A pumped up Phil Sharp and Pablo Santurde (Imerys Clean Energy) – the Anglo-Spanish pair – were first across the line in the Class40 as the 13th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre 2017 started at 13:35 (French time) from its home in Le Havre, in Normandy, France today (Sunday).
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Maxi Edmond de Rothschild has already made history at the Transat Jacques Vabre and the race does not even start until Sunday, November 5.
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Taking an option to get through a front in the early hours of this morning seems to have given the Vendée Globe winning duo Michel Desjoyeaux and François Gabart on MACIF the chance to extend their lead in the IMOCA Open 60 fleet on the Transat Jacques Vabre during the third afternoon of racing, since leaving Le Havre on Thursday.
Continue Reading ...19/11/2007 – The battle is raging for first place in the Imoca Class. Safran is fast, very fast, showing a better speed than Foncia over the last 24 hours and therefore chipping away the miles gap between them after overtaking Cheminées Poujoulat overnight. The situation onboard is demanding and the crews’ adrenaline is peaked. A […]
Continue Reading ...After 10 days 38 minutes and 43 seconds of racing at a theoretical average speed of 18.03 knots, Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin on Groupama 2 crossed the finish line in the Transat Jacques Vabre at 13h40’43″ (CET) or in other words 9h40’43″ (local time) today, Wednesday, 14th November. This was Franck Cammas’s third win […]
Continue Reading ...11/11/2007 – Tomorrow, Groupama 2 (Orma) should pass under the 1000 miles to race before crossing the line in Bahia, Brazil. In comparison, after 7 days at sea, Ecover (Imoca) will still have 2 000 miles to sail as will Crèpes Whaou! (Class 50). Pakea Bizkaïa (Imoca) and Telecom Italia (Class 40) will be 2 […]
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Alex Pella, the world-record breaking sailor, said yesterday (Wednesday) that the Transat Jacques Vabre 2017 will mark the emergence of a new future for multihulls.
Continue Reading ...Highlights of winners’ press conference Virbac-Paprec 3 (Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron)…
Continue Reading ...15/11/2007 – All of the Orma will be in Salvador de Bahia harbour by tomorrow (Sopra‘s arrival is forecasted at 2 p.m. French time). The Doldrums are now shaking up the Imoca fleet and putting more pressure on the already exhausted sailors: gales, lightning that hit close to the boats with a defeaning crash, and […]
Continue Reading ...13/11/2007 – Groupama 2 should cross the finish line tomorrow morning, if doing such before 13:00 she will break the Transat Jacques Vabre’s record set in 2003 (11 days, 23 hours and 10 minutes) by Groupama 1 with the same crew of Franck Cammas and Steve Ravussin. The miles are unfolding quickly under the hulls […]
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