Transat bakerly: Thomas Coville, Sobedo Arrives New York, Sailing Video

Arrival of Thomas Coville, Sodebo in New York:

For more on the Transat bakerly see:

• JohnTheCrowd: Francois Gabart MACIF Takes Line Honors in The Transat bakerly 2016
• JohnTheCrowd: Transat bakerly 2016 Leaves Plymouth, England, for New York (videos)
• JohnTheCrowd: Transat, Solo Transatlantic, Plymouth to New York City, May 2 Start
• thetransat.com
• Transat Tracker

Two fantastic competitors @francoisgabart & Thomas Coville reunited after their epic Atlantic battle #TheTransat pic.twitter.com/gP2O1N8tBx

— The Transat bakerly (@The_Transat) May 11, 2016

The Transat 🌊 un fort coup de vent couche le voilier de Jean-Pierre Dick ➡ https://t.co/pRkZwoIZ1Q pic.twitter.com/vVbXIV7AGQ

— France 3 Côte d'Azur (@F3cotedazur) May 12, 2016

A brilliant battle is raging at the front of the IMOCA 60 fleet. The top 3 all expected on Sat 14 May #TheTransat pic.twitter.com/mihywGZDfP

— The Transat bakerly (@The_Transat) May 11, 2016

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Francois Gabart MACIF Takes Line Honors in The Transat bakerly 2016

MACIF crossed The Transat bakerly finish line at 18:24 EDT (22:24 GMT) Tuesday off New York:

The 100ft record-breaking machine @cnnsport https://t.co/LyGPJFsQ1i

— johnthecrowd.com (@johnthecrowd) May 10, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS @francoisgabart @trimaranMACIF! Line honours in #TheTransat 2016. Official finish time to follow! pic.twitter.com/3nBtc47gV8

— The Transat bakerly (@The_Transat) May 10, 2016

NEWSFLASH: Gabart takes line honours in The Transat bakerly 2016 | News | The Transat bakerly: "Frenchman François Gabart on board his new 100ft trimaran Macif, crossed The Transat bakerly finish line at 18:24 EDT (22:24 GMT) this evening off New York, taking line honours in the Ultime class. The finish time, recorded by the Sandy Hook Pilot Association boat, marks the first solo race win on Macif for the 33-year-old, who in 2013 became the youngest ever winner of the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race. Gabart covered the official course distance of 3,050 nautical miles in 8 days, 8 hours, 54 minutes and 39 seconds. Gabart actually sailed a total distance of 4,634 miles at an average speed of 23.11 knots in a remarkable voyage. Unusually for The Transat bakerly, it took him, and his close rival Thomas Coville on Sodebo, hundreds of miles south of the Azores into the tradewinds before sling-shouting northwest up to New York. As Gabart crossed the line Coville was still some 118nm from the finish while the third-placed trimaran in the Ultime class – Actual skippered by Yves Le Blevec – was still 509.6nm away ..."

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Transat Jacques Vabre 2015 Finish, Macif, Francois Gabart, Pascal Bidégorry (videos)

UPDATE: In its first race, the Trimaran MACIF signs a magnificent victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre. François Gabart and Pascal Bidégorry Brazil crossed the finish line on Saturday, November 7 at 20.75 knots average speed: video below--



The MACIF trimaran in the trade winds off Brazil, Transat Jacques Vabre 2015, November 4, 2015: The MACIF trimaran continues off the Brazilian coast and skippers are smiling!

The Finish Line Awaits | Transat Jacques Vabre 2015 : Le Havre - Itajai | October 2015 | Take to the seas and act for the planet: "Francois Gabart and Pascal Bidégorry are on the home stretch with no significant weather hurdles remaining on the 5400 miles Transat Jacques Vabre course which left Le Havre on Sunday 25th October. At 1600hrs UTC this Friday afternoon they had 314 miles standing between their bows of Macif and the finish line in Itajaí. Second placed Thomas Coville and Jean Luc Nélias on Sodebo Ultim are 178 miles behind and have been averaging three knots slower than Macif which is making 27 to 28kts. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, victory should be Macif’s in the early hours of Saturday morning. Skipper Francois Gabart, who won the Vendée Globe on his first attempt at just 29 years old in January 2013, said today that the final 40 miles into the finish line will be complicated, but their margin over second placed Sodebo Ultim’ should be enough to secure a maiden race victory...." (Read more at link above)- LIVE Tracker -- More info: JohnTheCrowd | Sailing News: Transat Jacques Vabre 2015 (twitter feed / video)

