Route du Rhum 2022

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Flash arrivée : Ambrogio Beccaria (Allagrande - Pirelli), deuxième en Class40​

23 nov. 2022 - 21:44|Temps de lecture : 4 min
ALLA GRANDE PIRELLI (Ambrogio Beccaria)

ALLA GRANDE PIRELLI (Ambrogio Beccaria) / © Marina Orsini

Ce mercredi 23 novembre à 16 h 38 min 48 sec (heure locale) - 21 h 38 min 48 sec heure de Paris -, Ambrogio Beccaria a franchi en deuxième position la ligne d’arrivée à Pointe-à-Pitre de la 12e édition de la Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe. Son temps de course est de 14 jours 7 heures 23minutes 48 secondes. Le skipper d’Allagrande - Pirelli a effectué les 3 542 milles du parcours entre Saint-Malo et Pointe-à-Pitre à la vitesse de 10.31 nœuds sur l’orthodromie (la route directe). Il a en réalité parcouru 4 041.06 milles à la vitesse moyenne de 11.77 nœuds. Il s’offre une magnifique deuxième place décrochée de haute lutte face à Corentin Douguet au terme d’un duel qui s’est intensité au fil des mills en approche de la Guadeloupe. Au final, l’Italien monte sur la deuxième place du podium et affiche 4 heures 15 minutes 8 secondes de retard face au grand vainqueur en Class40, Yoann Richomme.​

Bravissimo Ambrogio !
Quelle course ! À 31 ans, l’Italien Ambrogio Beccaria a marqué de son empreinte cette Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe. Et pour cause, le skipper d’Allagrande-Pirelli, déjà connu pour sa victoire sur la Mini-Transat 2019, a vite trouvé dans la Class40 un circuit à la mesure de son talent, où l’art de régater au meilleur niveau se mêle à celui de prendre un main un bateau innovant. Après avoir goûté à ce support à bord du tout premier scow de 40 pieds, ce type de bateaux révolutionnaires reconnaissables à leur étrave arrondie, Ambrogio, amateur des sensations fortes et de vitesse, est conquis. Aux côtés de Ian Lipinski, il établit en 2021 le record de vitesse sur 24 heures en Class40 avec le joli score de 421 milles parcourus à 17,4 nœuds de moyenne. Le Milanais, qui n’a pas encore de sponsor, se lance alors dans la conception et la construction du premier bateau de course au large 100% italien ! Un défi de taille qu’il relève à travers sa participation à cette Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe. Son Class40, né des planches à dessin de son ami architecte naval Gianluca Guelfi, ne passe pas inaperçu parmi la cohorte des 30 nouveaux bateaux présents sur la ligne de départ à Saint-Malo. Des longs safrans et un bout-dehors orientable sont quelques-uns des nouveaux artifices qui distinguent Alllagrande-Pirelli, parmi la trentaine de scows réunie cette année. Mais le bateau est tout neuf. Mis à l’eau à la fin du mois d’août dernier, ce n’est que début octobre qu’Ambrogio, qui vit et s’entraîne à Lorient, s’acquitte de sa qualification pour gagner sa place sur la ligne de départ. Moins une ! Et les quelques jours de délai gagnés au ponton à Saint-Malo en raison du départ différé ne sont pas de trop pour finir de préparer et d’apprêter son tout nouveau bateau en vue de cette transat réputée pour son niveau d’exigence.
Sur l’eau, le fougueux Italien va s’imposer dès le début comme l’un des plus fidèles animateurs de la course aux avant-postes. 15è au passage du cap Fréhel, il va vite se propulser dans les premières lignes du classement pour ne plus jamais les quitter. Après le passage des Açores, alors que d’autres solides solitaires connaissent de sérieux soucis, à l’image de Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) contraint de lever le pied pour réparer des problèmes structurels, la course va prendre tous les atours d’un duel océanique avec Corentin Douguet (Queguiner-Innoveo). Seule une poignée de milles sépare ces deux marins qui s’échangent la place de dauphin dans le sillage du leader au gré des relevés de positions. Ambrogio, qui connaît des problèmes d’aérien, n’en tire pas moins le meilleur de son bateau. « Les sensations sont magiques. C’est un avion. Il est rapide sous toutes les allures, » confiait-il hier alors que la bataille avec son concurrent direct se corsait dans la dernière ligne droite vers la Tête-à-l’Anglais. Depuis, Ambrogio n’a rien cédé. Mieux, il a conforté son avance sur le 3e et surtout réalisé le joli tour de force de réduire drastiquement l’écart avec Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa), grand vainqueur en en Class40, l’une des flottes les plus malmenées par la violence des passages de fronts. Le skipper d’Allagrande-Pirelli, avec son bateau tout neuf, a réussi l’exploit de passer entre les gouttes d’une sérieuse avarie pour mériter cette place d’honneur sur le podium à Pointe-à-Pitre. Bravissimo Ambrogio !
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yl75 said:
I'm not sure about that. Especially since Britanny is kind of the center of industrial pigs and chicken "farming" in France, and it creates quite a few issues, typically huge green seaweed blooming on Northerm Britanny beaches (even several deaths related to that, with the associated gases).

