Francis Joyon prepares to establish a new record route Bordeaux to Rio

That tracker has some real issues, hopefully they get it sorted out soon.

 

and the record times hardly go by an "internet tracker" which can have multiple points of failure or delay. They always have World Sailing Speed Record Council staff on site no matter what or it is not verified.

So, take your little tracker and hardly accurate computer clock (unless set to update via an official NTP server every few hours) and throw those theories out the window.

I seriously hope you are joking with all of these... posts.

 

^^^

Both of you, it pains me to say
sound so much like milksops.

 

That's Mr milksop to you, lol

 

Here is another screenshot

taken 1h 47m after the 'start' of the new Bordeaux-Rio record.

Almost an hour before my previously posted screenshot:



It shows Idec starting on the given start line, right?

And if you pull the tracker back to the start, it shows the same thing.

That Idec was supposedly on that line at 4:33pm Paris time.

I'll be waiting (patiently) for some photographic corroboration.


It is an entire fiction.

They screwed it up.

 

The tracker appears to be working properly now.

http://www.trimaran-idec.com/fr/media.tracker.aspx

 

^^^

I'll get back to my questions about Francis Joyon's
fishy inaugural starting procedure, to put it tactfully.

lol

But now I wanted to post the AIS details for IDEC, perhaps.
He's about an hour from La Coruna,
been doing between 20-24 knots all morning,
and just turned on his AIS, maybe.



This boat icon on Marinetraffic.com is grey, meaning it is an 'unspecified' craft.
It was doing over 21 knots, and now it has slowed to under 12.
It's either IDEC, or some other fast craft in the same area.

Those two screenshots show the tracker and AIS at the same moment (as you see AIS position is ca. 10 nm ahead of the tracker).

The AIS ID# is 235057836

 

Joyon has had his AIS off for a while, but his tracker has him 49 nm northwest of Cape Finisterre, and it looks like he is now crossing the bows of Roman Abramovitch's 115m Luna.

Make a little detour Francis, and get him to sign the headsail on behalf of Chelsea FC.

 

or the AIS site wasnt working? you put way too much faith on these technologies. Perhaps I dont, because that is what I do for a living.

who cares if AIS is on, off or 3000ft under water. The "OFFICIAL" start and end times are determined by the world sailing speed groups... not faulty technology that can easily be faked.

so just sit tight, find something to do until he OFFICIALLY crosses the finish line. Your so called "reporting" is nothing but pure conjecture at best.

 

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lol

Are you sure that you're a carefree, adventure-oriented
multihull sailor, 2far2drive?

You seem to diverge from the profile.

 

Joyon has gotten into an area that looks good, this shows the wind forecast ahead for 24-30 hrs, building NE steady over 20 knots.



And he did something fancy at the start. Either that, or he wasn't too concerned about the starting line. I'll describe it later. You won't see anything similar anywhere else on the net. It will only be here.

 

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At 1:09 in the morning today, Joyon's tracker shows he was doing 29.8 knots - and he'll be nearing the Azores by this time tomorrow?

Here's the latest English language report on the IDEC website.

 

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I've waited for a couple of days to see if photos or video would appear of Francis Joyon's start in the Route de l'Amitié.

So far I've seen nothing. On the IDEC site what are passed off as photos of the start are pictures of the trimaran further up the Gironde.

Where's the helicopter footage? Is there nothing from the French Coast Guard or their Navy? Was nobody there?

Am I sitting with my screenshots from a lowly Royan webcam, as the one and only witness to it?



To recap from some posts above, I posted a webcam screengrab (post#9 above) when IDEC left the yacht harbor and had gone past the light beside the Royan ferry terminal; the north end of the start line.

Then I posted another screengrab of IDEC with her mainsail up (post#10) in the outer estuary. The time was about 4:25pm and IDEC's PR had announced that Joyon was going to start between 5 and 6pm. Here is that image again:




The next thing I saw, as the webcam panned back and forth, was what looked perhaps like IDEC sailing away from the camera.

OK i thought. He's just sailing around a little, passing time while waiting for the big Route de l'Amitié send-off. I took another screengrab then but didn't post it.

Here it is:



I wasn't quite sure at the time if it was IDEC. But it must be. Out there well to the left of the channel marker which I've marked with an orange dot.

A few minutes later I saw the same mast/sail further away towards the opposite headland of the Gironde, and took another screenshot. She's far away there between the headland and the orange-dotted channel marker.




And then almost an hour would pass before the IDEC website, somewhat after the fact, announced that Joyon had already started!

lol

What the hell happened??

Stay tuned!

 

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Did someone ask for a chart of the area?

Here it is. But I'll wait until tomorrow to post anything else

in case we have some good forensic sailors in this thinnish crowd

 

An excerpt from today's item on the trimaran-IDEC's english-language news service:

Congratulations to IDEC, for having these excellent translations.

I don't know if Francis Joyon likes the idea of having regular video transmissions from the boat, in the way that Coville does for example, but it would make the ongoing coverage of Joyon's trip more interesting. I like seeing those HD video images from a cam on the stern, showing the cockpit, the deck, the sea.

But looking through the 'multimedia' part of his site, it appears Joyon never even sends any photos from these different voyages of his. That strikes me as asceticism gone too far.