Regata Barcelona World RACE BWR the one keys regata

Barcelona World RACE:

The one keys regata

The past 11 of November began Barcelona World RACE with maximum sense of expectancy as they demonstrated the 650 boats to it that followed the exit and more than 500,000 people they followed than it from earth.

The 7 of December Alex Thomson and Andrew Cape in their Hugo Boss are able to beat three consecutive times the record of whole range in a Open 60 feet being obtained 500.01 nautical miles sailed in 24 hours. An authentic secured magical number thanks to a maintained wind of 30 to 35 knots by the fin and with surge in the same wind direction that allowed glided more than 25 knots.

The 8 of December PRB breaks the wood to 630 miles of Cape Town which stops in dry to Vicent Riou and Séb Josse. The shock with a wave broke the 3 last meters of the wood. A day later the Damm Star goes to Cape Town to repair the rudder of port due to the impact with something unknown the previous day. Day 14 must definitively leave regata when not being able to guarantee the security of the boat. The 11 of December the Delta Gilds breaks the mast having to be towed until Cape Town. The 17 of December the Veolia also loses the wood hours after its shutdown and repair in the Kerguelen islands, when nailing its prow in a strong wave. After mounting a fortune equipment they are already able outside regata to reach the Australian coasts having sailed last the 2,000 miles to 5 knots.

The 16 of December Temenos II had to pause in Wellington to repair problems arisen in its tilted keel due to a problem in the corrosion of the axis. Also Hugo Boss makes in Wellington to repair to the rudders and also the Mutual Madrilenian to repair some problems and to assure that any fatigue in the materials did not exist before maintaining course towards the Cape Horn.

The day of nochevieja the Paprec-Virbac sights a great iceberg, leaving patent the danger to sail in the seas of the south. The Paprec-Virbac, winner of regata, is one of the last designs of Brushes Farr and has competed against three helmets also Farr: the Damm Star, the Delta Gilds and the PRB. The main differences among them have been the equipment: while 2 Paprec-Virbac and the Damm Star have equipped a fixed classic wood, the PRB and the Delta Gild took rotatory and of profile eave to it. The clearest difference has been the fitted superiority in of the Paprec-Virbac with respect to the PRB, that could be seen throughout I embroider that both carried out, elbow elbow, in the sea of Alborán.

The winning equipment

Jean-Pierre Dick has happened to exert of veterinary surgeon to dedicate itself to the candle and being baptized like “the navigator horseman” by one of the majors legend seeing of it oceanic, Loïck Peyron, with obtained one of his two victories in the Transat Jacques Vabre. Jean-Pierre had disputed regatas from very young, but it did not give the jump to the professional competition until the 36 years. He is unmarried, with 42 years, and happens for being a great connoisseur of navigation in all facets. With Damian Foxall he has formed an extraordinary pair. In more than an occasion he has explained that is not two crew, but of an equipment. In his trajectory he counts on one first circumnavigation in last the Vendée Globe (2004-2005), in which he concluded in sixth position having completed the route in 98 days.

He also owns very outstanding triumphs in the Transat Jacques Vabre, and that same year also he finished second in the Fastnet and third party in the Calais Round Britain RACE. Dick will return to be in the line of exit of next the Vendée Globe of this year, but with the endorsement of this extraordinary victory in the first edition of Barcelona World RACE.

Damian Foxall, Irish from birth, but French from adoption, has returned to demonstrate its fabulous dowries on board the Paprec Virbac. He has been the perfect companion of Jean-Pierre Dick, the one who has given the most opportune advice him and the one than has corrected the defects of the boat when they have taken place, like the day in which controlled the situation when they broke stay of solent and to point they were to already leave regata next to the Brazilian coasts in the direction of Barcelona.

In spite of its age, Damian has disputed 17 regatas transatlantic and counts on seven circumnavigations once entered this Barcelona World RACE. It has competed in all type of regatas, including the Louis Vuitton Glass of the America´s the Olympic Cup and Games. It has crossed more than 280,000 miles to length of last the 25 years and in its extensive palmarés they emphasize landmarks like the salary be the first nonFrench navigator in gaining a sleeve of the demanding Solitaire du Figaro (1998). This year, will compete again around the Earth in front of its companion, since Damian also tries to be in the line of exit of next the Vendée Globe.

Have authentic trajeados the classified seconds play-boys arrived at the goal like two.

Mutual Madrilenian: Us we have passed it “teat”!

