{"id":4927,"date":"2023-03-01T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2023-03-01T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:01:33","slug":"vers-de-nouveaux-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/vers-de-nouveaux-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"New horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sails of Change will not cast off this year to challenge the round the world Jules Verne Trophy record and is calling a halt to\u00a0the stand-by period that has kept the team in Brest, France, for several months during the autumn and winter waiting for a weather window that has remained elusive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another time! While the crew remain ready and motivated, like other contenders, the team could not launch a challenge on the record this year due to\u00a0unfavourable weather conditions.<\/p>\n

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The stand-by must end sometime !<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll return the maxi-trimaran to our base in La Trinit\u00e9\/Mer today. Although we extended our stand-by period, there were no weather windows,\u201d said Yann Guichard. \u201cWe have pushed the deadline as late as possible, but nothing is presenting over the next few days. The challenge is no longer to cross the Equator in under five days (the team still holds the best time: 4 days 19 hours and 57 minutes) but\u00a0to reach the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope in approx. 12 days!\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis Joyon and his team had very favourable conditions for their Southern Ocean leg, so today\u2019s record challengers need some margin before venturing into the Indian Ocean. \u201cIt\u2019s a difficult decision, but you have to stop sometime. Of course, it is disappointing, and we have to consider what comes next. Dona (Bertarelli) and I gathered the sailors and technical team together on Tuesday at lunchtime \u2013\u00a0it was a special moment,\u201d added Yann.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been preparing for this Jules Verne Trophy for 10 years now, and at the end of each attempt or stand-by period, you have to know how to turn the page.\u00a0The emotion remains\u00a0and it is always tough! What we have built with a whole team around us cannot be allowed to dissipate,\u201d said Dona Bertarelli.<\/p>\n

It is important to understand the context behind these decisions, with autumn approaching in the Southern Ocean, the low-pressure systems become faster and more violent, the nights become longer, and the rougher seas prohibit sailing at the kind of speeds required to break the record. Plus, this year there were icebergs drifting at higher latitudes, as far up as the Pacific, which would have meant increasing the distance sailed, without reducing the time to beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe record remains, and even if it is broken, there will always be someone that will improve on it one day!\u00a0That is the beauty of records,\u201d added the skipper of Sails of Change.<\/p>\n

Going forward, the team is preparing for a new season of\u00a0TF35 racing\u00a0which kicks off in mid-May on Lake Geneva.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sails of Change will not cast off this year to challenge the round the world Jules Verne Trophy record and is calling a halt to\u00a0the stand-by period that has kept the team in Brest, France, for several months during the autumn and winter waiting for a weather window that has remained elusive.     Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,49,48,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yann-guichard","category-dona-bertarelli","category-sails-of-change","category-spindrift-racing","category-guichard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}