Arriving off Cape Town, Tom Laperche was met by a wall of winds gusting to 50 to 60 knots along the coast. It was impossible to consider any kind of access the port. So SVR Lazartigue had to stay on standby, hove-too into the wind, waiting for better ...
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When Charles Caudrelier has also cleared Cape Agulhas, located 80 miles further east, he will enter the Indian Ocean. The Gitana team's maxi trymaran is still making daily averages of more than 80...
Tom on SVR Lazartigue is due in Cape Town tomorrow Monday to meet his extended Shore Team. They will then decide on a plan for the fix but is the damage too extensive for him to continue and if so how long will it take to watertight this hull?
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The hard collision damaged the daggerboard case causing a significant leak. “I had been working pretty well all night,” reported the 26 year old skipper this afternoon, “I had found good sail...
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Trimaran SVR Lazartigue has Major Damage after hitting something and having water flooding into the hull. Keep watching this channel (Subscribe) for our extra videos as they c...
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In Brazil, Armel Le Clerck’s repairs have started.
The Maxi Banque Populaire XI, arrived in the port of Recife in Brazil just before 07 40 hours UTC. A team from Banque Populaire was waiting f...
Now for a race NEWSFLASH, Recife stopover planned for the Maxi Banque Populaire XI.
Armel Le Cleach and the Maxi Banque Populaire XI, are heading to the Brazilian port of Recife to the repair the pulpit on the main hull, and to replace the tack line ...
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ARKEA ULTIM Challenge - Brest Jan 10-11 Reports plus an interview of Charles Caudrelier of Edmund de Rothschild by British IMOCA Skipper Sam Davies. This is a "must-see" interview as Sam points...
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On the fifth day of the ILCA 6 2024 Women's World Championship, the typical Mar del Plata northeast wind, was constant throughout the day. With an intensity ranging from 7 ...
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From tomorrow afternoon, “it’s going to be pretty tough.”
“In this anticyclone, everything is random,” evaluates Charles Caudrelier. The leading posse of five have been getting through it since this morning. The skipper ...
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The high emotions of Sunday’s start are pleasant, but fading memory. “It was great but a real torture too,” said Éric Péron from on board sixth placed Adagio, some 90 miles behind...
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As a new chapter in ocean racing history was opened with the start of the inaugural ARKÉA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest, the sun shone on the Rade de Brest, in the west of France, and the modest ...
Franck Cammas, a distinguished sailor with a dizzying track record and a multi-rounder, came to watch the start of the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE - Brest. He gives us his analysis of the first days of racing after today's kick-off at 1:30 p.m.
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The legend of offshore racing, Loïck Peyron, welcomes the skippers participating in the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE - Brest to his chairs for exclusive interviews. Here he interviews SVR Lazartigue S...
The Arkea Race Around The World Starts Tomorrow and Loick Talks to French Superstar Sailors Thomas Coville of SODEBO and Armel Le Cléac'h of Banque Populaire.
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These ULTIM 3 Trimara...
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Lisa McDonald, from PredictWind, foretells a calm before the storm for the race start, at 1200 UTC, on the 07 January: “Looking ahead to Sunday’s sunny start from Lanzarote; most of the models are i...
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They never doubed it but some did and here is the launch video of the huge SVR Lazertigue. It's now on the way to the race start in Brest. Fingers crossed all the fittings were tightened as they have no re...
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ARKEA ULTIM Challenge starts next Sunday. Here is the skippers briefing and an interview with one of the lesser known Skippers, Anthony Marchand of ACTUAL.
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It starts from Brest France this Sunday, the ultimate race around the world, by six, 32 meter, (105 foot), Ultim trimarans. Like the Vendee Globe, it is a solo skippered, Non-...
Compared with previous generations of round the world racers and adventurers, the six skippers ready to take on the Arkéa Ultim Challenge – Brest are a new, different breed. Physically most are fitter and stronger than those who preceded them. Bear in m...
Saturday, in the Brest, Arkea, Ultim Race village, highlighted the strong bond between the skippers, and the public
With a big storm set to blow in off the Bay of Biscay the race village, of the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE – Brest, had to be closed at 15 hund...
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