Route du Rhum

Sail World on the ULTIM Class for the Route du Rhum:
Get ready for the ULTIME class in 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe https://www.sail-world.com/news/211343/The-ULTIME-class-in-2018-Route-du-Rhum

 

This interesting interview of VPLP on "Ultims flying time" :
LIFT OFF…Designers VPLP on the ULTIME's Flying Time | Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe https://www.routedurhum.com/en/news/230

 

The teaser video, with a remind of all the previous winners :

 

On this TV channel, in 10 mn onwards, there is a one hour live video on Route du Rhum story. It is also a test, can you receive this channel via internet when abroad ? (in view the start of this race) . If not in time, you may test also the replay function.
france Ô en direct https://www.france.tv/france-o/direct.html

 

Unfortunately, there is a sign on the video that says: " For rights reasons, this video is not available from your location. Next video available on 10/29/18 at 13:25 ."
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Great pictures here: Images | Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe https://www.routedurhum.com/en/media/images
especially "The Village is Open!"

 

Ah too bad, it is a good video with spectacular sequences by rough seas, telling each races since 1978 and hence the progress of the multihulls, in case of the replay is already available but I am afraid you will face the same refusal :
La Route du Rhum a 40 ans Émission du dimanche 28 octobre 2018 https://www.france.tv/france-o/la-route-du-rhum-a-40-ans/763835-la-route-du-rhum-a-40-ans.html

 

You're right-same "rights" issue. Damn shame-maybe it will show up somewhere else before long?

 

Found this video on youtube: (english subtitles)

 

World Sailing Show November 2018 with bits on Gitana 17 and others;

 

Route du Rhum : Get ready for the ULTIME class in 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe https://www.sail-world.com/news/211343/The-ULTIME-class-in-2018-Route-du-Rhum

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Race starts 9:AM Eastern USA on Sunday.

 

Route du Rhum: WEATHER: https://voilesetvoiliers.ouest-fran...u-depart-a49cccd6-dc8b-11e8-b9a3-3784d7fb5876

Excerpt:
If the forecast confirms this pattern with the establishment of a skyline behind the passage of the two depressions, it will be very hot for small boats down to Madeira. The associated grains in the Northwest could generate winds of over 50 knots and strong seas.
In short! Nothing is done.
For sailors caught in the vice malouin, it's not easy. Already under the pressure of the grandiose event, concentrated in their preparation and stressed by the deadline, here they are in a very unwelcome uncertainty to 4 days of departure.
But as everyone has been able to check these past few days by going directly from t-shirt to hooded coat ... one thing is certain: we are changing seasons!
Courage.

 

To test your access to the live of this channel, BFM TV , which will propose a 3 hours special live on the race start, from 12h to 15h next Sunday, the start hour being at 14h (2 p.m.) French hour. I use to see this channel when abroad (in Europe) without any need of rights. Just that the advertisement periods are replaced by a BFM teaser in a loop, usually during the 5 mn before each hour and half hour.
BFMTV en Direct: regarder la chaine info en live - BFMTV https://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/live-video/

 

Thanks! I can get it right now fine........

 

*** A quick glance at some of the race rules :
A quick glance at some of the race rules | Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe https://www.routedurhum.com/en/news/331
*** Races within races – check out the form with 48 hours to go :
Races within races – check out the form with 48 hours to go | Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe https://www.routedurhum.com/en/news/350
*** Meteo-ocean forecasts for St Malo (the start at 14h, i.e. 13h UTC) and Brest (the first night) :
St Malo : METEO %%% par Météo-France - Prévisions météo marine http://www.meteofrance.com/previsions-meteo-marine/cotes/saint-malo/1223504951
>> Wind South South East 15 Knots (with gusts up to 22) and waves Hs 0,8 m >>> a priori beam reaching at the start up to Frehel buoy.
Brest : METEO %%% par Météo-France - Prévisions météo marine http://www.meteofrance.com/previsions-meteo-marine/cotes/brest/0202900351
At first South-East 20 Knots (so downwind) on rough complicated seas Hs > 3 m inc. a high swell from West.
>> Turning to South then West in the Monday-Tuesday night, so upwind.

 

Cnews TV also for the race start, without access rights :
Le direct https://www.cnews.fr/le-direct

Sailors are just informed on the last meteo forecast : Ok for the first 24 h but the big threat is for Tuesday-Wednesday, a large deep low is forecasted with winds 40-50 knots and waves > 7 m, and quite impossible to avoid the concerned zone.