jean33 a écrit :si avec six grandes oreilles il ne leur arrive rien de pire que de perdre une place à une marque intermédiaire, la légende va en prendre un coup
surtout que depuis le debut puma ne fait pas des étincelles dans les conditions légères
PS : tel blue n'ayant pas de français ils ont peut etre eux mêmes des plats de rongeur à leur bord
11 l..ins X 2 = 22 oreilles !!!! Ca commence à faire tout de même ! D'ailleurs ils viennent de se faire dépasser par Delta LLoyd !
En plus ils ont pas mal de voiles neuves ! Voir l'interview de Ken Read au début de la manche sur
Sailingword
In one of your e-mails during the last leg, you expressed your frustration with trying to pace the Ericsson boats, and said you'd like to "shake the tires off the bumper." What's left for you to get more out of the boat?
We can't do anything to the boat. The only speed producing stuff we can do is how we sail the boat, and the sails themselves. We have new ones this leg. There's a lot of changes to geometry, re-cuts. If you don't get faster at each stopover you're going to get shot out the back.
Which new sails for this leg?
On this leg we have four new sails, which is a lot: two kites, two headsails. We don't design our sails until we need them. We had a pre-race schedule of what we thought based on historical data. We've stuck pretty close to the model we had before the race started. You're only allowed 24 for the whole race, so you need to treat your sail button as if it's you're first-born child. It's really important. You can't just throw away a sail button, so each sail has to get better.
I think we're in better shape, physically, with our sails than anyone. We caught on early how brutal the UV would be in this race. We're going 30 percent longer and crossing the equator four times, not two. So the amount of UV exposure on these sails is ruthless. It's a brutal part of this race. That's the problem with the sails; it's not from a structural standpoint, it's just that the sun is rotting stuff all over the boat—sails, ropes, and bodies, too. You have to be careful of it.
Il y a aussi d'autres choses intéressantes dans cette interview !
PS. Si tu crois que dans les plats lyophillisé, on met du vrai l...n !!!
Penses-tu ! Ils croient bouffer du l...n mais en réalité c'est du ragondin ! C'est pour ça que le blue n'a pas d'ennuis !
