Jérémie Beyou: “We have a bit of a spirit of revenge”
Interview with Jérémie Beyou, the skipper of IMOCA Charal, who he is making ready to start the Transat Jacques Vabre with Christopher Pratt on November 7.
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Interview with Jérémie Beyou, the skipper of IMOCA Charal, who he is making ready to start the Transat Jacques Vabre with Christopher Pratt on November 7.
The Vendée Globe 2020-2021 prize giving ceremony took place on Saturday in Les Sables d’Olonne, and as such is a great opportunity for Tip & Shaft to take stock of this ninth edition, seen from the side of the skippers’ sponsors. The results can mostly be considered to be very positive, hence the desire of many to sign up for the next four years, most often with increased budgets and greater ambitions.
The new Imoca rule which will be applicable from 2022 to 2025, was voted on at the class association’s general assembly on April 15. To understand the main developments, Tip & Shaft tells more about this rule with some IMOCA experts.
Forced to retire from the 2020 Vendée Globe because of the dismasting of Corum L’Épargne, Nicolas Troussel relaunches his Imoca at the end of next week, three weeks before the start of The Ocean Race Europe on which he will compete with Sébastien Josse, Benjamin Schwartz and Marie Riou. Tip & Shaft spoke with the sailor from Plougasnou.
Two months after her return (out of the race) from the Vendée Globe, Sam Davies is now on course for the Transat Jacques Vabre, for which she should soon announce the “experienced co-skipper” who will sail with her on Initiatives Coeur. Tip & Shaft took this opportunity to chat things over with the British skipper who is determined to set out on a Vendée Globe campaign once again.
Between July 2022 and September 2023 it seems like as many as five round the globe races could set off in just about every conceivable format solo, double or crewed, mainly intended for amateur or semi pro sailors. Tip & Shaft look at the budgets, the contexts and the risks.
Although the ninth Vendée Globe is not yet finished many teams and skippers are already busy preparing for the next edition. Between new build projects and the already active second-hand market, Tip & Shaft takes stock.
Last Thursday, Yannick Bestaven won the Vendée Globe, crossing the finish in third place after Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton, but benefiting from a redress of 10 hours and 15 minutes for taking part in the operation to rescue Kevin Escoffier. With the first nine boats in, Tip & Shaft can draw the first conclusions from this ninth edition with comments from some skippers.
Vendée Globe : Yoann Richomme gives his analysis for the last miles of the race before the fleet arrives to Les Sables d’Olonne in a few days.
Twice winner of the Solitaire du Figaro, and the 2018 Route du Rhum in Class40, also skipper of the VO65 Racing for the Planet, Yoann Richomme gives us his technical and strategic analysis of the Vendée Globe.
As first competitors are crossing a very tricky weather system the Southern Pacific, Yoann Richomme gives us his technical and strategic analysis of the Vendée Globe.
Competing on the Vendée Globe, the America’s Cup with Emirates Team New Zealand, The Ocean Race with the new Imoca for 11th Hour Racing and a Class40 with a new Pogo built at Structures, clearly Guillaume Verdier’s collective is busy at the moment. The designer took time to answer questions from Tip & Shaft.
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