Slow, painful start

Mini Transat fleet barely 50 miles down the race track

Monday September 26th 2011, Author: James Boyd, Location: France

It has not been what you might call the fastest of starts for the Mini Transat. With an area of high pressure over northern Spain, the wind off the French coast remains light and as a result since starting at around 1700 local time yesterday the boats are only 50 or so miles down the race track, only around half of the way to the continental shelf. The boats which have erred furthest south have done best since the start with Hugo Lavayssiere on Ares and Co and Renaud Chavarria on Beziers Mediterranee leading the Series class and Jorg Reichers on mare.de ahead in the Protos. This is good in particular for Riechers who's boat was pranged in a pre-start collision with Bertrand Delesne's Mini yesterday.

The PredictWind GRIBs show that a northeasterly is forecast to fill in tonight as a dying front moves over the Bay of Biscay, however the situation remains largely the same until Wednesday, possibly making for the slowest ever run towards the northeast corner of Spain. A cold front is due to be approaching the Bay of Biscay from the west on Wednesday but even this is forecast to dissolve over the course of Thursday.

Among the Brits, Pip Hare on The Potting Shed has pulled up from 35th last night to 19th this morning in the Series class, while Lymington's Dan Dytch on Soitec is holding on to 25th among the Protos.

We'll sort out some charts showing the positions for tomorrow's update.

