Yvan Bougnon's circumnavigation in a beach cat project

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  1. Blackburn
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    Thursday evening.jpg

    A look at the weather at meteo.pf shows Yvan arrived on a calm evening. The tracker clock is running 3 hrs slow, so while it shows him just off Taapuna Pass, that was his position before sunset. Presumably he's ashore now. Sundown was actually two hours ago, it is a moonlit night, partly cloudy, 28C.

    Did someone meet him and get some good photos or video in this enviable location? In any case it looks like he was deliberately staying out on the water.

    Maybe he thought it was so delightful that he then switched off the tracker so his virtual boat would stay exactly there a little longer...

    A nice sunset photo from a nearby harbor here.
     
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    News items on LeFigaro and Eurosport posted an hour ago:

    Still no pictures yet.

     
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    An item on French TV's Tahitian site says Yvan stopped at the big Marina Taina, and will stay a few days on Tahiti before going to his brother's place on Raiatea.

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    A larger version of that photo here.
     
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    A few posts up I mentioned the couple (Liesbet and Mark) visiting Tetamanu in their 35ft Fontaine Pajot.

    They left Tetamanu/Fakareva by the south pass a little earlier than Yvan did. He came out behind them and called them up on the radio, and Liesbet has blogged about it from their boat!

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    Liesbeth has managed to send photos and update blogging from Tetamanu, while Yvan has only sent a couple of short tweets and no photos at all.

    Today after his arrival in Tahiti, the French press is running the 'bateau-medias' press release (translated above from leFigaro) pretty widely, but since there are no new photos almost all those articles are using old photos of Yvan sailing with Vincent Beauvarlet!

    A couple of good photos would have doubled their 'column inches' and gotten covered by more sites.
     
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    Finally a few seconds of video, from local TV, even if it is just of the Louloutte being towed into the marina, and you don't properly see the reunion of the brothers - which apparently didn't happen until Yvan got to Tahiti?




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    Here's a little article with a couple of photos, showing both Bourgnons. Too bad they didn't have something better yesterday when it was a hot news item in France.

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    But despite it looking so completely inept, the 'Bateau-Platforme-Medias' may be hard at work in ways that will surprise us in the end?

    There appear to be some slightly unusual ingredients to this story which we've been unaware of, until today.


    ;)
     
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    Sound anyone?

    On the “French TV Tahitian site” that is referred to earlier, there’s a short Vimeo video, wherein Yvan seems to be explaining something about this boat – but I was unable to get any sound. (Other videos run fine). If anyone can hear what is being said, I’d be pleased to know, as from his gesticulations, it looked potentially interesting. A peek at Yvan's warm welcome ;-)
     

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    ^^

    Can you find a link to that particular video, Mike?

    Much of the time in interviews he's making the same point;
    that he's using a sextant and avoiding other electronics.

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    Despite all my sarcastic references to the 'bateau-platforme-medias', today it occurred to me that we've not actually seen any sign of it following Yvan since the Galapagos.

    Maybe Yvan has sailed since Galapagos without the escorting X-Yacht? What do you think?

    His Squeeze, the flirty comedienne Nadia, whose transport appeared to be a central function of the BPM, last made a YouTube entry on her YouTube page in the Galapagos. It would seem out of character if she had refrained from making more videos since, if she was still out there on the high seas following Yvan.

    And in this entry on Yvan's main site, it looks like she flew in to the Marquesas with boxes of equipment for the boat.

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    Perhaps Yvan has said something about this in his audio reports, but I find them so scratchy and inaudible that I don't try to decipher them.

    Is anyone reading this who knows what he says in the audio installments?

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    Link

    This was actually your link on Entry # 198
    http://polynesie.la1ere.fr/2014/04/10/yvan-bourgnon-arrive-tahiti-142167.html
    Just scroll down for the Vimeo video
    tks!
    Re the X boat accompanying ... I did note that there was some video clearly taken from another boat, of Yvan's cat .. and the credited cameraman was the same name as on previous videos .... so perhaps the X boat is still around .. but without the maiden aboard ;-)
     
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    :rolleyes:


    So now there is also a Vimeo page!
    To add to all the other pages this project is running badly.

