| Route du Rhum: Leader Lemonchois and Duprey du Vorsent both comfortable on their Gitana trimarans |
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| Tuesday, 31 October 2006 | |
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Marian Martin Lionel Lemonchois on Gitana 11 took the head of the Orma fleet as the decision of the two Gitana trimarans, to take a more southerly route paid off. All the Orma trimarans have now gybed and are averaging more than 20 knots along the route to the West Indies. Lemonchois said: "I’ve been with the leading pack since the start; we had worked a lot on the weather files, with Yann Guichard and Sylvain Mondon, and had gone with the southern option and, if all goes well, it should continue to pay. I’m elated, even though I haven’t slept much. I knew that I had to be sure to not get outdistanced, before we caught the West Indies train! The next thing is to negotiate the depression over the Azores; it doesn’t seem menacing, but tiredness accumulatesand there will be a need for vigilance. For the moment, I have a sense of well being and I think Gitana 11 does too!” Thierry Duprey du Vorsent on Gitana 12 said: "All goes well, even if Monday was testing enough with its very unstable winds that meant being always at the controls. I made a mistale, thinking the front would be more vicious, so reduced sail a bit too quickly, but at least that enabled me to make a nap, which put me in good shape. Now, I am now on the other side of the front and the wind should strengthen over the next hours, enabling me to get to the Azores pretty quickly.” |
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