Your videos deserve WAY more likes than what they receive. C'mon people, likes are very important to RUclipsrs ! This is a great channel ! Show your appreciation.
Subscribed. Thank you and well done. On Alex sailing conservatively... he said in a recent video interview that Sir Robin Knox Johnson had told him over and over again "If you want to finish first, first you have to finish." He made him write it on his first boat hull. Plus Alex has many sensors on board to know when he is pushing the boat towards the engineering envelope and not exceed it.
I know nothing about sailing, but thanks to your brilliant videos I am now absolutely fascinated by it! You have a very good way of explaining everything, so that even the more technical aspects can be understood by someone like me. Great stuff! Can't wait to watch the next one!
Same here! Really appreciate these videos helping us to understand. This VG is my first exposure to sailing and I've become obsessed! Lol. I am frequently lost due to all the jargon, and honestly having no idea how all these things work except the basic "wind pushes them", but I'm learning a lot.
One more thing that obviously contributes greatly to the labour intensiveness of the tack or gybe is the "stacking" of sails and other gear to the new windward side of the boat. I think Pip Hare said recently that she had about 500 kg of stuff to move during every manoeuvre! Love your coverage on the race by the way. I watch every show!
Wow re gybe procedure! As a small boat sailor/racer that has not been/kept up with ocean racing ... I have been very educated!! I had no idea the time, etc. and so, have been baffled about the conversation around gybe/tack procedures. Thank you!
Hi Florian. I took your advice to 'find some wind' so I aimed at what is left of Theta. I over took 50,000 people last night and am now 292,061 st place!
THANK YOU for doing this, fantastic info and a great partner to the official Vendee Globe reports. I watch both and find new and interesting info in both. You bring a great perspective and I will be here every day!! Thanks again - and subscribed!! AND always enjoying my coffee!
Love your channel! And I know it’s much more work, it would be so cool to have a little more pics and vids cut in. I learn a lot, and love good lectures, but videos or or even stills (eg talking about the lead and the boat w no foils, just a quick picture would be cool) help entertainment as well as learning. That being said, this is great and I’m just bingeing the whole VG stuff. 🙏🏽
Great review and in depth discussion on sailors that I'm not so familiar with. Hopefully not a daft question but as a sailor that has had the misfortune to go over the side I wonder how on earth at these speeds even with safety lines they'd get back aboard?
Thank you Sea Wolves for this great perspective on the Race . What a performace by Le Cam . Made me think of your run down of the three diffent classes of Boats and how there are cirumstances where the traditionan hulls from previous gendres ie, LeCam's dagger board hull does not seam to have such disadvantage. I don't know why . could you share why ? Ironic to see Alex racing his old boat .
In your weekly summary, would love to hear your commentary of the race while showing the race animated with the weather map for the week. Keep up the excellent content!
Excellent content and coverage on the Vendée Globe. I appreciate how you take the time to explain things in terms that novices and sailors who have never sailed or raced offshore, let alone in “blue waters” can easily understand. Especially so, when in comes to the trade offs that one has to make when sailing such a large boat singlehandedly. Your discussion on gybing and tacking was very much on point. I also liked your segment on Jean Le Cam. This could be a segment that you might want to do on your weekly summary of the race, that is to highlight a skipper that has had either a particularly good or bad week. Just for the sake of perspective, my comments are as someone that has raced as crew member on 70 foot ocean yacht and having done both a Pacific and Atlantic crossing. Currently, I am participating in the VR Regatta virtual eSailing of the race, which is an excellent way keeping up ones navigation and routing skills. I am using some of the same software that I use out at sea to do my analysis as you seem to be doing too, so I am also enjoying listening to your analysis and comparing our thinking on the subject. Thank you again, keep up the good work. Cheers! PS: I am usually listening to your video while having my morning coffee.☕️🙂
Wonderful run-through again, thank you for all the hard work you're putting in. It's paying off brilliantly. Can you please cover how the skippers avoid other vessels and objects in the water? Assuming they have alarms coming from Radar and AIS and GPS. Are race spec Radars able to detect objects that are semi-submerged just below the water? MAny thanks
Great coverage guys. Just logged onto Sea Wolves TV, paid a modest amount of money for the hard work you are putting into this in my opinion, and I am now a Sea Wolves Nerd! Put it towards the new microphone. Kind regards Brent (by the way, my delicious beverage is a Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz at this time of night, Cheers!).
you do a much better job than those ladies in the vendeeglobe lives !!! it's like I know more than them fcs ! and you are very articulate ! thumbs up !
