In the head of the fleet of the VELUX 5 OCEANS, the leader of regata, continue increasing the distance between their Open 60, the Cheminées Poujoulat, and the second, the Spirit of Yukoh, of Kojiro Shiraishi. The Japanese landlord returned to find winds yesterday favorable and the escape of Stamm towards the east has been reduced slightly until the 1315 miles that separated to landlords this morning both.

Near the parallel South 55º and in half of the Pacific Ocean. In half of the anything.

Bernard Stamm commented:  “The wind is very variable of direction with gusts of wind, and I have made many changes to continue sailing,” explained Stamm this morning. Swiss right now is concentrate in drawing up the best strategy after analyzing the weather forecast to arrive as rapidly as possible after Furnaces. “I am seeing the part than I have ahead and is quite complicated with a front of low pressures and another front also of losses next. I must hurry much to avoid a wind of the northeast when it approaches to me South America.” Trimar the candles in the so variable conditions in which Stamm is sailing requires constant visits to cover, and it has fixed to carry out them some repairs during its trip by the Austral ocean. “I have had to change the candles and to fix an electrical problem in the table of tables, I could fix that it but he has not been far from easy to use a soldering iron when the boat goes between 15 and 20 knots,” it explained. “It is not easy to do works of precision in a beater. But it is done and it works.”

During the past night, Dalton and Sir Robin they took different courses: the New Zealand landlord goes towards the South, whereas the British landlord has chosen a more northeast course, crossing the stern of Dalton. “I have spent one night very frustrating”, said to Sir Robin this morning, “according to he lowered the wind and one became unstable during four hours been I have stopped in constant rain.” “This has made me lose a pile of miles with respect to the other boats; I thought that the others can have undergone the same, but no, in spite of being close, both have chosen another route.”

The Insurance Saga receives little weather data reason why any loss or advances can much more affect Sir Robin. “I hope to stay near the Pakea and of the AGD to stay in the same meteorological conditionses, but it knows where the calm lasts less, I no. Also both am sailing in this stage far better, not only she is that they have the weather data.”

Kojiro Shiraishi, that goes second, 968 miles to the east of the Pakea.

Both landlords that close the fleet of the VELUX 5 OCEANS, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Graham Dalton are locked up in a south-east battle to 210 miles of the Island of the South, in New Zealand. The pair is in favor separated only of 63 miles of Latitude, with the Saga Insurance de Knox-Johnston more to the south in fifth position, 22 miles behind the New Zealand landlord. During the past night, the British veteran lost 17 miles with respect to Dalton, but he is a minimum range having in account that the weather message announces winds of 50 knots and giant waves.
 
Both boats are at the moment on the oceanic plateau Campbell, a zone relatively little deep that extends to the south of New Zealand. The part of which a storm with winds of Force 10 comes near will turn the sea on the plateau into extraordinary waves, and last night Knox-Johnston already began to feel its effects. In a fast email to its equipment in England, Sir Robin commented that its system of communications in the Insurance SAGA began to give problems, but was not going to carry out no repair then: “I do not want to put to fix nothing now, the sea is too scrambled.”

More to the South, to 50ºS, the Basque landlord Unai Basurko, crossed the Line the International of the Change of Hour, and increased to 15 miles its advantage with respect to Dalton, maintaining to the Pakea 69 miles in front of Open 50 To Southern Man ADG. 

While, the frustrating conditions stay for the Japanese landlord, Kojiro Shiraishi, that goes second, 968 miles to the east of the Pakea. The yield of Shiraishi been has dominated by slight winds and continues fighting in the Pacific Ocean with an average of speed of 7 knots, only expressing each mile with its 60 Open Spirit of Yukoh. Whereas Koji has sailed 153 miles in last the 24 hours, the leader, Bernard Stamm, have crossed almost the distance double and take an advantage on the Japanese of 1282 miles.
 
Stamm has been finishing passing for few hours the midpoint between New Zealand and Suramérica, with 2100 miles still to cross before passing the Cape Horn and “turning to the left” to raise by the South Atlantic. The Swiss landlord is right now in the most remote part of the planet, to 1500 miles of Pitcairn Island, the nearer Earth, and to four days of navigation of its nearer rival, Shiraishi. This isolation requires constant monitoring on board and the conditions for Stamm are far from being the ideals: “It is extremely difficult to find the combination of candles suitable,” said this morning.

Stamm sails in variable winds among 8 and 35 knots of unstable direction, “but I remain with reacher as prow candle and a curl in the major.”  Swiss also said that there was a cloud bank in 52ºS with banks of cloudy accumulations and is having much taken care of to make sure that he will be able to reduce warlike surface quickly: “In these conditions, I have the end of the coiler of gennaker permanently in one winche of the bathtub, ready to loosen.”