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Franck Cammas : "Clearly I’m happy we won!"
The moment Groupama 34 crossed the finish in La Seyne, the team won the Tour de France à la Voile 2013. Courrier Dunkerque and Bretagne Crédit Mutuel are tied for second place and Sodebo, who finished second today, is still in a threatening position. Cammas won but the fight for second is far from (...) -
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Cammas wins the Lorient - St Gilles stage ahead of Troussel and Souben
84 miles in a day: an early start followed by many lead changes, a bold but unsuccessful option for Nantes St Nazaire E. Leclerc before a final gybing battle. Groupama 34 wins less than a minute before Bretagne Crédit Mutuel Elite and Courrier Dunkerque 3 takes third. -
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Nicolas Troussel wins the offshore leg from Brest to Lorient thanks to a risky tactical decision
The fleet left Brest Brest #brest yesterday at 8:00pm, sailing in 10 to 15 knots of northeaster wind. All 12 M34s gybed through the Toulinguet rocks under spinnakers. Once they rounded Sein Island they hardened up and reached the Glénan archipelago in the night. It was a complicated ride with crew constantly switching between the jib and (...) -
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Groupama 34 win the second offshore leg from Breskens to Dieppe
Cammas and his crewmembers have done it again! They sailed a relentless upwind leg from Breskens, Holland, to Dieppe, earning their second consecutive offshore victory. Bretagne Crédit Mutuel Elite take second, 8 minutes behind and 3 minutes later Sodebo take third. -
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13 teams will be on the start line of the 36th edition of the Tour de France
The beginning of the M34 M34 #M34 season augured of the fights to come. Newcomers Franck Cammas and Thomas Coville skillfully faced their competitors. Veteran Daniel Souben was the only one to match Cammas, recent winner of the Volvo Ocean Race, and Thomas Coville, skipper of the Sodebo maxi-trimaran. 35 days before the Tour de France à la (...) -
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The M34 will replace the Farr30 from 2011
This morning at LaSeyne-sur-Mer, just befre the postlogue of the Tour de France à la voile 2009 - the race around France-, William Borel, the director of race announced the choice of the one-designed monohull which will succeed to the Farr 30 Farr 30 #farr30 in 2011. The M34 M34 #M34 project, built by the Archambault and designed by the (...) -
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Pierre-Loic Berthet’s team wins Le Tour 2004
With two windward leeward courses planned for this ultimate day in the 2004 edition of the Tour de France à la Voile, Bouygues Telecom began the day with a 15 point lead ahead of Defi Partage Marseille, who themselves were 11 points ahead of the multinational team who have lead the majority of the Tour, Groovederci. After a successful first (...) -
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Capsport wins the Tour de France à la Voile 2003
Southern French boat Capsport, skippered Xavier Lecoeur and Bernard Mallaret, easily won the Tour de France à la Voile 2003. The winning boat scored 47,25 points more than the second overall, Jimmy Pahun’s Région Ile de France. Julien Farnarier’s Ville d’Antibes NEC end up at the third place overall. The defending champions (...) -
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Bouygues Telecom team comfort their lead !
It’s another long day for the 37 crews participating in the Tour de France à la Voile 2003. After a frustrating offshore race from Camaret to St-Nazaire that had to be shortened after only 57 miles due to the lack of wind, the crews had to motor their boat to St-Nazaire. Though they arrived late last night, they had to be fresh and ready (...) -
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Thirty-eight teams ready to go around France
Today is the kick off of the Tour de France à la Voile 2003. After yesterday’s « Prologue », a tune up non-point scoring race, the 38 Mumm’s 30 were to line up today at 14 :00 for the first two inshore races off Dunkerque-Dunes de Flandres. Then, on Sunday, the fleet will sail off and head for Dieppe, first stopover of this (...)