Series positions at 0800 GMT

Pos No Skipper Boat Latitude Longitude Spd Crs DTF DTL
1 527 LAVAYSSIERE Hugo Ares and Co. 45 32.95’ N 002 4.92’ W 4.46 245 1074 0
2 596 CHAVARRIA Renaud BEZIERS MEDITERRANEE 45 39.86’ N 002 8.97’ W 3.5 225 1074 0.04
3 552 BRASSEUR Pierre VOILE OCEAN 45 38.05’ N 002 7.50’ W 4.35 230 1074 0.28
4 535 MARY Renaud WWW.RUNO.FR 45 34.02’ N 002 4.50’ W 4.45 248 1074 0.68
5 514 BOUYSSOU Clément DOUET DISTRIBUTION 45 40.71’ N 002 7.69’ W 3.13 232 1075 1.2
6 455 GAHINET Gwénolé GWENOLEGAHINET.COM 45 41.24’ N 002 7.56’ W 3.18 220 1075 1.49
7 602 ROSEN JACOBSON Robert NED602 45 38.03’ N 002 5.45’ W 4.72 228 1075 1.59
8 769 FRATTARUOLO Sergio BOLOGNA IN OCEANO 45 40.17’ N 002 6.10’ W 3.53 230 1076 2.01
9 674 BEAUDART Davy INNOVEA ENVIRONNEMENT 45 43.59’ N 002 7.70’ W 2.8 213 1076 2.35
10 739 LENGLET Benoît EVASOL 45 43.45’ N 002 6.32’ W 2.59 212 1077 3.17
11 520 PENDIBENE Andrea INTERMATICA - ITA 520 45 43.93’ N 002 6.56’ W 2.31 225 1077 3.21
12 774 OGER Jean-Marie BRAZIL FOREST.E.Leclerc 45 43.85’ N 002 6.35’ W 2.48 219 1077 3.31
13 781 SORIN Fabrice CARTOFFSET 45 43.84’ N 002 5.76’ W 2.45 222 1077 3.69
14 487 GUO Chuan VASA 45 42.97’ N 002 4.45’ W 2.84 234 1078 4.17
15 796 GROUX Nicolas COUVAC 45 45.46’ N 002 5.70’ W 2.67 226 1078 4.38
16 746 CIZEAU Pierre MASQHOTEL 45 45.96’ N 002 5.63’ W 2.69 234 1078 4.63
17 512 HOEBLER Cyril OCEARIUM DU CROIZIC 45 43.46’ N 002 3.99’ W 3.25 235 1078 4.67
18 758 TEN BRINKE Christa Ran of the North Sea 45 45.05’ N 002 4.76’ W 3.08 230 1078 4.81
19 743 HARE Pip THE POTTING SHED 45 43.94’ N 002 4.04’ W 3.39 228 1078 4.83
20 539 LAURIERE Benoit KALONIG 45 45.21’ N 002 4.73’ W 3.03 227 1078 4.9
21 697 FRANCOIS Amaury GROUPE QUALITEL 45 45.31’ N 002 3.94’ W 2.86 220 1079 5.44
22 599 MARIETTE Benoit ODALYS VACANCES 45 46.27’ N 002 4.47’ W 3.19 220 1079 5.49
23 435 KERBOURIOU Vincent CGGVERITAS 45 45.45’ N 002 3.91’ W 3.19 217 1079 5.51
24 566 LLULL Eric NOBLE COCOA 45 46.88’ N 002 4.34’ W 2.85 220 1079 5.82
25 405 CLAVEAU Mathieu OKOUME LES CHEVAUX DU BEAL 45 47.43’ N 002 4.59’ W 2.49 226 1079 5.89
26 519 DIDAC Costa SALAO 45 45.14’ N 002 3.02’ W 3.33 234 1080 5.96
27 721 CHOMBART DE LAUWE Pascal XANLITE 45 46.78’ N 002 3.65’ W 3.02 227 1080 6.22
28 767 ENDT Ysbrandt Prime of the North Sea 45 48.31’ N 002 4.42’ W 2.95 216 1080 6.35
29 473 GUILLONEAU Jean Claude ZERLINE 45 47.36’ N 002 2.36’ W 2.7 238 1081 7.28
30 554 SABBATINI Giacomo SCUSAMI LE SPALLE 45 51.00’ N 002 4.38’ W 2.3 234 1081 7.49
31 591 BLANCHARD Florian MC TECHNOLOGIES 45 48.76’ N 002 2.92’ W 2.28 256 1081 7.49
32 585 BOSSYNS Bert FELICITY II 45 48.02’ N 002 2.32’ W 2.7 228 1081 7.58
33 660 DUVIGNAC Marie CHRISTOPHE JOSSE - PARIS 45 48.02’ N 002 1.94’ W 2.54 235 1081 7.82
34 757 ARCHIN Brendan ASSOCIATION LA TOULINE 45 48.80’ N 002 1.89’ W 3.05 228 1082 8.17
35 772 BRANDSTROM Ulf GRPMS.COM 45 49.01’ N 002 1.38’ W 2.64 236 1082 8.57
36 704 GESI Simone DAGADA - SPIRITO DI MAREMMA 45 50.10’ N 001 59.51’ W 3.48 230 1084 10.22
37 626 FREELS Bjôrn RIKKI TIKKI 45 51.11’ N 001 57.18’ W 3.08 240 1086 12.11
38 728 PRONO David Get It Right, www.esi-group.com 45 54.63’ N 001 58.73’ W 2.52 249 1086 12.59
39 744 SIMONNET Bruno EL NONO 45 54.47’ N 001 58.08’ W 2.45 236 1086 12.93
40 745 BEYER Susanne PENELOPE 45 54.85’ N 001 57.22’ W 2.63 239 1087 13.64
41 230 BERTRAND Serge MINIMUM 45 52.57’ N 001 54.49’ W 2.67 246 1088 14.42
42 737 PAMIR Tolga YAKAMOZ 45 54.25’ N 001 54.96’ W 2.62 239 1088 14.82
43 636 MADDEN Jorge SAMSARA 46 4.98’ N 002 0.77’ W 4.47 316 1089 15.78
44 708 ROBIN Fabienne HOROQUARTZ 45 55.07’ N 001 46.74’ W 3.85 252 1094 20.37
45 472 CHUH Kan VMAX 46 3.92’ N 001 52.23’ W 3.53 252 1094 20.64

