19.11.2005
Press Release No. 19
Sunday 20th November, 2005
www.jacques-vabre.com
TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE 05: BANQUE POPULAIRE WINS ORMA 60 MULTIHULL RACE
• Banque Populaire beats record set for this course between Le Havre and Salvador by over 7 hours, and clocked a personal best of 583m in 24hrs at an average boat speed of 24.29 knots!
• Leaders: at 14:44:00 GMT: Gitana 11 71m DTF (ORMA 60), UUDS 218m DTF (IMOCA 60), Gryphon Solo 1064m DTF (Open 50 Monohull)
• ETAs: The current ETA for the second multihull Gitana 11 into Bahia is from 2145 GMT tonight.
• Brazil Media Centre: The fixed telephone line for all media enquiries 24/7 is: 00 55 71 3319 3435. Please call this number in the first instance to reach me.
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Fotos: Yvan Zedda
Banque Populaire mit neuem Rekord
begeisterte Begrüßung von Pro-Form
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MULTIHULL UPDATE: ORMA 60 FLEET
Banque Populaire (the old Bayer Crop-Science launched in 2002) skippered by Pascal Bidegorry and Lionel Lemonchois crossed the finish line to take victory in the ORMA Multihull 60 class at 1246 local time (15:46:29 GMT) after 14 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 29 seconds racing at sea at an average boat speed on the direct route of 15.37 knots (actual distance covered was 5,940m at 17.59 knots average boat speed on the water).
Obliged to tack the last few miles going somewhat slowly in the dying midday airs the blue and white multihull picked up a little more speed to finish in style across the line under the heat of the noon sun. Bizzarely, most of the population of Salvador were crowded around the marina roads, however, their heads were turned to watch the Grand Prix motor racing that is deafening the Centro Nautico Marina today where the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet are moored.
During this Transat Jacques Vabre, Pascal Bidégorry and Lionel Lemonchois clocked some breath-taking speeds with a personal best for the boat, 583 miles in 24 hours when they were careering towards the finish from Ascension Island between the two 0900 GMT position reports on 18th and 19th November – at an average boat speed of 24.29 knots!
Banque Populaire has beaten the reference time for this route between Le Havre and Bahia, set by Groupama in 2001 (14 days 9 hours and 3 minutes) by 7 hours and 17 minutes. Pascal Bidegorry has had a charmed first season with his new sponsor, with two offshore victories, IB Group Challenge and now the TJV, plus two 2nd places out of 5 races in the GP circuit, and 3 wins at Vigo and Lorient. Pascal has won the ORMA Multihull World Championships with a significant advance over Gitana 11 and Géant.
In fact, Gitana 11 is still holding off Géant from usurping their 2nd place won rounding Ascension Island by just 16 miles at the last position report, both boats averaging over 20 knots boat speed in the strong SE Trades, and they are expected to arrive from 2145 GMT (1845 local time).
IMOCA 60 CLASS UPDATE
UUDS (Laurent / Massot) and Roxy (Liardet / Merron) are 89 miles apart in 7th and 8th place, currently racing past Recife and on their last 24 hours at sea in this race. UUDS is expected in from 0900 GMT Monday morning and Roxy from 1300 GMT according to the ETA’s given on current boat speed and distance to go. Galileo (Antunes / Coldefy), the Brazilian Open 60 entry closes the march 1,334m from the finish and currently enduring Doldrum conditions at 6 degrees North out to the West of the race course.
OPEN 50 CLASS 2 MONOHULL UPDATE
Gryphon Solo (Harris / Hall) has seemingly been not too held up in the Doldrums, soon to cross the Equator and feel the deliverance of the SE Trades ahead. Second placed Artforms (Stone / Owen) has slipped under the 200m barrier and lies 176m in their wake with 1064m to run. The 2nd Anglo-American team in turn are sailing at reduced speed throughout today of around 4-6 knots through the Doldrums. They positioned way out at 30 degrees West, their nearest rivals behind Vedettes de Bréhat trying to shave off some miles on the clock at 27 degrees West, but suffering much more, and slipping 55miles behind in 3rd. As the final two Open 50’s start to head into the Doldrums with 35 miles separation in the rankings, Polarity Solo (Metcalf / Finn) will hope to be better positioned over at 28 West compared to their rivals ahead Top 50 Guadeloupe quite far in the East at 25 West. As Ryan Finn commented: “The Doldrums lie ahead, the results are still up in the air, so to speak!”
