{"id":3326,"date":"2017-01-23T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:52:41","slug":"vendee-finish-analysis-by-robin-knox-johnston-before-armel-cleach-hit-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/vendee-finish-analysis-by-robin-knox-johnston-before-armel-cleach-hit-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Vend\u00e9e Finish: analysis by Robin Knox-Johnston before Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac’h hit the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Email message from Robin Knox-Johnston\u00a0(January 17, 2017) regarding the strategy of Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac’h.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Sir Peter Blake Trust Collection \/ Alan Sefton. Photo Henri Thibault \u00a9 Agence DPPI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cWe have one of the most exciting finishes to an ocean race since Ariel and Taeping in 1866, or Mike Birch and Malinovsky in the first Route de Rhum in 1978. \u00a0\u00a0Alex’s VMG indicates he will win as it stands at the moment, and he is closing in every new report (I will be glad when it is over so I can get some sleep). [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biscay High Pressure system is the Joker.\u00a0 Is Armel right to head more for the finish line, and lose out on VMG now but rely on being closer when the wind comes on the nose, or is Alex right to maintain a much better speed but give himself more ground to cover, perhaps with a better wind.\u00a0It depends on when he has to make the final tack for the finish line.\u00a0 This is going to be the decider, and if he holds course, Alex will have a greater distance to sail, but maybe at faster speed.\u00a0 It will all depend on what the winds do tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n

Utterly fascinating.
\nOne thing is for certain, the Fat Lady ain’t sung yet!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robin Knox-Johnston\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Email message from Robin Knox-Johnston\u00a0(January 17, 2017) regarding the strategy of Alex Thomson and Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac’h.   \u201cWe have one of the most exciting finishes to an ocean race since Ariel and Taeping in 1866, or Mike Birch and Malinovsky in the first Route de Rhum in 1978. \u00a0\u00a0Alex’s VMG indicates he will win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armel-le-cleach","category-robin-knox-johnston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}