Stamm passes the Equator

The Swiss landlord Bernard Stamm already is cruzado Ecuador by the meridian 36º40´ the west course to the nortamericano port of Norfolk, where 5 OCEANS are located the line of impact of the second stage of regata vueltamundista VELUX.
 
Bernard Stamm and its 60 OPEN Cheminées Poujoulat still have ahead a passage of 3,150 miles until the port of Norfolk, and at the moment it enjoys with originating stable winds of the northeast alisio African, that gradually they will change of direction towards the east. This meteorological system of “alisio” stays stable until the Tropic of Cancer, almost half of the route that it has left to Stamm until the line of impact. From the parallel of the tropic, the meteorological conditionses will become money changers with the appearance of storms more from the west to this, generated by originating winds of the zone of the gulf of Mexico and the current Caribbean ascending quality. Certainly Bernard will be like fish in the water before the possibility of continuing demonstrating that he is a great strategist like oceanic landlord, drawing up the ideal route before each new meteorological front.
 
To more than 1,800 miles to the south of the Cheminées, of Yukoh sails in second position the Japanese Kojiro Shiraishi with the Sipirit, parallel to the coast of Brazil, 434 miles of Rio de Janeiro. Kojiro is sailing in a zone of changing winds brought about by the presence of two anticyclonic fronts, the main one is the one of Santa Helena, to the southwest of whose position the landlord is located Japanese. What means that in the next days will face a tactical difficult navigation if wishes to cross the Tropic of Capricorn by the meridian that allows him to sail of a single I embroider until the passage of Ecuador by the same point that is Stamm cruzado.
 
Contentment and cheers indicated this morning the Basque landlord Unai Basurko from on board the 60 OPEN Pakea, third party of the fleet 5 Velux Oceans: “I have been able to go until the prow of the boat thanks to the good day that I have had after almost forty days of navigation of this second stage. It was not a day of little wind yesterday, right now already we go fast, with ends of 14 knots. Tactical I do not go to make things different from the other landlords; the present situation comes given by the different meteorological fronts, but the route will be basically the normal one in the Atlantic. Yes I have changed the type of foods, happening of vegetables to it grazes and rice. Also I have been able to make cleaning of kitchen, is necessary to have well-taken care of with the germs that can be created, and I already go with the second sweepings stock market. With the good time I have dedicated myself to drain the boat in the zone of prow, I have been able to drain more than 150 liters of water. And I have left to install the wind vane, I will put first it in stern, and if I can I will try to place it in the top of the mast, for which the sea will have to be calmer to be able to raise to me.”

The fourth position is so far for the New Zealand landlord Graham Dalton, that is stopped in the Stanley port, the islands the Falklands or Falkland, doing repairs, and that shortly will be exceeded by fifth of the fleet, British Sir Robin on board the Insurance Saga whom also it had to make a shutdown in the Argentine port of Ushuaia after happening in third Cape Horn position.