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(this didn't exist at all when I was a kid, started in the mid eighties something like that)
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Holy green slime! What a disaster. Farming intensification certainly has a lot to answer for for sure. But that is definitely an environmental disaster, right there. We have had similar issues in NZL with farming run-off polluting rivers, streams and lakes, sadly.

It's a hell of a mess to clean up.
 
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huey 2 said:
Jess and Gilles Bugger

Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe

A 19h20 TU (20h20 heure française) ce mercredi 23 novembre, la direction de course de la 12e édition de La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe a reçu un message du CROSS Antilles l’informant que Gilles Buekenhout (JESS) avait déclenché sa balise de détresse. Ce dernier a ensuite contacté la...
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Apparently he has capsized and Loic and Roland (and two freighters) have been diverted to assist
 
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French skipper Yoann Richomme joined the very elite group of solo ocean racers to have twice won their class on the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe today when he brought the
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Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe

Le vainqueur en Class40 a laissé exploser sa joie à l’arrivée à Pointe-à-Pitre. Malgré la fatigue, le double lauréat a fait preuve d’une lucidité confondante en évoquant le tempo de la course, l’engagement de la flotte et cette aventure à valeur de rampe de lancement avant la mise à l’eau de...
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Italy’s Ambrogiao Beccaria (Alla Grande-Pirelli) takes historic second in Class40 on Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe​

23 nov. 2022 - 22:16|Reading time : 5 min
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Italian skipper Ambrogiao Beccaria brought his all-Italian Alla Grande-Pirelli across the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 2038hrs UTC to take a hard earned second place in the highly competitive 55 boat Class40​

