Regata Velux 5 oceans.

2007

Victory of Stamm in 2º stage

Bernard Stamm, on board its Open 60 CHEMINEES POUJOULAT, is cruzado the line of goal of the second stage of the VELUX 5 OCEANS to the 22:59: 25 local time (3: 59: 45 UTC). After 48 days, 22 hours and 59 minutes, and a route of 15,725 miles, the present champion arrived at Norfolk, Virginia (EE.UU.). The victory of Stamm alone marks an historical profit for the Maximum Challenge, and the past reflects the impeccable action of the Swiss hero from its exit from Fremantle (Western Australia) day 14 of January. With an advantage of vertigo on the classified second, the Japanese Kojiro Shiraishi, Stamm surely it only one fast day's work until the out port and arrival in Bilbao are guaranteed the final victory of regata VELUX 5 OCEANS, having left to complete the circumnavigation of the planet. However, if something we have learned of this regata, it is to wait for the unexpected thing.

On foot of wharf, Bernard Stamm has commented: “I am very happy for winning and I am very happy for being able to obtain what I glided to do in time. It happened so all it had anticipated what it. I have had long time to analyze the situation and there was no pressure of other competitors. Quite the opposite if there were ten boats in ten miles. This meant the one that could concentrate me in the analysis of the weather data. ”

“The Cape Horn has been very hard. I do not like Furnaces, and after that place, most difficult it is the zone of doldrums, a very complicated site to sail. Hatred the Doldrums. It has been a long stage. In the Doldrums it rains all the day. It is a great problem. I have had a pile of problems with the autopilot, the candles, etc.”
“Still I am motivated because still it is regata and I must sail with well-taken care of because still hundime could. No longer it is much competition but still I must finish if I want to win”

The victory in this second stage consolidates to Stamm like one of the best competitors in this historical stage. After a forceful victory in the previous edition of regata, the Swiss landlord has demonstrated once again its great marine talent with its victory in the first stage, finishing more than three days before Shiraishi after retirement of the main British competitors. The second stage, from Fremantle to Norfolk, promised to be harder and longer, taking to the boats by the most remote points of the Austral Ocean, to double the Cape Horn and to return to raise by the Atlantic, happening the Doldrums, to the entrance to the Bay of Chesapeake.

During the second Stamm stage one has been with much luck and good conditions. The Austral Ocean was unusually calm, with little threat of icebergs and storms way to Latin America. CHEMINEES POUJOULAT crossed the line of exit first and it has not returned to watch backwards. Once passed the Cabo Australian Leeuwin, and after at full speed passing the island South of New Zealand, Stamm was with an enormous system of high pressures in the middle of its way made the first door obligatory of security. Nevertheless, nothing prevented the passage him to Super Stamm, and with a little luck and very many ability, 56º went to the south until the parallel to surround the system, and to return the north ago grazing the end this of the door of security in a magnificent maneuver.
Stamm knew to maintain the rate until Cape Horn, which doubled with great surge and forts winds, but in better conditions than those than it has supported in other occasions when happening this important landmark. The meteorological systems throughout all the stage have been favorable for their route and have allowed CHEMINEES POUJOULAT to establish a considerable and unattainable advantage on their nearer rival, Kojiro Shiraishi. Also, its boat has behaved very well and in spite of some small problems to solve during the passage, nothing has restrained this landlord, resident in Britain, France, and it has not been either forced to stop in port to carry out repairs.

The rest of the fleet
The second of the fleet Velux 5 Oceans, the Japanese Kojiro Shiriaishi and its 60 OPEN Sipirit of Yukoh practically sail on the route that drew up Bernard Stam after crossing Ecuador course to Norfolk. Kojiro has by prow 2,500 miles until the line of impact and counts on the tradewinds of the east, that will take to him of I embroider until the Tropic of Cancer, waiting room of the final section until the arrival.
The Basque landlord Unai Basurko and its 60 OPEN Pakea continue reinforcing his third position in the 5 Velux Oceans when increasing miles of advantage on Graham Dalton and Sir Robin. Unai this obtaining good averages in its day's works, of 250 daily miles; if it maintains this speed it will reach Ecuador the next Thursday or Friday and is possible that it shortens time with the fresher wind arrival of the east, that, according to the meteorological forecast, will increase until the 20 knots in next the three days later to lessen until the 15 knots of intensity.

