End of infarct! Hand-to-hand until the last one secondly. In the battle by the victory, the Spanish equipment commanded by the Dutch Bouwe Bekking finally is broken the dominion of the ABN's (Dutch equipment) by only 9 seconds in front of the brilliant Mike Sanderson (of Auckland - New Zealand).

Bouwe commented: “It is a really sweet victory. We really worked to secure this result reason why we are very contentments! We have a fantastic absolute apparatus. This short stage has been incredibly tense. We have done the necessary thing to secure this victory, and although nearly it has been obtained. New Zealand is a pretty stage to win. The boat is in good form and it has not happened anything negative.”

It has been a epic victory, they would never have bet to win in Wellington, and less by a distance equivalent to only the 10 times the length of the boat!

On the other hand Sanderson commented: “We are a little lowered by this result, but we were glad for Movistar. We lost an advantage of 40 miles being leaders, but soon we had last very exciting hours. In any case by we can feel us bad, since we have secured 6 points more for the total accountant, and this is the reason by which we followed in head.

They have been 14 hours final very tense for these two equipment, from the 10 in the morning of yesterday when Movistar reached to the ABN1, due to the lost one of wind in the Farewell end. While both boats battled prow with prow arriving at the line of goal, a small Navy of become fond of boats accompanied both to equipment in struggle by the victory.

Pirates have secured site in the podium, with their Black red and black Pearl, putting the third place in the pocket, only 50 minutes after the winner. After leaving in Vigo in stage 1 and after the insistent problems of keel in stage 2, now the Pirates the revenge is taken and it raises itself in the podium. Paul Cayard comments: “We are contentments with this result well although naturally we tried to win, so that totally we are not satisfied.

The next boat in entering will be the Brazil will do that it in the next hours followed of the ABN2 and finally the Ericsson will close the entrance of the fleet that is 30 miles of the port of Wellington.

Movistar has removed the boat from the water to inspect the keel. It has supposed a penalty to him of 2 hours for the next stage to River. We are pending to know the reason for which Bouwe has decided to remove the boat to inspect its state whose photo we offer next.

The next exit way of Rio de Janeiro totally promises to be very interesting through Cape Horn, giving the return to Antarctica, to overcome by the Atlantic against the coasts of Argentina, Uruguay and Finalmente Brazil.