John_Silver
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The full Cape Horn experience being served up, for Sam G. For his rounding, later today
Vendee Globe 2024, Brits
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Around 18 hours (at a combined closing speed of 40kts) for the cross, between Yoann & Charlie…….
……..with Thomas Coville’s Jules Verne record attempt (currently 180nm to the good).
……..with Thomas Coville’s Jules Verne record attempt (currently 180nm to the good).
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Pip’s arrival pix:
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Sam G’s round:
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Sam G breaks from the pack. Will it work? Looks like, Jean Le Cam style, ‘sail the rhumb line’ thinking….
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Yoann & Charlie cross…..
……with Thomas Coville. Who is 320nm up on Francis Joyon’s Jules Verne record pace.
……with Thomas Coville. Who is 320nm up on Francis Joyon’s Jules Verne record pace.
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Pip reflects
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Inside the Yoann v Charlie rivalry, with Marcus Hutchinson (should open 5.00):
Sam G's bold break, through the Le Maire straight, paying off so far. Fingers crossed there.
Sam D's hitch north looks to have cost her v Clarisse and Benjamin Dutreux
Sam G's bold break, through the Le Maire straight, paying off so far. Fingers crossed there.
Sam D's hitch north looks to have cost her v Clarisse and Benjamin Dutreux
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Bestaven retires due to steering failure
Forced to stopover in Ushuaïa Yannick Bestaven announces his withdrawal from the Vendée Globe
Forced to stopover in Ushuaïa Yannick Bestaven announces his withdrawal from the Vendée Globe
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Buck Turgidson
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And I'm back.
Ding dong battle at the front with Charlie finding some wind where there appeared to be non! I'm saddened that Sam G didn't go west of the Falklands as I thought he had pulled a blinder round the cape but he chose to give it all back and rejoin the group. Sam D will get lucky not because of her northern route but because of the timing at the cape which will stop the two in front of her. I don't see any gains for Seb S and I think Thomas R will loose a lot of his advantage to the chasing group.
I used to fly up and down the south Atlantic to the Falklands a couple of times a week in my RAF days and the weather at 35000' was just as tricky as it is at sea level. Anyones guess what might happen next.
Ding dong battle at the front with Charlie finding some wind where there appeared to be non! I'm saddened that Sam G didn't go west of the Falklands as I thought he had pulled a blinder round the cape but he chose to give it all back and rejoin the group. Sam D will get lucky not because of her northern route but because of the timing at the cape which will stop the two in front of her. I don't see any gains for Seb S and I think Thomas R will loose a lot of his advantage to the chasing group.
I used to fly up and down the south Atlantic to the Falklands a couple of times a week in my RAF days and the weather at 35000' was just as tricky as it is at sea level. Anyones guess what might happen next.
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Agree, with you, re Sam D, @Buck Turgidson : I was meaning that Sam D had lost ground, by going north of the low. And now stands to close back up, to Clarisse & Ben D, courtesy of a weather driven compression. Helped, also, by having a boat at close to 100% (which was a stated aim. when she went north). Whereas Clarisse is now nursing some issues (perhaps because of the heavy weather?)
With you also, on a slight feeling of disappointment, that Sam G didn't go west. BUT he's shown himself very astute tactically (aka is sailing his socks off!). And has much at stake: He's in 7th. Mixing it with the 'next generation' boats and the 'big name' skippers. Maybe felt that he needed to 'sail the fleet' (in Charlie D's words), as much as the GRIB's?
Be interesting to see how Juju gets on. Looks like she's heading west (yesterday am, I thought she was going west of the Falklands)
Brilliant scrap between Charlie & Yoann. Both fortune and guile, which they each have in spades, likely to play their part, crossing the Pot au Noir. BUT, by Yoann's own assessment (at 4.11 in the video), Charlie has a boat advantage, in the light (vid should open in the 'right' place)......
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John_Silver
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Jean Le Cam at his old, ‘sail the shortest distance,’ games. Ahead of half a dozen foilers. At the front of the daggerboard fleet. Look at that track:
Minimising manoeuvres pretty effectively too. ‘Wily old fox,’ in the words of Loick Peyron.
Minimising manoeuvres pretty effectively too. ‘Wily old fox,’ in the words of Loick Peyron.
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Sobering statistic: Since crossing the start line, Charlie & Yoann (top foilers) have, on average, sailed 22% faster than Jean Le Cam (top archimedean). Based on a rhumb line course distance of 24,300nm, and the distances to the finish shown in today's 18.00 sched.
Buck Turgidson
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Tis the way of the world. Imagine when someone dares to build an offshore AC75!
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.....OR the ban on rudder T-foils is lifted, within the IMOCA Class.......
Wonder if that's a possibility? It would make the 'entry level' daggerboard fleet obsolete. But, perhaps, that bird is (sadly) already in flight? Surely sponsorship is going to be hard(er) to attract, for a daggerboard campaign, with the best placed archimedean (currently) mid-fleet at 16?
How do you rate the chances of fully foiling IMOCAs, in the foreseeable future, (say, 2032 or 2036) @flaming ? Or, is that the preserve of the Ultims?
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A flashback: To Pip's warm Austrailian welcome. In particular, the part played in it, by Ocean Racing Club of Victoria members:
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Do they need to - when they have already had 100 plus foot fully foiling boats whizz around the world ..... solo!
It was insane the speeds they were literally flying across the Southern Ocean 7 X 24 - including when taking short sleeps.
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Sam D headed at the Horn. Which must have been frustrating. But past now. And closed back up to Clarisse (who, remember, lost her masthead zero, so will be compromised in the light) and Benjamin Dutreux. Those two still locked in boat to boat combat.
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Matt Sheahan on foilers v archimedeans; and the 'best' shape, of foiler, to have. (Should open @12.20)