Vendée – Arctique – Les Sables d’Olonne race.

[Rainbow Spirit]

A real lottery ahead, who will win the jackpot?

 

[Sailbydate]

Problem aboard PRB?

 

[NZK]

And that the guy who has "checked"(not sure what it means here) his foils is the same that also did it for Alex.

I would imagine he's referring to any NDT testing that was done during the foil commissioning.

 

[RedFlag]

I would imagine he's referring to any NDT testing that was done during the foil commissioning.

Yes, that or the double check of the structural engineering (pretty standard practice these days).

 

[Mid]

Linkedout leaking miles to the boats behind,

less fokin round with vids and more actual sailing ..........

 

[Sailbydate]

Sebastien Simon interview about his foils below :

https://www.letelegramme.fr/voile/sebastien-simon-je-ne-suis-pas-serein-pour-le-vendee-globe-06-07-2020-12578392.php

Basically he is saying he doesn't understand at all what happened, he doesn't think he has hit anything.

They will engage an independent expert to try to find out.

He also says his foils have been built by Avel (built contract with Lorima), also the case for the Apivia foils :

https://www.avelrobotics.com/our-robot

And that the guy who has "checked"(not sure what it means here) his foils is the same that also did it for Alex.

Wow. That was a great interview. Sebastien is really hurting. Before the destruction of the foil, he thought the boat had amazing speed, even upwind, so he is happy she has plenty of potential. Lots of other interesting info about hull strengthening work too. Check it out.

 

[Sailbydate]

less fokin round with vids and more actual sailing ..........

Actually, it was more about not transiting that high pressure ridge as well as the others, IMO.

 

[Mid]

Actually, it was more about not transiting that high pressure ridge as well as the others, IMO.

lot of facets to that sailing game ...

 

[Lakrass]

Problem aboard PRB?

Fixed now, or at least pointing forward again, same for Maitre Coq which pointed east for a bit. I guess we see a lot more of those with tracker refreshing every 30min instead of 4h during a solo race. There are good chances that if they need to go downwind for a bit to fix something, it will take more than 30min and will appear on tracker.

Was interesting to hear from Beyou that as soon as he got the chance, we went for a boat inspection. That's where some experience might make the difference, looking and detecting potential problems before they occur.

Next day will be tricky on routing.

 

[M26]

Charal in the lead

 

[r.finn]

Problem aboard PRB?

Just a good night's sleep after a tack gone awry.

 

[yl75]

Charal in the lead

Yes, Thomas made his first mistake going East (when routing was in fact pointing West like the others did)

 

[terrafirma]

Well done to the girls who have both made sound tactical decisions. Only around 48 miles behind in older boats makes you wonder what they could do with newer faster boats. Great to see a change of leader boat plenty of passing lanes ahead.!

 

[Keith]

Looking like they are all going to see some light airs very soon, for a while..this will be interesting.

 

[Lakrass]

Best video this far, especially the food part when Clarisse mentioned that she ate some Charal today. Brilliant!
For the rest, she mentioned it's first time with full sail, she could have sent it before but didn't since she knew she had to bring it down after. She's looking forward a "quiet" night.

 

[terrafirma]

3 minutes ago, Lakrass said:

Never noticed the washed out white interior looks like an attempt at painting carbon to brighten the interior. A little decorative touch perhaps? 

 

[ctutmark]

Never noticed the washed out white interior looks like an attempt at painting carbon to brighten the interior. A little decorative touch perhaps? 

I was thinking it was previously painted and they started sanding it off. 

 

[Mid]

she could have sent it before but didn't since she knew she had to bring it down after.

ain't gunna win like that .

 

[Miffy]

ain't gunna win like that .

She has no illusions as to winning with BP - she's sailing a good conservative race in an older boat.
 

I was thinking it was previously painted and they started sanding it off. 

Yah Gabart and Meilhat both kept the white painted interior & during the refit they sanded it off.

 

[Mid]

She has no illusions as to winning with BP - she's sailing a good conservative race in an older boat.

so it's a cruise