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Route du Rhum 2002
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Datum: 25. Nov 2002 17:42
The Route du Rhum 2002: Press Release N° 33
Payback Time
The Route du Rhum expresses elements of stress, hardship, tension and also pure pleasure. In this exceptional solo race the skippers experience moments of intensity that are difficult to explain to those who have not been there. Six boats have finished in Guadeloupe, but there are still 24 skippers who continue to experience these moments. Currently their reward is surfing in the warm winds of the trades, but there is still a struggle with difficult squalls. Joé Seeten aboard Arcelor Dunquerque was the latest to cross the finish line, at 1336:51 GMT today, finishing a well deserved third in the 60-foot monohull class, sharing the podium with Ellen MacArthur and Mike Golding. Lalou Roucayrol on Banque Populaire completed the ORMA Podium and crossed the finish line with a beautiful show of 25 knots slaloming between all the spectator boats at 19:46:01 GMT yesterday.
Since 14 November, Joé Seeten held onto third position in the IMOCA monohull class. He pushed hard to keep Roland Jourdain’s Sill behind him right up to the finish line in Point à Pitre. This third place is his best in ocean racing, and a great reward in his first participation in the Route du Rhum. Far from the leading duo Ellen MacArthur and Mike Golding, Seeten couldn’t have hoped for better. Roland Jourdain missed out on the battle for first, when he had to carry out a pit stop in Madeira to repair a tear in the indexsail, but stormed the rankings after leaving Madeira in eighth position. The popular top French skipper should finish fourth at around 1730 GMT today (22.7 nautical miles from the finish line at the 1500 GMT). Jourdain will secure the victory of the annual IMOCA 60 Championship, after a successful year 2002, winning every entered race before the Route du Rhum (1st Grand Prix de Larmor Plage, 1st Regata Rubicon, 1st Grand Prix Crudeli de Marseille).
Miranda Merron from Hamble, UK, is putting on an impressive performance in her first solo race. She has been keeping up with the pace of the monohull 60’ pack on her older generation 60-foot monohull UUDS, launched in 1992. The British skipper has encountered a few nasty clouds, slowing her down in the anticyclone zone and later on forcing her to reduc e sails in the vicious squalls of the trade winds. Life is not always that easy sailing solo across the Atlantic: “Yesterday, was a super day for the small gennaker with the type of wind I had...I got out the small gennaker, and there I discovered that one part hadn’t been sewn back together during a repair some months ago. As a result I spent a good part of the afternoon sewing! Finally everything was ready, I hoisted it... and the wind dropped. At sunset, I gybed, and the gennaker, furled for the gybe, began to balloon out at the top so I had to dump it quickly. And just to round off the 'entertainment' for the day, the gennaker halyard got stuck towards the top. I’m now keeping an eye out for squalls. There is one sole cumulus monster here, and it has us in its sights. I have just emptied the swimming pool at the stern of the boat again – the water is coming in through one of the rudders. Other than that, we have less than 1000 nautical miles to the finish, good news, even if at this speed it may well take a bit of time.”
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Roland Jourdain als Vierter
Bei Bilderbuchwetter zum Ziel
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Nick Moloney, leading the class 2 monohulls on Ashfield Healthcare (50-foot) had 597 miles to go at 1500 GMT and is ahead of six bigger 60-foot monohulls! He is expected to finish late Wednesday or Thursday.
Franck Yves Escoffier aboard Crepes Whaou!, is currently 60 nautical miles from Guadeloupe, and set to win the class 2 multihull category hands down with over 300 miles on current second place Anne Caseneuve on Yachting-casino.com.
