Our Mate Alex Thomson’s Races

[Giles]

I'm getting very excited atm.  The plan is that Alex brings BOSS over next Saturday, with a Naval escort.  Then she get's lifted out of the water at our biggest local marina, then its party time.  It may will get messy….

[Seul]

Sounds brilliant!.. Bring a good camera with a loaded battery and don't toss it in the sea, will ya?..

[Giles]

[Alex]

[Giles]

Alex is probably drinking with Alex as I type…....

[Finn666]

cheers Alex and Alex

[MikeC]

Congrats Alex.  The UK should very proud….

[Giles]

And the after gig party is being run by our friend Sarah (many of you who have been to Gosport, will have already met), and our Alex is the event manager…..

[Giles]

Love this quote from Jean Le Cam….

“This Vendée Globe was very difficult, especially towards the end. There has been very few good moments, but because they were so rare, they were exceptional. When you spend four days off the coast of Brazil so shaken you can’t have coffee or piss, the slightest calmer moment feels so great. The contrasts is the most important.”

[Finn666]

@Giles:

…and our Alex is the event manager.....

so this is going to be his venture into independence?…

[Giles]

Partly…

[Graeme]

I'm toying with making the pilgrimage to Gosport on Saturday. Anyone else going?

[Giles]

Me, Paula and Simon for def….DO IT.....

[Graeme]

Let me see, a day ogling an Open 60 or hanging around London.

Tough choice.

[Giles]

Had a "reasonably" boozy session with Alex tonight.

He is mentally in great spirits, a little run down physically and has lost a lot of weight.

Tomorrow is his "local boy does well" come back to Gospit serenade,  I'm pumped…..

[Graeme]

@Giles:

He is mentally in great spirits, a little run down physically and has lost a lot of weight.

Think that the Vendee Diet would be a best seller. It's certainly effective.

[Graeme]

They got the boat back to Gosport yesterday.

[MikeC]

I just watched Alex Thomson on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.  Super interesting. Dude is definitely a bit mad (in a good way).

[Graeme]

Hugo Boss have signed up to sponsor Alex Thomson for another four years.

http://www.thedailysail.com/offshore/13/65779/0/hugo-boss-renews-its-sponsorship-of-alex-thomsons-imoca-campaign

Looks like we'll have another thread on the Vendee in 2016.

[Giles]

And the new deal gives Alex the flexibility to build a shiny new boat from scratch…....Personally, I was amazed at how well he did last time out considering his was an older generation 60.  That handicap really showed when he was in close quarters racing with one of the newer generation boats....