Thanks for your input for every nerd around in this business. Amazing videos and ideas. Juts let me suggest you to go deeper into two points 1) completely unusual meteo context for the start (we usually expect to see the whole pack at the doldrums at this stage 2) my perception that a) the leading-pack regular boats (straight-daggerboard boats), as the Le Cam boss, are doing their best (close their 100% tactical and meteo performance), b) the “Hugo Boss” is doing his best meteo tactics out of the red zone of risk, perfect but still conservative and c) the other new boat-designs are pushing since the very beginning with full-confidence in their design performance, choosing their options on their reaching high-speed options. I think it is a question of conservative strategies for Boss and perfect meteo strategies for We Can.
With less than 2K nm done, and over 22K nm to go a few miles between first and second are insignificant. Especially considering the tail end of the fleet are 700 or 900 nm behind the leader
Only flaw with the videos is that it’s always the evening here when they drop - could you wake up at 3 am so I can raise my morning coffee with the videos 😅
Can you inform us on the vendee rules please.....do they use race comittee weather forecast? I know they can not use a on land routeplanner ....which electronic aids are they allowed to use?
May i suggest that the conditions suit Cam and it is Alex who is sailing a blinder to keep his boat pegging with him. Once conditions suit HB we may see a huge diference.
I see you view. And I'm not saying its not Bad luck also. It's just. There is a reason we don't see some of the boats push far beyond 20 knots of boat speed in the first 5 days. Jeremy was the only one doing that, going 25/26 regularly. It makes a difference if you hit something at 17/18 knots, or at 25/26 knots. If Jeremy had gone through with not issues at all, I would have complimented him on taking the bravest approach and not holding back. But that also means I have to be consistent and mention he's different approach if there is a good chance that it contributed to the extend of the damage to his boat. I'm not saying it did, but there surely is a chance that it did. Alex has been saying that it is front of his mind all the time... IN order to finish first, you have to first finish! There is a reason he is being extra careful.
Good job with the video. About tacking and jiving, is the maneuver programmed into the auto pilot to control rate and direction, then the sailor concentrates on the sails, ballast, keel, etc? Or, how does it work?
Iwould appreciate to also learn more about the other participants. In particular, how do you think Seaexplorer with Boris Herrmann is doing so far. I would be interested in your view. Best Jens
In the beginners session, can you please explain what trimming is and what it is doing? That's the winch thing I think? Thank you for your time, I'm a total non sailor but I'm glued to the vendee globe
Red indicates the boats position has fallen back from the leader, Green says the boat's gained on the Leader and Grey means situation remains the same, since last reported...I think!
They're following/chasing ideal wind conditions (ie the trade winds) - sometimes that means that it looks like they're sailing further than they should - download one of the decent weather apps like Windy or PredictWind and have a look - actually very interesting for a weather nerd! 😁
It depends who he happens to be clicked on at the time I think - if you see on the list, his name is highlighted pink. If you can see though, it is a little bigger than le cam - the foiling boats have little ‘wings’ on their icons.
Would it be legal to have a keel with wings that have a bulb at each end, pumping something heavy like mercury from one bulb to the other? I think you just said that's what they do.
Considering the amount of time they spend on port, are these Imocas built asymmetrically at all? Perhaps a tougher starboard foil? Also, we've seen DMG Mori 1 suffer a main rip already, why don't the sailors carry an additional mainsail for these situations? I understand it's a lot more weight, but is it not worth it if something such as this happens?
Do you think the designers are getting the balance of weight and strength right yet? It seems skippers are having to hold back a lot for fear of breaking something. Another really interesting and informative video, thank you
That has more to do with the fact that the atlantic in particular is fullll of trash!! So they are mostly carefull not hit anything, or keeping their speed a bit down so, in case they do hit something, the damage is not fatal.
Jeremy Beyou hit a floating object which broke one of his rudder his ending of the race had nothing to do with bad weather and too much pushing of his boat. He was then crossing 25 knots wind which is absolutely no big deal.
The situation was more complex than that. First 'a sheet block tore off, which sprayed carbon all over the cockpit' while he was inside fixing it he hit something damaging the rudder and did an unintentional gybe and then starboard backstay (cable that supports the mast from the rear) broke suddenly. See the report on the vendee globe site. Arguably the first and third of these incidents are down to gear failure due to stress.
@@williamshimell2940 Really nothing complex, one of the rudders hit something, the boat jibed as a result and consequently one backstay broke. A damaged sheet block can be replaced without returning to port, not a rudder. on 2 month race all racers can tell you there is one problem every day at least. Anyway the initial claim was that Beyou broke his boat because he had pushed it too much... That is BS.
Great video! I was wondering if each of the sailors/boats have a set time for broadcasting short videos of themselves? Do they all have setups for broadcasting? Where can we see their broadcasts? Do they use drones? Also, are there helicopters or other outside sources videoing the boats on a regular basis? Thanks.
What is the purpose of wide image ratio of your videos? It means cropping content you show - Vendee footage or whatever you show on screen - that all is most likely 16:9. Just a suggestion.
Your face looks to be slightly out of focus. Auto-focus systems generally have an option for "spot" or "area" possibly "face". Otherwise, keep up the good work.
Yes the boats are fitted with "canting keels" for which the angle is adjusted by hydraulic rams to give optimum heel - in addition, the foils also give righting moments (the lee foil in the water gives lift, while the windward foil in the air adds outboard weight) - the canting keels are game-changers but are obviously more delicate compared to their fixed counterparts - incredibly strong but incredibly vulnerable! Enjoy the race!
Thanks for reply. In case of the foiling imocas you get wide cantilever with lift, similarly to catamarans or America's Cup foilers, which don't have a keel at all. Moreover the foils and hulls are constructed for a certain optimum heel (i guess Hugo Boss with the circular foil design is more flexible)
The fastest boats should be able to hit higher downwind speeds than you said... as far as I checked it looks like: old boats 12-16 kts, upgraded boats 16-24 kts, modern ones 26-34 kts. We will see during the race ;) Nice video!
So what. He is the most unbelievable guy you could ever met. He is Neptune. But not let’s forget get. They all are. !! Most challenging race on earth 🌍 . Good speed..❌❌🇬🇧🇬🇧🎸🎸💪💪🏁🏁
Just from watching him, he seems very salt of the earth (or of the sea, perhaps!), and from what I've gathered he's not necessarily interested in the kind of networking and ass-kissing that that entails. He just wants to sail, dammit! I think perhaps some also think he's too old. They think he won't be able to do it physically, so they don't think he can win and thus don't want to sponsor him. Which he's proving is BS! As he said in a French interview, "Papy fait de la résistance !" (Grampa's resisting! - also a reference to a famous French film of the early 80s)
I guess they must have water desalination systems... They obviously don't have clean clothes for 3 months, so they must do laundry. But you don't want salty underwear rubbing against your skin ... So many other everyday questions that are too obvious to think of
You can buy merino wool base layers. These things just do not smell. As a test once I used a merino wool top as a base layer to cycle to work. It got seriously sweaty twice a day but did not smell even after a month. The white salt patch just got larger when dried every day.
@@bettycamacho7084 The more interesting question is *HOW* they do it! Lol I read a French article on that. It can be a complicated affair apparently, but basically they usually have a bucket to do that in. It's the only waste they are allowed to throw overboard, in bags made from a kind of starch, which dissolves within 24 hours in the water. The rest of their trash they take back with them.
I've seen tours of a couple of the boats and they do have desalination units on board. It tends to be a slow process, though - drip, drip, drip, into a very small reservoir. No idea about laundry, though. A couple of them mentioned today that they needed showers after a week (Rouvas' video was hilarious, but so were his others!) and several of them said it felt good to change clothes finally after the chaotic first week.
I think the specific and special instrument Cam is using better than anyone else can be found between his ears.
Without a doubt this is the best coverage of the race. Thank you!!!
Your videos deserve WAY more likes than what they receive. C'mon people, likes are very important to RUclipsrs ! This is a great channel ! Show your appreciation.
As a landlubber, this is the fourth Vendee I am watching closely. Thanks to you this one is the first I actually understand!
Subscribed. Thank you and well done. On Alex sailing conservatively... he said in a recent video interview that Sir Robin Knox Johnson had told him over and over again "If you want to finish first, first you have to finish." He made him write it on his first boat hull.
Plus Alex has many sensors on board to know when he is pushing the boat towards the engineering envelope and not exceed it.
