Transat Bakerly-Plymouth-New York

[Doug Lord]

Transat

From Scuttlebutt Europe today-leaderboard:

Top three class rankings at 1600 BST Wednesday

Ultime
1. Sodebo/Thomas Coville - 2476.48nm to the finish
2. Actual/Yves Le Blevec - 20.97nm to the leader
3. Macif/Francois Gabart - 25.39nm to the leader

IMOCA 60
1. PRB/Vincent Riou - 2551.81nm to the finish
2. Banque Populaire/Armel Le Cleac'h - 11.4nm to the leader
3. St Michel-Virbac/Jean-Pierre Dick - 36.95nm to the leader

Multi50
1. Arkema/Lalou Roucayrol - 2592.38nm to the finish
2. French Tech Rennes St Malo/Gilles Lamire - 26.52nm to the leader
3. Olmix/Pierre Antoine - 47.05nm to the leader

Class40
1. Imerys/Phil Sharp - 2746.95nm to the finish
2. Solidaires En Peloton-Arsep/Thibaut Vauchel - Camus - 2.76nm to the leader
3. Carac/Louis Duc - 14.94nm to the leader

 

[Richard Woods]

Of course the positions given don't mean much at this stage. The Ultimes are going the long way round but very quickly, the others are all stuck in light winds but have a windward gale coming. So in fact the northern boats (like PD2 and Olmix) might come out of it very well as it looks like they are above the low

RW

 

[Doug Lord]

Transat

Looks like the Ultime tri Macif is well in front and in IMOCA 60's Banque Populaire holding off PRB.....

tracker: http://preprod-player.georacing.com/?server=Prod&event=100297&race=92841&name=The+Transat+Bakerly

 

[Doug Lord]

Standings from Scuttlebutt Europe this morning. Macif looks like it will set a record:

Class rankings at 0800 BST

ULTIME
1. Francois Gabart/MACIF - 453.4nm to the finish
2. Thomas Coville/Sodebo - 126.96nm to the leader
3. Yves Le Blevec/Actual - 473.81nm to the leader

IMOCA 60
1. Armel Le Cleac'h/Banque Populaire - 1280.9nm to the finish
2. Vincent Riou/PRB - 42.03nm to the leader
3. Jean-Pierre Dick/St Michel Virbac - 83.63nm to the leader

MULTI50
1. Gilles Lamire/French Tech Rennes St Malo - 1346.1nm to the finish
2. Lalou Roucayrol/Arkema - 193.32nm to the leader
3. Pierre Antoine/Olmix - 297.26nm to the leader

CLASS40
1. Thibaut Vauchel-Camus/Solidaires en Peloton - ARSEP - 1655nm to the finish
2. Isabelle Joschke/Generali-Horizon Mixite - 4.14nm to the leader
3. Phil Sharp/Imerys - 21.06nm to the leader

All results: www.thetransat.com/fr/results/1

 

[Richard Woods]

I don't know how they are predicting the arrival time but for some days the forecast has been for no wind in the approach area, so no chance of a record

RW

 

[Doug Lord]

Transat

Macif is 15 NM from the finish and doing about 14kts @5:12PM Eastern:

UPDATE: 5:43PM 15+knots ,7NM to go......

Macif Takes Line Honors!!
http://www.thetransat.com/news/view/newsflash-gabart-takes-line-honours-in-the-transat-bakerly-2016

--The 60' multi record was 8 days 8 hours and 29 min.
Macif did it in 8 days 8 hours 54 min-so close.....
(from Scuttlebutt)

 

[Doug Lord]

Transat---IMOCA 60

Banque Populaire with her new foil assist "moustache" foils has won the IMOCA 60 class Transat. Armel Le Cleach was skipper.....

 

[Corley]

Gilles Lamire has won the Multi50 class on French Tech Rennes St Metropole, the former Prince de Bretagne.

 

[Doug Lord]

Transat

Peyron is out-heading back to France midway through the course:

http://www.thetransat.com/news/view/loick-peyrons-tribute-to-tabarly-is-cut-short

 

[Doug Lord]

Transat---IMOCA 60

Richard Tolkien has abandoned his IMOCA 60(hopefully temporarily) due to an injury he sustained. More here:
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2...nsatlantic Competitor Forced to Abandon Yacht

 

[Corley]

Lalou Roucayrol has arrived in second place in the Multi50 class on Arkema. He fell way off the pace when the daggerboard broke.

http://www.thetransat.com/news/view...multi50-to-new-york-complete-with-broken-dagg