Two points between the leaders

As Tour Voile fleet reach Camaret

After a tough first week, the winner of 2005 Tour de France à la Voile claim their first victory on the offshore leg between Saint-Quay-Portrieux and Camaret-sur-mer. Fabien Henry and his crew managed to thwart the traps of this course and to stand up to the specialist of this area, the young team of Laurent Bréjon on Cotes d'Armor. But Toulon Provence Mediterranee Coycheres still have a lot to do to come back at the top of the overall ranking, where Ile de France and Defi Partage Marseille are fighting for the first step, and where Matondo Congo - Route de l'équateur just took the third place off Ville de Geneve-Carrefour Prevention.

They had been waiting for this victory since the start of the 2006 Tour de France à la Voile! Toulon Provence Mediterranee Coycheres sailed a beautiful race today, neck and neck with Cotes d'Armor. 'The battle was very close," said skipper Fabien Henry. "We had to hold on and be on top physically because we were upwind all the way down. Now we have to keep going and catch up the points. There is still a lot of races to sail so it's not over!"

Cotes d'Armor finally finished second. They missed the victory a few miles before the finish, when some seaweed got stuck under their boat, off Pointe Saint Mathieu, near Brest. "We had a very nice time with Toulon," said Laurent Bréjon, the team's coach and navigator onboard. "We did a nice race and managed to increase the gap over the rest of the fleet. We are happy with this result".

The Italian team Joe Fly finished third this afternoon, probably motivated by the victory of their national team last night in the football world cup final France-Italy : "We heard the result on the radio and everyone went mad!" said one of the two French crew on board, Laurent Pages, during the official radio vacation this morning.

In the overall results, Defi Partage Marseille will have to wait a bit more to take the lead. Despite their fifth position in front of Ile de France, Dimitri Deruelle and his crew are still second because the Committee took off the worse leg of each boat, as mentioned in the 30.9 article of the Race Instructions.

Results:

Pos	Boat	Skipper	Tot
1	ILE DE France	Jean Pierre Nicol	431
2	DEFI PARTAGE MARSEILLE	T Bouchard / M Paul / D Deruelle	429
3	MATONDO CONGO ROUTE DE L'EQUATEUR	Pierre-Loic Berthet/Philippe Monnet	405
4	VILLE DE GENEVE CARREFOUR PREVENTION	Loic Furher / denis Girardet	399
5	JOE FLY SAILING TEAM	Giovanni Maspero	383
6	COTES D'ARMOR	Michael Aveline	380
7	TOULON PROVENCE MEDITERRANEE-COYCHYERES	Fabien Henry/Tugdual Becquemie	364
8	ILE MAURICE-NAIADE RESORTS EBSCO	Sylvain Chtounder	361
9	DEFI BASSE NORMANDIE	Benoit Charon / Nicolas Jossier	340
10	DIEPPE SEINE MARITIME	Romain Gibon	330
11	COURRIER DUNKERQUE	Daniel Souben/Christophe Patou	328
12	MER MONTAGNE LES SAISIES INSA	R David / F Gaggero/ C Fleury	326
13	CAP SPORT-HEC-ECOLE NAVALE	Hervé Gautier/Bruno Barbarin	316
14	NOUVELLE CALEDONIE	Damien Iehl/Vincent Portugal	314
15	PERPIGNAN MEDITERRANEE	Paul McKenzie	312
16	VanUden TU Delft	Gert Van Der Heijden	298
17	NANTES-SAINT NAZAIRE	A. Civel / G. Gendron / S.Petithuguenin	296
18	ALFA LAVAL	Yoann Richomme	292
19	ESPOIRS AQUITAINS	JP Allilaire / N Radot / JJ Frebault	275
20	PARTOUCHE-CENTRALE NANTES-RTE	Erwan Aubertin/Masson Julien	246
21	VAL THORENS	Lucas Millieret / Benoit Lequin	242
22	DEFI SCLEROSE EN PLAQUES	Stéphane Venel	240
23	VILLE DU PORT-BRED-LA REUNION	Gabriel Jean-albert / Marc Guessard	238
24	CENTRALE PARIS-EPF	Tanguy Leglatin	225
25	PORT AUTONOME LA ROCHELLE	Jean Marc Allaire	214
26	ESPOIR ILE DE France	Benoit Hochard / Mathieu Roynette	206
27	ELLES EN MER	Kiny Parade	194
28	T SERVICE INTERIM-REGION BRUXELLES CAPITALE	Laurent Declercq / JM Fobert-Noel	190
29	BREST GRANDES ECOLES-ENSIETA-ESC	Marie Riou/Eric Peron/alex Pallu de La Barriere	184
30	BIENNE VOILE	R Hartmann/L Muller/T Studer	174
31	EIGSI CHARENTE MARITIME-ENSAM	Bertrand Svilarich	152