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Gerard Cok selection of the week : Elan 400
Class Ocean50 - Boat for Breizh World Tour 2017-2018
Nice video from Onne van der Wal :
Last week, during a drive off Lorient for the Transat Jacques Vabre, the MOD 70 Virbac Paprec 70 capsized in 15 to 20 knots wind.
Jean-Pierre Dick, skipper of Virbac Paprec at the time of the accident, made a fall of 15 meters and suffers back injuries.
The accident was caused by an helicopter who was filming the trimaran, it shows the risks of barring a a 21 meters trimaran.
Every Xperformance yacht is created to perform superbly in all conditions and in all sail configurations. However, many of the very same factors which make the Xp models race winners, also ensure that they are enjoyable fast cruisers.
The Xp 38 and its siblings, the Xp 44 and the Xp 50, were designed in-house by Niels Jeppesen to take advantage of new materials and construction methods now available since his last generation of performance cruisers was introduced.
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The Atlantic crossing season is coming round again. In the next three months, some 4-5,000 sailors will cross from Europe to the Caribbean on one of the biggest sailing adventures of their lives. In most cases, the crossing is the culmination of years of planning and preparation. But if it’s your first time, are you missing something? You might be. Read More
Unbelieveable how Oracle manage to come back in the game. After 1/8 they came back and made it to the final race 9/8 !!
For the sport of sailing, Race 17 of the America’s Cup was going to be a big win, whichever boat crossed the line first.
Oracle Team USA got the gun and that made it a big win for San Francisco.
In 2010 I was convinced that the 34th match for America’s Cup would be sailed on San Francisco Bay because that was the right thing to do. Now it’s 2013, and I have the same feeling about the 35th match. It was always part of the equation that keeping the Cup would be the big payoff for San Francisco and the Bay Area.
If this thing had ended a week ago, it would have been huge for New Zealand, but it would have left misery behind in San Francisco, with nothing but coulda shoulda’s. We still have the coulda shoulda’s but now we can turn them into coulds and shoulds.
Of how a race with only 2 teams can still be fascinating.
We have shared the story of Mark Edwards a couple of months ago. After all the comments and reactions of his story, he wants to address the readers and clarify the financial point of view.
Mark is truck driver, rigger, and boat builder from New Zealand. He’s a kiwi sailor with many miles of Pacific Ocean sailing, including a few Sydney Hobart races. We had heard about Mark and his family because they are another ‘kid boat’, described to us as the family on the racing boat. At first appearance Relapse is 50’ of pure racing machine, though oddly adorned with ratty awning, fishing poles, and a rusting (so called stainless!) BBQ grill, just like all the other cruising boats. Relapse, by traditional cruising convention, is born out of insanity with her 14’ wide transom, open for the world and Neptune to board any time they like.
