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Transat Jacques Vabre
Groupama’s consecutive win as Belgacom bows out in 2nd
Groupama gets gold; Belgacom bows out in 2nd, and Sergio Tacchini sails into 3rd • fleet rankings behind unlikely to change in final 24hrs • Banque Populaire’s speeding ticket • Virbac due to finish overnight Monday - Tuesday • Ecover &Sill just a handful of miles apart closing in to the finish, Team Cowes and (...) -
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Squeezing together before the SE Trades
Groupama through the Doldrums • Belgacom is back in 2nd and Géant battles out the Doldrums neck and neck with Sergio Tacchini • ETA for the first multihulls will be Sunday during the day • Virbac starts to slow up as they reach the Doldrums first, a chance for the others to make up some ground on their 131m lead. The same (...) -
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Squeezing together before the SE Trades
Groupama through the Doldrums • Belgacom is back in 2nd and Géant battles out the Doldrums neck and neck with Sergio Tacchini • ETA for the first multihulls will be Sunday during the day • Virbac starts to slow up as they reach the Doldrums first, a chance for the others to make up some ground on their 131m lead • The (...) -
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Finding the turning onto the Southern Highway
Groupama leads the top 4 boats into the trades; Sergio Tacchini spears south • backmarkers including Foncia and Bonduelle becalmed • Virbac streaks ahead, Sill and Team Cowes try to take advantage of more Westerly position to sail at a hotter angle in the trades • Ecover is back on form and closing the gap, PRB gets glued to (...) -
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Groupama leads the top 4 boats into the trades
Groupama leads the top 4 boats into the trades • Sergio Tacchini spears south • backmarkers including Foncia and Bonduelle becalmed • Virbac streaks ahead, Sill and Team Cowes try to take advantage of more Westerly position to sail at a hotter angle in the trades • Ecover is back on form and closing the gap, PRB gets (...) -
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Groupama still leads • Sill overtakes Ecover
Groupama still leads, as three boats are still in touch with the leaders. Virbac skirts high zone to East and is safely in NE Trades. Sill moves into second place and eats into Virbac’s lead. Ecover are caught in the high ridge, dropping to half the boatspeed of the rest of the fleet. PRB set to follow Ecover’s fate, as Team Cowes (...) -
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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 (...) -
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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. (...) -
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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, (...) -
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Dick/Abiven a scant 4m from Golding/Thompson
The new Farr design Open 60 Virbac (Dick/Abiven FRA) is stealing a march on the race leaders, already overtaking Sill (Jourdain/Thomson) in terms of distance to finish by the final rankings on Monday at 2000hrs French time. At 1600hrs French time today Virbac was a scant 4m from Ecover (Golding/Thompson GBR) in her wake just off the Spanish (...)
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