    Rather than having one good page, it is obviously better
    to have as many mediocre ones as possible, instead.

    There is no sound on that Vimeo video, Mike, as you found.

    But this Paul Cotta who edited it, also has his own YouTube page, of course.
    With the same video where there is sound. Yvan is talking there about his rudder which broke early on the leg, along with some other blather.

    lol

    Pardon my lack of patience, but these people have now come halfway around the world, and instead of getting their act together their efforts just become more and more confused and garbled.

    The few seconds shot from another boat are just on departure near St Christobal and at arrival near Nuku Hiva, and the rest is GoPro stuff Yvan made himself; so I'm still guessing he did that leg without the X-Yacht along.

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    A guy who has a boat at the marina moored beside "Louloutte" posted this photo on his blog, showing Laurent's Sunreef 70 "Jambo" also moored there.

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    Day 8 of Yvan's journey between Bora Bora and Fiji and he is about half way to his destination. I've been following Yvan in the interim but it's mostly been island hopping with short passages in the Pacific and the news less than riveting. It is however nice to see Yvan is not having to drool like a psychopath as in his crossing of the Atlantic.

    The tracker is here:

    http://www.en-avant-toute.ch/yvan-bourgnon/suivi-en-temps-reel/
     

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    Would be great if we could understand French spoken that fast. :)
     
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    Attempt at translation

    Yep .. Yvan sure did that fast! Some phrases were just too difficult for me to figure, but overall, here's what I personally got out of the video that might help some readers anyway. No guarantees on total accuracy though :)
    "A front passed – my first big storm in the Pacific – not particular strong or long – but still winds of 60k with torrential rain for about 12 hours all during the night, and despite all the clothes I wore, I was soaked through –
    Nearly run down by a fishing vessel – passing within about 15 meters – the only ship I saw in 8 days – but hardly any sleep for 3 days.
    I thought about totally stopping to ride this out and get some needed rest .. worse weather since leaving the Panama – but it’s not my nature to stop, so I kept plugging away.
    As far as the boat is concerned – I lost an autopilot. Boat had a rough time – crashed around for 3 days and I was concerned it might disintegrate, but I'm proud that it still survived and I’m ok. We’ll check the boat over well before continuing.”
    cheers

    PS: Just had coffee with an elderly fellow from France. (Not a sailor but he used to work in a shipyard). After listening to part of Yvan's latest message, he said the first 10 secs. spoke of 'the boom breaking on another vessel and them having to reduce sail'. This adds some perspective to the storm if so. I also assume this might have been 'the media boat' that carries the fellow who creates the YouTubes.
     
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    Filming

    I raised this once before, but as someone who has done my share of filming over the years, I am still mystified by some of the video footage we see. When a camera is mounted on a boat and set to film the moving crew, the image of the boat is inevitably fixed to the frame and does not vary. This rarely seems to happen in these videos. If the camera were mounted in gimbals, I would expect the horizon to stay stable, no? If the camera is manually held on a boom or in one outstretched hand, the frame of the image frame will vary considerably (as it does), but both hands would not be free.
    Keeping this in mind, it's interesting to look at the Bora Bora to Pago Pago video (http://youtu.be/dzXe4vtRcSs) starting at 1.13 and going to 2.00. Yvan is moving around with both hands free and they are sometime visible, yet the camera image seems to move irregularly relative to the boat, so it's not fixed. So just what (or who?) is holding the camera for those 47 secs? The credit at the end says 'Images by Paul Cotta'. Is there something more to be explained here? It certainly has to be a moving (non-fixed) support of some form. Similar short periods like this have appeared on earlier videos also and as I said, I'm at a loss to explain them satisfactorily. Perhaps Yvan or Paul Cotta will explain this one day.
     

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    I noticed in a recent post that Yvan was looking for a new cameraman for the media boat and the translate noted "and knowledge of the mount". I wasn't quite sure what to make of it to be honest.

    Yvan has nearly arrived in Fiji with about 190nm to go.

    http://ledefidyvanbourgnon.com/suivi-en-temps-reel/
     
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