I love sailing and absolutely love nerding out with you...1,2,3...keep up the fabulous work! You're the highlight of my Vendee day!
Cant say how much this channel enhances the race for me. Thank you for taking the time to explain so much.
I know nothing about sailing, but thanks to your brilliant videos I am now absolutely fascinated by it! You have a very good way of explaining everything, so that even the more technical aspects can be understood by someone like me. Great stuff! Can't wait to watch the next one!
Same here! Really appreciate these videos helping us to understand. This VG is my first exposure to sailing and I've become obsessed! Lol. I am frequently lost due to all the jargon, and honestly having no idea how all these things work except the basic "wind pushes them", but I'm learning a lot.
I heard that Jean Le Cam is called “le roi Jean” in France. King Jean. I hope you mention that he’s 61 years old. What a champion!
One more thing that obviously contributes greatly to the labour intensiveness of the tack or gybe is the "stacking" of sails and other gear to the new windward side of the boat. I think Pip Hare said recently that she had about 500 kg of stuff to move during every manoeuvre!
Love your coverage on the race by the way. I watch every show!
No prob sea Wolve! Your work is so much appreciated!
many thanks for sharing your passion. awesome productions. clearly you enjoy.
Loving watching your subscribers grow. Keep up the good work.... Please. You are the best we are seeing. Talofa lava from Samoa.
Excellent content. Really enjoy the way you bring the race alive. Thanks.
Wow re gybe procedure! As a small boat sailor/racer that has not been/kept up with ocean racing ... I have been very educated!!
I had no idea the time, etc. and so, have been baffled about the conversation around gybe/tack procedures. Thank you!
I’ve loved watching Boris Herman too, would be great to hear your thoughts on his performance.
Looking forward to your future endeavors... But for now your focus on the Vendee has been great. Keep up the good work. Thank you
Hi Florian. I took your advice to 'find some wind' so I aimed at what is left of Theta. I over took 50,000 people last night and am now 292,061 st place!
Love the longer videos! Much appreciated! Look forward to your future vids
Gotta say I never sailed before but this channel is helping me learn
Just wanna say thanks for a really great show and now my go-to for my Vendée updates. Keep up the great work !!
THANK YOU for doing this, fantastic info and a great partner to the official Vendee Globe reports. I watch both and find new and interesting info in both. You bring a great perspective and I will be here every day!! Thanks again - and subscribed!! AND always enjoying my coffee!
Great content, thank you so very much for creating and sharing! Cheers!
Great insight. . . Relatively new to sailing and learning fast from you vlogs! 🤙
Love your channel! And I know it’s much more work, it would be so cool to have a little more pics and vids cut in. I learn a lot, and love good lectures, but videos or or even stills (eg talking about the lead and the boat w no foils, just a quick picture would be cool) help entertainment as well as learning.
That being said, this is great and I’m just bingeing the whole VG stuff. 🙏🏽
Great review and in depth discussion on sailors that I'm not so familiar with. Hopefully not a daft question but as a sailor that has had the misfortune to go over the side I wonder how on earth at these speeds even with safety lines they'd get back aboard?
I rode on a ferry several times, do I qualify as a seawolf?
Thank you Sea Wolves for this great perspective on the Race . What a performace by Le Cam . Made me think of your run down of the three diffent classes of Boats and how there are cirumstances where the traditionan hulls from previous gendres ie, LeCam's dagger board hull does not seam to have such disadvantage. I don't know why . could you share why ? Ironic to see Alex racing his old boat .
In your weekly summary, would love to hear your commentary of the race while showing the race animated with the weather map for the week. Keep up the excellent content!
Great idea for next week :)
Excellent content and coverage on the Vendée Globe.
I appreciate how you take the time to explain things in terms that novices and sailors who have never sailed or raced offshore, let alone in “blue waters” can easily understand. Especially so, when in comes to the trade offs that one has to make when sailing such a large boat singlehandedly. Your discussion on gybing and tacking was very much on point.
I also liked your segment on Jean Le Cam. This could be a segment that you might want to do on your weekly summary of the race, that is to highlight a skipper that has had either a particularly good or bad week.
Just for the sake of perspective, my comments are as someone that has raced as crew member on 70 foot ocean yacht and having done both a Pacific and Atlantic crossing. Currently, I am participating in the VR Regatta virtual eSailing of the race, which is an excellent way keeping up ones navigation and routing skills. I am using some of the same software that I use out at sea to do my analysis as you seem to be doing too, so I am also enjoying listening to your analysis and comparing our thinking on the subject.
