Information Solitaire du Figaro
Course en solitaire annuelle et estivale bord des monotypes Figaro-Bénéteau.
Single handed race in four legs every summer away from the french coast aboard Figaro-Bénéteau one designed yacht.
Single handed race in four legs every summer away from the french coast aboard Figaro-Bénéteau one designed yacht.
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Here’s to hardship… to « Droug’» !
Photo: Ch.GuiguenoBye, bye Crosshaven… Launched into the second leg of the Figaro, the 38 skippers are headed for Les Sables-d’Olonne, the promised land of solo sailors who are in for a rough time of it. It is in fact a high calibre run, with stiff conditions at the start that awaits them in the first miles of the Irish Sea. As Benoît Petit (...) -
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On track under spinnaker…
The time has come for the 38 skippers currently on stopover in Ireland. Sunday at 1108 on the dot, will be the starting point for the second leg of the Single-handed Figaro, a distance of 439 miles between Crosshaven and the Sables d’Olonne. With plenty of offwind announced, the timing is ripe for a high speed Speed #speedsailing (...) -
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These amateurs who love single handed racing
They like it and they want more. In the big arms of the Figaro, the pure amateurs have had their baptism into solo-sailing between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Crosshaven. During this first leg what remains engraved in the minds of the best skippers, is that they have set out on the north face of their « maritime Everest ». But all is well aboard and (...) -
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Cascades of close finishers behind Antoine Koch
And the young Antoine Koch has ricocheted into the lead bringing an end to the preliminaries.. An exciting climax. The artists are on track and there are still a good 15 holding out with very little distance separating them. On the Irish finish line, it was still too crowded to move. Inevitably, they vowed to fend off the star on the next (...) -
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Hold on in the currents!
Kito de Pavant at the start from Boulogne sur Mer. Photo: Ch.GuiguenoThey are playing with the nerves of the single-handers as are the varying rankings of hierarchy. However the high-voltage currents are laying down the law. They are the new judges of the long course following the English coast and have always got more than one trick up their sleeve in the Channel! The first leg of the Single-handed Figaro is (...) -
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Who loses wins? Superstition runs rife !
Ah superstition! Once again Gildas Morvan (Cercle Vert), firm leader throughout the Bayer Prologue, oozed politeness so as not to tempt the devil of misfortune two days from the grand departure. But he wasn’t the only one to leave the victory honours to he who really wanted it. Laurent Pellecuer didn’t pray (...)