Swiss skipper of solo race disqualified
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January 3, 2013, Thursday
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SWISS skipper Bernard Stamm has been disqualified from the solo, non-stop, round-the-world yacht race, the Vendee Globe, for receiving assistance, the international jury overseeing the competition said yesterday.
The jury, which is independent of the race organizers, said in a statement that Stamm had been helped when he made a pitstop in the Auckland Islands of New Zealand on December 23 to repair a broken generator.
Specifically, he breached race rules by mooring his Cheminees Poujoulat boat to a Russian scientific vessel with help from a crew member, although Stamm maintained that mooring was unavoidable because his craft was drifting and it was an emergency.
On the point of receiving assistance from a crew member of the Russian ship, he said they had come on board without him asking - and without knowing that he was participating in a solo race - to help him moor safely.
"When I saw him on board I did not find any reason that could justify to send him back from the board," he wrote in his justification to the jury.
The jury, which is independent of the race organizers, said in a statement that Stamm had been helped when he made a pitstop in the Auckland Islands of New Zealand on December 23 to repair a broken generator.
Specifically, he breached race rules by mooring his Cheminees Poujoulat boat to a Russian scientific vessel with help from a crew member, although Stamm maintained that mooring was unavoidable because his craft was drifting and it was an emergency.
On the point of receiving assistance from a crew member of the Russian ship, he said they had come on board without him asking - and without knowing that he was participating in a solo race - to help him moor safely.
"When I saw him on board I did not find any reason that could justify to send him back from the board," he wrote in his justification to the jury.
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