Back they were the days of cold, rain and demolishers galernas that they have had to support the landlords in the first compasses of the 5 Velux Oceans. Now the turn has arrived him at the humid and warm South in which, little by little, the boats of head of the competition are entered. And in that they receive the visit of some unexpected guests.

“Everything goes rather well this way. It blows the wind, it is sunny, the day it is very tuna,…”, commented a visibly relaxed Bernard Stamm that, however, had left back more complex to meteorological conditionses something: “The certain thing is that I have passed a depression with a cold front that did that the wind was very variable as much in intensity as in direction, so it has been difficult to negotiate”.
 

While, the Japanese Kojiro Shiraishi has been able “to eat” several miles to him to the leader. Koji last night explained the conditions of the zone of doldrums in which they are immersed: “The intensity and the wind direction in these storms are impossible to predict, reason why the results can have important consequences. This morning I have seen how two storms approached towards me in the horizon and I have imagined that the best plan was to happen between the two. But what bad luck, I have put in the middle and I have remained six hours followed without anything of wind.”

Mike Golding, that goes third party, has had also an excellent weekend in which it has shortened 95 miles to the leader, approaching also much Kojiro Shiraishi. Golding is now at the beginning of south-east trade winds. What worse it takes Golding is the intense heat that undergoes day and night. In addition, as it must load the batteries with the motor, the heat within the boat is unbearable. Golding glides to tomorrow cross Ecuador on the 7 of afternoon (GMT).  

Alex Thomson spent the night of Saturday in a marathon of trasluchadas to happen between two of the islands of the archipelago of Green Cabo. Alex is to 222 miles of Golding. For both British landlords, a critical stage of regata begins now according to enter in the zone of doldrums, the strategic decisions that they take these days can be decisive for the rest of the stage.
 

Saturday Sir Robin Knox-Johnston released its new one to spinnaker, which served to him to reach the average of higher speed of the fleet in 24 hours, while it went towards the southwest to 360 miles of the coast of Mauritania.