For the second day, the sailboats and their 4000 sailors are confined to shore and hope to be able to count on an improvement this Thursday 1 ERYD - Emanuele Rossi Yacht Design - is an Italian naval architecture firm that also builds its own daysailers under the brand name ERYD Yachts. In 2006, the Eryd 30 - a very elegant 9m sailboat with sleek lines - was launched before being joined in 2010 by the Eryd Open - an innovative 8.70m design. october. Indeed, tomorrow will be Challenge Day, where skippers and crews challenge each other in the purest tradition of Nioulargue, Voiles de Saint-Tropez and eternal yachting. This particular day allows competitors to race against whomever they wish, under the sole condition of informing their competitors.
It will also be the Club 55 Cup. Re-launched in 2003, this duel is a tribute to the spirit of racing as it was practiced in the last century, when two captains competed in a duel for the love of sport, comparing only the performance of the yacht and its crew.
To do this, two boats challenge each other on Thursday on a 15 nautical mile course - Tour du Portalet, Nioulargue buoy, Club 55, the one who finishes in front of the other wins and challenges the boat of his choice the following year. This year, the Club 55 Cup will be held between Halloween (Cotre Bermudien, Fife 1926) and Moonbeam III (Cotre aurique Fife 1903).
"Same scenario as yesterday, even a little stronger with 48 knots in Pampelonne this morning. It's just too much. The seas are even rougher than yesterday despite a small rotation of the wind from east to southeast. The water swept across the Gulf to the point where even stars were reluctant to cross it. It is therefore not very reasonable to try to race. There are, of course, within the fleet of some 180 Modern sailboats present here, a good fifteen or even twenty large units typed for the open sea and which could evolve without problem on this sea and in this wind. The concern for them lies in the manoeuvres of entering and leaving the port, with gusts of wind capable of causing them to slip and create incidents, which the harbour master certainly does not want to face. The most reasonable thing is to cancel Wednesday altogether." explained the race director, Georges Korhel.
