After eleven days at sea, it's the vicissitudes of Doldrums to be a spoilsport. The location of the intertropical convergence zone moves around the equator and is feared by sailors for its erratic changes. For now, the sailors seem stick in an area with several passages without wind. A map of the wind speed modulus averaging over the winter 2007-2008 shows the location of this contrasted area around the equator. A transect on the 26 ° W meridian (it's almost the path taken by the boats since the islands of Cape Verde) made from the wind data on the November 15, 2008 indicates latitudes with less wind: the wind is below 5 m / s up to latitude 6 ° N. This area crossed, the wind should swell the sails. A transect made further west, on the 30 ° W meridian, shows that the situation is quite different, with more winds.