Regata Velux 5 oceans.

2007

Kojiro and Dalton with physical problems.

They put its resistance on approval

Bernard Stamm sails at an average speed of 13.94 knots and its advantage is of 177 miles on the second, Kojiro Shiraishi, that advances to 10.6 knots. To 270 miles of the leader is Graham Dalton that goes third party sailing to an average of 9.42 knots. It follows Unai to them Basurko (PAKEA) that goes quarter, to 478 miles of the leader. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston that has left Fremantle first thing of Wednesday closes the classification.

17 of January of 2007. While the fast Swiss navigator Bernard Stamm is increasing his advantage in the VELUX 5 OCEANS, after him, Kojiro and Dalton, in second and third position respectively, they accuse physical problems in the first days of the second phase of which he will again put on approval its resistance in the worse latitudes of the planet.

This morning to the 10:00 hours, the picture of positions showed that Kojiro in last the five hours had yielded 18 miles more to the leader Bernard Stamm, and now is more than 170 miles of Open 60 of Swiss. Nevertheless, one of the characteristics of the Japanese sailor is its perseverancia. So Kojiro continuous Shiraishi pushing hard and maintaining its sense of humor while they follow his mareos. During the four days that take disputed of the second stage, Kojiro has survived with a diet with fruit and juice, but today the good news arrive to us: “Today I have proven finally my first food. I have often vomited the orange juice, but it did not matter to me because at least it knew very well! Right now I am a veteran with regard to the mareos in the sea.”

In second position and to 300 miles of the Australian Coast, skipper of the Spirit of Yukoh remains trim in spite of the mareos: “navigation alone, being in this situation and feeling to me this way is even more difficult than you can be imagined. It passed the same to me at the beginning of the first stage.” In addition, to Kojiro addition is had to him more another difficulty, an injury in the leg, but it refuses to that this new misfortune affects its navigation or its level of concentration. “The pain in my ankle is still there. I must go pasito to pasito, but it can be very dangerous. As I cannot have in rest the ankle, surely it will take still a good season to him to recover completely. At the moment, to sail is very difficult. The time it seems that it is going to be variable so I incline to go towards the south. With this variable time we must be very kind. “

Graham Dalton is in solid a third position, 106 miles behind SPIRIT OF YUKOH of the Japanese Kojiro Shiraishi. Whereas Koji is fighting against its mareos constants, Dalton does against its own demons: fatigue and failures in the equipment. Yesterday, skipper of 54 years related that the hand with boiling water and today during a brief connection in satellite with the organization of the VELUX had been burned him 5 OCEANS, revealed that it is fighting against a great accumulated fatigue: “it is being to me more difficult now than in all the previous occasions that I have realized navigation alone. I am fighting very hard, but so I am tired! ”, it admitted the New Zealand sailor.

Unai Basurko: “The beginning was a hell”

Unai is calm, wants to win to Sir Robin but it is not going to put under the boat to unnecessary pressures: “I am far better, was a beginning hell but now I go well, making me to the boat and the sea, fixing some small thing that was broken to me during the cold front which I happened. But today good day has been, already I am eating normal, sleeping well and sailing every time better.”

“Small things are had to me broken, without importance but that there is to do them, like some end, a pulley of the curl was broken to me, and a saber left to me the major, and in the end everything has been time, as to put the saber… they are very long sabers of 9 meters, and you must put it, return to sew, clear the car of the wood… after those cold fronts, that so great wave and those winds, it is necessary to review it all good of stern prow, the whole boat.”

The conditions for Unai have improved very many from the exit: “Now it finishes entering a shower, has raised the wind 18-20 knots but I have been all the day with 14-16 knots of the west, sometimes a little southwestern, but now a little rain with a little more wind has entered, but they are showers that usually go away in one hour or and thus low a little new one. I am holding a course towards the south, sometimes I go a little southwestern but I go well, comfortable and the sea is lowering enough.”

Sir Robin is 332 miles, trying to give reach to Unai: “By all means I want to arrive before Robin, and thus I said it, if I can remove the time to him that removed he to me in the first stage would be very well, to soon play it to us in the last stage. Now the important thing is to be making way towards the Cape Horn and in this first stage of the stage not to break, because I believe that she is where she is going to have the differences… soon in the Atlantic is when a little plus the boat can be tightened. Also I hope that Robin is taking rate to the boat and that they are coming out the things well.”

Unai is the landlord that less time happened in Fremantle, nevertheless, seems that the repairs were carried out successfully: “

He has given time to repair the boat well Me, we have worked much, Gonzalo Terceño and Aitor Barrenetxea, of my ground equipment, along with the designer, and the constructor and people of Fremantle… I am calm, removed the boat, reviewed, became a very good repair. Soon there are thousand things and they are that in one week always there are things that you find and I had liked to rest a little more, but on the other hand I am fresher, few days ago he was in the sea and the acclimatization is easier.”

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