340 000 (11,745 kilometers) to the actual average speed of 20.75 knots in 12 d and 17 h 29 min. The boat crossed the line at 6:59 French time.
The record set in 2013 by the tandem Sébastien Josse / Charles Caudrelier MOD70 trimaran with a 22 m long (11 day 05 hour 03 min) has not been beaten the fault of weather conditions and very muscular breakage-sea boats that decimated the fleet of 42 yachts took the start.
Overall, a fairly heavy price, with 17 outs, including a capsize.
Very good performance at least for the Gabart / Bidégorry duo, with a boat -a plan VPLP 30 m built in a year and a half launched on August 18, just weeks before leaving Le Havre , October 25.
Gabart, among others winner of the 2012-2013 Vendée Globe and the Route du Rhum 2014 (in both cases at the helm of an Imoca monohull 18.28 m), further enriched his record, assisted by a multihull specialist, Bidégorry, just back of the Volvo Ocean Race (browser Dongfeng / 3rd).
“Great, that’s great, said Gabart. This is the first Macif trimaran race and this is his first victory. You could not ask for more. This boat is amazing, I love it already. Share it all with Pascal, it was only the highlights. “
” We have not had a lot of technical problems, it is exceptional for a new boat, he added. I do not expect that, I thought it would be more complicated. I thank the team, after two years of work. Two months after the launching, we win, it’s fantastic. “
” François has a great new toy, it has not yet drawn the quintessence, for his part indicated Bidégorry. We found the boat every day “.
– Around the world solo in 2019 –
Sodebo (Coville / Jean-Luc Nélias), former Geronimo Olivier de Kersauson almost entirely rebuilt (31 m), has long been leading the race but was made to exceed the height of the Pot Black, this weather swamp calm violent alternating flat and grains, between northern and southern hemispheres in the Atlantic.
Macif then displayed incredible ease thanks to its unique foil (not having had time to build a second!), carefully placed on the starboard float since 70-80% of the race unfolded port tack .
Sodebo, 95 miles from the line when Macif happened, was expected at midday Saturday.
Macif as Sodebo showed high speeds during the Transat Jacques Vabre, the around 40 knots the first night in the north of Guernsey. They dominated the other two Ultimate multihull class, even before they will give up on average (Actual) or capsize (Prince de Bretagne).
Macif and Sodebo aim to take part in a round the world solo non-stop and without assistance,
in 2019. The race in the other three classes (IMOCA, Class40 and Multi50) of the Transat Jacques Vabre . After the Ultimate, the next boat to Itajai should be the Multi50 trimaran (15.24 m) FenêtréA Prysmian Erwan Le Roux / Giancarlo Pedote. Unless the three Imoca -PRB (Vincent Riou / Sebastien Col), VIII Banque Populaire (Armel Le Cléac’h / Erwan Tabarly) Queguiner-Leukemia Hope (Yann Elies / Charlie Dalin.) – Will pass under the nose
will come later in the small + + (12.20 m) monohulls Class40, still very far behind and led by the duo Yannick Bestaven / Pierre Brasseur (The Curator)
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