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| 28.02.2011 | |
A good meal, a little rest and they're off!What a relief... They got through it alright! Their voices are steady, they sound cheerful, the tension of the past few days is over, and they are back up to full racing speed. The 50 knots of wind and the 10 metre waves produced by cyclone ATU are now well and truly behind them. On Groupe Bel, Kito de Pavant and Sébastien Audigane are flying along, reaching at over 17 knots, and have just... Read more |
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| 26.02.2011 | |
Into ATUFor Groupe Bel, Estrella Damm, GAES Centros Auditivos and Hugo Boss, they are in the thick of the action, the challenges produced by the active low which was Atu. Groupe Bel and Estrella Damm are well into the extended NNE'ly wind field on the NE quadrant of the system and are both reaching on a course just south of east to carry on getting out of the worst of it. By evening today they should... Read more |
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| 24.02.2011 | |
In the anticyclone before the cyclone!Atu, what a strange name for a cyclone! In any case, this is the birthday present that the weather has decided to offer Kito de Pavant, who celebrated his birthday two days running after passing the antimeridian (International Date Line)! Groupe Bel and Estrella Damm are still shoulder to shoulder this Thursday, and this time in the grip of a small anticyclone, before having to negotiate the Atu... Read more |
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| 24.02.2011 | |
Message from onboard : 2 birthdays for the price of oneWe crossed the antimeridian during the night, just as we had started the 24th day of February, local time. So in a few seconds, we returned to 23rd February, so it's my birthday again! If we had passed yesterday, I would have lost a year. In any case, I'm happy to see the W on the GPS and the longitude decreasing. For the moment, the weather conditions are fairly calm. We're on a reach with a... Read more |
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| 23.02.2011 | |
Groupe Bel left New Zealand on schedule, on Kito's 50th birthday!The earth quaked in New Zealand, in Christchurch in the South Island. On a technical pit stop in Wellington in the North Island, the Groupe Bel sailors have expressed their solidarity to the New Zealand population. Arriving on Sunday evening at 20:13 (UT+1) for a 48 hour stopover (the minimum imposed), Kito de Pavant and Sébastien Audigane have won their wager and set sail again this Tuesday... Read more |
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