Results Route du Rhum 2002
Ranking Skipper Boat Time racing Time after 1st Average on orthodromy
IMOCA Monohull
1 Ellen MacArthur Kingfisher 13d 13h 31' 47'' 10,91 knots
2 Mike Golding Ecover 13d 22h 49' 35'' 0d 09h 17' 48'' 10,61 knots
3 Joé Seeten Arcelor Dunkerque 16d 00h 51‘ 51‘‘ 2d 11h 9,23 knots
ORMA Multihull
1 Michel Desjoyeaux Géant 13j 07h 53’ 11,10 knots
2 Marc Guillemot La Trinitaine 13j 19h 36’ 18’’ 0d 11h 32’42’’ 10, 71 knots
3 Lalou Roucayrol Banque Populaire 14j 07h 01’ 00’’ 0d 23h 8’ 10,35 knots
Positions 25 Nov 1500 GMT
Multihull 60 ORMA
1-Géant-Michel Desjoyeaux Finished
2-Biscuits La Trinitaine - Ethypharm-Marc Guillemot Finished
3-Banque Populaire-Lalou Roucayrol Finished
ABD-Fujifilm-Loick Peyron
ABD-Banque Covefi-Bertrand deBroc
ABD-Sergio Tacchini-Karine Fauconnier
ABD-Sopra Group-Philippe Monnet
ABD-Bayer CropSciences-Frederic Le Peutrec
ABD-Belgacom-Jean-Luc Nélias
ABD-Foncia-Alain Gautier
ABD-Groupama-Franck Cammas
ABD-Rexona Men-Yvan Bourgnon
ABD-Sodebo-Thomas Coville
ABD-TIM-Giovanni Soldini
ABD-TechnoMarine-Steve Ravussin
ABD-Gitana X-Lionel Lemonchois
ABD-Eure&Loir-Lorénove-Francis Joyon
ABD-Bonduelle-Jean Le Cam
Monohull 60 IMOCA
1-Kingfisher-Ellen McArthur Finished
2-Ecover-Mike Golding Finished
3-Arcelor-Dunkerque-Joé Seten Finished
4-Sill-Roland Jourdain- 22.7
5-L'Heautontimoroumenos-Antoine Koch-350.4
6-Garnier Belgium-Patrick De Radiguès-412.0
7-60ème Sud-Didier Munduteguy-723.9
8-Un Univers de Services-Miranda Merron-881.2
9-Tir Groupé-Montres Yéma-Mike Birch-1024.8
10-Millimages-Gédéon-Patrick Favre-1153.0
11-Dinan Pays d'Entreprises-Frédéric Lescot-1290.8
12-Ciments St Laurent-Ocean-Georges Leblanc-1445.5
ABD-Virbac-Jean Pierre Dick
ABD-VMI-Sébastien Josse
ABD-La Rage de Vivre-Loďck Pochet
ABD-Leasecom-Elie Canivenc
ABD-Temenos-Dominique Wavre
Monohull Class 1
1-Ville de Dinard-Bruno Reibel-1711 miles to finish
ABD-Un Autre Regard Ensemble pour l'UNHCR-Nicolas Peitrequin
Monohull Class 2
1-Ashfield Healthcare-Nick Moloney-596.6 miles to finish
2-Florys-Luc Coquelin- 784.8
3-Branec III-Roger Langevin-926.3
4-Mille Visages-Hervé Vachée-1106.0
5-Laiterie St Malo-Clément Surtel-1128.9
6-Adecco Etoile Horizon-Bob Escoffier-1657.9
ABD-Apic A3S-Christophe Huchet
ABD-République Dominicaine-Yannick Bestaven
ABD-Défi Vendéen-J. F. Durand
Monohull Class 3
1-Storagetek-Regis Guillemot- 903.4 miles to finish
2-Passion Entreprendre-Jérôme Thiriez-1570.8
3-Grain de Soleil-Etienne Svilarich-1810.4
ABD-Hellomoto-Conrad Humphreys
ABD-Fantasy-Forest-Alain Grinda
Multihull Class 2
1-Crepes Whaou!-F. Y. Escofier--60.8 miles to finish
2-Yachting-casino.com-Anne Cazeneuve-374.4
3-Vaincre la mucoviscidose-Hervé Cleris-634.0
4-Archipel Guadeloupe-Claude Thelier-678.4
5-Lehning-Lapeyre-Blanchet-Gourbeyre-P.Y. Guennec-1385.7
ABD-E-Sat Tri Sélectif-Pascal Quintin
ABD-Groupe France Epargne-Patrick Morvan
ABD-Chaleur Fioul Elan-Didier Levillain
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