{"id":19991,"date":"2013-05-27T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/australian-scientists-secure-second-place-in-abyc-regatta\/"},"modified":"2013-05-27T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T12:56:27","slug":"australian-scientists-secure-second-place-in-abyc-regatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/australian-scientists-secure-second-place-in-abyc-regatta\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian scientists secure second place in ABYC Regatta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Currently \u2018marooned\u2019 at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club<\/a>, whilst waiting for a favourable weather window is a 61 foot Nautor Swan, Indigo V.<\/p>\n

Indigo V is crewed by a team of scientists from the University of New South Wales in Australia whose brief is to; \u201cCover some of the most undersampled and less characterized waters of the Indian Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Indigo Teams blog entry from today reads; \u201cWe\u2019ve been adopted by the local yacht club and, as honorary new members, we participated in a small local regatta in the bay of Port Elizabeth. Despite our temporary amnesia of course rules (and the actual location of the finish line), the Indigo team came a respectable 2nd and is now officially accepted as a contender in the local yacht club. Go team!\u201d<\/p>\n

Indigo V took part in the Rose Bowl race on Sunday 26 May. The Rose Bowl is a race in which only Ladies may take the helm for the entire duration. This year\u2019s race took the competing boats from a harbour start to the Bell Buouy and back to a harbour finish.<\/p>\n

The winner of the Rose Bowl was Thelma Smith helming Tikalox II.<\/p>\n

Onboard Indigo V are Mark Brown, Melanie Sun, Jaime Bibiloni Isaksson, Lauren Messer, Tiffanie Nelson and Nicole Lima. UNSW scientist and Australian national sailing champion, Dr Federico Lauro, is leading the team. Italian-born Dr Lauro won the Australian Championship in the Yngling sailing class in 2010, and was also a national sailing champion twice in Italy in the 1990s. Last year he came fourth in the world in the Yngling class. He has been sailing his whole life, holds a Yachtmaster Ocean Licence and is also an expert in microbial genomics in the UNSW School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences.<\/p>\n

On the UNSW web site<\/a> Dr Lauro said; \u201cThe six month-long expedition, which stops in Mauritius, Chagos Archipeligo, the Maldives and Thailand, will cost about $100,000. We will do the whole trip for less than what an oceanographic ship costs for one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scientific team onbaord Indigo V will conduct a range of experiments:<\/strong><\/p>\n