{"id":2941,"date":"2016-11-20T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2017-01-29T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:25:09","slug":"top-depart-pour-francis-joyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/top-depart-pour-francis-joyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-ahead for Francis Joyon !"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, a little before 20:00, Francis Joyon and his five crewmembers cast off from the port of Brest, to guide Idec Sport to the Jules Verne Trophy start line between Ushant and Lizard Point. At 22:14, the six men went over the start line. The timer is now ticking for the Idec Sport trimaran as it vies to improve the record set by Lo\u00efck Peyron in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In a hurry to get going after seeing their hopes of setting off foiled twice already, the crew decided to go looking for favorable winds on the other side of a low. They need to cross this weather system for a distance of fifty miles or so before reaching powerful northerly winds which will hopefully set the lively pace they\u2019re after as they set off to conquer the absolute speed record for sailing around the world. The six men were initially expected to go over the line sometime between midnight and one in the morning.<\/p>\n

Long suspense<\/strong><\/p>\n

Should they go or should they stay? And if they go, then when exactly? In Code Green since the start of Sunday morning, Francis Joyon, in constant contact with Marcel van Triest, IDEC SPORT\u2019s router, remained on the alert on Sunday afternoon even if he was still uncertain about his chances of making it to the Jules Verne Trophy start line with his crew. The uncertainty was due to unstable weather, which nevertheless opened up an opportunity that the skipper of the 31-metre trimaran was reluctant to let slip away.<\/p>\n

“The weather situation at the start isn\u2019t necessarily easy because we need to progress in light winds before going over the line. But we\u2019re going because we think that it\u2019s better to try than not to try \u2013 all the more so because once we get over this pre-departure weather difficulty, the rest of the weather situation looks good. A fine connection to the South Atlantic is possible thanks to a front breaking away from Cabo Frio in Brazil. If we manage to catch it, it could take us to the Cape of Good Hope in a decent time,<\/em>\u201d explained Francis Joyon before leaving the deck.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re still glad to be setting off even if it\u2019s a bit of an unusual situation to be leaving from a low, associated with light winds. I\u2019ve always set off in strong winds when I\u2019ve hunted this record in the past. This is an experience, but we\u2019re here to learn and we\u2019re still going to learn a lot from this new attempt,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

A \u201ctight\u201d time to beat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember that to beat the reference time set in 2012 by Lo\u00efck Peyron and his thirteen-man crew, Francis Joyon, Bernard Stamm, Alex Pella, Gw\u00e9nol\u00e9 Gahinet, Cl\u00e9ment Surtel and Boris Herrmann will need to knock off the three-cape route in under 45 days, 42 minutes and 53 seconds. A \u201ctight\u201d result says the IDEC SPORT skipper, which means that he can\u2019t afford to lose any time in getting to the seas of the South, requiring a passage to the Equator in under 6 days, and the Cape of Good Hope in between 12 and 13 days.<\/p>\n

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

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