29.06.2012
Safety and Integrity are Priorities.
After a relatively informal, friendly official welcome briefing
Thursday evening at the Newport Shipyard the KRYS OCEAN RACE
MOD70 teams which are preparing for Monday's start of the
Prologue race to New York, are fully engaged in the long hours
and hard work of making ready for their first proper ocean race.
Marco Simeoni, President of the Multi One Design organisation
offered a warm welcome on Thursday evening to the skippers and
teams, extending his good wishes for the race itself and
highlighted the opportunities for the future for this exciting
class.
"The KRYS OCEAN RACE, New York to Brest represents a big,
important step for the MOD project." Simeoni said, " There are
many people who will be watching to see what we are capable of.
I wish you all a very good Transat and hope you all arrive close
together, within the area of a pocket handkerchief! The venues
and organisation we have in place are great and what we have now
is really exciting. Our objective now is to grow the fleet. We
are inviting a maximum number of potential owners over the
course of the events and different venues."
Starting today, Friday, the MOD 70's are all checked over
thoroughly by an official measurer and scrutineer appointed by
the French Sailing Federation. This is a comprehensive, time
critical process. It is essential not only to not only determine
that the safety and security regulations are applied rigidly,
according the ISAF Special Regulations category, and those
prescriptions specific to the class rules, but also to ensure
that the boats are strictly within the One Design class rules
which should guarantee that the boats are completely evenly
matched.
Guillaume Evrard, Assistant Race Director of the KRYS OCEAN RACE
explains:&xnbsp; "Jean Luc Laurent is the scrutineer and measurer who
is working for the French Sailing Federation and his job
consists of two things."
"The first task is to check all the safety equipment and to check
that everybody has the same, all of the things which are needed
in the Offshore Special Regulations and the MOD70 sailing rules."
"The second is to check that all the boats are the same, that
they comply to One Design."
"So today he has a lot of work to do. For example one thing might
be the mast: checking that they are not rotating more for one
than they should be. And he also has to make a lot of sealing
(some safety and security items are sealed so they are not moved
or changed during racing).
And from the point of view of measurement and checking to ensure
the boats are strictly in class. It's just double checking."
Meantime there has been a steady stream of visitors making their
way to the Newport Shipyard to see the MOD 70 fleet, from casual
passing observers to potential team owners. And the sailing
Mecca of Newport is proving very popular with the teams, not
just because of the ambience, but the facilities on site are
second to none. Indeed, though the KRYS OCEAN RACE starts from
New York, the Newport Shipyard is the technical base where the
MOD70's need to return if they have any serious issues after
starting.
Newport Shipyard's manager Eli Dana has been vital to the on the
ground operations for the fleet, but has enjoyed seeing visitors
arriving to see the MOD70s:
"Interest from Newport is definitely growing. I mean, here, two
weeks ago, people were like "MOD70s. What?" Maybe a lot of
raceboat guys knew what a MOD70 was, but outside of that they
were "What are they?" But I think now that they have seen them
people are getting excited about them. I think one design like
this is the way forward for the future especially with tight
budgets when you want to get the sponsors on board."
Around the dock the activity is continuous, a snapshot this
Friday morning reveals:
François Morvan crewmember from Race For Water: "We are hoisting
the sails for making the tuning and setting marks."
Philippe Rivett from Musandam-Oman Sail was indextaining the
winches on board and Seb Col, helm and strategist on FONCIA
explained: "I am making marks for the settings on the headsails
which makes it easier for trimming, especially for at night."
An interlude from the hard work of pre race preparations will be
welcomed this Friday evening at the KRYS OCEAN RACE barbecue
which is expected to see more than 200 sailors, friends and
local VIP's gather at the shipyard.
[http://www.krys-oceanrace.com]
2nd July 2012: Prologue Start
5th July 2012: New York Speed Match
Mid-July 2012: Launch of MOD
PAPREC-VIRBAC 70
7th July 2012
KRYS OCEAN RACE
OFFICIAL START, N.Y.C
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