Official Rankings at 14:44:00 GMT
IMOCA Open 60 Class
1. Virbac-Paprec (Dick / Peyron) arrived at 23:19:02 GMT, 18th November 2005 after 13 days, 9 hrs, 19 minutes 2 seconds racing, average btspd on water 14.32kts over actual distance sailed of 4,600m
2. Sill et Veolia (Jourdain / MacArthur) arrived at 23:54:03 GMT, 18th November 2005 after 13 days, 9 hrs, 54 minutes 3 seconds racing, 35 minutes 1 second behind winner, at an average btspd on water 14.95kts over actual distance sailed of 4,588m
3. Bonduelle (Le Cam / De Pavant) arrived at 09:29:52 GMT, 19th November 2005 after 13 days, 19 hrs, 29 minutes 52 seconds racing, 10 hrs 10mins 50 seconds behind the winner, at an average btspd on water of 14.11kts over actual distance sailed of 4,676m
4. Ecover (Golding / Wavre) arrived at 14:46:25 GMT, 19th November 2005 after 14 days, 0 hrs, 46 minutes 25 seconds racing, 15 hrs 27 mins 523 seconds behind the winner, at an average btspd on water of 13.74kts over actual distance sailed of 4,628m
5. Skandia (Thompson / Oxley) arrived at GMT, 19th November 2005 after 14 days, 1hr, 14 minutes 11 seconds racing, 15 hrs 55mins 19 seconds behind the winner, at an average btspd on water of 13.66kts over actual distance sailed of 4,605m
6. Pro-Form (Thiercelin / Drouglazet) arrived at GMT, 19th November 2005 after 14 days, 3 hrs, 5 minutes 6 seconds racing, 18 hrs 35mins 6 seconds behind the winner, at an average btspd on water of kts over actual distance sailed of 4,676m
Pstn / Boat / Lat / Long / Hdg / DTF / DTL
7 UUDS 10 30.60' S 35 52.32' W 11.8 229 218.9 0.0
8 Roxy 9 06.60' S 34 42.48' W 12.5 217 308.4 89.5
9 Mare Verticale 3 25.84' S 31 45.88' W 11.8 210 709.5 490.6
10 MRBN 2 41.28' N 30 18.20' W 9.3 214 1079.1 860.2
11 Galileo 6 27.08' N 28 16.28' W 5.7 197 1334.3 1115.
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Open 50 Monohull Class 2:
Pstn / Boat / Lat / Long / Hdg / DTF / DTL
1 Gryphon Solo 1 58.64' N 29 20.56' W 8.9 222 1064.1 0.0v
2 Artforms 5 30.88' N 30 12.12' W 5.7 220 1240.6 176.5
3 Vedettes de Bréhat 5 12.00' N 27 11.04' W 8.6 203 1295.5 231.4
4 Top 50 Guadeloupe 8 54.92' N 25 51.24' W 9.5 214 1529.6 465.4
5 Polarity Solo 10 45.56' N 28 45.52' W 8.0 196 1566.4 502.3
ORMA Open 60 Class 14:44:00 GMT:
Pstn / Boat / Lat / Long / Hdg / DTF / DTLv
1 Banque Populaire 13 08.64' S 38 25.88' W 12.1 286 12.6 0.0
2 Gitana 11 13 46.72' S 37 23.52' W 21.5 291 83.7 71.1
3 Géant 13 42.92' S 37 02.32' W 21.2 293 99.6 87.1
Quotes from the Boats:
Monohulls:
Quotes from the boats
Miranda Merron (Roxy): “We are level with Recife, and 400 miles from the finish line. Yesterday was uneventful - just fast, wet, trade wind reaching. For once, there was not one single squall, which made a pleasant change. There are a number of chores and rituals to get through today, not least an attempt at getting presentable. There are NO amenities on board beyond a camping gas stove for cooking, a small salt water tap, and two buckets. If you sit in the aft-most compartment, you can reach out through where the rudders are, and scoop water, so will be spending some time there later trying to turn dreadlocked plait back into normal hair. Tonight we will have to be extra vigilant as there are often small unlit fishing boats near the coast, and the moon won't rise until several hours after dark.”
Ryan Finn (Polarity Solo): “We now have a race within a race to make the 10 day cut-off time behind Virbac. It just keeps getting more interesting! Last night was very difficult sailing as we spent the evening at a very awkward point of sail where we were underpowered with the genoa, but overpowered with the spinnaker. There is no sail to fill that slot so we sailed slowly with the genoa at a higher angle and then set the spinnaker this morning to get back on course. It roughly a 35 degree split between the two sails in this light air. I knew we were giving miles away to Top 50, but there is not much to do about it. Still it makes my stomach ache to think about. The Doldrums lay ahead, so the results are still up in the air, so to speak.”
Pro-Form Press Conference:
Eric Drouglazet : “Several times the boat just accelerated full throttle down a wave, I shouted at Marc to tie me to the winch, with two turns, and I helmed like that, that’s how full on it was. We took off at 25 knots boat speed, both rudders clean out of the water, we were sailing downwind with 50 degrees of tilt! Upwind with the mast leaning across the water, you have to imagine it, then you begin to say to yourself, we’re really sailing on the edge! We just raced all out the whole way, with as much sail area up as possible, a bit like sailing the Figaro.”
Marc Thiercelin : “Skandia is a newer boat, only 4 years old, whereas Pro-Form is 9, that’s quite a difference in age, but we were happy that we had a great duel with them.”
Eric Drouglazet : “In 5 years, the evolution of these boats is huge, but we held our own all the same…With 400 miles to go, we had Skandia to leeward, we were in control, but in pure boat speed, we couldn’t do any better. Marc and I work well together, he knows his boat by heart, what and how to fix everything. He just plies me with coffee and I keep steering, I supply him with sandwiches and he repairs everything from A – Z!”
International Media Relations:
Mary Ambler
Email: mary.ambler@xalt.co.uk
Mob: +44 (0)7887 643 583
Brazilian Direct Line: 00 55 71 3319 3435
TV Media Relations:
Anne Millet
Email: millet-anne@wanadoo.fr
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