At 8PM (UTC) on Friday, January 11, Bernard Stamm was sailing at the speed of 16.5 knots, northwest of the Falkland Islands, on a route parallel but north to Javier Sanso's, Arnaud Boissières' and Dominique Wavre's. On Saturday morning, Cheminées Poujoulat was 6296.26 miles away from the finish line.
Bernard's message:
Writing a mail isn't easy. I'm not sure I had ever been that shaken since the start of the race. The front is now behind us and I'm sailing in 27-28 knots of wind and a 4 to 5-metre swell. It feels like a rodeo, really, I just can't move around the way I want to on board.
Later,
Narbé.
For your information, the Cheminées Poujoulat team's website now features a race map updated as often as the one on VendeeGlobe.org and showing Bernard's progression: http://poujoulat.bernard-stamm.com/carte/
