Solitaire du Figaro - Start of Leg three, fast track to Kinsale

4:30 PM Mon 9 Aug 2010 GMT

'Action packed start of Leg three in Brest' Courcoux-Marmara/Le Figaro

Solitaire du Figaro skippers, of which there are 44, left Brest today for a 349 miles long route bound for Kinsale. The start was hampered by the bulk of the fleet clustering the pin end of the line, causing individual recalls and several protest flags to be raised. Leaving the goulet de Brest prove to be as hard as expected with collisions, penalty turns and a boat actually hitting the rocks. Portuguese skipper, Francisco Lobato, rounded the Radio France mark in fifth position ahead of his fellow first time participants. Skippers left the pontoons from 11.00 waving goodbye to shore ...

Click here for full story.

by Sabina Mollart-Rogerson

Newsfeed supplied by

#News #Cruising

Cruising

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

Watch stints, handovers and sleep that holds up

Cruising

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Cross on slack or the first of the flood.

Nearby
Ooralea Racecourse (Mackay Turf Club), QLD	3 kn NNE	24°
Mackay, QLD	7 kn NNE	24°
Mackay Met Office, QLD	5 kn NNE	24°
Windiest in Australia
North Island, WA	25 kn SSE	17°
Most Windless in Australia
Tewantin, QLD	Calm	19°
Hottest in Australia
Wyndham Airport, WA	7 kn NW	30°
Coldest in Australia
Wandering, WA	4 kn NNW	-1°
Wettest in Australia
St Lawrence, QLD	72.2 mm

Solitaire du Figaro - Start of Leg three, fast track to Kinsale

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Live Weather

Nearby

Windiest in Australia

Most Windless in Australia

Hottest in Australia

Coldest in Australia

Wettest in Australia

(Other) Articles

Buy & Sell

Sabfoil

2024 Core Core Sensor 3S Pro Bar

Sunova Speed

2015 North Nugget

2024 Naish Odyssey

2023 Starboard Generation

2025 Goya Banzai 11X - 5.3M - 5.0M - 4.5M

Know before you go

Download the Seabreeze app for iOS or Android.

Weather

Activities

About

Other

Support