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 BALTIMORE (AP) - What Mike Sanderson feared and Bouwe Bekking wanted came to fruition Saturday on the Chesapeake Bay.
Light air predominated for the Baltimore In-Port competition of the Volvo Ocean Race. As predicted, that favored the Spanish entry movistar, skippered by Bekking. However, that was bad news for the Dutch syndicate ABN AMRO ONE, the overall leader skippered by Sanderson.
Fellow skippers have said Movistar is the quickest of the seven Volvo 70-footers when the wind drops to single digits. That proved true as Bekking and crew seized the lead on the first downwind leg and never looked back in winning the buoy race on the Chesapeake.
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