Graham Dalton and Sir Robin follow with their particular fight. The New Zealand landlord this in one more a position more Eastern than the one of the Briton, practically in the same South length, on the parallel South 29º, separated both by 400 miles. Sir Robin maintains its tactics to sail more near the coast in the hope of running into the winds that allow him to escape to Graham Dalton, which could happen shortly.

Char it with Unai

Good… showers, the wind… raises, low, rola… but we go well for the north.”

“The situation is very unstable, showers, wind of 20 knots, it is isobaric wind but there are very strong winds of up to 40 and with rain. After the shower it remains all ironing, without wind. He is complicated, much work.”

From Thursday to twelve more or less of the noon, moment at which I turned to the northwest, I go hauled in to starboard. Sometimes when more northwest arrives the shower I must hold course does not free to me to go to Brazil, but later with time normal yes that it frees to me. As the normal time is the one that predominates on the shower, there is no problem”

“I have jumped three degrees more of length towards the northwest by these showers, these strong winds, because they made impossible to maintain the course me that wanted. I have had to be falling, lowering, running with the shower giving him speed to the boat. It does not matter either, because the wind goes rolando in fact here towards stern, reason why I hope to free well. I have the paper letter here where I see the VOICE of the 90-91 of Duarte and see that all came this way, with the same positions in which I am I and I see that finally they freed; the computer also says the same. If, I hope to free.”

“Sunday in the evening the halliard was broken to me, jumped the boat and loaded. The greater candle of blow fell to me, luckily was inside then. I managed to solve it in three hours more or less, I have a pulley with a guide and passed a halliard new and I did not have to raise the wood, something that had been impossible by these winds and this crossed wave is difficult to raise the wood. Now I am sailing with a direct halliard, it only raises and low by outside taking care of a little that nonloading too much and with mimo. The previous one was taking care of also it I sewed, it, etc., but in the end they are many hours and a blow of those can break it. The good thing is that in three hours it was sailing again, to good rate and now I will have to be careful, because if it becomes to break now if that it would have to raise the wood and he is always complicated.”

“I have had really strong showers soon torrential rain and have suddenly and tried to run with them and after the shower to advance again. Right now another one is entering, I take all night and the morning thus, and yesterday the same. There was much wind 30-35 yesterday constant knots throughout all the day. As long as free Brazil is not bad either, because the length is this one, and it does not have much dot to change; today at least it is going to have wind. Itself running well towards the north, now I am holding course ten already, am freeing clearly the Coast of Reef in White Cabo, in spite of going with the shower.”

“I have increased miles Dalton respect and Mr. Robin. I am very contented and much more calm that for two weeks, with that one incognito that existed when betting to make miles towards the East, that never is pleasant. I believe that she has been, and in the end I believe that they are going to have to happen through the same length through which I later passed but days.”

“Kojiro is removing distance to me because it has taken tradewinds of the north, that note, are nuditos to the day that are 50 miles or little more and yes, is become distance. But good also I to them will take.”

“The one of the whale was incredible, Thursday in the evening with the calmed sea as a swimming pool and with about seven nuditos of wind I saw one of eight meters that followed to me and it tried to take to me but it could not, I released the major just a little bit but nothing, in the end went away. Then I took the camera to see if there were more and in the little short while, hauled in to naked starboard sailing to siete-ocho without doing nothing of noise, when I saw an island suddenly approaching by port with collision course and varying the course, but as unlike regatas you cannot warn it of any form, I had to release the major in band, of escota, arrived 50 degrees at the pilot and freed less than by a length. I took a great scare and once I saw that it freed because I enjoyed its vision, I took the camera I recorded and it just a little bit. The return to the world did not worry to him. It had had whales closely together, but always stuck to the boat practically doing my same course, never crossed 90 degrees with respect to my course.
I have fished in Genoa a flying fish and am going to see if they really know well, because I have never eaten them. Tomorrow I say to you what so was.”

“I hope to be the night of day 8 or 9 by the Equator, if everything goes or. The part of wind settles above of the east, therefore the zone of calm will be smaller.”

“My unique preoccupation now is the halliard of the major, to see if it holds until the Equator, since then, with more favorable winds it is going to be easier that it holds.”

“To already see if I leave Brazil, that is enormous… is a great country. More or less I have left two days to free the coast of Brazil. What is complicated is the reef coast that comes ahead. I have something of traffic, some that another fishing boat when being so near the coast reason why tonight, I will sleep little. Today I have slept also very little due to continuous showers, since you pass one and you try to sleep, but in anything comes the following one to you and in the end you join three or four showers and you sleep little.”

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