{"id":2853,"date":"2016-11-03T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2017-01-29T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:17:46","slug":"francis-joyon-starting-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/francis-joyon-starting-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Joyon on the starting blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Departure time is drawing near for Francis Joyon and the crew of the maxi trimaran Idec Sport. Thursday marked an activation of Code Amber \u2013 the alert used by Joyon to indicate a favorable weather opportunity within the next five days for starting off on an attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy. On Friday, Idec Sport will be heading to Brest to stand ready for setting off on this crewed non-stop circumnavigation. The starting line may be crossed as early Sunday evening, in Ushant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a9Mer et M\u00e9dia \/ Idec Sport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cA good weather configuration has emerged,\u201d <\/em>explained Francis Joyon. \u201cMainly northerly winds at around twenty knots, ideal for a quick exit from the bay and for making for the Equator, gybing once, in a time very close to the one we achieved during our attempt last year.\u201d<\/em> Let\u2019s remember that on that occasion, Idec Sport notched up the second-best performance in the history of the Ushant-Equator leg, with a time of 5 days, one hour and 52 seconds \u2013 eleven hours better than the Trophy\u2019s title holder Banque Populaire V, skippered by Lo\u00efck Peyron.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s still uncertainty about how the St Helena High will evolve,\u201d <\/em>adds Francis Joyon.\u00a0\u201cFor now it\u2019s located very far to the south, blocking the route to the Cape of Good Hope and the Indian Ocean. We\u2019d need to go down very low south in order to get around it. So we\u2019ll get to Brest tomorrow while continuing to monitor the evolution of weather conditions in the South Atlantic, bearing in mind that the North Atlantic is very favorable for now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The whole crew (Bernard Stamm, Gw\u00e9nol\u00e9 Gahinet, Alex Pella, Cl\u00e9ment Surtel), with the exception of German Boris Herrman, held back in Germany, is on deck and will take advantage of the delivery trip to Brest to settle in. \u201cBernard will look after final supplies once we\u2019re in Brest, and if the departure scenario is confirmed and the situation in the South Atlantic improves, we may well cross the starting line on Sunday evening,\u201d<\/em> concludes Francis Joyon, visibly impatient to get going. \u201cThe job list has been dealt with. We\u2019ve made the boat lighter. It seems that it\u2019s now time to set off on this wonderful big adventure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Source :\u00a0www.idecsport-sailing.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Departure time is drawing near for Francis Joyon and the crew of the maxi trimaran Idec Sport. Thursday marked an activation of Code Amber \u2013 the alert used by Joyon to indicate a favorable weather opportunity within the next five days for starting off on an attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy. On Friday, Idec […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-2016","category-idec","category-joyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}