The corridor of the Icebergs

Stamm, that finishes entering “the corridor of the icebergs”, is forced to lessen the speed. The landlord of the PAKEA fights against winds of 40 knots and tries as rapidly as possible to pass the island of New Zealand to avoid the storm that is approached.
 

25 of January of 2007. In the head of the fleet, Bernard Stamm continues reaching the highest speeds, few tenth below the 17 knots, but soon it seems that it is going to change: “I have finished temporarily with the planning and the high speeds,” said to this morning, “the front is reaching to me and at the moment, I am not safe of the following thing that I will do.” According to it is entered in the most austral latitudes, its surroundings become more hostile and dangerous. “He is everything always gray dark.” Stamm finishes entering which the navigators denominate the “corridor of the icebergs”, so he must be especially kind.
 

Unai Basurko has been two days battling with a strong storm and nothing encouraging faces a weather forecast. Located in fourth position and advancing quickly towards the hardest and inhospitable zones of the planet, Unai stays well and surely against his more direct threat, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, that goes fifth a few miles of the Basoue.

 
“I have passed a cold front superficially, yesterday all night and today all the day. I am right now to the south of Hobart, in Tasmania, and have had very strong winds, of 35-40 knots, and until some more, with some shower. Now it seemed that it lowered a little but it has returned to raise. So here I am, surviving, holding course towards the east, sometimes pointing a little at the north but by other all well,” it has commented Unai this morning.

“In the boat all good, are small things that to do, but with this time are difficult to do nothing. I am sailing to taste, I take sailed a pair of days or three and from Brazil that did not find with the boat, removing speed so well and gaining confidence little by little. After the problems that I had in the first stage it is necessary to go little by little taking confidence and every day I am better and I am many ahead to take the rate.”
 
“My good strategy… I go a little more to the north than Sir Robin until New Zealand, but no, little, the important thing is more that we pass New Zealand the sooner, because comes a storm. Fodder that in about three days I will happen, on Sunday. The part is that a storm comes from the south and we are going to have a front enough after another one and wind. For that reason it is very important that we happen the sooner that piece that is complicated, and the sooner we clear it to us, better.”
 
“I am sailing with tranquility, I am recovering and that also allows me to be able to rest in conditions and for eating hot. I was made string beans to the night and ate yesterday well, calentito, and today I have rested in short whiles. Now I have at least confidence in which the boat is not going away to go for any side, the pilots go or and the boat goes or. Long ago wind and the speed is impressive, you glide at very strong speeds, but it is necessary to try to close the eyes and concentrarte in sleeping.”

While, the nearest rival of Unai, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, located to the southwest, was undergoing serious problems with the electronics of his boat. Nevertheless, this morning or has managed to make work its satellite side, reason why the British veteran or can receive the weather data again. Although both boats, the PAKEA and the Insurance Saga are in favor separated of 270 miles, and Sir Robin is in a position to the south, that in principle could seem more favorable, the Basoue is 42 miles more near the line of impact.

 
In half of the fleet, the New Zealand landlord, Graham Dalton in its Open 50 are 483 miles to the east of Sir Robin, going towards the south. Dalton right now is 390 miles to the southwest of New Zealand, to 665 miles of Kojiro Shiraishi, that goes second.
 
Shiraishi yesterday interrupted its wireless conversation with the organizers of regata since it had to raise cover running to rescue the rest of his candle Code 6, that finished breaking. During the night, Koji has passed to the north of the Campbell island, step forced of regata, and with 30 wind knots of the west it has put prow to South 52º this morning. The damage suffered in its Code 6, one of the called candles reachers, is the most probable cause of the loss of 66 miles of advantage with respect to the leader, Bernard Stamm, that already surpasses the Japanese in 563 miles.