Victory for the old timers

Leg one of the Figaro class' two handed Trophee BPE to Madeira concludes

In the early hours of this morning the first boat to arrive into Madeira on leg one of the Trophe BPE, the Figaro class' two handed race ultimately finishing in Dakar was Myrialis of highly experienced offshore races Dominic Vittet and Bertrand de Broc. Vittet has been around the multihull and Open 60 circuit forever, while de Broc is a two time Vendee Globe competitor (the guy who had to sew his tongue back on...) and also famously retired from last November's Route du Rhum freaked out after a near collision with an upturned trimaran during the first night at sea.

After seven and a half days at sea, the duo crossed the line in Oporto Santo, with much esctatic air punching and whooping. During the leg they experienced big conditions, surfing at 20 knots in 35 knots winds off Gibraltar. But their winning move was to have the courage to take the offshore route sailing down the coast of Portugal which ultimate paid.

Vittet and de Broc were followed in less than one hour and a half later by Figaro veteran Gildas Morvan and former Team New Zealander Bertrand Pace and a steady stream have been arriving since.

Results

Pos	Boat	Crew	Time	Av speed	Arrived at	TTL
1	MYRIALIS (16)	Bertrand de BROC - Dominic VITTET -	7j12h43'05''	6,09	3h37'05''
2	CERCLE VERT (9)	Gildas MORVAN - Bertrand PACE -	7j14h1'10''	6,04	4h55'10''	1h18''05''
3	AQUARELLE.COM-CHARENTE MARITIME (34)	Yannick BESTAVEN - Ronan COINTO -	7j14h12'29''	6,04	5h06'29''	1h29'24''
4	SECTOR (38)	Corrado AGUSTA - Adrian FAIERS -	7j15h03'20''	6,1	5h57'20''	2h20'15''
5	VILLE DE CHERBOURG CREDIT MUTUEL (11)	Alexandre TOULORGE - Laurent PELLECUER -	7j15h10'40''	6,01	06h04	2h27'35''
6	SKIPPER AG2R (93)	Jeanne GREGOIRE - Gérald VENIARD -	7j15h14'57''	6,00	06h08	2h31'52''
7	PETIT NAVIRE LE BON GOUT DU LARGE (92)	Thierry CHABAGNY - Corentin DOUGUET -	7j16h27'55''	5,96	7h21'55''	3h44'50''