the crew quite well now, they’ve become friends during stopovers, so it wasn’t just another yacht to go and help it was helping our friends too.”
