Corporate day

Tour Voile in La Roche Bernard for Bastille Day celebrations

Relaxing day in La Roche Bernard for the competitors of the Tour de France à la Voile. On the eve of Bastille Day, the 31 teams welcomed friends, family and sponsors on board for a friendly regatta on the Vilaine River. This race is not included in the overall results but it gives the crews the opportunity to enjoy a beautiful summer day and sail a few tacks before the next offshore leg tomorrow towards Port Bourgenay in Vendée.

Cotes d'Armor won this 'Corporate Regatta' in front of Toulon Provence Mediterranee Coychyeres, but third place was taken by an Amateur team, Ville du Port Bred la Reunion, with the support today by the French windsurfer Raphaëlla Le Gouvello : "I am very proud with our result. This place is beautiful and the course is very tactical. It's quite impressive to see the guys doing tack after tack. The wind approach is the same but it's a bit scary to see all these Mumm30 manoeuvring so close from each other," she said.

After 15 days of racing in the English Channel and in the Atlantic, one team is slowly breaking away from the pack. Defi Partage Marseille is leading the overall results 16 points ahead of Ile de France. "We are first now but it doesn't mean much," said Maxime Paul, one of the boat's three skippers with Dimitri Deruelle and Thierry Bouchard. "There is still a lot of legs to race and we will have to stay on top of it. But after finishing twice second on the last editions, our ambitions are a bit higher".

Behind them on this temporary podium, Ile de France is in an attacking position. "We prefer to be behind and go on the offensive," said the skipper Jean-Pierre Nicol. "When we had the Red Spinnaker, we tended to take less risk and we were losing points, so it's better this way. Last year, our team finished fourth overall. Now we definitely want to end on he podium."

Results:

Pos	Boat	Skipper	Tot
1	DEFI PARTAGE MARSEILLE	T Bouchard / M Paul / D Deruelle	534
2	ILE DE France	Jean Pierre Nicol	518
3	MATONDO CONGO ROUTE DE L'EQUATEUR	Pierre-Loic Berthet/Philippe Monnet	503
4	VILLE DE GENEVE CARREFOUR PREVENTION	Loic Furher / denis Girardet	501
5	JOE FLY SAILING TEAM	Giovanni Maspero	492
6	COTES D'ARMOR	Michael Aveline	479
7	TOULON PROVENCE MEDITERRANEE-COYCHYERES	Fabien Henry/Tugdual Becquemie	462
8	ILE MAURICE-NAIADE RESORTS EBSCO	Sylvain Chtounder	430
9	DEFI BASSE NORMANDIE	Benoit Charon / Nicolas Jossier	412
10	NOUVELLE CALEDONIE	Damien Iehl/Vincent Portugal	410
10	MER MONTAGNE LES SAISIES INSA	R David / F Gaggero/ C Fleury	410
12	COURRIER DUNKERQUE	Daniel Souben/Christophe Patou	409
13	DIEPPE SEINE MARITIME	Romain Gibon	404
14	PERPIGNAN MEDITERRANEE	Paul McKenzie	378
15	CAP SPORT-HEC-ECOLE NAVALE	Hervé Gautier/Bruno Barbarin	372
16	VanUden TU Delft	Gert Van Der Heijden	361
17	ESPOIRS AQUITAINS	JP Allilaire / N Radot / JJ Frebault	360
18	NANTES-SAINT NAZAIRE	A. Civel / G. Gendron / S.Petithuguenin	347
19	ALFA LAVAL	Yoann Richomme	332
20	VILLE DU PORT-BRED-LA REUNION	Gabriel Jean-albert / Marc Guessard	310
21	VAL THORENS	Lucas Millieret / Benoit Lequin	290
22	DEFI SCLEROSE EN PLAQUES	Stéphane Venel	290
23	PARTOUCHE-CENTRALE NANTES-RTE	Erwan Aubertin/Masson Julien	286
24	CENTRALE PARIS-EPF	Tanguy Leglatin	269
25	PORT AUTONOME LA ROCHELLE	Jean Marc Allaire	252
26	ESPOIR ILE DE France	Benoit Hochard / Mathieu Roynette	248
27	BREST GRANDES ECOLES-ENSIETA-ESC	Marie Riou/Eric Peron/alex Pallu de La Barriere	241
28	BIENNE VOILE	R Hartmann/L Muller/T Studer	230
28	ELLES EN MER	Kiny Parade	230
30	T SERVICE INTERIM-REGION BRUXELLES CAPITALE	Laurent Declercq / JM Fobert-Noel	210
31	EIGSI CHARENTE MARITIME-ENSAM	Bertrand Svilarich	176