Jacques Fabre trans atlantic race

Posted on November 9, 2013 by bill

 

Transat Jacques Vabre : Gabart et Desjoyeaux leaders au cap Finisterre

le Samedi 9 Novembre 2013 à 21:25

tjv macif © Panoramic

Au large du cap Finisterre (Espagne) samedi soir, Macif (Gabart-Desjoyeaux) domine toujours la flotte des IMOCA de la Transat Jacques Vabre et compte désormais près de 50 milles d’avance sur Cheminées Poujoulat (Stamm-Legros), qui a chipé la deuxième place à PRB. Chez les Multi50, après l’abandon de Maître Jacques, c’est désormais Arkema-Région Aquitaine (Roucayrol-Riffet) qui est devant, avec 3 milles d’avance sur Actual (Le Blévec-De Pavant). En MOD70, pas de changement.

On Saturday evening, Macif (Crew Gabart and Desjoyeux) reached abeam the Finister headland in the lead, 50 miles ahead of Cheminées Poujoulat (Crew Stamm and Legros). 65 miles separates the first five in this class. Maitre Jacques abandoned with a damaged wing in the Multi 50 class leaving  Arkema-Région Aquitaine (Crew Lalou Roucayrol – Mayeul Riffet) in the lead with 131 miles separating the first five. In the mod70 class lying in 2nd place is Oman Air-Musandam (Crew Sidney Gavignet-Damian Foxall)  46 miles behind the leader. See contestants places below. More than 4,500 miles to go for all boats.

VOILE / TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE
Classement du samedi 8 novembre 2013 à 20h00
Class40 (immobilisés à Roscoff, nouveau départ dimanche à partir de 4h)
1- GDF Suez (Sébastien Rogues – Fabien Delahaye)
2- Tales Sandander 2014 (Alex Pella – Pablo Santurde)
3- Mare (Jörg Riechers – Pierrre Brasseur)
4- Watt&Sea, région Poitou-Charentes (Yannick Bestaven – Aurélien Ducroz)
5- SNCF-Géodis (Fabrice Amedeo – Armel Tripon)
…

IMOCA
1- Macif (François Gabart – Michel Desjoyeaux) à 4792,2 milles de l’arrivée
2- Cheminées Poujoulat (Bernard Stamm – Philippe Legros) à 49,25 milles du leader
3- PRB (Vincent Riou – Jean le Cam) à 49,81
4- Safran (Marc Guillemot – Pascal Bidégorry) à 63,72
5- Maître CoQ (Jérémie Beyou – Christopher Pratt) à 64,48
…

MOD70
1- Edmond de Rothschild (Sébastien Josse-Charles Caudrelier) à 4566,60 milles de l’arrivée
2- Oman Air-Musandam (Sidney Gavignet-Damian Foxall) à 45,84 milles du leader

Multi50
1- Arkema-Région Aquitaine (Lalou Roucayrol – Mayeul Riffet) à 4849 milles de l’arrivée
2- Actual (Yves le Blévec – Kito de Pavant) à 3,04 milles du leader
3- FenêtréA Cardinal (Erwan Le Roux – Yann Elies) à 13,03
4- Maître Jacques (Loïc Féquet – Loic Escoffier) à 46,92 milles du leader >>> abandonne, se déroute vers La Corogne
5- Rennes Métropole / Saint-Malo (Gilles Lamiré – Andrea Mura) à 131,5

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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