Thank you again, keep up the good work. Cheers!
PS: I am usually listening to your video while having my morning coffee.☕️🙂
Thanks for keeping us informed,love it 👍
Wonderful run-through again, thank you for all the hard work you're putting in. It's paying off brilliantly.
Can you please cover how the skippers avoid other vessels and objects in the water? Assuming they have alarms coming from Radar and AIS and GPS. Are race spec Radars able to detect objects that are semi-submerged just below the water? MAny thanks
excellent commentary, no agenda towards your boy! Great Job all the way around.
Great coverage guys. Just logged onto Sea Wolves TV, paid a modest amount of money for the hard work you are putting into this in my opinion, and I am now a Sea Wolves Nerd! Put it towards the new microphone. Kind regards Brent (by the way, my delicious beverage is a Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz at this time of night, Cheers!).
Thank you :) Improvements will start to show early next week :)
Where is the link to sea wolves tv
@@oliversachs5094 in the description
Great coverage, excellent knowledge, great personality, love the cool relaxed attitude, 👍⚓
you do a much better job than those ladies in the vendeeglobe lives !!! it's like I know more than them fcs ! and you are very articulate ! thumbs up !
Thanks for your input for every nerd around in this business. Amazing videos and ideas. Juts let me suggest you to go deeper into two points 1) completely unusual meteo context for the start (we usually expect to see the whole pack at the doldrums at this stage 2) my perception that a) the leading-pack regular boats (straight-daggerboard boats), as the Le Cam boss, are doing their best (close their 100% tactical and meteo performance), b) the “Hugo Boss” is doing his best meteo tactics out of the red zone of risk, perfect but still conservative and c) the other new boat-designs are pushing since the very beginning with full-confidence in their design performance, choosing their options on their reaching high-speed options. I think it is a question of conservative strategies for Boss and perfect meteo strategies for We Can.
With less than 2K nm done, and over 22K nm to go a few miles between first and second are insignificant. Especially considering the tail end of the fleet are 700 or 900 nm behind the leader
Only flaw with the videos is that it’s always the evening here when they drop - could you wake up at 3 am so I can raise my morning coffee with the videos 😅
thanks for your expertise. it's enlightening to have your view on the race, weather, boats. enjoying.
Nice job. Thanks very much.
Excellent again. Thank you.
Congrats, great format. Full of expertise.
Can you inform us on the vendee rules please.....do they use race comittee weather forecast? I know they can not use a on land routeplanner ....which electronic aids are they allowed to use?
Can you explain the different sail options they have onboard? Great videos by the way!
you do a great job thanks
Mr Wolf, I love what you're doing, amazing content. But, the theme tune, it's so sad. Can we Captian Pugwash music instead ? Cheers.
May i suggest that the conditions suit Cam and it is Alex who is sailing a blinder to keep his boat pegging with him. Once conditions suit HB we may see a huge diference.
the best best best info about the race ... love it
Very good job, many thanks, even if i m not ok with your analyze about charal, it s a ofni issue, not thé result of too much push....
I see you view. And I'm not saying its not Bad luck also. It's just. There is a reason we don't see some of the boats push far beyond 20 knots of boat speed in the first 5 days. Jeremy was the only one doing that, going 25/26 regularly. It makes a difference if you hit something at 17/18 knots, or at 25/26 knots. If Jeremy had gone through with not issues at all, I would have complimented him on taking the bravest approach and not holding back. But that also means I have to be consistent and mention he's different approach if there is a good chance that it contributed to the extend of the damage to his boat. I'm not saying it did, but there surely is a chance that it did. Alex has been saying that it is front of his mind all the time... IN order to finish first, you have to first finish! There is a reason he is being extra careful.
Good job with the video.
About tacking and jiving, is the maneuver programmed into the auto pilot to control rate and direction, then the sailor concentrates on the sails, ballast, keel, etc? Or, how does it work?
Specifics of Cherel (sp?) damage would be interesting.
Youre a pro. Love it.!!
Iwould appreciate to also learn more about the other participants. In particular, how do you think Seaexplorer with Boris Herrmann is doing so far. I would be interested in your view. Best Jens
Tomorrow I will talk about Boris :)
Su perb updates, than you, really liking your content. This is my first Vendée, learning a lot 👍
In the beginners session, can you please explain what trimming is and what it is doing? That's the winch thing I think? Thank you for your time, I'm a total non sailor but I'm glued to the vendee globe
I second this!
