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Light winds stall MacArthur
LORIENT, France (CNN) -- British skipper Ellen MacArthur was lagging more than nine hours behind the round-the-world Jules Verne Trophy record after her boat Kingfisher2 entered a patch of light winds. MacArthur and her all-male crew were suffering "high stress" on Monday as they sailed through mild and unstable winds on day four of their attempt off the African coast. They were nine hours and 11 minutes behind the record set by Orange of 64 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds, with 23,094 nautical miles to go. "When you are only sailing at 10 knots, you know you are losing 7 miles an hour, that's 70 miles in 10 hours," MacArthur said on her official Web site. "It's very hard to deal with. Although it's a record attempt, I think losing miles like this is even harder than when there is a real boat next to you." The calm spell with sudden squalls was expected to last into Monday night, before trade winds would propel Kingfisher2 towards the Equator. Kingfisher2's rival Geronimo, skippered by Olivier de Kersauson, has been racing for 23 days,making good progress. Geronimo has completed one third of the circumnavigation, heading across the Indian Ocean towards Cape Leeuwin, Australia. Geronimo was about 1,000 miles ahead of Orange's record.
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