01.11.2006
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TIME FOR VIGILANCE, ROUGH CONDITIONS Ahead
Charlie Cappelle is sound aboard Côtes d'Armor. The first ORMA 60-footers are arriving at the Azores after 3,5 days of racing, now sailing and awaiting rough and demanding sailing conditions overnight. This is the fastest descent ever towards the archipelago in the Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale, the 60-footer multis now showing averages of 500 miles per 24 hours. At 12:00 (french time), the fastest 60-footer monohulls are off Cape Finistere and 600 miles away from the Azores that they should reach by tomorrow. Conditions are getting serious out there and a few multihulls experienced big nosedives. One of those got hold of Charlie Capelle's Switch.fr who signaled his capsize at around 1:00 PM but is now sound, aboard Côtes d'Armor. The skippers are tired but need to stay vigilant as the weather conditions and sea state are supposed to deteriorate overnight. They're not all equal because of food and sleep deprivations as well as stress caused by the navigation.
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Région Guadeloupe - Terres de Passions skippé par Claude Thelier
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