Proto positions at 0800 GMT

Pos No Skipper Boat Latitude Longitude Spd Crs DTF DTL
            12 hours      
1 753 RIECHERS Jorg MARE.DE 45 38.64’ N 002 11.59’ W 3.81 228 1071.43 0
2 679 DAVID Etienne TEAMWORK 45 34.78’ N 002 8.96’ W 4.46 244 1071.63 0.2
3 719 BOIDEVEZI Nicolas DEFI GDE 45 38.92’ N 002 11.29’ W 3.86 224 1071.74 0.3
4 791 REINHART Thibault ARALDITE 45 36.89’ N 002 9.67’ W 4.56 234 1071.98 0.55
5 747 RAISON David TEAM WORK EVOLUTION 45 39.48’ N 002 10.96’ W 3.76 226 1072.17 0.74
6 454 BOUCHET Romain IB REMARKETING 45 39.32’ N 002 9.38’ W 3.79 229 1073.12 1.69
7 618 MONTAGNE Lucas ONG CONSEIL 45 42.03’ N 002 11.06’ W 2.91 222 1073.12 1.69
8 759 KOLACEK Milan GABEN > FOLLOW ME 45 44.29’ N 002 10.88’ W 2.77 221 1074.15 2.72
9 716 ROGUES Sébastien EOLE GENERATION - GDF SUEZ 45 43.95’ N 002 10.65’ W 2.59 224 1074.16 2.72
10 800 RIOUX Antoine FESTIVAL DES PAINS 45 39.91’ N 002 8.00’ W 3.34 235 1074.24 2.81
11 741 FERMIN Rémi BOREAL 45 41.50’ N 002 8.56’ W 2.75 226 1074.51 3.08
12 347 GELABERT Aleix GAES-ANTAAS 45 43.61’ N 002 9.51’ W 2.41 225 1074.75 3.32
13 754 DELESNE Bertrand ZONE LARGE 45 44.33’ N 002 9.69’ W 2.65 222 1074.93 3.5
14 198 PICAULT Sebastien KICKERS 45 44.88’ N 002 9.93’ W 2.55 223 1075 3.56
15 756 CARACCI Andrea SPEEDY MALTESE 45 43.75’ N 002 8.10’ W 2.47 225 1075.71 4.28
16 265 MARETTE Paul REGION NORD PAS DE CALAIS 45 45.41’ N 002 8.86’ W 2.41 220 1075.9 4.46
17 802 BERTRAND Etienne CHASSEUR DE PRIMES 45 45.46’ N 002 8.87’ W 2.77 216 1075.91 4.48
18 509 SCHRODER Lucas BRUNEL 45 44.48’ N 002 7.50’ W 2.21 242 1076.38 4.95
19 624 OLIVA Juan-Carlos ZUMEX 45 44.05’ N 002 7.17’ W 3.53 212 1076.42 4.99
20 629 MAUFFRET Louis SOLIDAIRES 45 44.39’ N 002 6.99’ W 3.11 221 1076.67 5.24
21 574 CREIGHTON Emma POCKET ROCKET 45 44.44’ N 002 7.00’ W 2.48 230 1076.69 5.26
22 417 DUCROZ Aurélien NISSAN 45 44.52’ N 002 7.03’ W 2.54 229 1076.7 5.27
23 667 LE BREC Guillaume OCCAMAT / ATD 45 46.70’ N 002 8.20’ W 2.73 214 1076.85 5.41
24 787 NORMAND Thomas FINANCIERE DE L'ECHIQUIER 45 46.63’ N 002 7.98’ W 2.24 224 1076.96 5.52
25 617 DYTCH Dan Soitec 45 46.09’ N 002 4.11’ W 3.52 222 1079.2 7.77
26 814 DARAMY Jean Batiste EKI HAIZEA 45 48.01’ N 002 4.84’ W 3 218 1079.52 8.09
27 551 PATOU Henri ECARTIP 45 47.30’ N 002 3.10’ W 3.11 229 1080.34 8.91
28 542 ROSSETTI Tiziano UNA VELA PER EMERGENCY 45 45.11’ N 002 0.80’ W 4.08 240 1080.92 9.49
29 513 GALLO Maurizio YAK 45 48.53’ N 002 2.66’ W 2.32 247 1081.12 9.69
30 606 CARME Donatien 606 CHERCHE SPONSOR 45 52.72’ N 002 5.33’ W 2.65 259 1081.17 9.74
31 797 CAVAGNOUGH Scott www.brainchild.org.au 45 49.86’ N 002 2.54’ W 3.53 220 1081.75 10.31
32 788 CHAPPELLIER Aymeric LA TORTUE DE L'AQUARIUM DE LA ROCHELLE 46 2.59’ N 002 8.61’ W 2.74 270 1083.4 11.97
33 790 KOWALCZYK Radoslaw CALBUD 45 51.42’ N 001 54.43’ W 3.21 246 1087.54 16.11

 

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