Day for the students

Capsport-HEC-Ecole Navale take Tour Voile's Dieppe inshore race

We have been waiting for it for the last 48 hours. The wind finally blew for a few hours off the coast of Normandy and the competitors of the Tour de France à la Voile managed to sail one race out of the two initially planned. It's better than nothing and at least, it's changing the overall results.

After his second place at the finish today, Ile de France has taken the overall first place to Perpignan-Mediterranee. "I think we have a lucky star because the conditions are a bit tricky since the start of this TFV," said the skipper Jean-Pierre Nicol. "Today we had a tough start because we went inshore, but we had a feeling it could pay off, so we kept going. Our goal was to have the red spinnaker at least once during this TFV. That's one thing done. As for later - let's wait and see. But truly, the crew is more confident probably more mature."

Yet the game is still very open. Student crews and amateur crews have their word to say against the professionnals today. Like Capsport-HEC-Ecole Navale who won today's race through skills in their manoeuvres. "We were a bit lucky at the start, because we managed to climb from 10th to the leading pack", said Bruno Barbarin, skipper and helmsman onboard. "And in the end, we hoisted the spinnaker a bit faster than them and we overtook them."

Tomorrow, the Mumm 30s will be leaving Dieppe at 8.00am to head to Le Havre, 56 miles further down on the Normandy coast.

Overall results:

Pos	Boat	Skipper	Tot
1	ILE DE France	Jean Pierre Nicol	158
2	VILLE DE GENEVE CARREFOUR PREVENTION	Loic Furher / denis Girardet	154
3	PERPIGNAN MEDITERRANEE	Paul MacKenzie	152
3	ILE MAURICE-NAIADE RESORTS EBSCO	Sylvain Chtounder	152
5	MATONDO CONGO ROUTE DE L'EQUATEUR	Pierre-Loic Berthet/Philippe Monnet	144
6	DIEPPE SEINE MARITIME	Romain Gibon	135
7	DEFI PARTAGE MARSEILLE	T Bouchard / M Paul / D Deruelle	133
8	DEFI BASSE NORMANDIE	Benoit Charon / Nicolas Jossier	131
9	NANTES SAINT NAZAIRE	A. Civel / G. Gendron / S.Petithuguenin	122
10	COTES D'ARMOR	Mickael Aveline	119
11	JOE FLY SAILING TEAM	Giovanni Maspero	117
12	PARTOUCHE-CENTRALE NANTES-RTE	Erwan Aubertin/Masson Julien	114
12	COURRIER DUNKERQUE	Daniel Souben/Christophe Patou	114
14	T SERVICE INTERIM-REGION BRUXELLES CAPITALE	Laurent Declercq / JM Fobert-Noel	113
15	ESPOIRS AQUITAINS	JP Allilaire / N Radot / JJ Frebault	112
15	TOULON PROVENCE MEDITERRANEE-COYCHYERES	Fabien Henry / Tugdual Becquemie	112
17	NOUVELLE CALEDONIE	Damien Iehl/Vincent Portugal	108
18	VAL THORENS	Lucas Millieret / Benoit Lequin	104
18	MER MONTAGNE LES SAISIES INSA	R David / F Gaggero/ C Fleury	104
20	ELLES EN MER	Kiny Parade	100
21	DEFI SCLEROSE EN PLAQUES	Stéphane Venel	99
22	CAP SPORT-HEC-ECOLE NAVALE	Hervé Gautier/Bruno Barbarin	97
23	ALFA LAVAL	Yoann Richomme	95
24	BIENNE VOILE	R Hartmann/L Muller/T Studer	94
25	CENTRALE PARIS-EPS	Tanguy Leglatin	93
26	ESPOIR ILE DE France	Benoit Hochard / Mathieu Roynette	89
27	VAN UDEN TU DELFT	Gert Van Der Heyjden	88
28	VILLE DU PORT BRED LA REUNION	Gabriel Jean-albert / Marc Guessard	69
29	EIGSI CHARENTE MARITIME-ENSAM	Bertrand Svilarich	68
30	BREST GRANDES ECOLES-ENSIETA-ESC	Marie Riou/Eric Peron/alex Pallu de La Barriere	58
31	PORT AUTONOME LA ROCHELLE	Jean Marc Allaire	55