Volvo Ocean Race - Groupama and Puma battle for top spot
Charles Caudrelier wearing alternative head protaction, onboard
Groupama Sailing Team during leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race
2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race teams Groupama 4 and Puma Ocean Racing
are neck and neck at the front of the fleet on the twelfth day
of racing in leg five, from Auckland to Itajai, at the 1300 UTC
report today.  On this April Fool's Day, tricks don't appear to
be on the menu off Patagonia. Indeed the quick, radical changes
in the weather conditions suggest that it's time for strategic
choices right now. And though like a shark, the Americans have
homed in on their prey Groupama 4 this noon on Sunday, there is
likely to be a way out with the arrival of a zone of high
pressure right across the route to Brazil...  The climb up
towards Itajai isn't going to be at all restful as the rapidly
changing weather conditions along the Argentinean coast are
being accompanied by the Andes cordillera phenomenon, leading to
some separation between two m