That explicit one was to Bubu Sansó after its arrival, overflowing of joy and affection. The first that did Bubi was to be thankful to which they had done possible to realize his dream: “Thanks to Mutual Madrilenian to believe in us and thanks to whom they have supported to us; but, mainly, I want to be thankful for the work of our ground equipment, without them we would not be here.” The Majorcan landlord was very satisfied by his regata and explained therefore the aspects and key moments: “We have given everything It, but the boat is of a generation inferior and this, when you go in double note much, since you can take the boat to the maximum of its possibilities. When you sail alone, you take it to the boat to 70%, by this the boats of older generations can give good results, but when you put to the limit the machine notices the speed difference. Tactical we had a little while decisive that was when we remained in the middle of a depression that arose suddenly in the East Indian South; we remained less with 10 wind knots than the others during almost everything a day and there we lost the train of regata. It was a pity.”

Bubi kept awake the gravity of the failure in the inclination system of the right keel before saturating in Wellington: “Now we can say already it, since we have arrived and nobody is going to worry, but the failure was serious. Two days before arriving at Cook, an oil flight took place in the hydraulic engineer who regulates the inclination of the keel and we remained without pressure and the inner oil plenty yet. We could not move the keel! In Wellington we disassembled the system in four hours and the technicians remained deluded there because it is a work that requires four days… Finally, thanks to a New Zealand technician who in a while did the pieces to us of spare part - And in Sunday in the evening! - we could weigh anchor to the 48 hours.”

On the other hand, Pachi explained that they had needed a little more time to totally have the boat by the hand: “In the first sections, we went a little acojonadillos… needed something of confidence until the East Indian, I I believe that with her we had taken to Temenos II. Soon he was magnificent, we have taken it to the maximum to the boat and has been magnificent.” The Cantabrian regatista praised its companion: “He is the ideal companion. Del is an extraordinary navigator that I have learned very many. It deserves to go to the Vendée Globe, that is its dream, and I am certainly with boat could gain a new it, at least to be between the five first Fixed”. Bubi declared. “I have not needed anything! How was going I to need! I have been in my sauce, with sponsoring, a good boat, a magnificent companion and one regata around the world… What I can more ask? In addition… Us we have passed it teat”

To the question of which it has been the secret of the extroverted joy that has shown during the 99 days of regata, Bubi was precise: “We had an objective and was necessary to fulfill it, this gives a daily sense you. By all means that have been rubbing, but after awhile in which each went by its side it forgot everything; anyway, these small collisions always happened with little wind… With more than 10 knots always we were of the good humor”

Bubi praised the format of regata and thought on the breakage that has motivated the retirement of four participants: “It is very good devises the one of the doors, because they give life him regata. Also he is magnificent that exists one regata in double around the world. It is what I have said before: the boat takes to 100% and gives of himself everything what it is expected of them. This has been the cause of which there have been so many wood breakage. Sailing in double, for example, you hold spi until limits that never would be happened to you alone. This has caused that this regata has been an authentic proving stand of the design and the construction of 60 feet IMOCA. Barcelona World RACE is complemented perfectly with Vendée Globe and is harder than she. This is magnificent for class IMOCA.”

Education Without Borders: The force of the perseverancia

In spite of being the boat of smaller benefits, to been able to finalize the return to the world in 108 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes., 15 days after the winner of regata. Albert Bargués has enjoyed totally the experience and now it is conceited to be a very happy man, although it has confessed that it will not return to make no other return to the world. Servane Escoffier, its companion, 21 years younger, thinks the opposite and is going to begin to look for economic resources to be in the line of exit of next the Vendée Globe.

Before the parsimoniously slow arrival that has suffered, both they have commented that has undergone much these days. On the verge of arriving, a hydraulic problem in the keel almost ruined the project. You imagine not to fulfill the return in the last the world moments by a mechanical problem? “, the Catalan crew member asked itself.

Both navigators are outstanding the fact to have realized the return to the world without no shutdown - the unique ones next to the Paprec Virbac 2, the absolute winner and have recognized who have done regata that agreed to them more. “The boat was not around the other, but it came out to the sea preparation very well”. Both are outstanding the comradeship on board, and have confessed that they have not liked absolutely the freeze-dried food

Both emphasized that the concept of Barcelona World RACE is one regata extraordinary, the format is excellent. “It is unique a sport and human adventure. To have made any scale is not what it provides this great happiness to us”.

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