Above: SODEBO ULTIM - TJV 2015: "Champagne sailing" between the Canaries and Cape Verde, just a few days ago. Idyllic conditions on SodeboUltim: blue sky, flat sea and wind ... (Published on Oct 30, 2015)


First images of MACIF trimaran in the southern hemisphere

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François Gabart wins the Vendée Globe - Video Replay of the finish

François Gabart wins the Vendée Globe - Replay of the finish - Streamed live on Jan 27, 2013
François Gabart (MACIF) was the first to cross the finishing line of the Vendée Globe at Les Sables d'Olonne, a world record breaking race, sailed at breakneck pace. The last 24 hours is no exception as François Gabart (MACIF) has put his foot down in south-westerly wind of 30 knots and has covered 450 miles in the last 24 hours, averaging 18.5 knots. (crosses finish line at 2:55:20)

Vendee Globe live tracking (Thomson in 3rd place)

Vendee Globe 2012-13: Francois Gabart breaks solo record
BBC Sport
French sailor Francois Gabart has won the Vendee Globe solo around-the-world yacht race in a record time. Gabart, 29, finished in 78 days, two hours, 16 minutes, beating the previous mark of 84 days and three hours set by countryman Michel Desjoyeaux ...

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France's Gabart Wins Vendee Globe Round-the-World-Race in Record
Bloomberg
France's Gabart Wins Vendee Globe Round-the-World-Race in Record. By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini - 2013-01-27T14:31:05Z. French yachtsman Francois Gabart won theVendee Globe solo round-the-world race after 78 days at sea, setting a world record.

Yachting: Gabart wins Vendee Globe race in record time
Channel News Asia
LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France: Frenchman Francois Gabart won the seventhVendee Globe round-the-world race on Sunday after a two-and-a-half month epic journey which saw him set a new record for the course. Gabart, at 29 the youngest skipper in ...

Sailing-France's Gabart wins Vendee Globe round-the-world race
Reuters UK
LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (Reuters) - Frenchman Francois Gabart became the youngest sailor to win the Vendee Globe, a solo round-the-world race, when he reached the finish in record time on Sunday. The 29-year-old Gabart needed 78 days, two ...

Vendee Globe Race - Gamesa still putting pressure on SynerCiel
Sail World
Vendee Globe Race - Gamesa still putting pressure on SynerCiel. 'Gamesa's skipper Mike Golding is still trailing SynerCiel's Jean Le Cam'Vendee Globe © Click Here to view large photo. Vendee Globe Race 2012-2013. Mike Golding is working hard, ...

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Gabart smashes Vendée record as Thomson heads for podium
The Independent
The Vendée Globe record for sailing solo round the world has been well and truly smashed by François Gabart, crossing the finishing line today to become the youngest ever winner in a time of 78 days, 2hrs 16mins 40secs. The first race in 1989-90 was ...

French sailor Francois Gabart wins Vendee Globe around-the-world yacht race ...
The Republic
LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France — French sailor Francois Gabart has won theVendee Globe round-the-world race in record time, shaving six days off the previous record held by countryman Michel Desjoyeaux. The 29-year-old Gabart is the youngest...

Gabart wins Vendee Globe in record time
AFP
LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France — Frenchman Francois Gabart won the seventhVendee Globe round-the-world race on Sunday after a two-and-a-half month epic journey which saw him set a new record for the course. Gabart, at 29 the youngest skipper in ...

2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami to Launch Monday
US SAILING (press release)
MIAMI, Fla. (January 27, 2013) – For the 24th time in ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami history, excellence in Olympic and Paralympic class racing will take place on the emerald waters of Biscayne Bay. This six-day regatta gets underway on Monday, with over ...