The 31 year old from Milan finished in an elapsed time of 14d 7h 23m, some 4hours and 15 minutes behind the dominant, class winning French skipper Yoann Richomme (Paprec-Arkea).
While Richomme won the Class40 title for the second time in a row and set a new record for the course, Beccaria had finally got the better of his long time rival former French Figaro class ace Corentin Douguet (Quéguiner-Innoveo) with whom he has traded second place over a fast and furious 1300 nautical miles trade winds sprint to the northernmost approach to Guadeloupe.
The dual came to a head in light winds on the west coast of Guadeloupe today when they were less than one mile apart but Beccaria wriggled free and on a wet, tropical evening when he crossed the finish line off Pointe-à-Pitre, Gaudeloupe he finished nearly ten miles ahead of Douguet.
The result is a major triumph for Beccaria who already in 2019 became the first Italian to win the MiniTransat but also for his team of close friends who helped create the potent Class 40. Allagrande (Italian for all good) Pirelli was designed by Yacht Design and Engineering graduate Beccaria together his university mates Gianluca Guelfi and Fabio d'Angeli. The boat was built at the San Giorgio Marine yard in Genoa by another university mate Nicolò Bianchi and was only launched this summer.
It is the first major Transatlantic solo or shorthanded success for an Italian sailor since Giovanni Soldini and Pietro Soldini won the Transat Jacques Vabre in the formative times of Class40, 2007 before Soldini won The Transat solo in 2008. Beccaria won this year’s Normandy Channel Race with Ian Lipinkski on the Frenchman’s Class40. Previous bests for Italian sailors on this legendary solo race have been Andrea Mura in the Rhum open division and Giancarlo Pedote’s 10th in the IMOCA in 2014.
Long rudders and an adjustable bowsprit are a few of the innovations the Italian group incorporate into Alllagrande-Pirelli which is one of the newest of the thirty or so scows in the Class40 fleet. It was only launched at the end of last August and only in October that Ambrogio, who lives and trains in Lorient, completed his qualification.
On the water the fiery Italian asserts himself in the leading peloton quickly. His only significant issue is his wind instruments when his wind indicator fails. Meantime his nearest rivals like Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) and Douguet have their problems, Macaire drops from contention when he has to make composite repairs to his bow and Douguet has engine problems which affect his ability to generate power. In fact he has to break his engine seal which requires him to take a 45 minutes penalty which he takes today, part of the reason Beccaria is able to sail away.
Speaking about his new boat he said “The sensations are magical. It's an aeroplane. It is fast in all points of sail he said as he scrapped with Douguet on the fast reach to the Tête-à-l’Anglais.
"It's huge. It's a great accomplishment.” Said an almost overwhelmed Beccaria on the dock, “The last eight months including the whole building of the boat, it was super intense throughout. For me, this is first of all a collective success, a something we have all done together. What touches me the most is that unlike the Mini-Transat, is that this was always a team effort and I wasn't alone. I hadn't imagined going so far. We made a team. We did a crazy job. To finish it with a second place is a great prize for everyone.”
He continues, “It is incredible, because when I left, I realized that I didn't even know how to gybe on my own on this boat. It had been two years since I have done a solo race. We made a new boat with a new architect and this boat, and it's a rocket! I really enjoyed competing in this race. First, with the currents, it was fun, then we started to get messed up in Ouessant, and then we headed out to sea.
“This is where I started to have a little more trouble, especially when I broke the J2 padeye but I was able to repair it on the bow. I never imagined ending up second. When we passed the second front no one wanted to go into it. The first one had already done some damage, we all broke stuff; me, it was the wind aerial. But I think my positioning was beneficial at that time. Then it's sheer boat speed. When we got out of the high, I was going super fast, especially when reaching.
There is so much pride to have this as a 100% Italian project. When I did all this with the architect and the builder, everyone told me that I was crazy, that I was seriously ill, that it was a huge risk.
And in the end, I think this second place proves that it was worth it to make the boat we wanted, and it works! The problem is that I had no more air and that necessarily I had no more bearings, but I have the impression that the boat is fast all the time. Downwind, it's a rocketship!
The fastest moment was entering the high; There, under the big gennaker, downcast, I really felt like I was flying on the water. Then in the trade winds, it got a little more complicated. And the tour of Guadeloupe is perhaps the strongest, most intense moment.
When you finish, you have everything against you: calms, clouds everywhere with squalls every fifteen seconds... It's still like a big joke! We're almost there, and now you're getting knocked out by the squalls. And I didn't even know that Corentin (Douguet), had a penalty (due to an engine seal editor's note) and when he still came back to within 0.5 miles, I said wow, here we go again. In this race, everything happens in your head. And there, I stayed on high alert all the time, ready for a new squall. This race is very tough. But
I left, telling myself that we must do everything to try to win it!
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Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe

Italian skipper Ambrogiao Beccaria brought his all-Italian Alla Grande-Pirelli across the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 2038hrs UTC to take a hard earned second place in the highly competitive 55 boat Class40
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At 1920hrs this Wednesday, November 23, the race management of the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe received a message from CROSS Antilles to tell them
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At 1920hrs this Wednesday, November 23, the race management of the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe received a message from CROSS Antilles to tell them
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Marc Guilemot in catamaran Metarom heading to the capsized Jess from Gilles Buekenhout.
Not sure if he has the power to get the Tri Jess going again.
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Marc Guilemot in catamaran Metarom heading to the capsized Jess from Gilles Buekenhout.
Not sure if he has the power to get the Tri Jess going again.
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Why would he do that? Gilles Buekenhout has already been rescued by a freighter, and i assume a rescue vessel will go and try to salvage the boat
 
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