Route du Rhum 2018
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Cuffy
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Has HB gone to far?? Any one run the routing on that?
Itsabimmerthing
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DtM
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and ......
Don't think so , he should be able to tack quite soon, and have better wind angle than the others.
Edit : he just tacked !
Just run one, course looks good for the next couple of hours. I have him dong another couple of NW sections before going west around the Azores before heeding from there directly towards Guadaloupe. Gives hm average winds of 20K and arriving 15th. probably earlier as do not have an up to date set of polars for HB.
Panoramix
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True, it was a nice concept design badly engineered but I remember them loosing a bow like this because they had underestimated the side loads. May be these foilers land back with a bit of leeway; enough to tear apart a hull bearing in mind the gigantic lever arm and the huge forces from water at speed.
mad
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LeoV
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For the Happy heritage discussion;
https://www.routedurhum.com/en/skipper/118/charlie-capelle
“This year, yellow and vintage is all the rage!” announces Charlie Capelle. From the series of five A’Capella boats built from 1978, no fewer than three are taking the start of the legendary transatlantic race to the great delight of offshore racing enthusiasts and maritime heritage. Indeed, the small yellow trimaran really made her mark in the race with the memorable victory of Mike Birch in 1978 at the helm of Olympus, thanks to a lead of just 98 seconds over Michel Malinovsky. “For the 40th anniversary of the Rhum and the creation of the A’Capellas, we’ve initiated the ‘98 seconds for all eternity’ challenge,” explains the amateur skipper, a native of the Vosges in eastern France. Aboard his trusty and legendary trimaran Acapella, a multihull steeped in history, Charlie is lining up for the event start for the 5th time since 1998 and remains proud of his “Stradivarius” just like Mike was of his Olympus. Forty years ago the two men started out together with the construction of the A’Capellas in Maine (USA) and every stage of their shared passion writes an extra chapter in the history of these legendary duos. Now part of maritime heritage, his steed made from moulded wood (mahogany) remains high-performance, and even though a win will be out of reach for the boat builder, he remains an informed competitor. Mike Birch, his loyal friend and eternal accomplice, patron of Acapella, certainly won’t dispute this.
Team Philips was in short a laminate error. Delamination in a stack of carbon. Before prepreg and autoclaves solved that.
https://www.routedurhum.com/en/skipper/118/charlie-capelle
“This year, yellow and vintage is all the rage!” announces Charlie Capelle. From the series of five A’Capella boats built from 1978, no fewer than three are taking the start of the legendary transatlantic race to the great delight of offshore racing enthusiasts and maritime heritage. Indeed, the small yellow trimaran really made her mark in the race with the memorable victory of Mike Birch in 1978 at the helm of Olympus, thanks to a lead of just 98 seconds over Michel Malinovsky. “For the 40th anniversary of the Rhum and the creation of the A’Capellas, we’ve initiated the ‘98 seconds for all eternity’ challenge,” explains the amateur skipper, a native of the Vosges in eastern France. Aboard his trusty and legendary trimaran Acapella, a multihull steeped in history, Charlie is lining up for the event start for the 5th time since 1998 and remains proud of his “Stradivarius” just like Mike was of his Olympus. Forty years ago the two men started out together with the construction of the A’Capellas in Maine (USA) and every stage of their shared passion writes an extra chapter in the history of these legendary duos. Now part of maritime heritage, his steed made from moulded wood (mahogany) remains high-performance, and even though a win will be out of reach for the boat builder, he remains an informed competitor. Mike Birch, his loyal friend and eternal accomplice, patron of Acapella, certainly won’t dispute this.
Team Philips was in short a laminate error. Delamination in a stack of carbon. Before prepreg and autoclaves solved that.
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ProaSailor
dreaming my life away...
A lot of carnage already! I count eight boats in this screen shot alone that appear to be heading for safe harbor, including Charlie Capelle on Acapella, with six more boats already in port. Difficult to see this on any of the ranking pages though. Would be nice to be able to sort a class or the whole fleet by VMG, making all those with negative values more obvious.
https://www.routedurhum.com/en/logbook
https://www.routedurhum.com/en/logbook
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A lot of boats are going for shelter without specific issues to let the low pass, but not sure when they will be abe to restart with what is following (2 or 3 more lows).
You can get nice summaries on below page (but in French ) :
https://www.ouest-france.fr/route-du-rhum/direct-route-du-rhum-classements-positions-et-cartographie-en-temps-reel-6048852
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carlosgp5
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any news on armel why he's not online on the tracker?
