Regatas Vendee Globe 2016

[Akakus]

Originalmente publicado por Capitan Barbosa

Las explicaciones de PH del porqué arrumba al N. Parece que tiene bastantes daños, mayor, carros y sobre todo el piloto. Dice haber encontrado una zona de respiro en una zona de altas pero tiene claro que si no consigue arreglar el piloto pone rumbo a Australia y vuelve a Europa metiendo el barco en un carguero. Desde aquí se le desea suerte.


Pieter Heerema (NED) (No Way Back): “The weather is great I am going slow intentionally steering into the high pressure, because I have a huge list of things to be done which can only be done in a calm situation. I had repair the mainsail with ten patches. I have repaired three cars, on the mainsail track. The going is slow but the circumstances are fantastic. It is like a holiday cruise right now. I have let go my thoughts of the race right now. This comes as a welcome chance to prepare the boat for the Pacific. I am not completely ready but should be by the end of the day and then thereafter it is just keeping fingers crossed that a solution is found to the autopilot problems. If not then that is another reason to be in the north, because I look for a harbour in Australia and put the boat on a freighter back to Europe. Without an autopilot it is just not doable. I am not going back into the Southern Ocean without a working pilot. I have no idea what I am doing with the software.”

Esa no es la actitud para afrontar lo que le queda. Me temo que se está autoconvenciendo para dejarlo.