Transat Jacques Vabre - 2015

[QBF]

Skippers have started to register for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre double-handed race starting on Sunday October 25, 2015. This race runs from Le Havre, France to Itajaí, Brazil. (5,400 miles).
http://www.transat-jacques-vabre.com/en

The first Ultime class multihull registered is the Maxi80 Prince de Bretagne, and the highly skilled team of Lionel Lemonchois, and Roland Jourdain.
http://www.voile.princedebretagne.com/fr/actualites/523/and-the-co-skipper-is-roland-jourdain.html

This should be an interesting race with the use of foils on the IMOCA class boats, and Sébastien Josse's modified MOD70, Edmond de Rothschild. Hopefully, Thomas Coville will do well with his new Sodebo which unfortunately, due to a collision, was not able to finish its first race.

 

[mad]

Seems to be a much smaller fleet than previous races, are there some more entrants hiding in the wings somewhere?

 

[QBF]

There are not a lot of entries at the moment.

* Class 40: 4 entries

* IMOCA: 8 entries

* Multi 50: 2 entries

* Ultime: 1 entry

http://www.transat-jacques-vabre.com/en/participants

 

[QBF]

Lionel Lemonchois' Maxi80 Prince de Bretagne now has foils!

http://www.voile.princedebretagne.com/fr/actualites/527/les-cales-de-foils-du-maxi-arrivent-a-lorient.html

 

[Haligonian Winterr]

Canadian team waiting in the wings...

HW

 

[stief]

Canadian team waiting in the wings...

HW

Thanks for the heads-up. Best wishes.

 

[QBF]

François Gabart selected Pascal Bidégorry as his co-skipper for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre, on his new G-Class trimaran Macif.
http://www.macifcourseaularge.com/actualites/fran%C3%A7ois-gabart-embarque-pascal-bid%C3%A9gorry-%C3%A0-bord-du-trimaran-macif-sur-la-transat-jacques

 

[bortolo]

Seems to be a much smaller fleet than previous races, are there some more entrants hiding in the wings somewhere?

Andrea Mura is expected to be there (IMOCA). Boat will be splashed in August.

I found it here: http://www.farevela.net/2015/06/10/esce-dallo-stampo-a-persico-marine-il-nuovo-imoca-60-di-andrea-mura-prosegue-la-corsa-al-vendee-globe/

 

[jb5]

Sodebo Ultim has been repaired, updated and relaunched for the TJV. They also are moving toward foiling. The rudders look unchanged but the dagger boards are new. Maybe making step changes. Thomas Coville is also planning another attempt with this boat on Francis Joyon's solo RTW record.

Both of the following links are of course in French. There was a video earlier in the Course Au Large article but it seems to have been pulled:

http://www.letelegramme.fr/voile/thomas-coville-la-patiente-reconstruction-30-06-2015-10687401.php

http://www.courseaularge.com/articles/31042/Sodebo-Ultim-remis-a-l-eau-a-Lorient.html

 

[QBF]

In the IMOCA class, Paul Meilhat's co-skipper on SMA (ex Macif) will be Michel Desjoyeaux.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/article/14841/paul-meilhat-will-be-heading-to-brazil-with-michel-desjoyeaux.html

 

[QBF]

Sam Davies is joining Tanguy de Lamotte on Initiatives-Cœur for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/article/14849/couples-forming-for-the-transat-jacques-vabre.html

 

[Sailbydate]

François Gabart selected Pascal Bidégorry as his co-skipper for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre, on his new G-Class trimaran Macif.

http://www.macifcourseaularge.com/actualites/fran%C3%A7ois-gabart-embarque-pascal-bid%C3%A9gorry-%C3%A0-bord-du-trimaran-macif-sur-la-transat-jacques

This team looks formidable.

 

[QBF]

François Gabart selected Pascal Bidégorry as his co-skipper for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre, on his new G-Class trimaran Macif.

http://www.macifcourseaularge.com/actualites/fran%C3%A7ois-gabart-embarque-pascal-bid%C3%A9gorry-%C3%A0-bord-du-trimaran-macif-sur-la-transat-jacques

This team looks formidable.

The weakest link is the newness of the MACIF trimaran.

 

[blunderfull]

Ryan Breymaier told Clean he may be in. Front page Skype interview today.

 

[Very Lazy Jack]

Nandor Fa has registered with Spirit of Hungary.

http://m.transat-jacques-vabre.com/fr/spirit-hungary

He made some changes to his boat, restructuring the ballast tanks. We'll see if it makes her any quicker compared to the BWR.

 

[QBF]

Nandor Fa has registered with Spirit of Hungary.

http://m.transat-jacques-vabre.com/fr/spirit-hungary

He made some changes to his boat, restructuring the ballast tanks. We'll see if it makes her any quicker compared to the BWR.

I do hope he does better than he did in the BWR.

 

[Sailbydate]

Nandor Fa has registered with Spirit of Hungary.

http://m.transat-jacques-vabre.com/fr/spirit-hungary

He made some changes to his boat, restructuring the ballast tanks. We'll see if it makes her any quicker compared to the BWR.

I do hope he does better than he did in the BWR.

And he's on his own this time too.

 

[Speng]

TJV is double handed mate have you not seen the trend in the pics?

Sam Davies is joining Tanguy de Lamotte on Initiatives-Cœur for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre.
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/article/14849/couples-forming-for-the-transat-jacques-vabre.html

Does Sam not have a boat anymore?

 

[Sailbydate]

TJV is double handed mate have you not seen the trend in the pics?

Sam Davies is joining Tanguy de Lamotte on Initiatives-Cœur for the upcoming Transat Jacques Vabre.

http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/article/14849/couples-forming-for-the-transat-jacques-vabre.html

Does Sam not have a boat anymore?

My bad. I was thinking VG.