IMOCA - Rankings on 27/11/2009 at 17:00 - Source: Jacques Vabre
| Rank | Boat / Sailor | Latitude | Longitude | Speed | Cap | Dist. But | Dist. 1er |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SAFRAN Marc Guillemot - Charles Caudrelier Benac | Arrival 11/24/2009 at 09:52:10, in 15 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 10 seconds at the average speed of 12.46 knots. | |||||
| 2 | GROUPE BEL Kito De Pavant - François Gabart | Arrival 11/24/2009 at 18:32:30, in 16 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes and 30 seconds at the average speed of 12.18 knots. | |||||
| 3 | MIKE GOLDING YACHT RACING Mike Golding - Javier Sanso | Arrival 11/25/2009 at 15:59:38, in 17 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes and 38 seconds at the average speed of 11.54 knots. | |||||
| 4 | FONCIA Michel Desjoyeaux - Jérémie Beyou | Arrival 11/25/2009 at 23:14:34, in 17 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes and 34 seconds at the average speed of 11.34 knots. | |||||
| 5 | W HOTELS Alex Pella - Pepe Ribes | Arrival 11/27/2009 at 12:41:44, in 18 days, 22 hours, 11 minutes and 44 seconds at the average speed of 10.41 knots. | |||||
| 6 | VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT Roland Jourdain - Jean Luc Nélias | Arrival 11/27/2009 at 12:46:00, in 18 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes and 0 seconds at the average speed of 10.41 knots. | |||||
| 7 | AKENA VERANDAS Arnaud Boissières - Vincent Riou | Arrival 11/27/2009 at 15:50:12, in 19 days, 1 hours, 20 minutes and 12 seconds at the average speed of 10.34 knots. | |||||
| 8 | AVIVA Dee Caffari - Brian Thompson | Arrival 11/27/2009 at 16:17:12, in 19 days, 1 hours, 47 minutes and 12 seconds at the average speed of 10.33 knots. | |||||
| 9 | 1876 Yves Parlier- Pachi Rivero | 10 15.06' N | 83 00.66' W | 8.5 | 242 | 16.1 | 0.0 |
| 10 | ARTEMIS Samantha Davies - Sidney Gavignet | 10 32.48' N | 81 42.88' W | 14.5 | 197 | 84.3 | 68.2 |
W Hotels, Veolia Evironnement, Akena Verandas & Aviva all reached the finish line today. This leaves only 1876 and Artemis still en route.
It is W Hotels 5th place finish that has really been impressive today, as the following press release explains:
Press Release from Jacques Vabre:
" Finishing in fifth, bookending Foncia and Veolia Environnement, the Spanish duo of Pepe Ribes and Alex Pella sailed a remarkable race considering this was their first race together, and they are relative beginners in the IMOCA Open 60 Class.....
Fast learners. They had only sailed on W-Hotels for few days together before the start of this Transat Jacques Vabre Race. They had never raced two-handed together, and only learned the IMOCA Open 60 on the Istanbul Race in the summer.
But Pepe Ribes and Alex Pella pulled off the coup of the race when they clinched fifth place today by just four and a half minutes ahead of Roland Jourdain and Jean-Luc Nélias, getting the best of an exciting final tussle over the final 24 hours.
In squally, intermittent winds which prompted big gains and losses through the final hours of this scrap for fifth to eighth places, the intensity was more akin to an inshore regatta.
W-Hotels passed Veolia Environnement three times since yesterday, the final time just half a mile from the finishing line. Sportingly, Ribes was apologetic to the Veolia skipper when they docked in Peurto Limon, drenched from the torrential tropical rain.
Their margin was just four minutes and 16 seconds after over 5,500 miles of racing and just two hours less than 20 days of racing.
At one point, when all four emerged from Stealth mode this morning W-Hotels were over 5 miles behind Veolia Environnement.
The Spanish pair were especially quick downwind, hard driving in the trades and the Caribbean, learning quickly what makes the former Paprec-Virbac. Pella, previously a top Mini 650 sailor, admitted they missed the option to push west with the trio who took the top three places, and that they made many small mistakes on their learning curve." Source Jacques Vabre. All Rights Reserved.
