Multihull competitors at the Grand Prix Guyader and Tour de Belle Isle

Article on the upcoming Grand Prix Guyader and Tour de Belle Isle and the multihulls that will compete:

Here is the rough bing translate of the following article by Axel Capron:

http://www.sports.fr/voile/articles/...entree-621308/

Offshore racing season really began at the beginning of the month of may with two events, the Tour de Belle - island and Grand Prix Guyader, which will give the opportunity to the multihulls of all sizes to offer first confrontations. We think including the new Prince de Bretagne of Lionel Lemonchois, the Bank Populaire VII of Armel Le Cléac ' h, the MOD70 and the Multi50.

Brittany waters will bubble at the end of week! Douarnenez in La Trinité-sur-Mer, where respectively compete for Grand Prix Guyader (3-5 May) and the Tour de Belle-Ile (4 May), multihulls will be at the party after a winter 2012-13 media dominated on the Vendée Globe Imoca class monohulls. Some Imoca incidentally also benefit from the beginning of the month of May to make their re-entry (Akena Verandas on the Tour de Belle-Ile, master cock, Safran, Initiatives heart, Groupe Bel in Douarnenez), but it is on the trimarans will have attention with first clashes expected share and other Atlantic water plan.

The Tour de Belle-Ile will thus provide an opportunity for Lionel Lemonchois to try out racing his new Prince de Bretagne, trimaran of 80 feet (24.38 meters) which is other than the old Orma (60 feet, 18.28 meters) from Thomas Coville, Sodebo. After a year of construction of elongation in Vannes, the vessel proceeded to water last October, he sailed since January and his skipper does not hide his haste to do battle with the competition, history of measuring the potential of his steed. "It is clear that we have wanted to run with the boat, there's nothing better that to have competitors to feel where it is in the capacity of the boat," he says on the site of the Tour de Belle-Ile. And that fall well, since Norman has just found competitor facing him in the person of its former Gitana 11, with which he won the Route du Rhum 2006, record key, extended from 77 feet the same philosophy as that of Prince de Bretagne.

"Ours, I think, is more successful," considers Lemonchois, while in the opposite, Sébastien Josse, double camp taking this Tour de Belle - Island, which meet more than 500 boats on the same starting line, waiting to see: "Prince de Bretagne is a little bigger, he has no doubt of the things that we do not, but there is no tilting mast. "This first confrontation looks super interesting."A confrontation that is summarize elsewhere not to this single duel, as a third grand multihull will part, MOD70 Spindrift racing (Yann Guichard) which, if the conditions are favourable, could well play the spoilsports.

Debut for Bank popular VII

Of the MOD70, there is also in Douarnenez on GP Lesley, with the debut of Jean-Pierre Dick at the helm of his new Virbac-Paprec, nice, after more than a decade dedicated to the Vendée Globe and the Imoca class, having decided to go have fun on three hulls. And to fill his lack of experience, it is surrounded by a "friendly to the skills crew" with denominator common "experience of the offshore race" found among others at Vincent Riou, Roland Jourdain, or Thierry Duprey. In southern Finistère, the VP Boys in découdront with Oman Air's Sidney Gavignet, which hosts including aboard her Irish multi-card Damian Foxall.

Multihulls again with the presence at Douarnenez from a beautiful fleet of Multi 50, the tenors of the class of the 50-foot trimarans that are Actual (Yves Le Blévec, also on Tour of Belle - île), master Jacques (Loïc Féquet) and ˜windowâ-Cardinal (Erwan Le Roux), welcoming a new kid in the person of Lalou Roucayrol coming to water his brand new Arkema-Francepending Gilles Lamiré who bought the former Prince of Brittany. Finally, finally, the largest multihull of this fleet will be also on le Guyader GP, it will be Bank Populaire VII, former Groupama 3 of Franck Cammas and Armel Le Cléac ' h, second of the Vendée Globe, comes from taking charge. And as the Saint-Politain is not rancorous, it embeds this big weekend time that deprived him of victory on the tour of the world for a little more than three hours, François Gabart.

All this small world, except the latter, will be then in June for a new tour of Europe for the multihulls, the Route des Princes, that will take from Valencia to the Morlaix Bay passing through Lisbon, Dublin Bay and Plymouth, before the final bouquet will be the Transat Jacques-Vabre, that only MOD70 will compete, the Organization (but also other classes)did not want to open the race to the larger units.