Thomas Ruyant wins the Guyader Bermuda 1000 Race
Launched on Sunday, May 7 at 2:00 pm, the Guyader Bermuda 1000 Race has taken the 13 duos over the 1,280 miles of the course. By crossing the finish line of the Guyader Bermuda 1000 Race Brest-Brest this Thursday evening at 20:15:02 local time, Thomas Ruyant and Morgan Lagravière on FOR PEOPLE take the first place, before jury, on the 2023 edition of the event. Their race time is 4 days 06 hours 15 minutes and 02 seconds. After only six sailings, FOR PEOPLE wins its first race. A rare performance, after having fought to the end with Jérémie Beyou's Charal 2 and Franck Cammas, 2nd on the podium. Sam Goodchild, a newcomer to the circuit, took 3rd place. A great performance!
Top start of the Pro Sailing Tour
With a mistral wind that gradually strengthened throughout the day up to 28 knots, the 5 Ocean Fifty put on a show, just for the pleasure and delight of the 50 guests who came on board for the three races. Squeaking winches as they passed the buoys, spectacular float lifts, spray from the transoms, sensational accelerations, the magic of the Pro Sailing Tour has once again worked. And this is only the beginning! Tomorrow, after two inshore races to warm up, the crews will leave La Seyne-sur-Mer and head for Bonifacio: 400 miles to cover via the Gulf of Genoa and the Italian islands, which means more than 40 hours of sailing at full speed.
A new skipper for the Class40 Everial
After 4 years of sponsorship in Mini 6.50, Figaro and Class40, Everial has entrusted the reins of its Class40 to Erwan Le Draoulec. The 26 year old skipper will participate in the races of the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
European Championship 470 2023
From May 15 to 20, the seaside town of San Remo, Italy, will host the European Open 470 Championship, a famous dinghy that is now sailed in mixed doubles. This is an opportunity for the French crews, composed of Camille Lecointre and Jérémie Mion on one side, and Hippolyte Machetti and Aloïse Retornaz on the other, to confront a very high level of international competition. With less than 430 days to go before the 2024 Olympic Games, nearly 70 crews from the world's greatest nations will not miss this opportunity to compete for 5 days on the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean.
11th Hour Racing wins the 4th leg of The Ocean Race
At the end of a long stage between Itajai and Newport, it was the American crew 11th Hour Racing Team that won on home soil. Their race time was 17 days, 2 hours, 26 minutes and 41 seconds. This victory allows them to take the 2nd place in the general classification behind Holcim-PRB. The runners up are Team Malizia who arrived only 31 minutes and 41 seconds after the first.
10 days at sea on the Transat Paprec
May 10 marked the 10-day mark for the Transat Paprec fleet. The leading trio, Région Bretagne - CMB Performance, Skipper Macif and Mutuelle Bleue are all within a handful of each other. Less than a mile separates these competitors, while they still have more than 1,000 miles to go.
25 IMOCAs for the Rolex Fastnet Race 2023
The 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will take place on July 22nd. For the occasion, 25 IMOCA boats are expected on the starting line in Cowes, including eight new boats and 12 of the 33 competitors of the last Vendée Globe. The edition will be raced in double-handed, like the Guyader Bermuda 1000 Race.
Guyot Environnement - Team Europe dismasted in The Ocean Race
This Tuesday, May 9 at about 5 am, while flying 600 miles east of Newport in about thirty knots of wind on a heavy sea, and occupying the fourth position in the fourth stage of The Ocean Race, GUYOT environment âeuros Team Europe has broken away. The crew led by Benjamin Dutreux is safe and is now looking for a way to get back to Newport and how to find a replacement mast, the only one available having been recovered upstream by Holcim-PRB.
Quentin Vlamynck joins the crew of the Ocean Fifty Solidaires En Peloton âeuros ARSEP
The Pro Saling Tour starts this May 12 in La Seyne-Sur-Mer with 5 crews engaged. In the crew of Solidaires en Peloton - ARSEP, led by Thibaut Vauchel Camus, we will find the young Quentin Vlamynck, former skipper of Arkema 4. The latter thought he would find new sponsors after his second place in the Route du Rhum, but this was not the case. So this proposal comes at the right time.
First selection for the French teams of the Women's and Youth America's Cup of Orient Express Racing Team
The next America's Cup will be held between August 22, 2024 and the end of October of the same year. It will also be the occasion to attend the 3rd edition of the Youth America's Cup, mixed crews between 18 and 25 years old and the very first edition of the Women's America's Cup, a competition open to 100% female crews. A process of detection and selection of sailors, who will make up the French youth and women's teams, has been set up by the Team France Association - mandated for this mission by Orient Express Racing Team - in collaboration with the French Sailing Federation.
After a selection phase, 9 women and 8 young people were retained for the final selection which will reveal the list of the 6 women and 6 young people who will compose the two French teams for the Women's and Youth America's Cup in Barcelona in 2024.
Sail GP, season 3 grand finale
At the end of the last two fleet races, the Australians, New Zealanders and English qualified for the Grand Final which closes the third season of SailGP. The Australians thus take the most important victory of the season. They won the trophy for the third time in a row. The French, led by Quentin Delapierre, finished 4th in this season 3 thanks to their victory in the first race of the day.
Record breaking Tour of Ireland for Tom Dolan
Tom Dolan set off on Wednesday at 5:37 am (Paris time) to attempt the solo round Ireland record. He was supposed to finish this Sunday before 7:20 am in order to improve on the reference time on the course set in 2015 by Belgian Michel Kleinjans in Class40: 4 days, 1 hour and 53 minutes and 29 seconds. Unfortunately for him, a small talweg generating very light airs on the second half of the course has effectively thwarted his plans and forced the sailor to abandon the record.
