How fast can Banque Pop go

[ScottiE 174]

wonder how long it will be before the go past the VOR fleet - or if there will be any to pass!

[Guest]

Who ever is left in the volvo will probably be still in cape town. they don't leave there till the 11th. The frenchies will be wanting to be somewhere between cape town and oz in 18 days i'd guess.

[Guest]

so after a bit of a delay they have left. currently doing 29.7kn. tracker http://www.voile.banquepopulaire.fr/Max ... c5191.html

 

so far so good for them. It will be an interesting month.

[Guest]

watch the video in the link, kinda puts BP's speed into perspective

http://www.farevela.net/2011/11/25/trof ... -il-video/

[Guest]

Wow awesome.

[Guest]

12.5 days and they are already east of cape town, having a slow day today though only doing 29kn

[TimW 1]

Man this thing is fast!

 

they are 1886 nm ahead of the groupama pace !

 

Certainly puts those Volvo boats in their place

[Guest]

Less than 15 days to be east of the Kerguelen's, yip you could say that's fast.

 

I think the lead will get alot bigger in the next few days to groupama had a slow passage through the indian ocean they struggled to do more that 400 mls a day for the next three day's, and the weather looks pretty sweet for these guys.

[Mothership 6]

Hands up everyone who now knows where they'd rather be right now!

[Atom Ant 0]

Yep, on a deck chair on Bora Bora

[Guest]

Next Volvo race done in multis?

[Guest]

Next Volvo race done in multis?

 

It has been suggested and from a article I saw last month they are thinking about it.

[Atom Ant 0]

Bout time they got with the program

[Guest]

Question, is the main centerboard on BP double ended? ie can be reversed if they hit somthing and smash the leading edege like last time. looking at some of the footage it kind of does and would make alot of sence.

[Guest]

you'd hope that at least they could sail the whole way around what ever it is sailed in

.. the whole structure of the race is a farce.

[Atom Ant 0]

.. the whole structure of the race is a farce.

Obviously the same goes for the boats.

[Guest]

there was a nice little segment on tv1 tonight. There already below NZ and looking good to smash the record by days. Unluckily for me there not going well enough for me to try and claim some sort of prize.

[Guest]

Wow. They are a fair way down there.

[Guest]

The name of this topic is "how fast can BP5 go"

Read the web site and you will see a record while surfing/falling down a 8 mt wave

48knts

and apparently they're trying to slow down

this is definitely something out of the ordinary

[Guest]

there still doing well in 40 knott winds and 1800nm ahead. Bielieve it or not they have tried to slow the best down over the last 48 hours........

 

 

A real battlefield ravaged by the elements. Here in fact the table at the heart of which fourteen sailors of the Bank of Sailing gathered plunged in recent hours. Thus, the front from the north of New Zealand he made ​​his implacable office, dealing with men from the edge of winds exceeding 40 knots and a sea particularly unrewarding. Under these conditions, the notion of performance suddenly became totally futile when only the preservation of equipment and crew were figure of obsession. In an attempt to minimize the speed of the giant trimaran particularly favored in that navigation through the mainsail was reduced to an absolute minimum and flat maximum, never to be used to stabilize the boat. Florent Chastel , a number / adjuster used his shift and large towers in the world, came back this afternoon on the storm: "It's going to calm down, the sea ranks slowly. We will be able to return a little canvas. But for eight hours, no longer had room for the race. We especially tried to pass without harm to the boat. We started to close in there, then we caught the flip and continued on a reach at 90 ° to the wind, a pace where the boat accelerates. We ended up with impressive seas. Are we missing a little performance and settings were used mainly to slow the boat. Gradually it has given and the wind calmed down. We will to resume the race. "

 

Time is accelerating

Last night at 21 o'clock, when the elements raged around the Maxi Banque Populaire V, the crossing of the antemeridian, the famous line of change of date was an event that passed almost unnoticed: "We went from TU + 12 hours GMT - 12 hours in our references on board. One line to the east and it is as if we accelerated the time. " But on board the concerns were more the order of the safety and comfort, if indeed this concept to match the living conditions of the moment: "We will as little as possible to the front, is avoided. When necessary, the skipper slowed the boat a lot, it s' home and it's a bit of trekking up to the bow. Inside, it is difficult to sleep under these conditions. When the waves clap on carbon, it's sounding. When you're in our bunk, there is two inches of a raging ocean. "

 

Avoid Russian roulette

In the next few hours, the wind should take advantage of the left and weak reason, which made ​​this afternoon to say Marcel van Triest , the router on the ground that "the worst was over." However, another headache is profile before the bows of the giant trimaran as confirmed Florent Chastel: "We will not go much because there are a lot of ice, including a very large iceberg that we should approach tomorrow. The road south we just crossed. descend, it becomes Russian roulette. " In fact, Loïck Peyron and the crew would indeed cross the path of an iceberg 20 km long, which was detached from a mastodon itself isolated 2000 and equivalent area in Jamaica. Twelve years later, "children" of that comes across the track of Maxi Banque Populaire V, leaving in its wake, more precisely, to leeward, and other ice growlers, often undetectable and are subject to numerous risks and fears collision. This minefield so prevent any further south down before the 120 ° W, which is a bit detrimental in terms of performance for the crew who will then pass a ridge. It will be difficult to follow the system and in these circumstances, a reduction in the table ahead of the market by nearly half is expected by the passage of Cape Horn, in about a week.

 

The record figures

Record to beat:

To become a new record holder, the Maxi Banque Populaire V will be back no later than Monday, January 9, 2012 at 17h 15min and 34s (Paris time). Reference time : 3 Groupama (Franck Cammas) - 48 days 7 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds