The Full Story - Brest Atlantiques
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2020
- Four 100ft trimarans sailed by just two crew each around a 14,000mile figure of eight course in the North and South Atlantic Oceans. Each boat regularly cruised at over 30 knots and hit top speeds well in excess of 40knots. These are incredible, awesome, overpowered, understaffed beasts and the world's fastest offshore machines.
If you're an early follower at PlanetSail you may have seen this story when we first put it out at the beginning of the year. But now we've blended the two parts together to make one full feature. We've polished it, tweaked it and re-edited it to create the full story of the Brest Atlantiques race.
The has to be one of the most extraordinary offshore races run in modern times.
Great Race, Incredible boats and crews. Thank you, enjoy our beautiful Ocean Planet.
Only thing that comes to mind is... God bless the crazy French sailors!
Never knew this kind of sailing existed, imagine the thrill of traversing across the surface of the worlds oceans at 40 knots, amazing! I subscribed. 😊
I noticed a difference in culture between France and Germany, finding a squid on the trampoline a German would have looked disgusted and dropped it immediately, the Frenchman rises his arms and runs for the garlic ! Those French off-shore sailors are really an incredible lot.
Looks like it might be a small shower here tomorrow....me going out to get the sunday papers. 3 layers of clothes including fleece and barbour. Wellington boots and golf umbrella...meanwhile the guys on these boats screaming along at 40knots plus in a hurricane with mountainous seas in their t shirts and shorts ".hmmm think we might tweak the genoa a tad" !!!!
I really like offshore racing, but I wish we could do something like the old tea races again. I've been thinking of a race where each boat has a full standard size inter-modal shipping container that they have to get from one port to another with product surviving. They could ship something like coffee or potatoes, something that doesn't get beat up toooo easily, but will be useful whenever it arrives. Green shipping as a sport. That's my idea. If the tech gets better, then maybe eventually the size of the boats and their cargo capacities could expand as well. It would be magnificent to see three to five masted dynariggged cargo ships zipping back and forth across the high seas, carrying products AND racing the clock, or each other.
No idea why, I’m as Aussie as they come but I love the French language: cheers for leaving it and adding subtitles.. btw, I have a little Farrier F9 extended to 32’ that does 30 knots, I love these big tri’s more than French.. Ave Gitana the formula 40 trimaran came up for sale last year, what a shit time to be asset rich and cash poor as I could just afford it if I sold my F9 but alas she’s gone.. maybe next time or if I live long enough for one of these to become affordable to the not so common man. Cheers for all the great video’s, I used to race +300 kph motorcycles now I get more excitement when my old F boat gets over 25 knots.
Great sailors. Hat off
Love watching these big tri’s. I remember watching a low res RUclips video years ago - “ultimate sailing”, that totally blew me away. That video was shot just before they capsized the boat. And it’s easy to see why. They were sailing right up to the edge! Huge seas, big wind, flying two hulls, as the boat contorted and slammed over the wave crests on a bad day in the Bay of Biscay. They were pushing it for all it was worth and capsize comes as no surprise. Well worth the watch despite the low res. Cheers
How they sail these monsters over this distance with just 2 crew is truly incredible.
Cheers Matt, love hearing you talk about sailing. Used to see you around, I sailed JOG and RORC with Malc Thprpe and later with Bottomley on Decasol after the 3/4 ton worlds. Happy days but these machines are something else. Andy UK
Excellent video, I just wish there was video of them doing maneuvers like jybing and tacking, showing what is involved in these maneuvers, how they trim and hoist sails would bring us to what it feels like to be onboard
Great video, they really are exceptional boats and not for the faint hearted, thanks once again.
Awesome Episode,... thanks again.
Absolutely brilliant, well done to all concerned, a regular series, maybe, how wonderful, so appreciated, cheers art
Loved it.
awesome video love your work
Most impressive!
Love to see them do the Sydney Hobart race.
A 100 foot boat getting up to plane! Exciting to think about.