VELUX 5 OCEANS 2010/2011 - Leg 5 - Charleston - La Rochelle

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23.05.11
CSM FEARS SINKING AS SPARTAN FLOODS IN VELUX 5 OCEANS SPRINT FIVE DRAMA
OCEAN SPRINT 5 TO LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE, DAY 9

Fellow ocean racers diverted help British skipper

VELUX 5 OCEANS skipper Chris Stanmore-Major feared his yacht was sinking after finding the cabin flooded with hundreds of litres of water in the middle of the North Atlantic. The 33-year-old, competing in the 30,000-mile round the world yacht race known as The Ultimate Solo Challenge, discovered the potential disaster halfway into the final sprint of the event from Charleston, USA, to La Rochelle in France.

Foto:Chris Stanmore-Major

CSM had been locked in battle with fellow racers Derek Hatfield and Zbigniew ‘Gutek’ Gutkowski around 1,000 miles east of the Canadian province of Newfoundland when the drama unfolded. His yacht Spartan had been travelling at around 18 knots in strong winds when he returned to the cabin following a sail change to find it flooded.

“My immediate thought was that something had breached the hull,” CSM told the VELUX 5 OCEANS team. “I have literally never seen that much water inside a boat before. I informed race control that I thought I was dealing with a hull breach. I started to pump out the water then carried out a full check of the boat and found there was only one place the water was coming into the cabin, and that was by the rear bulkhead.”

Click HERE to read more Before things went wrong Chris sent back some great images from Spartan CLICK HERE
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