Adventure kayaker Aleksander Doba remains more than a 100 nautical miles off the coast Bermuda after two days of bad weather, but he will be given a morale boost later today when he is visited by supporters.

Fellow Polish kayaker Piotr Chmielinski and two National Geographic magazine journalists are being ferried out by marine towing company Sea Assist to rendezvous with Mr Doba.

Mr Doba, 67, left Portugal in October last year hoping to become the first person to cross the Atlantic from Europe to North America in a kayak, but has been forced to stop off in Bermuda to make repairs after his rudder broke in a storm.

His resolve has not wavered, said his friend Mr Chmielinski.

“He is unhappy that he was pushed back but today hopefully he will get closer and he wants to make it on his own to the Island,” said Mr Chmielinski, a world renowned adventure-kayaker himself and the first person to make a source-to-sea descent of the Amazon River.

As of Monday, Mr Chmielinski estimated his friend was 110 miles away but according to Mr Doba’s last update he has only made five miles of progress since.

After 137 days at sea, a month of battling midwinter Atlantic storms and losing 30 nautical miles of progress every day, Mr Doba is expected to arrive in Bermuda by the weekend.

Early this morning Mr Chmielinski and the two journalists were due to set off with two Sea Assist crew to meet Mr Doba at around midday, when he is expected to be less than 100 nautical miles southwest of the Island.

It is anticipated that Mr Doba will be able to continue his solo journey to the Island where damage to his 20ft kayak, named Olo, can be assessed and repairs made.

The intrepid kayaker’s ultimate destination is Florida.

Yesterday, as he waited in Bermuda, Mr Chmielinski expressed his joy at being on the Island. He said: “So far it’s beautiful, the birds are chirping and everything is green. Coming from the white East Coast, it’s a great change even though I am an enthusiastic skier and I love snow, the opportunity to see this beautiful island is great for me.”