Downwind, contrary current, 0-knot boat: when racing is hell. VIDEO
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Roscoff to Roscoff, with a strategically complex route all within the English Channel, for 450 total miles, with a long coastal stretch described by foreigners as “hellish.” This is the Solitaire du Figaro (the solitaire, single-handed, sum-of-time regatta) with Beneteau’s new one-designs, the Figaro 3. Also in the fray is our Alberto Bona on Sebago fighting for the top thirty positions (after the first three races he is 33rd with several French bigwigs behind him, certifying the difficulty of the race) with one leg to go.
But the third fraction will probably be remembered as the toughest and most strategically complex of this edition, amid shallow waters, light winds and rushing currents. Why? For the very strong excursions of tide that have given rise to streams of current nightmarish, real rivers that loners have often had to climb with enormous effort, sometimes resigning themselves to hours at a standstill, perhaps even spinning anchor to avoid ending up in rocks (which happened instead to the good Tanguy Le Turquois, photo below).
The images below have the unbelievable, the boat framed is that of Yoann Richomme (one of the sailors who were involved by Beneteau in the development of the project and who is currently leading the race by an hour ahead of the second, since the Solitaire is won by the sum of the times of the stages, like the Giro d’Italia by bike). The boat has asymmetric ashore, so the wind from behind, but the current against. The Result? Stationary, a few meters from the rocks.
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