Grands Records - Storm
02 April 18:51

In a phone conversation earlier today (Friday), Olivier de Kersauson's router Pierre Lasnier spoke about the conditions now being experienced by the Cap Gemini and Schneider Electric crew.

"Geronimo is subject to the influence of a depression that originated inside the south polar circle around 60°/ 65° S and has moved north into warmer areas at a rate of 35 knots. The crew will have bad weather until this 980 millibar system progresses further north ahead of them".

"It's during the period from now (16:00 Paris time, ed.) until 18:00 GMT that they will be most exposed, because they are in the most active part of the system. After that, the wind should drop and move around to the south".

"Olivier de Kersauson and his crew are still following a route at a tangent to the storm zone; yesterday, I advised them to slow down to avoid being too roughly treated".

"Once the depression reaches 47°30S 105°W, it will probably turn right. It should then return south-east and could cross our route again before the Horn".

When Pierre Lasnier says "our route" it's because he really is alongside Olivier de Kersauson and his crew all the way. Although shore-based, the router is intimately involved in all the difficult choices required to negotiate this extreme weather situation, which Geronimo's skipper today described as downright hostile.

And he does know what he's talking about!

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