It’s Day 111 of the race. From the map, it appears that Rich is heading northwest rather than east. Most likely this is because of the weather patterns at sea. From his post on the Vendee Globe site, it appears that he has had some difficult conditions to sail in.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/newswire/9570/frustrating-times-for-rich.html
I just finished printing out small birthday cards that the students made for Mrs. Wilson. I’ve also printed out the Science.Net links article about Alaska where she is featured and the sitesALIVE post where Rich writes about her adventurous spirit. She’ll be pleased to receive these articles and cards as she patiently awaits for the safe arrival of her son back on land. It’s been a long voyage!!!

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This is an except from the arrival video on http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en The full video is at the Vendee Globe site.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/9550/steve-white-recalls-and-comments.html
Steve White takes eighth place. Skipper Rich Wilson looks like he will continue to hold ninth place in the Vendee Globe. Go Great American III!

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Students watched skippers arrive at the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne. The videos are posted on http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/edition-2008/skippers/10/arnaud-boissieres.html
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/media/audios/

Rich’s estimated date of arrival is between March 5th and March 7th. It is SOOOO exciting to see that he is getting closer and closer to France each day.

ScienceNet links posted about Mrs. Wilson’s birthday! 🙂 She will be so excited to read the post! http://ehrweb01.aaas.org/sail/index.php/2009/02/alaska/

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Our virtual friends Yaodong and Venny showed me how the greeting is written in Chinese:
祝您生日快乐，威尔逊夫人！—陈耀东 （ 中国）

Fourth grade students continue to discuss the estimated time of arrival for Skipper Rich Wilson based on Google Earth, the http://www.sitesalive.com website and the http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en site.

james_update Fourth grader, James, give us a boat update from information he gathered from http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en http://www.sitesalive.com and from Google Earth.