Jules Verne Trophy 2020

[JonRowe]

Indeed it is, considering the fact the two teams headquarters and hangars are 50 meters apparts from each other and that the two boats are docked on the same pontoon. It shows how localized the Utlim class is at the moment.

Well they're all west coast of France / Brittany based, and have been for some time?

 

[stief]

Not smooth sailing on Sodebo. Seems like a party going on. Snowflake caution: the auto translate into EN gets confused by the noise ("fucking daddy behind")

 

[PIL66 - XL2]

????

They dismated once on the way to the start line, broke a rudder near Australia the second time, and broke the rudder system near Portugal the third time.

Yeah fair call.... I was being a little facetious ... It just seems they have been on weather hold many times and just seems doomed to me... It can't be lack of funding as Donna has more money than god.... 
The boat would now be behind on tech if they can't fully foil... or have they build new foils....?
Now that I got my wish of both being on the tracker, can i ask for the IMOCA's to join that party...?

Loving this

 

[DtM]

Your wish was their command mon capitaine.

 

[PIL66 - XL2]

Your wish was their command mon capitaine.

Are you keen to try a Jules Verne with me....?
How far do reckon we'd get this time...???
 

 

[stief]

Benchmarking this run to the equator: (Yann Guichard holds the record made in 2015 at 4 d 21 h 29 min)

Cool to see Nélias' routes and times from almost two weeks ago

 

[peterbike]

Pil,  I'm keen to give it a go - why not ?

Not that i can recognise your boat upside down,  but I am guessing that is XL2 ?

Is that you sitting down,  with the other 3 looking around for rocks so they can throw them at you ?  :huh:

 

[PIL66 - XL2]

Hahaha  no that's actually @DtM riding my center pod.... he looks relaxed...... Im the short guy in the middle trying to ponder what the f#ck it just cost....

 

[Laurent]

4 hours ago, stief said:

Not smooth sailing on Sodebo. Seems like a party going on. Snowflake caution: the auto translate into EN gets confused by the noise ("fucking daddy behind")

Today was the birthday of Thomas Rouxel on Sodebo, so the crew is digging out a home made cake they took with them and set up a makeshift candle to blow... with the gastop lighter (I presume...).

François Duguet explains that they already knew that it was his birthday... because last year, it was already on the boat while they were coming back from South Africa...

As he is preparing the cake, he is saying " lukily, the cakes from Ma'am Moussard are holding together pretty well! It is not exactly as if we had smooth sailing conditions..."

Thomas Coville coming in the discussion from behind " you don't have to spend the whole day to prepare a cake for Tom Rouxel; move on! (tongue in cheek...). Spending the whole day in front of the oven!"

François Duguet replies: "listen, it means only that there are no technical issues on board; it's rather good news!"

You can tell there is a good mood on board and they would not want to be anywhere else than where they are right now...

 

[teamvmg]

Sodebo seems to be better at downwind VMG sailing?

 

[Lakrass]

Sodebo seems to be better at downwind VMG sailing?

They actually compete a lot better than during the Brest Atlantique. Was afraid that it was a lost cause if Gitana didn't have any issue as they were basically together after 12h but it looks far from over and Sodebo pretty much matching Gitana, good to see.

In Gitana video above, there is a quick mention of them having an issue during the night (unspecified) and that they are back in the race.

 

[noaano]

Both boats are now reporting speeds between 3 and 4 kts on sat ais, but clearly they are going almost exactly 10x faster. All the other boats around - and there are many - seem to report speed correctly.

Glitch or intentional? Same happened yesterday for around one hour.

Maybe they have a switch labelled "sandbag speed mode on" for this purpose?

Could also be issue with the data provider, but same has never happened with VG fleet.

 

[Bebmoumoute]

They actually compete a lot better than during the Brest Atlantique. Was afraid that it was a lost cause if Gitana didn't have any issue as they were basically together after 12h but it looks far from over and Sodebo pretty much matching Gitana, good to see.

In Gitana video above, there is a quick mention of them having an issue during the night (unspecified) and that they are back in the race.

They caught something in their rudder and had to do a reverse to get rid of it

 

[noaano]

In 15 minutes between two ais reports, one of their (random sample) reported position is off by 6.8nm.

6.8nm / (15 min / 60 min/h) = 27.2kts.

So their reported speed is off by 27.2kts, almost exactly 9x times reported, so reported speed is exactly 10x off.

 

[Ripclaw]

Both crews are still joined almost at the hip.  This is astounding!  I suspect the ITCZ and the Southern Ocean will be the great seperators.

 

[noaano]

Sandback the speed -mode off, both boats:

Might be reporting issue.

 

[yl75]

They caught something in their rudder and had to do a reverse to get rid of it

You seem to be an insider !

French student at the Southampton naval architecture school or something ?

 

[TPG]

sort of tried

You're a special kind of stupid, aren't ya?

 

[Bebmoumoute]

You seem to be an insider !

French student at the Southampton naval architecture school or something ?

French yes, student no, but naval architect working at the University of Southampton.

Insider no, just an e[SIZE=11pt]nthusiast[/SIZE] .

 

[yl75]

French yes, student no, but naval architect working at the University of Southampton.

Insider no, just an e[SIZE=11pt]nthusiast[/SIZE] .

Ok ! , but then how did you know they caught something in their rudder ? (which of them ?)