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  Groupama takes victory in Salvador de Bahia

  At 1853hrs local time in Brazil, 2053 hrs GMT, Groupama, the Open 60ft trimaran skippered by 28 year old Frenchman Franck Cammas, with Swiss co-skipper Steve Ravussin, crossed the line and thus took the final victory in the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre 2001, from Le Havre, France, to Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Groupama covered 5,188.6 (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 18 November 2001
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  Kingfisher-Foncia round first, Groupama 1hr27m later

  "Ascension rounded at 0010 GMT the 16th – We’re off!" said Ellen’s brief email sent to the Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar Jacques Vabre Race HQ over night from leading multihull Kingfisher-Foncia. One hour 17 minutes later, at 0127 GMT, the next ‘fax of deliverance’ came through. "Groupama here, we are (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 16 November 2001
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  Foncia squeezes ahead of Belgacom as Fuji stops dead & Groupama makes a pitstop

  Overnight, Fujifilm (Peyron/Mignon) has been trying to extricate herself from a dead wind zone in between the Canary Islands (Gomera & Hierro), while Foncia (Gautier/MacArthur) has squeezed ahead of Belgacom (Nélias/Desjoyeaux) by just 10 miles, as they both curved round the archipelago to the West. These two giant ‘Expresso (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 8 November 2001
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  Ecover reign supreme in the West

  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 7 November 2001
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  Sergio Tacchini retires to Port La Foret with substantial damage

  The Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar Jacques Vabre Race HQ in Paris has just received the news that Sergio Tacchini (Fauconnier/Proffit) is retiring to home base at Port La Foret in France. They managed to detail more of their incident this morning and here is a transcript of that explanation from their shore (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 6 November 2001
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  Groupama, Fujifilm & Belgacom, three green giants, streak into the lead

  As the 14 giant three-hulled speed Speed #speedsailing machines were towed out of the Paul Vatine Basin in Le Havre mid-morning to begin their 5,300 mile transatlantic drag race, the sky cleared, the breeze filled in from the North at 12 – 15 knots, and the sun lit up the bay off St. Adresse – all the finest ingredients for a (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 4 November 2001
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  Fourteen multihulls on the starting blocks

  Never in the history of ocean racing has a course attracted so many Open 60ft trimarans, nor so many potential winners. The entire multihull armada and with it the skippers of the moment are all lined up along one side of the docks in Le Havre, a truly impressive sight in (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 4 November 2001
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  Nineteen monohulls start in light airs

  The nineteen strong international fleet of 12 Open 60ft and 7 Open 50ft monohulls lined up for the start of the 5th edition of the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre finally set off from Le Havre, France on their 4,340m race to Bahia, Brazil at 1250hrs (French time) today under a crisp blue November (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 4 November 2001
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  19 MONOHULLS ON THE START LINE THIS SATURDAY

  The Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar Jacques Vabre has more than one victor, as there is more than one class, and so it’s time to zoom in on the monohull fleet, which will start from Le Havre at 1250hrs French time, destination Bahia, Brazil. Twelve Open 60’s will be joined by 7 Open 50’s: this 5th edition of the (...)
  Information Transat Jacques Vabre 3 November 2001
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  Team SOLLAC Atlantique - Joé Seeten & Éric Drouglazet (mono)

  Joé Seeten took part in the last Vendée Globe at the helm of past Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s red cigare. this year he has bought a three years old Open 60: Active Wear which did entered in Around Alone and the Vendée Globe (4th) whith Marc Thiercelin.
  Christophe Guigueno 2 November 2001

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