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This is Lorient’ Geles !
It is full of hulls in Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. , named "Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. ’ Geles" by some people here so proud to live in Lorient… One who are happy to live here are the offshore racing skippers and shore (...) -
Route du Rhum
Lionel Lemonchois wins the Multi 50 Class
Crossing the finish line in Guadeloupe at 17h 52m 48s (CET/Paris) (16h 52m 48 GMT/ 12h52m48s local Pointe-à-Pitre), Lionel Lemonchoise secured first place in the Multi 50 class in the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum -La Banque Postale 2010 transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre, (...) -
Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale
Multi 50 Actual suffers damage too
At 0100hrs (CET) this morning (Monday) Yves le Blevec, skipper of the Multi 50 Actual informed his team and the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum -La Banque Postale race director that the trimaran has sustained damage to the forward starboard cross beam. Le Blevec has lowered the mainsail of Actual and is sailing under ORC headsail in (...) -
Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale
Franck Cammas & Franck-Yves Escoffier open the 9th Route
It was appropriate for the record Record #sailingrecord fleet of 85 skippers who set off from Saint Malo this afternoon on the ninth edition of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum -La Banque Postale that the send off proved nearly perfect in every way. -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Escoffier & Le Roux first team in Puerto Limon
A huge, noisy Costa Rican welcome greeted Franck Yves Escoffier (FRA) and Erwan Le Roux (FRA), co skippers of the Crêpes Whaou when they emerged out of the Caribbean darkness, comprehensively winning the Multi 50 class and taking line honours for this ninth edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Transat Jacques Vabre #TJV2015 race which (...) -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Guillemot & Caudrelier first to Carribean sea
With what should be the final weather hurdle behind them, passing through the chain of West Indies islands early this morning, the stage is set for a final 1300 miles sprint across the Caribbean to the Transat Jacques Vabre Transat Jacques Vabre #TJV2015 finish off Puerto Limon, Costa Rica some time probably on (...) -
Transat Jacques Vabre
50’ trimaran Actual towed to Cherbourg
Yves le Blevec and Jean le Cam are safe after they capsized on Sunday afternoon. But, due to hand injury, Yves, the skipper, has been driven to the hospital. Jean was still onboard this morning (french hour) as the trimaran was towed toward Cherbourg... -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Le Blévec & Le Cam upside down
Actual, the new trimaran of Yves le Blevec and co-skipper Jean Le Cam is reported to have capsized in a position approximately 22 miles north of Cherbourg around 1645hrs GMT. -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Imocas and Multi50s off from Le Havre
After days of rain, wind and even hail storms, the waters off Le Havre offered the 20 crews setting off on the ninth edition of the two handed Transat Jacques Vabre Transat Jacques Vabre #TJV2015 relatively benign conditions as they headed down the Channel, making west and south from the autumnal chills of Northern Europe for the sunshine (...) -
Multi 50
Hervé Cléris : "We heard a big crack"
the 50’ trimaran "Prince de Bretagne" has broken her two starboard arms on Wednesday. The float disunited from the central hull. Fortunately, le crew was safe as her skipper Hervé Cléris did move the helm at time to avoid a capsize.
Multicoques de 50 pieds / 15,24 m.