Hollingworth Lake Sailing Club secures £50000 from sporting legacy fund
Rochdale Online
Stuart Bithell, Silver medal winner in the 470 Mens sailing event at the London 2012 Olympics is a lifelong member of the Club and the Sailing Club has also trained a number of National and World Champions in other sailing classes in recent years.

Melges champion Northshore Marine turns sights to world domination
BYM News (press release)
It was less than a perfect performance on day four at the Festival of Sails for Northshore Marine's skipper Chris Links, who posted his worst result of the regatta in the final race, placing sixth in the mild conditions, an 8-10 knot sou'easter on ...

10th KFC International Regatta Perdana Langkawi, MALAYSIA
BYM News (press release)
Not least because of the ideal sailing conditions these past four days, athletes and spectators will be missing the time they spent in wonderful Langkawi. All this would not be possible without the extensive support of KFC; sponsors not only of this ...

RC44 Oman Cup : 13 Teams confirmed for 2013 opening event in Muscat
BYM News (press release)
Thirteen teams have confirmed they will compete in the opening Championship Tour event, the RC44 Oman Cup presented by Oman Shipping Company, hosted by OmanSail at the Wave Muscat starting on January 30th. Thirteen teams have confirmed they...

Antigua Superyacht Challenge : 2013 off to a good start
BYM News (press release)
All SYRA regattas are sailed under the Racing Rules of Sailing 2013-2016 and the recently approved Appendix SY (see SYC NOR). The changes to the RRS through this appendix are all based on the fundamental need to keep appropriate distance between ...

NZ man dies after falling from yacht - The Nation: "Police found the body of Richard E Spraggs, 59, clad in blue shorts with a wound to his forehead. There were no reports of any fighting involved, and Phuket Ruamjai Rescue Foundation planned to perform an autopsy at the Vachira Phuket Hospital. Prior to the incident, Spraggs reportedly brought some women aboard his yacht, the "La-zin Gara", via an inflatable boat. He and the women were resting on the yacht, which had dropped anchor, when another boat appeared to be about to collide with the La-zin Gara. Spraggs reportedly tried to push the second boat clear of his yacht but fell and struck his head on the side of his boat, rendering him unconscious. Other foreigners saw the event and tried to help him, but he reportedly died on the way to hospital"

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Vendée Globe - Francois Gabart first around Cape Horn (video)

Highlights video of the 53rd day of the 2012-2013 Vendée Globe -Tuesday, January 1, 2013.

Vendee Globe live tracking

Another record for 'rookie' Gabart as Macif passes Cape Horn first - Vendée Globe 2012-2013: "Racing in his first ever Vendée Globe Francois Gabart, the youngest skipper in the solo non stop around the world race, passed the longitude of Cape Horn this evening at 1820hrs UTC (1920hrs French time) setting a new record for the passage from the start line in Les Sables d’Olonne of 52 days 6 hours 18minutes. . . . Michel Desjoyeaux, the only skipper to win the Vendée Globe twice, whose company manage Gabart’s campaign, commented:

“ I exchanged text messages with François, very short messages. He told me the visibility was under two miles, he’s sailing ahead of a (cold) front . . . It is a very emotional moment, but I’m afraid he doesn’t have time to enjoy it because the data collected by CLS shows there’s ice all over the area. . . ."

The Black Rock - Vendée Globe 2012-2013: "The lonely rock which is at the tip of South America was given its name when Sir Francis Drake rounded it for the first time in 1578. It is the 550 miles wide passage which is between Tierre del Fuego and Antartica which is actually named after Drake, but this southerly route was, for a long time, kept secret. . . ."

Vendee Globe - Tough times into the Pacific
Sail World
In the Vendee Globe, since Alessandro Di Benedetto (Team Plastique) passed into the Pacific Ocean this morning at 0510hrs - all thirteen skippers have been racing in the same ocean. But it will be for one day only as leaders Francois Gabart (Macif) and ...

