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 And they are off!
 | | Start of the seventh Vendée Globe. Vendee Globe - copyright |
Record crowds of over 300,000 lined the channel in Les Sables d'Olonne as the twenty skippers got on their way to the 2012 Vendée Globe start line yesterday morning. It was an emotional procession and an opportunity for last goodbyes ahead of the grueling 28,000 mile solo round-the-world race. After many weeks of boat preparation, media interviews and autograph sessions, the skippers are anxious to go.
Minutes later, 19 yachts would cross the start line, some a bit early in their anticipation to get racing. Unfortunately for Bertrand de Broc, his yacht Votre Nom Autour du Monde sustained minor hull damage in the heavy boat traffic leading out of the harbor and had to return to port for repairs. He is back at sea with his sight on the fleet as they round Cape Finisterre. Five hours in the race it was one of the favorites, Marc Guillemot on Safran, to run into bad luck with a broken keel, possibly after hitting a submerged object. Marc returned to Les Sables where a close inspection confirmed a worst-case scenario for him; his race is over.
 | | François Gabart (FRA), skipper of MACIF Open 60 © Vincent Curutchet / Macif |
With a rather uneventful, compared to 2008, passage through the Bay of Biscay, the remainder of the fleet was able to get some miles behind them; François Gabart is leading the way on MACIF as they turn the corner in Spain and start heading south. Alessandro di Benedetto who, on an older boat, appears to have gambled on a more southerly route in the Bay is bringing the rear of the group who didn't have to return to port. With good breezes in the forecast, the next few days to the Canary Islands should be interesting!
 | | Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Lijia Xu (CHN) - ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2012 © Rolex/ Kurt Arrigo |
The ISAF annual conference is closing down today in Ireland; with a busy agenda over the past week, representatives had an opportunity to discuss many important issues in the sport of sailing. One of the key discussions was obviously around equipment for the 2016 Rio games; in a rather convoluted turn of events and lengthy debates at the AGM, the windsurfers were reinstated for 2016. Earlier in the week, Chinese Laser Radial gold medalist Lijia Xu and British Finn gold medalist Ben Ainslie were announced as the 2012 ISAF Rolex Sailors of the Year.
All the best!
Guy Perrin
Sail-World Canada Managing Editor
grperrin@sail-world.com
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