Ocean Racing Magazine - #5 - October & November 2007 - (Page 40)

TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE ©Y. Zedda/BFBP ORMA title-holders, Pascal Bidegorry and Lionel Lemonchois will this time be competing against each other. Meanwhile they shared the podium at the Route du Rhum TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING for two The Transat Jacques Vabre is an original ocean race both in terms of its format, its history and its frequency. Two men or two women, or a man and a woman. They will form couples ready to tackle the «Channel effects», as they set sail from Le Havre and head off towards Ushant, where sailors see their blood, as the saying goes. Then, they will have to get across the Bay of Biscay, which has the wicked habit of getting a bit excited in November: a nasty westerly swell, repeated gales, rain and chilly winds… Three to five days of rough weather before they reach the trades, and can take off the fleeces, and get out the sun cream… and especially before they begin the long ride down into the other hemisphere, going beyond the horizon, crossing the line, getting really down in the Doldrums, that infamous convergence zone, which can really turn you upside down, upsetting everything you believed in, shuffling up the ran- This will be the eighth edition of the Jacques Vabre, the only two-handed transatlantic race for fifty and sixty foot monohulls and multihulls. Once again it will be starting in Le Havre, crossing the Equator and 4335 miles away, there will be the tropical colours of the finish in Salvador de Bahia… This time the big news story is the arrival of thirty or so Class 40 boats making up around half of the fleet! to the attraction of the event for racers and the public alike. By creating the Transat Jacques Vabre, the Kraft Foods France Group could not have imagined how interest would grow with each race. From thirteen boats in the first race in 1993, the lineup went to around sixty, fourteen years later! All the Orma multihull and the Imoca monohull skippers, as well as the 50foot multihull racers and the very lastest class on the way up, the forty footers, get together for kings, before that final run upwind to Brazil. After two or maybe three weeks for the Class 40 boats, the tropical air will be a true delight, the Brazilian flavours will really go down a treat. Couples at sea For a race to last, it has to have a history and a course inspired by trading routes of the past, as we see with the Route du Rhum, the Spice Route and the Columbus route. This aspect can only add Ocean Racing - october 2007

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ocean Racing Magazine - #5 - October & November 2007

Edito
Contents
What they said
News
Portfolio
America's Cup - One Cup or two?
Jules Verne Trophy - Cammas, down to 48 days ?
Personality - Missing Fosset
Mini - Thirty years of innovations
Transat Jacques Vabre
Portrait - Lemonchois, quietly and discreetly
Barcelona World Race - Duos around the world
TP 52 - Where the stars shine
Figaro - Desjoyeaux not so alone
Trial - Sun Fast 3200
Tactics - Why the New Zealanders lost the America’s Cup
Fasnet Race
Lab
Portrait - Andrew Pindar
Fifty years ago - The Admiral’s Cup - offshore racing
Equipment
New products
Opinion

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