{"id":52814,"date":"2023-04-10T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tipandshaft.com\/?p=52814"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:07:44","slug":"the-ocean-race-lessons-learned-from-an-xxl-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailorz.com\/en\/imoca-en\/the-ocean-race-lessons-learned-from-an-xxl-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ocean Race: lessons learned from an XXL leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finishing up with\u00a0Team Malizia’s victory<\/a>\u00a0ahead of Team Holcim-PRB, the third leg of\u00a0The Ocean Race<\/strong>\u00a0was full of twists and turns, a giant stage – the longest ever-lasting more than 35 days. Meteo ace\u00a0Christian Dumard<\/strong>, Imoca skippers\u00a0Charlie Dalin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas Ruyant,<\/strong>\u00a0designers\u00a0Quentin Lucet<\/strong>\u00a0(VPLP Design) and\u00a0Herv\u00e9 Penfornis<\/strong>\u00a0(Guillaume Verdier),\u00a0Antoine Mermod<\/strong>, president of Imoca, as well as The Ocean Race\u00a0director\u00a0Johan Sal\u00e9n<\/strong>, speak to Tip and Shaft to give us their first assessment.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Indian and Pacific in one shot. The Big South has probably never felt so long\u00a0during The Ocean Race than this time. It is the first time since 1973 that crews have raced\u00a0half a round-the-world\u00a0on a single leg<\/strong>\u00a0(12,750 miles compared to a normal Vend\u00e9e Globe at 24,365). It was a true XXL leg from a sporting angle too, as it offered maximum\u00a0five points twice<\/strong>, once at the passage of the scoring gate of Tasmania and again at the finish.\u00a0Overall it was\u00a0a real proving ground for the new Imocas<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cEveryone was a bit apprehensive\u201d\u00a0<\/em>suggests Herv\u00e9 Penfornis.\u00a0\u201cWe had kind of imagined stopovers in Australia or New Zealand. But apart from\u00a0<\/em>Guyot, the boats were generally solid and in the end,\u00a0it ended up in a postage stamp between the first two<\/strong>. It was great !”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And that satisfaction is shared by Johan Sal\u00e9n:\u00a0“Leaving Cape Town,\u00a0we were probably more uncertain than we were actually worried<\/strong>, but it’s true that we had positioned the New Zealand gate far enough west for a boat to be able to get their points and then possibly make a stopover afterwards.”<\/em>\u00a0This precaution was not necessary, even if no participant were actually spared damage: the cut in the mast on\u00a0Malizia-Seaexplorer<\/em>, damage to the two rudders and torn mainsail on board\u00a011th Hour Racing Team<\/em>, pilot problems\u00a0on\u00a0Holcim-PRB<\/em>, hitting an Ofni for\u00a0Biotherm<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

But all were able to make repairs<\/strong>, which has Charlie Dalin commenting:\u00a0\u201cThey push more, they break more, but then they repair much faster! Changing a batten solo is almost a day\u2019s work with the fatigue that follows. With a crew, it’s a few hours, barely noticeable on the tracking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

Elastic<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The only abandon on this leg was Guyot Environnement-Team Europe<\/strong>, victim of significant damage to the bottom of their hull on the fourth day. That damage was not a big surprise according to the designers of the VPLP-Verdier design launched in 2015, that is before the Imoca rule was amended to ban honeycomb core in this area.\u00a0“All the recommended reinforcements were not followed when 11th Hour had the boat\u00a0<\/em>[previous owner of VPLP-Verdier, ex Hugo Boss, editor’s note], and on selling the boat, the need must have been lost along the way”<\/em>, estimates Quentin Lucet. And Penfornis adds: \u00a0“All the 2016 generation Imocas that opt for large foils are on borrowed time<\/strong>\u00a0if they don’t replace the nomex with foam. It\u00a0costs, say, a\u00a0hundred kilos, which is not very penalizing for a flying boat.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Leaving Cape Town on February 26 after a memorable coastal course in gusts of\u00a040 knots, this stage experienced\u00a0“muscular moments but never race ending conditions”<\/em>, according to Christian Dumard, meteorologist for the organization. The first few days allowed\u00a0Holcim-PRB<\/em>\u00a0to get away quickly, to the point of being\u00a0up\u00a0to 600 miles in advance<\/strong>\u00a0to finally be caught by their rivals.<\/p>\n

“They stumbled into a system, but they managed their race. They\u00a0took the points halfway through<\/strong>, aware that there were valuable points there and not just in Itajai”<\/em>\u00a0said Charlie Dalin.\u00a0“If they had pushed more, they would have got themselves really into very hard conditions, so\u00a0they managed it intelligently\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, adds Dumard. Even that\u00a0meant experiencing a kind of new start for the four boats to\u00a0the south of New Zealand. This game of elastic has\u00a0Thomas Ruyant saying:\u00a0“On a transatlantic race when you lead by\u00a040 miles you’re happy.\u00a0In the South, you play with macro weather<\/strong>. Sometimes hundreds of miles are not enough.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

Malizia impresses<\/span><\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

And so there was a match that actually allows some real comparison between the boats. Downwind in the breeze, all our experts agree that\u00a0Malizia-Seaexplorer<\/em>, clearly designed with this in mind, has an advantage.\u00a0“All the choices that have been made with a view to the South are working<\/strong>,”<\/em>\u00a0says a pleased\u00a0Quentin Lucet.\u00a0\u201cThe distribution volumes through\u00a0the hull give an ability to keep the boat pitched up with a good balance in heavy swells.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This\u00a0“very healthy”<\/em>\u00a0dynamic behaviour, according to the architect, is seen in the drone images of the boat surfing the swell, resting on its two foils, which seems to be a new thing in Imoca.\u00a0\u201cAnd they still raced 12,000 miles far from everything with a sticking plaster\u00a0on the mast, a first aid repair made\u00a0at sea\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>Penfornis adds.<\/p>\n

