Jules Verne Trophy 2020

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Potter said:
I would guess that the cost of an Ultime campaign is significantly less than Commanche (at least in her early years). 

The biggest portion of any fully pro campaign is the salary bill. Just the number of crew on Commanche was eye watering. 

Also berthing fees in Northern France are as cheap as anywhere else I have found in the world. 

I would estimate that they are spending less than a small VOR budget annually. Brunel and TTTOP would have been in the region of € 8-9 million for the year. 

Happy to be proven wrong, if anyone has numbers. 
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Berthing I'm sure isn't an issue, but what's the leasing costs in France for the huge buildings they keep them in? As far as I can tell neither Gitana nor Spindrift own the buildings they're in.

 
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Gitana has a base on La Base, the business "park" surrounding the old converted u-boat base in Lorient thats dedicated to the marine industry and home of many of Frances IMOCA teams

 
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JonRowe said:
Gitana has a base on La Base, the business "park" surrounding the old converted u-boat base in Lorient thats dedicated to the marine industry and home of many of Frances IMOCA teams
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Had the privilege to ride our shitty bikes from a marina around the corner from LeBase underneath the Gitana platform and watch them step the mast...no issues us watching and even interrupted Seb doing selfies for a selfie hahah. Love that place and the frenchies!!!

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tommmzzz said:
Isn't Seb Josse in la sable d'olonne with Corum? He left Gitana maybe 1.5-2 years ago now, must been an old pic?
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Yeah super old pic. 2018 April ish...long gone now.  Was epic to watch the team prep. And the lack of care of two Aussies riding around watching. No safety fucks given!  Just doing their thing. The whole LeBase is such an epic hub for offshore racing- haven’t seen anything like it else where 

 
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Yeah super old pic. 2018 April ish...long gone now.  Was epic to watch the team prep. And the lack of care of two Aussies riding around watching. No safety fucks given!  Just doing their thing. The whole LeBase is such an epic hub for offshore racing- haven’t seen anything like it else where 
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Nice. I was there in September 2015 while a few of the 60's were finishing their initial launches. Lots of activity there with CLass 40's and mini's as well

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tommmzzz said:
Nice. I was there in September 2015 while a few of the 60's were finishing their initial launches. Lots of activity there with CLass 40's and mini's as well

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Such an epic spot with so much activity!  We were berthed in Kernevel marina and I spied the big cranes and an even bigger object hanging mid air- hustled on our bikes to see them wetting the planform...soooo worth the heart rate to get there! 

 
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Such an epic spot with so much activity!  We were berthed in Kernevel marina and I spied the big cranes and an even bigger object hanging mid air- hustled on our bikes to see them wetting the planform...soooo worth the heart rate to get there! 
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Same, Kernevel Marina for a few weeks on a cruising Reichel Pugh 62

 
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Good interview by Tip & Shaft with Charles of Edmond de Rothschild on their chances (and more)

some snips

Do you think you could fly the Jules Verne permanently?
We need 13-14 knots of wind to fly, so on a round-the-world trip you can often get them. This changes a lot of things, because with 15-16 knots of north-westerly wind, we are able to leave Brest, which was not possible before. The same goes up the Atlantic: if the wind is not too tight, we can be at 31 knots. I did statistical routing by running 6,000 routes over 15 years , even if it's completely theoretical, 30 to 40% of these routes beat Francis's record, I did not expect this at all. And if you choose your window, you increase your probabilities. Afterwards, these chances are reduced by all the damages that you can meet, you know that you will not be at 100% of the potential all around the world, so you divide them by two or three, but the fact of going much faster upwind and in light winds greatly increases the chances of breaking the record. 
 
And how many days do these roads beat the record?
10-15% (out of the 6,000) are under 38 days, 10% around 38-39 days, and 10-15% between 39 and 41. Now, Idec's performance is that they managed to take the boat at a breakneck pace from start to finish, they took risks, it's a very good record.Our challenge is there, in this rhythm . And of course in reliability, because we do not forget that we have not yet managed to do more than seven days without having technical problems on the appendages. On the Brest Atlantiques, it was not dramatic, but it weighed down our performance by 10-15%, and these 10-15%, we need to beat Francis Joyon's record . 
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Gitana are now in Orange code :

http://www.gitana-team.com/fr/

And Cammas and Caudrlier were at the VG live FR, and said they are looking at starting on Wednesday.

(also saying it would be fun to go through the VG fleet, and that they would take advantage of all the ice satellite pics taken for the VG).

No news from Sodebo regarding this window AFAIK, still repairing from last OFNI damage maybe.

 
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