Lucky you to be doing the Giraglia on a Tp 52. Perhaps. VIDEO
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Sometimes you hear people say, “easy to do the long races on a big, fast boat, why don’t you do it on a small, slow boat.” This time let’s reverse the perspective: “easy to do the Giraglia on a small, slow boat, why don’t you do it on a Tp 52 launched at 25 knots in 30 knots of wind”? You will understand why this “provocation” is made in the video that follows at the end of the text. We are aboard the Tp 52 Paprec Recyclage during the Rolex Giraglia offshore race, French crew, at the helm Hugues Destremau, a transalpine sailor and offshore specialist. The Tp 52 begins the descent to the Giraglia, goes up the asymmetrical bow, all mainsail, there are 30-35 knots of wind. The noise you hear at the beginning of the video, when the boat has not yet started accelerating, is the sail trimmer releasing the sheet to let the asymmetrical breathe. In hoisting, in fact, the sheet is “over trimmed” to allow the sail to open without making “candy,” but then it is necessary to let go quickly so that it does not remain in cover under the mainsail.
At this point Paprec sets off with a brutal acceleration, not noticeable in the video with the wide propsective, but the waves are well over two meters and on the descent from the higher ones the boat plunges the bow underwater and the cockpit is an inferno of spray, or rather waterfalls. The crew is all positioned at the stern, to crush the back of the hull and keep the bow high, no one is talking, only the trimmer is heard calling to the grinders when to caulk. 120 miles to the Giraglia by this crew was experienced this way, with peaks of speed at over 26 knots: without sleep, eating the essentials, going to the bathroom if strictly necessary. In the end: better to go long with a small, slow boat or with one like this?
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