I think he tried the later during COVID and it didn't work out, his current boat is the old V&B which finished 10th last go around so is a good boat really.
Route du Rhum 2022
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Ruyant makes it a transatlantic double in the IMOCA Class with victory in the Route du Rhum
After a compelling duel with Charlie Dalin, Thomas Ruyant on board LinkedOut completed his second consecutive victory in the IMOCA Class on the Atlantic racecourse, with a stunning win in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe.
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View attachment 555302Ruyant makes it a transatlantic double in the IMOCA Class with victory in the Route du Rhum
After a compelling duel with Charlie Dalin, Thomas Ruyant on board LinkedOut completed his second consecutive victory in the IMOCA Class on the Atlantic racecourse, with a stunning win in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe.
Note :At the arrival interview, Charlie said he was a bit afraid to be associated to Poulidor, or be called the "sailing Poulidor".
Poulidor was a French cyclist very famous and popular in the sixties and seventies, who never won the "tour de France" but finished several times second and third, and so had a nickname "the eternal second" (but also "poupou").
Basically was against Anquetil in the sixties, and Merckx in the seventies
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Looks like Yoanne has made the same routing choice as Pip.. going relatively straight down the coast inshore, assuming others won't catch up. He's now stuck ina wind hole and has been for quite a while. His lead is quickly eroding - here's hoping he manages to get out of the wind hole soon.
Jess and Gilles
Here it is hot in the boat! Set my clocks on Guadeloupe time finally approaching. All good on board except the certus who shits. No more morning or evening pictures sorry Spent 3 hours of my night trying to reboot their machine, selftest etc. to get me a message that the antenna is "failure", other than it captures the satellites well, it's rather their internal programming that is messing around ... And I'm not a computer scientist. Well, it really ruined my night!
Otherwise the beautiful JESS has had enough of clawing her cheeks left and right according to the moods of this badly-arranged ocean! A few grains tonight including a very hearty one at over 38 knots! JESS is growing out of her limbs in a foam bubble that is flooding the bridge, 170 wind, can't do much anymore, just wait for the grain to pass but it's long. Because you're going 22-25 knots with him...... the anemo is starting to wear off Phew, he's moving away, I'm soaked at the stand... reduce being sailing yes, but racing... less ! JESS continues her dance on her floats spreading her wings to the winds that return to more kindness.
See you in a few hours,
Here it is hot in the boat! Set my clocks on Guadeloupe time finally approaching. All good on board except the certus who shits. No more morning or evening pictures sorry Spent 3 hours of my night trying to reboot their machine, selftest etc. to get me a message that the antenna is "failure", other than it captures the satellites well, it's rather their internal programming that is messing around ... And I'm not a computer scientist. Well, it really ruined my night!
Otherwise the beautiful JESS has had enough of clawing her cheeks left and right according to the moods of this badly-arranged ocean! A few grains tonight including a very hearty one at over 38 knots! JESS is growing out of her limbs in a foam bubble that is flooding the bridge, 170 wind, can't do much anymore, just wait for the grain to pass but it's long. Because you're going 22-25 knots with him...... the anemo is starting to wear off Phew, he's moving away, I'm soaked at the stand... reduce being sailing yes, but racing... less ! JESS continues her dance on her floats spreading her wings to the winds that return to more kindness.
See you in a few hours,
Yoyo has got it down to 10-12nmiles gap to Alan Roura 10+ from the finish...from46-56nm ahead, 300 nmiles out.
At the finish about 18nm gap
admittedly downwind , after storms.... and luck....
Who says you need an old 60 when a new 40 will do ...love it.
Ambrogio has puuled out 5 on Corentin
At the finish about 18nm gap
admittedly downwind , after storms.... and luck....
Who says you need an old 60 when a new 40 will do ...love it.
Ambrogio has puuled out 5 on Corentin
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This 96th episode of Pos. Report repeats the match of the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe in Ocean Fifty with the two sailors who finished in the first two places, Erwan Le Roux (Koesio) and Quentin Vlamynck (Arkema 4).
With them, we go back a little more than two weeks, when the race direction announces the postponement of the start, "a good decision" for Erwan Le Roux who, as early as the Wednesday before the start, had alerted the race direction on the subject. Departure finally given on Wednesday, November 9 and marked by the abandonment, even before the crossing of the line, Sam Goodchild, for whom Erwan Le Roux, on the spot, was very afraid, even thinking "his life threatened."