In the lead at Cape Horn going on to win thanks to a final big bout of strong winds off Argentina,\u00a0Malizia-Seaexplorer<\/em>\u00a0was not as good in the lighter stuff and at reaching angles, making Charlie Dalin say that\u00a0Holcim-PRB<\/em>\u00a0“is the most versatile boat in the fleet”<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong>Kevin Escoffier’s Verdier design returned to the Atlantic with\u00a0a new 24-hour record in its pocket<\/strong>: 595 miles 56 more than the previous one! A performance that made an impression, to the point that the symbolic barrier of 600 miles now seems accessible.\u00a0“And\u00a0why not the 618 miles of Comanche<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>[absolute record in a monohull NDR], achieved on the return from a transatlantic race with the help of the Gulf Stream?”<\/em>\u00a0asks Christian Dumard.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a011th Hour Racing Team<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Biotherm<\/em>, third and fourth in the stage, arrived three days after the first two, they were in the match, in contact almost until Cape Horn, which prompts Johan Sal\u00e9n to say:\u00a0“The winner of the last Vend\u00e9e Globe sailed at 65% of the boat’s potential. Here\u00a0they are still between 90 and 100% of the polars, so the differences are small<\/strong>“<\/em>. The youngest by age,\u00a0Biotherm<\/em>, the last competitor was launched latest (September 2022), and their\u00a0foil damage “logically” saw them bring up the rear. The question, Christian Dumard asks is the performance of\u00a011th Hour Racing Team<\/em>,\u00a0“which has bet everything on The Ocean Race for\u00a0two years”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They were the only absentee from the Route du Rhum, did the Verdier plan lack hard racing before the start of The Ocean Race? For Herv\u00e9 Penfornis,\u00a0“their potential is really very close to that of<\/em>\u00a0Holcim-PRB,\u00a0it comes down to the crew and the ability to keep the boat intact.”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Charlie Dalin, who worked closely with the American team within MerConcept , also recognizes that he expected them\u00a0“to be a little above the rest but even so they are still capable of special things.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

Four more stages\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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And a new race is on\u00a0in Itajai,\u00a0that of the job-lists<\/strong>. The\u00a0Biotherm<\/em>\u00a0team has already said\u00a0that theirs of\u00a0“200 lines”<\/em>\u00a0can\u2019t be done themseleves\u00a0by April 23, the date of the start of the leg to Newport.\u00a0Malizia-Seaexplorer’s<\/em>\u00a0mast will be repaired internally, on the recommendation of the manufacturer, Lorima, and\u00a0“all the spars have been ultrasonic tested<\/strong>\u00a0because we consider this to be the most sensitive item”<\/em>, explains Antoine Mermod from Itajai,\u00a0“This is a recommendation from the class. The teams then choose whether or not to have the hulls and their appendages inspected.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0general classification<\/a>, Team\u00a0Holcim-PRB<\/em>, has 19 points,\u00a05 points ahead of Team Malizia<\/strong>, which now holds\u00a0second place from\u00a011th Hour Racing<\/em>\u00a0Team by one point. Note that there are 25 points left from the four stages, the fifth between Newport and Aarhus counts double.<\/p>\n

Behind these arithmetical aspects, everyone agrees that\u00a0The Ocean Race has cleared the first big hurdle, bringing an entire fleet back to the Atlantic\u00a0<\/strong>for this first race in the\u00a0Imoca. True to its marketing\u00a0the race showcased the resilience of the crews.\u00a0“Certain damages out there could not have been fixed solo but above all, the crews obviously enjoyed themselves.\u00a0This human side is the most beautiful surprise<\/strong>“<\/em>, says Johan Sal\u00e9n about this stage which made some sailors envious, if we believe\u00a0Thomas Ruyant:\u00a0“When I watched the videos, I wanted to be out there with them! I am very\u00a0attached to the solo racing, but\u00a0I do not exclude the idea of next one<\/strong>. They showed that the format works and even if it’s a bit early just now we will look at it.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo: Sailing Energy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finishing up with\u00a0Team Malizia’s victory\u00a0ahead of Team Holcim-PRB, the third leg of\u00a0The Ocean Race\u00a0was full of twists and turns, a giant stage – the longest ever-lasting more than 35 days. Meteo ace\u00a0Christian Dumard, Imoca skippers\u00a0Charlie Dalin\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas Ruyant,\u00a0designers\u00a0Quentin Lucet\u00a0(VPLP Design) and\u00a0Herv\u00e9 Penfornis\u00a0(Guillaume Verdier),\u00a0Antoine Mermod, president of Imoca, as well as The Ocean Race\u00a0director\u00a0Johan Sal\u00e9n, speak to Tip and Shaft to give us their first assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":52811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imoca-en","category-the-ocean-race-en"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Ocean Race: lessons learned from an XXL leg - Sailorz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Finishing up with\u00a0Team Malizia's victory, the third leg of\u00a0The Ocean Race\u00a0was full of twists and turns, a giant stage - the longest ever-lasting more than 35 days.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sailorz.com\/en\/imoca-en\/the-ocean-race-lessons-learned-from-an-xxl-leg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ocean Race: lessons learned from an XXL leg - 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