Sir Robin must stop in Ushuaia

After taking control of the third position, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston announces a shutdown in Argentina, in the port of Ushuaia. The British landlord recognizes that it is impossible to him to sail in conditions without weather data. “My systems of satellite communicationses do not work. Thus I cannot be competitive. We can fix it with the pieces that we hoped. That is the main reason of stopping; the damn electronics does not work”.

Besides this repair, vital to continue sailing (the landlords cannot receive weather data of their equipment), Sir Robin will take advantage of the 48 hours obligatory its shutdown in Ushuaia to replace the car of the major, to fix to the valve of the ballast tank and other small repairs. Although it knows that this will make him lose the third place in the VELUX 5 OCEANS, the sailor of 67 years will affirm that it will again fight to take control of that position. “They are 7000 miles until arriving at Norfolk and I will be again the hunter”. Ushuaia is 340 miles after Cabo Furnaces, that Sir Robin hopes to double tomorrow. In the last position report, to the 16.08 hours, Sir Robin removed 98 miles to Unai.
 

To 11 miles of PAKEA 7 and closing the fleet 5 Velux Oceans it marches a Southern Man-AGD the New Zealand landlord Graham Dalton, who in spite of having two broken fingers in a hand, works incessantly on board his warlike sailboat flat OPEN 50 reducing with the Antarctic wind arrival of more than 45 knots of intensity, and trying that the boat can be governed the greater possible time by the autopilot, since in those latitudes one it would not hold long time to the cane of the boat. For Dalton the important thing is, besides leaving Cape Horn stern, arriving the sooner at the north of the Falklands islands. It says that it is important to leave the Austral Pacific but it is it still more to reach the sooner the parallel 51ºS to the north of the Falklands Islands.
 
At the top of the fleet, Bernard Stamm continues increasing the distance with the rest in its way towards Norfolk. In front of the 14 knots of speed that Swiss marks, 1913 miles, Kojiro Shiraishi continues being with zones of very slight and frustrating winds.