Regata Velux 5 oceans.

Six landlords have taken the exit of regata of return to the world alone with scales

Tim Troy and Graham Dalton will leave in days after repairing their boats

Bilbao, 22 of October of 2006. To one of afternoon Abra has weighed anchor of of Bilbao fleet vueltamundista participant in regata Velux 5 Oceans for solitaires with scales, that it has by prow more than 12,000 miles until the Australian port from Fremantle at which they will arrive at the beginning of the month of December after sailing by waters of the Atlantic Ocean, to exceed Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Previously when coming out of regata in Outer Abra, the ceremony of goodbye in the sport port of Gexto has been celebrated, act that has been presided over by the General Deputy of Bizkaia, Jose Luis Bilbao and Bilbao Mayor, Iñaki Azkina.

One by one, it has been taken leave each landlord of the Velux 5 Oceans, wrapped by relatives, friendly and I publish that intense moments on emotion and joy have lived before the imminent beginning of the return to the world to candle alone.

After the blessing of the fleet Velux 5 Oceans, on the 10:30 in the morning, the accompanying sailboats and boats have sailed in conserve until the outer port of Abra to be located in the zone of the line of exit, next to the Forecastle, sailboat of two masts of the navigation school of the University of the Basque Country, from where the exit blast has occurred.

The first miles
The first miles of the Velux 5 Oceans have reasoned in parallel to the coast of Bizkaia, beginning around Plentzia to go to more than four miles until the second beacon around outer Abra and next to maintain course to Finisterre, where the first 300 miles will be covered with the stage Bilbao - Fremantle.

After the blast from exit to the 13:00 hours, as an exhalation is cruzado the line of exit OPEN 60 of Hugo Boss in first position followed by the ECOVER, both by the buoy, whereas the Cheminées Poujoulat taken by the boat of the Committee the Forecastle. Three sailboats who have decided on a warlike configuration of whole major and foque to face the first one I embroider of the 5 Velux Oceans with a wind of the southwest of about 20 knots of intensity.

After this first group, the formed one by the Pakea, Sipirit of Yukoh and the Insurance Saga has formed the warlike plane with smaller surface when hoisting the major with curls on the total of their surface of about two hundred square meters. Unai Basurko has been placed in fourth position, fighting with the Japanese Kojiro Shiraishi with the Sipirit of Yukoh, and closing the fleet Sir Robin Knox-Johnston with the Insurance Saga.

The buoy of outer Abra already the differences you enter first has been reduced: Hugo Boss has been first after 18 minutes of regata, to 27 seconds of the first ECOVER and to 00:01: 07 the Chiméenes Poujoulat. Six minutes later one has been seen lasts punga between the Pakea and the Spirit of Yukoh to pass that buoy. Through only a pair of seconds, Koji has passed botya of Outer Abra in fourth position.

The fleet sails now hauled in to parallel port to the Cantabrian coast in search of the most western end of Galicia where the meteorological conditionses are much more adverse that those of the moment of the exit in Bilbao.

Tim Troy, participant the USA will delay its exit by problems in the measurement

Tim Troy must finally delay its exit. Their 60 OPEN Margaret Ana at the moment does not fulfill the rule established by IMOCA, the association of class of sailboats OPEN 60, organization that has become very strict after the incidents happened at the end of the Nineties during the celebration from this same regata.

There is a series of essential rules of the IMOCA on the stability of the boats. The D1 Article says: the landlord must physically demonstrate that the boat, once upset, is able to correct list it without external aid; in order to verify that the boat observes this rule, the sailboat without mast turns upside down in the water with a crane while the landlord in its interior must try to correct list the boat perfectly. This is a quite simple process for the boats that have a pivotante keel as it is the case of the Margaret Ana because the angle of the keel changes, which causes that the boat lists and finally is corrected list.

According to the norm, using all the movable ballast (with the inner water tanks or the pivotante keel totally risen) tests another that consists of, holding to the boat by a lateral one, that this does not list more of 10º to a band or another one. And there is another parameter that talks about the maximum angle of lists that the boat must of being able of not listing more of 127,5º of angle that is known like the AVS. And in the measurement that was done to the Margaret Ana to him it detected that it was outside measurement by three degrees.

When knowing the North American landlord Tim Troy that its boat did not fulfill the requirements of stability of the IMOCA, this one put in contact with the designer of its boat the French Bernat Nivelt, who has proposed to him that the solution is in adding about 300 kilos of lead to the keel of the boat in the zone of the saber, the piece that goes from the helmet to the bulb. Something that is not the normal thing since when lead in the keel is increased does in the bulb, but the French architect prefers to make it in the “saber” of the keel to alleviate extra load in the low part of the keel and to locate it more near the point where he turns this with the helmet.

Tim Troy comments, as far as having additional weight in the well of the boat like another solution: “I am not designer nor constructor of yachts, but a thing I know, I will be much more contented to sail like this now boat instead of to make it in the last moment and for entering the austral ocean without verifying them. My plan now is to try to do everything so that the boat fulfills the norm of the IMOCA.”

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