...Team VESTAS WIND...the resurrection thread.

[jack_sparrow]

Who cares about Vestas in port result (apart from Clean and other tenacious Nico fans)?. They didn't sail round the world and were never relevant to the "real" race after leg 2.

Out of the armchair and on the ground a lot actually..... The inshore race program was treated very seriously to cater for sponsor and wider public education to support the offshore program. It worked very well and got a big tick from many people even though some of the courses were compromised. If I was a Vestus sponsor I would have been pissed at the helo fucking up the last inshore result.

 

[Terrorvision]

I think the irony of rotor blades slowing Vestas down is fucking priceless.

 

[alcoholfunnycar]

Hey, totally grant that "the choppa incident" was totally stupid and wrong, but really now.

 

[Sailbydate]

I think the irony of rotor blades slowing Vestas down is fucking priceless.

 

[mad]

I think the irony of rotor blades slowing Vestas down is fucking priceless.

And me as well.

 

[3to1]

I think the irony of rotor blades slowing Vestas down is fucking priceless.

teeheehee

 

[staysail]

I think the irony of rotor blades slowing Vestas down is fucking priceless.

And me as well.

Yep, appropriate...

 

[jack_sparrow]

Here is some trivia courtesy of a Cruisers Forum contributor which unhearths an interesting 60 year old link Vestus has to the "comeback" also of a famous French yachtsman who also hit the bricks.

The company 'Raphael-Fishing' which supported the salvage of Vestus is the same outfit that renowned French cruiser Bernard Moitessier worked for in 1953/54 after he put his Marie-Therese I on to the reef at Diego Garcia.

It was through working for this fishing company on Cargados-Carajos that he made the money to build Marie-Garcia II when he returned to Mauritius and then continue his sailing adventures.

He would be pretty amazed to see what Vestus managed to achieve in 6 months in 2015 courtesy of the part played by his previous employer of 60 years ago.

 

[rgeek]

Is that the same guy who hot half was back up the Atlantic in the around alone, decided he couldn't face normality and did a second lap for the craic?

 

[Vincent]

Is that the same guy who hot half was back up the Atlantic in the around alone, decided he couldn't face normality and did a second lap for the craic?

Himself.

I think he grounded almost all his boats... But then he was singlehanded and relying on celestial navigation

 

[jack_sparrow]

He was a pretty cool guy but lazy navigator...didn't like extra time to calc longitude settling for DR only. Second crash was asleep just like Wouter.

If he kept going in Joshua to the finish in the inaugral Golden Globe RW single hander he probably would have won and we would not know the name Sir Robin Knox Johnson today.

He kept Joshua going for 20 odd years and untill she dragged anchor, wasn't driven by him onto the bricks. She is on display in La Rochelle. He enjoyed God like status in France where his books sold well.

 

[staysail]

He was a pretty cool guy but lazy navigator...didn't like extra time to calc longitude settling for DR only. Second crash was asleep just like Wouter.

If he kept going in Joshua to the finish in the inaugral Golden Globe RW single hander he probably would have won and we would not know the name Sir Robin Knox Johnson today.

He kept Joshua going for 20 odd years and untill she dragged anchor, wasn't driven by him onto the bricks. She is on display in La Rochelle. He enjoyed God like status in France where his books sold well.

Not just on display but kept in fine sailing form and sailed actively and raced every season by the group of Friends who look after her. Here she is during her spring 2015 annual paint job ready for the season. The dents in the steel hull are not beaten out and refaired because they are part of Moetessier's legacy.