At dawn on July 5, the fifth day of the regatta, Italian time again stops and goes in the Newfoundland Gulf, with weak winds that make the routes haphazard, due to extreme decisions: there are those who now find themselves near the coast, those who have chosen a median route, and those who are slaloming between the islands.
Alberto Bona, Luca Rosetti and Pablo Santurde del Arco, aboard the Class40 IBSA, are 16 miles from the leaders, in a group of ten boats about six miles apart from each other, while Ambrogio Beccaria – who with a courageous choice managed to break away and maintain first position – is still in the lead.
The last 12 hours of navigation, like the previous ones, were characterised by little wind and a lot of patience, which the skippers needed to leave behind the island of Newfoundland, that the fleet is skirting to the South. To find the wind, they will have to wait until late afternoon Italian time, when 12 knots of wind from the South-West should materialise, finally in the right direction and intensity to launch the boats into a downwind point of sailing in the ocean.
Yesterday less than one hundred miles were covered, bringing the balance – at the 8:30 check (Italian time) – to 700 miles sailed and 2,150 to go.
Meanwhile, on board the Class40 IBSA, everyone is rooting for Italian sailor Claudia Conti, who was injured yesterday on board Amelie Grassi’s La Boulangère Bio.
