Vendee Globe – The mother of all storms |
Maisonneuve è ormeggiata a Port Elizabeth fin da ieri mattina ma dopo oltre quaranta giorni in mare, in regata, nel grande Sud, è difficile distinguere la differenza e allora… «I have just spent my first night in a bed for 40 days. The wind was blowing and woke me up. I thought I was still in the boat and it was time to reduce the sail… »
Lunedì pomeriggio, poche miglia prima di raggiungere la baia di Port Elizabeth, il vento è schizzato a 75 nodi “The atmospheric pressure climber 20 millibars in 5 hours. I was under staysail with three reefs in the main and the boat was still doing twenty knots. I have never seen anything like that at sea. I was really afraid. The seas were white and all I could see was foam. Overhead the clouds sped by at the speed of fighter jets…
I shall return with one or two crew and some equipment early in January. We shall have a few days of work to do on board (halyards, pilots, sails) before sailing the boat home.”
Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty (Maisonneuve)
La foto non è relativa alla tempesta descritta, è di Brian Thomson, ma credo che possa un minimo rendere l’idea.