The leader is the boat which has the least miles to the finish ,simples that is how it works and how it should
That's fine in a sport with a straight track, but not so much in a sport with tacking, with two stormy capes to get past.
@@TomLeg fine or not its fact
@@TomLeg from someone whos skippered over 300000 miles or more than most of these guys under sail !
I think that coffee needs to be a lot stronger. You can see right through it to the other side.....
what are the small triangles in the tracker :red, green, grey , is it the tack or gybe ?
Red indicates the boats position has fallen back from the leader, Green says the boat's gained on the Leader and Grey means situation remains the same, since last reported...I think!
This is nautical discourse. Put a tot of rum in your coffee!
This is my first time watching the race. I enjoy your updates.
Why do they sail so far away from the African coast?
They're following/chasing ideal wind conditions (ie the trade winds) - sometimes that means that it looks like they're sailing further than they should - download one of the decent weather apps like Windy or PredictWind and have a look - actually very interesting for a weather nerd! 😁
Hi, Why is Hugo Boss icon bigger than all the rest, are they to scale ?
It depends who he happens to be clicked on at the time I think - if you see on the list, his name is highlighted pink. If you can see though, it is a little bigger than le cam - the foiling boats have little ‘wings’ on their icons.
@@hannahwardle2503 Cheers Hannah, I realised that later. A bit of a DOH ! moment.
Good stuff again! May I recommend some decongestant?
Very good thanks but a little disappointed as I waited out the whole video for beginners tips to have run out of time 🤦🏼♂️
Would it be legal to have a keel with wings that have a bulb at each end, pumping something heavy like mercury from one bulb to the other?
I think you just said that's what they do.
Considering the amount of time they spend on port, are these Imocas built asymmetrically at all? Perhaps a tougher starboard foil? Also, we've seen DMG Mori 1 suffer a main rip already, why don't the sailors carry an additional mainsail for these situations? I understand it's a lot more weight, but is it not worth it if something such as this happens?
Delicious coffee ❤️
Do you think the designers are getting the balance of weight and strength right yet? It seems skippers are having to hold back a lot for fear of breaking something. Another really interesting and informative video, thank you
That has more to do with the fact that the atlantic in particular is fullll of trash!! So they are mostly carefull not hit anything, or keeping their speed a bit down so, in case they do hit something, the damage is not fatal.
One of the skippers said in a video that basically their newer boats are prototypes, so lots of stuff breaks. It's part of the innovation.
Great summary Sea Wolves although the video cut off partway through
Jeremy Beyou hit a floating object which broke one of his rudder
his ending of the race had nothing to do with bad weather and too much pushing of his boat.
He was then crossing 25 knots wind which is absolutely no big deal.
The situation was more complex than that. First 'a sheet block tore off, which sprayed carbon all over the cockpit' while he was inside fixing it he hit something damaging the rudder and did an unintentional gybe and then starboard backstay (cable that supports the mast from the rear) broke suddenly. See the report on the vendee globe site. Arguably the first and third of these incidents are down to gear failure due to stress.
@@williamshimell2940 Really nothing complex, one of the rudders hit something, the boat jibed as a result and consequently one backstay broke.
A damaged sheet block can be replaced without returning to port, not a rudder.
on 2 month race all racers can tell you there is one problem every day at least.
Anyway the initial claim was that Beyou broke his boat because he had pushed it too much... That is BS.
Great video! I was wondering if each of the sailors/boats have a set time for broadcasting short videos of themselves? Do they all have setups for broadcasting? Where can we see their broadcasts? Do they use drones? Also, are there helicopters or other outside sources videoing the boats on a regular basis? Thanks.
Where do they sleep? When do they sleep? How many people are on each sailboat?
This is all very interesting
1 per boat. They sleep when they can, in increments of about 20 minutes to half an hour.
Sea wolves wow this is absolutely incredible. Glad I stumbled upon this race. I’m in disbelief 😳
What is the purpose of wide image ratio of your videos? It means cropping content you show - Vendee footage or whatever you show on screen - that all is most likely 16:9. Just a suggestion.
it adds awesomenessss! :)
Your face looks to be slightly out of focus. Auto-focus systems generally have an option for "spot" or "area" possibly "face".
