Sobre Stamm y Desjoyeaux
Desjoyeaux and Stamm in a different system
Michel Desjoyeaux (
Foncia) and Bernard Stamm (
Cheminées Poujoulat) do not appear to be in for favourable weather in the coming days. For the winner of the 2001 Vendée Globe, who is sailing off Porto this morning, the northerly wind is down to 10 knots and he is going to have to wait for it to back NE'ly before it strengthens to 20 knots: the white monohull already lost thirty miles during the night and this is likely to increase to 100 miles by this evening (in relation to his 450 mile deficit when he set sail again from Les Sables d’Olonne). As for Bernard Stamm, he faces even less favourable conditions… Calm weather in the Bay of Biscay with often only just five knots of wind and rarely more than ten until Cape Finisterre! After a deficit of 940 miles on restarting from Les Sables d’Olonne this morning, he could see himself some 1500 miles behind this weekend… However, everyone, will be slowing down in the Doldrums early next week and there will fortunately for these two sailors some compression.