Saturday greetings from Germany, dear Mark. Am always looking forward to starting my day with your briefings. Thank you so very much. Hope that Damien is getting soon and without any damage to "calmer" seas. Conditions around him look quite scary. Warm regards as always.
Thank you again for the informations and the videos from a few sailors, specially from Boris. 8 1/2 m high waves. I am getting sick just watching that 😲. I wish all ladies and men just the best and keep my fingers crossed ✊️🤞🌊⛵️💙🌎🌬🫶 Greetings from Eckernförde , North - Germay
Thank you, great insights as always! So much easier to understand when the brave sailors record a video rather than doing a live transmission. I love most the discussion on different tactics and why they might choose different routes, maybe also retrospectives how it worked out. More of that would be great. You are doing a great job!
Most adventurous these sailors, wishing I was along for the journey. I have seen seas like this on occasion and it can make one feel uncomfortable, praying that they all make it through ok! Thanks, am enjoying these updates!
Thank you yo much for your great regatta coverage. I've always appreciated Yachts and Yachting and now I'm enjoying it's video version. Try to prompt more English application in the Figaro and IMOCA circuits
By the 1400 sched, and certainly by the 1800 sched the die will be cast. The leader will have crossed the high pressure, and the two contenders in second and third will have to wait for some time, in the High pressure area. By the time Dalin reaches Antipode Island his lead will have grown by quite a bit.
Excellent English Mate's ❤ Wonderful Competition 😊 Someone's talking to the whales dew Watch Out 🌍 Troglodyte's Went all in on any sailor to Winn. Kristen made them Rich ☮️ Me? I don't gamble 🐭
It’s funny- we see the boats charging along, we see the lines messy running everywhere, we see the stern wave, the swells, white caps, the foils sets, poles vanged out, leeward runners flogging, main triple reefed, keel swung… and always- the skippers sitting down below rocking around, dry and in just gym clothes… who’s really out there doing the sailing??
The sailors. Sail changes, repairs and maintenance, navigation, weather management, planning, strategy, tactics, trim Including sails, foils, rudders, keel), autopilot adjustment, nutrition, sleep, morale, and of course No 2's. Sounds like sailing to me.
Scenario seems to change. Long time weather systems favoured the front, now we see that anti-cyclonic events are developping between P1 and P10 and moving west to east, so in an extrem scenario we could see a complete fleet compression from P1 to P13 The coming hours are CRITICAL for the head, the challenge is to not be caught up by the anticyclone moving behind toward east. We see that Charlie Dalin is in a good position. Until now he hasn't made mistakes (contrary to Thomas who has been recently swallowed by an anticyclonic area where Jérémie and Nico chose to avoid this by shifting to north). As said before, Verdier's design is the best in light zone, so Charlie with MACIF has the best weapon to meet this kind of challenge to manage better than the others the "transitional zones" so there are some chances that "little Charlie" could slip away "alone" and quasi defintively due to the great agility of MACIF. For Yohan and Seb this seems to be possible to follow Charlie, but we must have in mind that Seb has broken one foil, so this may be complicated for him in the next days. The boat of Yohan is a little less agile in light zone, the boat of Seb is roughly the same as Charlie, but first Charlie IS THE MASTER, Seb is good.... but behind Charlie, and second Seb is paying a gap created before (not mentioning his broken foil). We see that situation is CRITICAL, there are many tiny "doors" that are only open within a short delay, any mistake or too slow crossing and the door is closed, the boat being either swallowed by a wind hole, or has to change the route to find another door (what we call in french in figurative way "passage à niveau", "railroad crossing'", one must pass railroad crossing in a specific delay, if not you know what happens). For Jérémie, Nico, Thomas.... this seems to be "possibly" feasible, but the situation is even more CRITICAL and challenging, in a figurative way "railroad crossing" are more critical for them because there are even less time margins. The situation is in fact totally uncertain, this is for the next hours the most thrilling part of the race. We see since few days the boat of Jérémie not being bad. Nico has a good boat (close to Seb and Charlie) but he is paying a lack of experience compared to Charlie who seems to be able to finely tune his boat. This is the same thing for Jérémie. He knows perfectly his machine, and is able to tune it as Charlie does, but Charal and MACIF are different per design. Not succeeding in passing the next "railroad crossing " in the good delay, and this group will be caught up by the back fleet until P13 For Sam (Goodchild), Paul, Yannick... we see that doors are definitively closed, they will be caught up by the following group in the coming hours. This is probably definitively closed for a possible win. I would give a special red card to Yannick who does a mediocre race not desserving at all his status of winner of VDG 2020. His boat is a sisterhip of Seb's boat.... needless to say that he has a first class machine. His coach said "don't attack" let the others getting tired. I can't give respect to people who are only awaiting mistakes, misfortunes on others to only "possibly" win with opportunism. Yannick never come back to VDG. At any moment, we never saw him in attack mode contrary to Jérémie and Nico who are fighting to change their destiny. At last we see Boris in a more "suitable" position given the quality of his boat and what we expected from Boris. He could be back again to compete for P3, pehraps P2 (depending on how Yohann and Seb manage or not manage to follow Charlie and possibly escape). For P1.... this is at this point unprobable (except unexpected issue, but be won't speak of unpredictable events), as said before, Charlie has the perfect weapon to twart a possible back fleet catch up... a versatil boat more agile in transitional zone than the others, this is the "design philosophy" of the technical team (François Gabart's "Mer concept"), and architect (Guillaume Verdier) for MACIF as opposed to Malizia chosing the Alex Thomson's, Jean Le Cam's philosophy, a boat heavily designed for strong downwind but often in bad situation when it comes to manage light transitional zones.