Otherwise, keep up the good work.
Great coverage! My only advise is to get a better camera. Unsharp most of the time.
Can you tell us why we cannot follow their positions on AIS ?
You can, their positions are just not updated constantly
Is there any equipment to help with the ufo hits? HB has hit things quite a lot especially.
sonar, some boats are using it.
@@SeawolvesTV Do you have info on how far does the sonar work? Going 25 mph you don't have much reaction time even with a 150 meter alert...
@@AJV55 about 150 meters I heard
Q: have the keels generally adjustable angle? How does heel trim differ between foilers and non-foilers?
The Hugo Boss boat has a canting keel. It can be used to right an overturned boat.
Yes the boats are fitted with "canting keels" for which the angle is adjusted by hydraulic rams to give optimum heel - in addition, the foils also give righting moments (the lee foil in the water gives lift, while the windward foil in the air adds outboard weight) - the canting keels are game-changers but are obviously more delicate compared to their fixed counterparts - incredibly strong but incredibly vulnerable!
Enjoy the race!
Thanks for reply. In case of the foiling imocas you get wide cantilever with lift, similarly to catamarans or America's Cup foilers, which don't have a keel at all. Moreover the foils and hulls are constructed for a certain optimum heel (i guess Hugo Boss with the circular foil design is more flexible)
excellent
Yes, Go make your coffee guys
Un déca à cette heure !
Na je dois manoeuvrer sur VR dans quelques heures ;-)
@@dyz6800 Tkt moi aussi j'ai un quart jusqu'a une h ;)
@@Hal-T9000 "DyZ" sur VR
long term weather predictions are more "speculative"
How can hitting and ofni is not bad luck? This can happen to Alex any time and is game over. I do not understand your comments on Jeremy
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Brill!
The fastest boats should be able to hit higher downwind speeds than you said... as far as I checked it looks like: old boats 12-16 kts, upgraded boats 16-24 kts, modern ones 26-34 kts. We will see during the race ;) Nice video!
Whats happens to end of life Imocas? Is there a market?
yes, most are sold, refitted and used again
Your auto focus on your camera isn’t working properly.
Yes yes, next week all of this will improve :)
Oh it's not just me then!!
Sorry if I missed this in the video. But, I've heard Jean le Cam had drama with sponsors, could anyone explain this to me?
He's an old man (61), now sponsors are going to young women
So what. He is the most unbelievable guy you could ever met. He is Neptune. But not let’s forget get. They all are. !! Most challenging race on earth 🌍 . Good speed..❌❌🇬🇧🇬🇧🎸🎸💪💪🏁🏁
Just from watching him, he seems very salt of the earth (or of the sea, perhaps!), and from what I've gathered he's not necessarily interested in the kind of networking and ass-kissing that that entails. He just wants to sail, dammit! I think perhaps some also think he's too old. They think he won't be able to do it physically, so they don't think he can win and thus don't want to sponsor him. Which he's proving is BS! As he said in a French interview, "Papy fait de la résistance !" (Grampa's resisting! - also a reference to a famous French film of the early 80s)
Auto focus !!!
Soon or later he will start to push the boat to the limit and broke it as always does ...
I guess they must have water desalination systems... They obviously don't have clean clothes for 3 months, so they must do laundry. But you don't want salty underwear rubbing against your skin ... So many other everyday questions that are too obvious to think of
haha, I was thinking about the bathroom question....if no time to sleep, when do they have time for you know the throne.
You can buy merino wool base layers. These things just do not smell. As a test once I used a merino wool top as a base layer to cycle to work. It got seriously sweaty twice a day but did not smell even after a month. The white salt patch just got larger when dried every day.
@@bettycamacho7084 The more interesting question is *HOW* they do it! Lol I read a French article on that. It can be a complicated affair apparently, but basically they usually have a bucket to do that in. It's the only waste they are allowed to throw overboard, in bags made from a kind of starch, which dissolves within 24 hours in the water. The rest of their trash they take back with them.
I've seen tours of a couple of the boats and they do have desalination units on board. It tends to be a slow process, though - drip, drip, drip, into a very small reservoir. No idea about laundry, though. A couple of them mentioned today that they needed showers after a week (Rouvas' video was hilarious, but so were his others!) and several of them said it felt good to change clothes finally after the chaotic first week.
opps , not 2008 Hugo Boss
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