Soldini and Fauconnier bag it

As Telecom Italia squeaks home to take her second leg win in the Class 40's Les Sables-Horta-Les Sables race

Wednesday July 22nd 2009, Author: James Boyd, Location: United Kingdom
Positions at 1400 GMT

Pos Boat Crew Lat Long Spd Crs DTF DTL
1 Telecom Italia Giovanni Soldini / Karine Fauconnier Finished 21/07/2009 23:41:32 in 6d 05h 39min 32s
2 CG Mer Wilfrid Clerton / Loïc Lehelley Finished 22/07/2009 01:18:01 in 6d 07h 16min 01s
3 Tzu-Hang Axel Strauss / Juerg Burger Finished 22/07/2009 06:19:23 in 6d 12h 17min 23s
4 Palanad II Nicholas Brennan / Alex Alley Finished 22/07/2009 11:41:21 in 6d 17h 39min 21s
5 Appart City Yvan Noblet / Damien Guillou 46°28.60 N 001°50.61 W 1.9 88 2.2 2.2
6 Groupe Partouche Christophe Coatnoan / Halvard Mabire 46°27.01 N 001°54.61 W 2.4 93 5.4 5.4
7 Keysource Paul Worswick / Ian Bartlett 46°26.29 N 001°55.52 W 2.1 107 6.3 6.3
8 Zed 4 Gérald Bibot / Didier Le Vour'ch 46°27.11 N 002°11.62 W 3.1 101 16.7 16.7
9 Techneau Gilles Dutoit / Benoît Daval 46°37.56 N 002°24.97 W 5.0 91 27.1 27.1
10 Rev'86 Fantasy Forest Pierre-Marie Bazin / Jean-Christophe Caso 46°31.68 N 002°41.12 W 5.4 88 37.0 37.0
11 Grassi Bateaux Olivier Grassi / Eric Galmard 46°21.46 N 003°14.83 W 5.9 88 60.7 60.7
12 Entreprendre en coopérative Benoît Parnaudeau / Jean Saucet 46°40.39 N 003°16.68 W 7.8 95 62.3 62.3
13 domainedelabourie.fr Jean-Édouard Criquioche / Jacques Fournier 46°41.64 N 003°16.44 W 6.9 99 62.4 62.4
14 EDF Energies Nouvelles Vestas David Augeix / Jean-Claude Turpin 46°28.01 N 003°55.23 W 6.7 81 88.0 88.0
15 Courrier de l'Odet David Consorte / Arnaud Aubry 46°03.22 N 004°45.82 W 7.7 70 126.0 126.0
16 Elsa Yann Delplace / Jean-Baptiste Saigne 45°45.73 N 004°58.60 W 5.9 72 139.4 139.4
17 Destination Calais Pierre-Yves Chatelin / Lionel Regnier 46°21.97 N 005°11.62 W 9.4 89 140.9 140.9
18 Orca Richard Tolkien / Tom Humphreys 46°04.91 N 006°09.77 W 10.2 83 182.8 182.8
19 Plan les Enfants Changeront le Monde Denis Lazat / Frédéric Nouel 46°46.10 N 006°18.70 W 9.7 90 187.0 187.0
20 Groupe Sefico Philippe Vallée / Eric Caiveau 46°33.43 N 007°20.14 W 8.4 77 228.9 228.9
21 Voiles sans frontieres Marc Joly / Jérémie Briand 46°39.13 N 007°39.43 W 8.6 86 242.1 242.1
22 neurodon.fr - Espoir en tête Christian Chardonnal / Christophe Eyssartier 46°05.93 N 007°38.66 W 9.3 85 243.7 243.7
 
In the early hours of this morning, Giovanni Soldini and Karine Fauconnier crossed the finish line of the Class 40's Les Sables-Horta-Les Sables race to claim their second leg win and overall victory.

Soldini's Telecom Italia arrived under large spinnaker at 01:41:32 this morning, considerably later than expected as the wind had dropped more than was forecast.

Right from the start the Franco-Italian pair of former ORMA 60 skippers were gunning hard, starting under full main and solent when the majority had a reef in and their staysail up. Pushing hard they dug north and were first to emerge from the high pressure, prior to starting the downwind sledge ride home.

With the wind dying towards the finish, so in the final day at sea both CG Mer and Tzu-Hang managed to close in, with the former finishing less than two hours astern.

Nico Brennan and Alex Alley on board Palanad II were fourth home and are likely to take third overall with CG Mer second having also finished ahead of them on leg 1.
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