It's a hugely dynamic weather picture and yes, the compression could happen. I agree that Dalin's IMOCA is such a good 'all-rounder' which will stand him in good stead through the transition zones, but the weather itself may not play into his hands as well in the Pacific as it did in the Indian Ocean.
Some good points, although the weather is more unpredictable than ever and seeing more than 2 to 3 days into the future is not serious. Bestaven has been underperforming the whole season, keeping in mind that he is sailing a TOR design winner. I think he hasn't understood the boat in full. Regarding Herrmann, he is still suffering from his bad sailing in the first week. And unfortunately the southern ocean has not been delivering the conditions Malizia is made for. This really is bad luck. And to be honest, anything worse than 5th place must be called a huge setback, given the money and racing time put into Malizia.
Please, keep up with the good work, you're doing great!
Best on the water reporting in this challenging race - thanks to all 💨
Saturday greetings from Germany, dear Mark. Am always looking forward to starting my day with your briefings. Thank you so very much. Hope that Damien is getting soon and without any damage to "calmer" seas. Conditions around him look quite scary. Warm regards as always.
It was reassuring to get the video from Damien. While conditions are bad, he's clearly reefed a lot to keep the boat manageable.
Thank you again for the informations and the videos from a few sailors, specially from Boris. 8 1/2 m high waves. I am getting sick just watching that 😲.
I wish all ladies and men just the best and keep my fingers crossed ✊️🤞🌊⛵️💙🌎🌬🫶
Greetings from Eckernförde ,
North - Germay
Thank you, great insights as always! So much easier to understand when the brave sailors record a video rather than doing a live transmission. I love most the discussion on different tactics and why they might choose different routes, maybe also retrospectives how it worked out. More of that would be great.
You are doing a great job!
Thank you and yes, looking back at what has and hasn't worked is a great idea. There are lots of tricky bits coming up, so tons to analyse.
Most adventurous these sailors, wishing I was along for the journey. I have seen seas like this on occasion and it can make one feel uncomfortable, praying that they all make it through ok! Thanks, am enjoying these updates!
Thanks for the update
You're welcome!
Love the way these foiling monohuls ride above the waves....
Very informative 👍
Thank you yo much for your great regatta coverage. I've always appreciated Yachts and Yachting and now I'm enjoying it's video version. Try to prompt more English application in the Figaro and IMOCA circuits
@@sergepitter9639 it would be great to do more with other events, and I'm working on it!
You would think that at those boat speeds, you would run ahead of the waves. Quite a reality check to see those massive waves outrun the IMOCA 😅
The size of those waves around Damien is crazy
By the 1400 sched, and certainly by the 1800 sched the die will be cast. The leader will have crossed the high pressure, and the two contenders in second and third will have to wait for some time, in the High pressure area. By the time Dalin reaches Antipode Island his lead will have grown by quite a bit.
hope they all stay safe
‘Mon Boris!
Excellent English Mate's ❤
Wonderful Competition 😊
Someone's talking to the whales dew Watch Out 🌍 Troglodyte's Went all in on any sailor to Winn.
Kristen made them Rich ☮️
Me? I don't gamble 🐭
It’s funny- we see the boats charging along, we see the lines messy running everywhere, we see the stern wave, the swells, white caps, the foils sets, poles vanged out, leeward runners flogging, main triple reefed, keel swung… and always- the skippers sitting down below rocking around, dry and in just gym clothes… who’s really out there doing the sailing??
