Route du Rhum 2018
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staysail
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Rotten thing to happen at the end of such a race. Rulemakers have a lot to answer for when penalties for incidents like this one, an entirely predictable possibility, have not been considered in advance and there is no clear procedure to determine the magnitude of the penalty. If the jury can really decide between a penalty of a short time, like the hour or so the incident involved, and full disqualification, then the jury, not the competitors, are deciding the actual race result. Whatever the jury decides I guess the big majority of fans will disagree strongly, one way or another. Not a good happy result.
I would have liked to see Alex win cleanly, but then when I think "How can you be the proud winner of a major sailing race if you sail your boat onto the rocks and have to motor off to avoid totally wrecking your boat?"
I sure would not want to be in the shoes of the jury which has to decide this one! Of course Alex should retire gracefully and take the pressure off the jury but I very much doubt Hugo Boss would allow such a generous gesture.
I would have liked to see Alex win cleanly, but then when I think "How can you be the proud winner of a major sailing race if you sail your boat onto the rocks and have to motor off to avoid totally wrecking your boat?"
I sure would not want to be in the shoes of the jury which has to decide this one! Of course Alex should retire gracefully and take the pressure off the jury but I very much doubt Hugo Boss would allow such a generous gesture.
Raptorsailor
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AT heading straight for the mainland now, please luff a bit to lower our heart rates.
jack_sparrow
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I gave you some slack...you didn't take the hint.. so now you have moved me into the territory of saying who gives a fuck what you think.
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This is the dilemma for me as well. I'm a massive fan of AT and the class and I think the class could really do with a non-French winner, but if it is indeed a win it will always be clouded over by this issue. Will the general opinion still be that he is a great sailor and a deserving winner because he stacked it into a cliff on an island the size of Guadeloupe?
Buck Turgidson
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Has it happened before in the RdR? If so what was the outcome.
Have to say, if it was me I would finish and then retire.
Have to say, if it was me I would finish and then retire.
STYacht.com
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It would never be me. I could not do what AT or any of them does.
But, after a short sleep, I think he should retire.
Well, now there is no good end to this.
I was trying to think as the race comittee and it seems like they will have to check if Alex could have got out of the rock w/o motoring.
Here is my guess : Basically, they can admit he used the engine for security reasons and just ad a couple of hours as penalty but if it is acertained that without engine we would have stayed agroud, then he will be DSQ.
I was trying to think as the race comittee and it seems like they will have to check if Alex could have got out of the rock w/o motoring.
Here is my guess : Basically, they can admit he used the engine for security reasons and just ad a couple of hours as penalty but if it is acertained that without engine we would have stayed agroud, then he will be DSQ.
A previous live on Canal 10 TV, they should be live again soon :
https://www.facebook.com/106879605998916/videos/342380279898166/
You can also look at that TV channel below :
http://www.canal10-tv.com/
note : the page is quite strange, nothing for some seconds, and then the video frame appears.
Meanwhile some serious waves live off portugal :
https://www.facebook.com/WSL/videos/194829808109082/?notif_id=1542352633086553&notif_t=live_video_explicit
https://www.facebook.com/106879605998916/videos/342380279898166/
You can also look at that TV channel below :
http://www.canal10-tv.com/
note : the page is quite strange, nothing for some seconds, and then the video frame appears.
Meanwhile some serious waves live off portugal :
https://www.facebook.com/WSL/videos/194829808109082/?notif_id=1542352633086553&notif_t=live_video_explicit
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It’s one of those races so which does allow quite a bit of outside assistance. Remember those reports (from the Multi 50 but was similar with Amel on BP before) who took a pitstop, the skipper was sent to sleep while a big shorteam worked on the boats for hours, fixing smaller and bigger problems, before sending the boats out again?
It's a real shame this happened as its taken all the shine off AT's accomplishments for this race, but when you have a large part of the fleet taking technical pitstops, is an unplanned stop which was resolved without assistance so bad? I can't imagine Sobedo "sailed" onto the dock to complete their repairs...
Rafael
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Is clear that Thomson has slept in laurels with his absolute dominance this year... (no good melonmelon (tx Sparrow))
Maybe the marketing stuff/visibility/audience has exploded w/ his finale...?.... in worst case of dsq he certainly has win the race by long, and a brand new boat is waiting...
What a real threat this final round Guadalupe! (first the ultime battle and now the Boss arrival) seems this race now is all about the round island finale and not the transatlantic crossing
Maybe the marketing stuff/visibility/audience has exploded w/ his finale...?.... in worst case of dsq he certainly has win the race by long, and a brand new boat is waiting...
What a real threat this final round Guadalupe! (first the ultime battle and now the Boss arrival) seems this race now is all about the round island finale and not the transatlantic crossing
But that isn't what happened, when looking at the tracker, he probably put the sails back on when pointing in the wind, so around 3.8 nm from the crash point.
He should have went back to that point.
Anyway ...
