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Transat Jacques Vabre
Foncia, Banque Pop, Bonduelle and Gitana are making pitstops in Madeira
TIM abandons race • 4 multihulls (Foncia, Banque Pop, Bonduelle and Gitana) are making pitstops in Madeira • Groupama takes the lead • Virbac in the lead • Ecover’s technical problems • Stamm’s injury forces Cheminées Poujoulat to (...) -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Multi’s on extreme ends nose ahead
Just over 2 days since the multihulls started from Le Havre and the main pack have already passed the latitude of Finisterre, 640 miles down the track. Impressive when you calculate that it has taken them 34 hours to cross the Bay of Biscay. Groupama (Cammas/Proffit) was this morning’s leader, but at 0900hrs GMT Belgacom (Nélias/L. (...) -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Multihulls already half way across the Bay of Biscay
After more than 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records of racing the multihulls are already half way across the Bay of Biscay, and the current leader of the fleet is Belgacom (Nélias/L.Peyron FRA), her bows now 12m ahead of Groupama (Cammas/Proffit), who now register on the current podium positioned to the north west of (...) -
Transat Jacques Vabre
All 14 multihulls opened their wings and took off at 10h00
At 10 o’clock French time exactly, the canon was fired at last for the 14 Open 60 Multihulls which have been tied to the pontoons in Le Havre for an extra 3 days. The sea was beautifully flat, the sun already up and the wind breezing from the South East at 20-22 knots with gusts of 25 knots. All the trimarans had 1 reef in the mainsail, (...) -
OSTAR
Offshore Challenges Group has acquired the OSTAR
Offshore Challenges Events (OCEvents), the event management division of the Offshore Challenges Group, are pleased to announce today that an agreement has been reached between OCEvents and the Royal Western Yacht Club, Plymouth, regarding the future organisation Organisation #organisation of the famous Single-handed TransAtlantic Race (...) -
Route du Rhum
Michel Desjoyeaux wins the 60’ multihulls divison
Michel Desjoyeaux on Géant takes victory this Saturday 23 November in the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum 2002 in the 60 foot ORMA multihull class. Charging at full speed Speed #speedsailing over the finish line, hundreds of boats were cheering on the French hero in the late afternoon in (...) -
Route du Rhum
Twenty multihulls in Saint Malo for the Rum Race
Sergio Tacchini will be sail by Karine Fauconnier. The only woman to be able to succed to Florence Arthaud, winner in 1990. Photo : James Robinson Taylor / Sergio TacchiniThe start of the 2002 Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum (seventh edition) will take place from St Malo (Brittany) on November 9th. More than forty single handing sailors are awaited in the old Breton city for the french transatlantic to the Caribean island of Guadeloupe. Half of the entry list will enter in the multihull division. (...) -
Multi 60
Fred Le Peutrec’s Bayer launched in La Rochelle
The new trimaran in the port of La Rochelle. Note the rudders (in orange). Photo : Bernard Gergaud.Fresh out of the Mag Océa yard, the brand new trimaran Bayer has just been launched in La Rochelle. In a few days she will be confronting the ocean waves for the first time on her sail up to her homeport of La Trinité-sur-Mer where she will be officially named on March (...) -
November 2001 SeaSailSurfer of the month
Stève Ravussin, winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre
The SeaSailSurfer of the month has won the two-handed transatlantic from Le Havre to Salvador de Bahia. He is from Switzerland and is nearly 33 years old: Stève Ravussin was Franck Cammas crew aboard the 60’ trimaran Groupama. -
TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE
Fourteen multihulls on the starting blocks
Never in the history of ocean racing has a course attracted so many Open 60ft trimarans, nor so many potential winners. The entire multihull armada and with it the skippers of the moment are all lined up along one side of the docks in Le Havre, a truly impressive sight in (...)
Multicoques de longueur inférieure ou égale à 60