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Vendee Globe - Distant threat for Mike Golding
Sail World
Sailing away from the Pacific West gate on a SE'ly course in the Vendee Globe, Mike Golding now has the distant threat of Javier 'Bubi' Sanso attacking behind Dominique Wavre. Sanso has caught more than 140 miles on Wavre since Christmas Day, coming ...

Sail World

Sailing in Marin: Cayard meets America's Cup challenge on home turf - Marin Independent Journal: ". . . . Each team is allowed three wing sails and two boats. It's a massive undertaking says Paul Cayard, CEO of Artemis Racing, Challenger for the America's Cup representing the Royal Swedish Yacht Club. . . It's a heck of a lot of work for the boat builders and the shore team to maintain, Cayard explained. And it's just one part of competing in the America's Cup which will be raced on the bay in September. Cayard's been around the Cup for 30 years so he has the experience it takes to run a world-class sailing team. But this challenge has been more than just building a boat or two. Artemis Racing is a completely new team, unlike its competition Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), Luna Rossa (ITA) and Oracle Racing (USA). Cayard has built Artemis pretty much from scratch. He started about two years ago and today the team, which is based in Alameda, has 120 people. "It's a medium-sized business . . . "

Sailing: Tuke's rough ride
Northern Advocate
TOUGH GOING: Kerikeri's Blair Tuke pushed through the elements to finish in 27th place in the 68th Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Supplied. Kerikeri Olympic silver medallist Blair Tuke has completed a baptism of fire on board Rikki in the Sydney to ...

Flying Fifteen Australian Championships : Overnight winds made for a difficult ...
BYM News (press release)
A change of sailing instructions brought the first race forward to midday, which made life interesting for those who celebrated the start of the New Year late into the night. Third time lucky for the start of Race 3, after two general recalls the fleet ...

Oman Sail, Rolls Royce join hands to launch senior training programme
Times of Oman
Muscat: The aim for developing ambitious Omani sailing coaches continues after OmanSail launched its first ever Senior Instructor course accredited by the InternationalSailing Federation (ISAF). As part of the initiative to bring the Sultanate's rich ...

Spectacular start for 32nd Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race starting ...
BYM News (press release)
Line honours favourite will be Queenslander Bill Wild's RP55 Wedgetail (sail number AUS 1188) but in hot pursuit will be Syd Fischer's TP52 ( sail number AUS 70) Ragamuffin who will be out to spoil Wild's party, after finishing second in the Hobart race.

Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race: Maluka arrives in time for New Year
BYM News (press release)
Langman, who once again sailed the smallest (9.1m) boat in the fleet, took a 'double' of sorts, as he was last on line in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia's 2011 race also. This year he finished at 9.40.12pm, outside of last year's finish time of ...

Leadership activities at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dorset Echo
Three teams of youngsters from Weymouth took on rival Barn- staple teams in a day of activities at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. The day was part of the National Citizen Service course the teens have been on for the last few weeks.

Governor's Cup race : Banjo looks set to claim line honours
BYM News (press release)
JML Rotary Scout, the Tosca 39 co-skippered by Peter Bosch and Steven Jennings and crewed by a group of Scouts from Cape Town and St Helena aged between 16-18 years old, also continue to sail well in the Rally Monohull fleet but overnight, appear to ...

Flying 15 Australian Championships conditions could be described as magic
BYM News (press release)
Dale Collings and Glenn Sheen in Aussie Falcon had a better race as did our international visitor David Tabb sailing with Davey's Bay YC Commodore Scott Lidgett. A couple of port and starboard incidents, touched marks and busy gate rounding's kept the...

Gilmour name continues at the top as Lachlan challenges for 420 lead in...
My Sailing
Lachlan Gilmour, younger son of America's Cup helmsman and world match racing champion Peter Gilmour, is following in the illustrious wake of his father in the International 420 class Australian championship on Hobart's River Derwent. Gilmour and his ...

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Chipping Norton to open yacht club despite being 100 miles from the sea
Telegraph.co.uk
Trevor Taylor, whose idea it was, said the Chipping Norton Yacht Club was being launched to give sailors a chance to socialise without having to travel to coastal areas. He said more than 100 people had expressed an interest in joining, despite the ...

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