Our Mate Alex Thomson’s Races
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Come on, keep it up and don't break the bloody thing….
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Alex is still in the lead.
Jérémie Beyou is slightly behind him, by 2.8 miles. This is impressive because his boat, Maître Coq, is of the previous generation. I think that she's been upgraded with foils.
Sébastien Josse, on Edmond de Rothschild, is also in the chase, and trails Alex by 10.8 miles. He's following Beyou, though. The boat, which is occasionally referred to as Gitana (the team's name), is one of the latest generation.
Alex lost a lot of miles yesterday because his autopilot disengaged at 28 knots, and forced the boat into an emergency crash tack! There's a video on his Facebook page with all the details, but the short version is that a GPS failed, and caused the system to go down. Thankfully nothing was damaged, except his lead.
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You can follow Alex's progress here. He's now lost the lead….
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It's really to do with the wind. When looked at the weather on the tracker earlier, it was very week.
Alex said in one of the podcasts that he got separated from the other leaders when he wiped out with the GPS failure. So now he's sailing in a different bit of the sea.
Fingers crossed that he finds some breeze.
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Alex, if this is not a sponsor obligation I'd be very worried….
https://www.facebook.com/AlexThomsonRacing/videos/1439553842725330/
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An article about the new Hugo Boss. Doesn't sound like a pleasant place to spend 80 days.
http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/92713-92713
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The Vendée Globe kicks off this weekend.
Yachting World have posted an article about Alex's boat, along with a video interview of Stewart Hosford, MD of Alex Thomson Racing.
There's also a tour of Edmond de Rothschild by Sébastien Josse. She's sort of a sistership to Hugo Boss, though Alex's boat is more radical.
