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Press release Last Dance
They are only nine in the ballroom. Already the refrains of the festival are fading, but that is another waltz that awaits the remaining competitors still at sea. From the night of Thursday to Friday, a new low pressure area would pick the last stragglers and violent shaking the tail fleet. Other cleaver menacingly: the closing deadline of the line. The prototypes will be arrived before Thursday, 4:27 p.m. and boats series before Friday morning, 3:26.
The parade of arrivals continues. No bitterness among the candidates to victory delayed by damage, but rather the satisfaction of having brought the boat safely and the feeling of having experienced, nevertheless, a high adventure. For others, this race was better the journey of initiation: the first offshore single handed sailing does not accost without some apprehension. Some sailors had confessed to Horta: they had experienced this first leg as a leap into the unknown, coupled with an inevitable tension. Ironically, the leg back more muscular took a different flavor. "We knew what we had come. We could now enjoy ", summed up Benoit Lenglet (Evasol) arrived in the early hours of the morning. Same speech appeased with Pascal Chombart de Lauwe (Xanlite): making gradual confidence in the boat and in the ability of man to lead it, a race for him without trying to tempt fate by pushing too far the potential of his machine. The secret of happiness is in little things. Others, if they had offshore experience found also cause for rejoicing. Beside the obvious pleasure of being at sea, Jerome Lecuna (I Feel Good) realized with satisfaction that the makeshift repair carried out on the mast at the stop in Horta, had played his role perfectly.
Private Ryan runs away
Arrivals should continue to be spread in the night. It is expected here with some impatience Ysbrand Endt (Mediabrein) continuing under jur-mast. Came into contact with an support boat, the Dutchman turned in great shape and has shown some inventive genius to build his rig. Rediscovering the principle of the sprit sail, he reversed tack and halyard to get more sail area. Ysbrand is progressing steadily between five and six knots. It should stay at sea tomorrow morning only three boats, Marc Dubos (Cepat), Remy Andrean (Soleto) and Hugues Cholet (Dizikilepti). Remain the question of Ryann Finn: the American sailor had already mobilized the race by an abnormal north road after three days of racing. Fearing a possible of man overboard, the organization had requested assistance from the MRCC of Ponta Delgada who had sent a plane. After an overview of his boat, Ryan had reported that all was well aboard and had resumed a coherent way. But over the last thirty hours, the American has taken a route to the tip of Brittany. Information taken from his friends and relatives, it seems that he has announced, in private, his intention to return to Lorient directly if excessive delay. If this is the case, he did not see fit to prevent the race direction, or to signal his intention to the plane that flew over. In any event, the race direction intends to shed light on the circumstances of this diversion.
PFB
 mercredi 25 août 2010
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