The sailors. Sail changes, repairs and maintenance, navigation, weather management, planning, strategy, tactics, trim Including sails, foils, rudders, keel), autopilot adjustment, nutrition, sleep, morale, and of course No 2's. Sounds like sailing to me.
@@OhanaNZ sorry. I don't believe they do anything but sit down below and eat. You have not proof.
👏👏❤❤
Scenario seems to change. Long time weather systems favoured the front, now we see that anti-cyclonic events are developping between P1 and P10 and moving west to east, so in an extrem scenario we could see a complete fleet compression from P1 to P13
The coming hours are CRITICAL for the head, the challenge is to not be caught up by the anticyclone moving behind toward east.
We see that Charlie Dalin is in a good position. Until now he hasn't made mistakes (contrary to Thomas who has been recently swallowed by an anticyclonic area where Jérémie and Nico chose to avoid this by shifting to north).
As said before, Verdier's design is the best in light zone, so Charlie with MACIF has the best weapon to meet this kind of challenge to manage better than the others the "transitional zones" so there are some chances that "little Charlie" could slip away "alone" and quasi defintively due to the great agility of MACIF.
For Yohan and Seb this seems to be possible to follow Charlie, but we must have in mind that Seb has broken one foil, so this may be complicated for him in the next days. The boat of Yohan is a little less agile in light zone, the boat of Seb is roughly the same as Charlie, but first Charlie IS THE MASTER, Seb is good.... but behind Charlie, and second Seb is paying a gap created before (not mentioning his broken foil). We see that situation is CRITICAL, there are many tiny "doors" that are only open within a short delay, any mistake or too slow crossing and the door is closed, the boat being either swallowed by a wind hole, or has to change the route to find another door (what we call in french in figurative way "passage à niveau", "railroad crossing'", one must pass railroad crossing in a specific delay, if not you know what happens).
For Jérémie, Nico, Thomas.... this seems to be "possibly" feasible, but the situation is even more CRITICAL and challenging, in a figurative way "railroad crossing" are more critical for them because there are even less time margins. The situation is in fact totally uncertain, this is for the next hours the most thrilling part of the race.
We see since few days the boat of Jérémie not being bad. Nico has a good boat (close to Seb and Charlie) but he is paying a lack of experience compared to Charlie who seems to be able to finely tune his boat.
This is the same thing for Jérémie. He knows perfectly his machine, and is able to tune it as Charlie does, but Charal and MACIF are different per design.
Not succeeding in passing the next "railroad crossing " in the good delay, and this group will be caught up by the back fleet until P13
For Sam (Goodchild), Paul, Yannick... we see that doors are definitively closed, they will be caught up by the following group in the coming hours. This is probably definitively closed for a possible win.
I would give a special red card to Yannick who does a mediocre race not desserving at all his status of winner of VDG 2020. His boat is a sisterhip of Seb's boat.... needless to say that he has a first class machine.
His coach said "don't attack" let the others getting tired. I can't give respect to people who are only awaiting mistakes, misfortunes on others to only "possibly" win with opportunism. Yannick never come back to VDG. At any moment, we never saw him in attack mode contrary to Jérémie and Nico who are fighting to change their destiny.
At last we see Boris in a more "suitable" position given the quality of his boat and what we expected from Boris. He could be back again to compete for P3, pehraps P2 (depending on how Yohann and Seb manage or not manage to follow Charlie and possibly escape). For P1.... this is at this point unprobable (except unexpected issue, but be won't speak of unpredictable events), as said before, Charlie has the perfect weapon to twart a possible back fleet catch up... a versatil boat more agile in transitional zone than the others, this is the "design philosophy" of the technical team (François Gabart's "Mer concept"), and architect (Guillaume Verdier) for MACIF as opposed to Malizia chosing the Alex Thomson's, Jean Le Cam's philosophy, a boat heavily designed for strong downwind but often in bad situation when it comes to manage light transitional zones.
It's a hugely dynamic weather picture and yes, the compression could happen. I agree that Dalin's IMOCA is such a good 'all-rounder' which will stand him in good stead through the transition zones, but the weather itself may not play into his hands as well in the Pacific as it did in the Indian Ocean.
Some good points, although the weather is more unpredictable than ever and seeing more than 2 to 3 days into the future is not serious. Bestaven has been underperforming the whole season, keeping in mind that he is sailing a TOR design winner. I think he hasn't understood the boat in full.
Regarding Herrmann, he is still suffering from his bad sailing in the first week. And unfortunately the southern ocean has not been delivering the conditions Malizia is made for. This really is bad luck. And to be honest, anything worse than 5th place must be called a huge setback, given the money and racing time put into Malizia.
BATMAN