Wednesday 16 November:  16 GMT: The tactics enter game

Very variable winds of 3 to 30 knots and directions that rolan more of 50º. The boats are already almost upon the intertropical convergence zone that offers these whims. The ABN have gone to the West towards the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noroha. The Brasil1 and the Ericsson low of latitude hoping to reclaim miles when leader. The meteo indicates showers and storms when they cross the intertropical zone in 30W and to latitude 5N. The Sunergy in tail of the race has some time for time that happens with first which they arrive at this zone and power to make the best decisions to reclaim miles with the race head. 

The analyzes on the breakage of the Movistar, demonstrate that the shock probably has been against a solid object like a container or something floating between two waters. From Ericsson they comment to us that during the 2 first wild nights, a submarine has been piloted rather and not a sailboat. “It was fitting the major when I observed an enormous rompiente wave that came to us above. To the shout of Wave or any other exclamation, you retain the breathing, you take hold with force hoping the always abrupt and strong impact. After pantocazo and the water blanket, delays 1 or 2 second and you abres to the eyes fijándote again if it is everybody good”.

Paul of the Pirates explains the decision to take the boat to us in a container to Cape Town: “These new boats Open 70 are high tech machines, as the cars of races and as they break themselves without previous warning. We are going to return to the race and I believe that we have great possibilities of gaining it. We can put a bandage in the wound of the boat and sail during 3 weeks until South Africa to take some small point, and to arrive days before the exit of hardest the second stage, badly and without being everything perfectly repaired preparation and. The other option is to send the boat to Cape Town, to repair it conscientiously, to improve the structural integrity of the helmet, to prove the boat several totally ready days and to begin “Leg 2”.