As fast as fragile, the five seas giants from the race, Sunday, November 7, will experience their reliability on the Atlantic Assaults.
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Since two years for two years for calendar questions (the Brest Oceans race finally postponed and replaced by the Atlantic Brest), not counting attempts aborted in the Jules-Verne Trophy last winter, the ultimate are returning to the Transat Jacques Vabre. The departure of the off-duplicate race must be given Sunday, November 7 at 1:30 pm in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), Steering Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Fragile, constantly evolving, requiring long developed, the prototype flying trimarans with stunning averages, capable of maintaining speeds of 40 nodes (about 75 km / h), will attempt to demonstrate that this hexagonal singularity In the landscape of the offshore race is not just a superb communication tool. Provided it does not hit at sea and do not break anything on board.
at the game of reliability, the Gitana 17 stable (Maxi-Edmond-de-Rothschild) led by the duo Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier, seems a notch above the fleet as the boat drawn by Guillaume Verdier S ‘Is shown sovereign in the training and especially at the last edition of the Fastnet Race, in August, beating Actual-Ultim-3 (Tandem Yves Le Blevec-Anthony Marchand) and Sodebo-Ultim-3 (Thomas Coville-Thomas Rouxel ) A confrontation that does not necessarily make faith knowing that Svr-Lazartigue (François Gabart and Tom Laperche) and Banque-Popular-Xi (Armel Le Cléac’h and Kevin Escoffier) had been put in the water in the summer and the summer. last spring.
mid-October, Franck Cammas said that a broad runner is not a type down at the bottom of his sofa who would launch his powerful computer: “Draw me new Foils.” “We tried Foils who worked perfectly, but in virtual. To the real, things are very different. Still need to know what we ask computer tools that should not be sacred. We would have liked to say at our beginnings: “Say, Tool, draw me a great boat “, Ironizes Cammas in this eternal half-smile, because an ultim, it is not the fruit of artificial intelligence that would say:” Hey, I found! “No, a Boat flying, off, with sea and waves, it’s a compromise between speed, stability and reliability. “
Charles CaDerier concluded the exchange: “The boat that wins is not the fastest, neither on the drawing nor to the real time. In fact, there is no perfect boat all the time . And the boat that will win will be the most versatile of the fleet according to the sea conditions. “Today, the potential and reliability of their maxi-trimaran, considerably optimized by the design office of Gitana and the contribution Franck Cammas intellectual, the world reference in multihulls, make this stable a kind of standard master.
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