February 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25.
Yacht Racing News
Update Vendee Globe: More Carnage and FONCIA Wins
to the Jury in writing that he was still asking
for redress to be awarded. The skipper of PRB
that these recent «events were directly linked
to and indeed caused by the rescue opera-
tion» and noted that it was now definitively
impossible for him to “continue the race back
to the finishing port of Les Sables d’Olonne.”
In the near future it would prove impossible
for Riou to find a replacement spar out there
and none could be delivered in reasonable
time. Consequently, Riou therefore requested
that his boat be reclassified as is regularly the
case in international racing, when a boat is a
victim to something beyond its control.
Bernard Bonneau of the International
Jury said that they will listen to the case and
has asked the race committee to designate
PRB as redress given. This means that re-
dress will be given, but its details have yet to
be determined.
Jean Le Cam ran into a slight problem
since he did not have a passport. He and the
British entry Sam Davies' ROXY heading up wind.
Chilean custom official worked out the prob-
lem and he will have a passport soon. hopefully get back down to the southeast same sea state at the same time. I think both ing Cape Horn. Her time to the Horn was 62
As for Riou, who was celebrating his 37
th
because there is a big, intense low pressure Jonny and I commented that at that time it days, 21 hours, and 18 minutes. This is the
birthday, he was trying to get PRB towed to system which is up on the other side of the could have happened to any one of the three boat that Vincent Riou won the Vendee Globe
Ushuaia. They were also trying to work out high and it is coming down in this direction. of us. I think the same happens when there is race in 2004-05. His time from the Cape of
details for loading her onto a cargo ship and So we are just trying to escape that. I have something in the water. I remember this past Good Hope to Cape Horn was 33 days, 6
bringing her back to France. been pushing hard, but we will see if that is evening when we were going pretty fast, just hours and 25 minutes, where as Davies time
Wilson (GREAT AMERICAN III) is in enough. It is one of those perfectly formed thinking about that the first time I sailed the was 34 days, 15 hours and 50 minutes. How-
the path of a low pressure area, which could lows that you would much rather see in a text boat back from France to the US, I hit some- ever in this race the course was 1,100 miles
cause some heavy weather. book rather than out here on the ocean. I think thing on the fifth night out and it fractured the longer.
Day 62, 10 January: Desjoyeaux has the boat is really strong, it has been around bow, shattered the daggerboard, and drove Fellow British sailor Dee Caffari on
been in the lead for more than 25 days and the world three times and I am sure it has more that back through the hull, and broke off one AVIVA has had her troubles worsen as she
now his lead is over 190 miles. It was learned in it than I am willing to push it, but that is of the rudders. You just never know when discovered that her mainsail was further
that Jourdain had hit a sea mammal and had down to my own conservatism, so I think it is that is going to happen, that could happen to delaminating. She lowered the mainsail to the
developed a problem with his keel. a great boat and I guess I am getting more and any one of us at any time. So that level of third reef and took more than an hour to repair
Rich Wilson, (GREAT AMERICAN III) more comfortable with pushing a little bit uncertainty adds a lot of stress to the situa- the problem. She still has 1,200 miles to Cape
said, “We are about 140 miles off the west end more. But so much of it is down to luck one tion.” Horn and she hopes the sail will last the rigors
of the western Pacific Ice Gate and hoping to way or another, when Derek Hatfield was Day 63, 11 January: Sam Davies onboard
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get there in about half a day or so, and then rolled over there were three of us all in that ROXY has achieved one of her dreams, round-
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