© Photo : Pierrick Garenne \ n.c. A turning in the curve For sure, this second leg of the race Les Sables-Les Açores-Les Sables is full of surprises. This Atlantic course is nothing like a simple walk and the moral of this first edition seems to be that it is necessary to have an initial strategy and adapt the tactics to the capricious weather. In the whole story of sailing, from the first Solo Oceanic Races in 1961 with the English Transat (Ostar), the last never ever has finished first ! However, it is what is happening between ...  mardi 22 août 2006 Suite  \ n.c. Hats off ! The Azores high pressure does not treat everybody the same way ! When the pack stuck in no wind, especially the production boats’ leaders, the first prototypes stride along the rhumb line, and the late burst up at full speed…. The new deal is amazing ! Nothing, or almost nothing. And when it comes, it comes from no where. And it stops again. And it comes back. Rien. A haunting melody that gets on the nerves more than uses the bodies. And ...  lundi 21 août 2006 Suite  \ n.c. Atlantic mess The Azores high is definitively not helpful : it is just above the fleet ! And the boats just go where they can. Some hardly head West, others slowly move East and others just cannot do anything. More than 800 miles away from Les Sables d’Olonne after three days of race, the ranking are not really significant. Well, the same pack is still leading, but now the danger come from everywhere and cards are going to change hands, and it is not over ! When some solo sailors are doing 6 knots on the rhumb ...  dimanche 20 août 2006 Suite  \ n.c. Breakaway The race is on : upwind is following upwind ! But this time on one tack, rhumb line to Les Sables d’Olonne. Two distinct groups emerge from the lively exit of the Azores Archipelago : five production oats just in the stern of the leader Thomas Bonnier and eight prototypes leaded by Andraz Mihelin. The chasing is open … Once again, the leaders of the first leg are the scouts : eight prototypes and five production boats have broken away. The pack is already more than fifteen miles behind, even more. Karen L ...  samedi 19 août 2006 Suite  \ n.c. Bis repetita non placent The second leg of the race really looks like the first one ! Even if the rhythm is slower than two weeks ago, the chaotic sea has, and still shake a lot the Minis on this Thursday afternoon. In the first places, we can see the skippers who have tacked soon to get out the Azorean islands with Xavier Haize for the prototypes and Thomas Bonnier for the production boats as leaders. Upwind ! Still upwind…. This new Mini event is definitively nothing but rest and this second leg, which consists in the way back from Horta (Azores) to Les Sables d’Olonne take an air of th ...  vendredi 18 août 2006 Suite  Page : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Téléchargement :  Dossier de presse  Avis de course  Inscriptions  Obligations et engagements Embarquez ... :  Vous souhaitez embarquer sur un bateau accompagnateur... RSS feeds Réalisation : Adonnante.com | Design : fabienne.est.une.indienne | Hébergement : BleuRoy.com