Quentin Vlamynck passes the buoy of Fréhel in the lead then "dives into the Four" with Thibaut Vauchel-Camus, unlike Erwan Le Roux who recognizes a small error: "It's a first goal scored by the competitors." What's next? A staircase in the Bay of Biscay, favorable to Arkema 4 – "it is no secret to say that as soon as there is a little wind close, the boat goes fast," explains his skipper -, before two front passages, the second, more violent, fatal to Thibaut Vauchel-Camus who capsized when he had just taken the lead.
"Thibaut has a very committed trajectory, we feel that he wants to win, it's a shame that he mortgages his chances, he should perhaps have waited," comments Erwan Le Roux who, for his part, preferred to bet on a more southern trajectory because less windy. Quentin Vlamynck then regained the lead, counting for a moment almost 80 miles ahead of his pursuers, Erwan Le Roux and Sébastien Rogues, which made the first say: "I was a little afraid that he would leave and that we would no longer be in the same system."
Then began a car chase between Arkema 4, aboard which Quentin Vlamynck explained that he had so far "never done four days of solo wearing", and Koesio, of which Erwan Le Roux said: "I knew that the boat had qualities in these conditions". The latter gradually manages to catch up, to the point of saying he was persuaded at one point of victory, evoking in him "a mental stability quite bluffing."
Just before the arrival in Guadeloupe, he seizes the controls, loses them for a short time in the leeward of the island, he admits in passing to have been frightened, the day before the arrival in a grain at 37 knots which does not leave him time to reduce the canvas, and in the last edge towards the line, where he passed "not far from the correction."
It is only 5 miles from the line that Erwan Le Roux understands that he had won, he then cried a lot, of joy, while being "sad for Quentin who sailed size boss." The latter, who says he missed the finish line, which forced him to cross it again, did not cry, but confides "have never been so good on the water", before adding: "I gave everything, I lacked the map of experience that Erwan had."
Aired on November 22, 2022
Credits: Fast and wild/EdRecords
Post-production: Grégoire Levillain
With them, we go back a little more than two weeks, when the race direction announces the postponement of the start, "a good decision" for Erwan Le Roux who, as early as the Wednesday before the start, had alerted the race direction on the subject. Departure finally given on Wednesday, November 9 and marked by the abandonment, even before the crossing of the line, Sam Goodchild, for whom Erwan Le Roux, on the spot, was very afraid, even thinking "his life threatened."
Quentin Vlamynck passes the buoy of Fréhel in the lead then "dives into the Four" with Thibaut Vauchel-Camus, unlike Erwan Le Roux who recognizes a small error: "It's a first goal scored by the competitors." What's next? A staircase in the Bay of Biscay, favorable to Arkema 4 – "it is no secret to say that as soon as there is a little wind close, the boat goes fast," explains his skipper -, before two front passages, the second, more violent, fatal to Thibaut Vauchel-Camus who capsized when he had just taken the lead.
"Thibaut has a very committed trajectory, we feel that he wants to win, it's a shame that he mortgages his chances, he should perhaps have waited," comments Erwan Le Roux who, for his part, preferred to bet on a more southern trajectory because less windy. Quentin Vlamynck then regained the lead, counting for a moment almost 80 miles ahead of his pursuers, Erwan Le Roux and Sébastien Rogues, which made the first say: "I was a little afraid that he would leave and that we would no longer be in the same system."
Then began a car chase between Arkema 4, aboard which Quentin Vlamynck explained that he had so far "never done four days of solo wearing", and Koesio, of which Erwan Le Roux said: "I knew that the boat had qualities in these conditions". The latter gradually manages to catch up, to the point of saying he was persuaded at one point of victory, evoking in him "a mental stability quite bluffing."
Just before the arrival in Guadeloupe, he seizes the controls, loses them for a short time in the leeward of the island, he admits in passing to have been frightened, the day before the arrival in a grain at 37 knots which does not leave him time to reduce the canvas, and in the last edge towards the line, where he passed "not far from the correction."
It is only 5 miles from the line that Erwan Le Roux understands that he had won, he then cried a lot, of joy, while being "sad for Quentin who sailed size boss." The latter, who says he missed the finish line, which forced him to cross it again, did not cry, but confides "have never been so good on the water", before adding: "I gave everything, I lacked the map of experience that Erwan had."
Aired on November 22, 2022
Credits: Fast and wild/EdRecords
Post-production: Grégoire Levillain
