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Maxi Edmond de Rothschild takes line honours in Rolex Fastnet Race

• Helen Fretter
• August 9, 2021

The Ultim trimaran Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is first boat to finish in the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, while Skorpios is first monohull around the Rock

While the smaller monohulls faced a battle of attrition in the first 24 hours of the Rolex Fastnet Race , the crew of the 100ft trimaran  Maxi Edmond de Rothschild have made the 695-mile offshore course look easy, finishing first on Monday evening after 1 day 9 hours 15 mins and 54 seconds of racing.

As the majority of the fleet woke to another 20-knot day as they battled their way west along the English Channel this morning, the Gitana team on the leading Ultim were approaching the Fastnet Rock.

Having blasted out of the Solent as far south as Alderney, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild trimaran set up on a long port fetch towards Ireland, tacking around the Rock at 0800am. From there, they lit the afterburners, topping 40 knots on a fast reach back towards the Scillies.

Maxi Edmond de Rothschild leaving the Solent. Photo: Mark Lloyd/Gitana

Charles Caudrelier and Franck Cammas smashed the previous race record for the 2019 edition into Plymouth, and have now also set the new benchmark course time for the Cowes-Fastnet-Cherbourg route. 

There was much controversy over the decision by Rolex Fastnet Race organisers RORC to move the finish from Plymouth to Cherbourg in France. But if validation were needed, the reception the giant trimaran crew received into Cherbourg-en-Contentin at 2024hrs will have been a positive early sign.

Spectators gathered on the breakwater, flares were lit, horns blasted and champagne sprayed. While not yet on the scale of a Route du Rhum or French ocean classic, as Cammas noted: “ There is a very good ambiance here – maybe a little bit more than if we finish in England.”

Franck Cammas celebrates Maxi Edmond de Rothschild’s line honours win in the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race Photo Paul Wyeth/Rolex Fastnet Race

The winners’ biggest gains came from their early decision to duck south, which put the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild team on the south west of the fleet.

“We did a very good job in tactics,” said Franck Cammas on the dock after finishing. “Charles and Erwan [Israël] did a good job in the routing to go in the south.

“And we had one very good shift, one good tactical call, to stay in south of Sodebo and Actual , and that put us more than 20 miles ahead, so we were not in the same wind. T hat’s why we finished so far ahead.”

Flat water for Maxi Edmond De Rothschild passing the Fastnet Rock Photo: Rolex

The run back from the Fastnet Rock was where the Ultim was able to really hit top speed, maintaining high 30-knot boat speeds until the Channel Islands. “ The wind was stronger than expected so we were very happy,” said Caudrelier.

“We smashed the routing on the way back, and the wind was forecast to decrease but until Gurnsey the wind was much stronger than [predicted]. It was good for us, we’ll have a good dinner in Cherbourg!”

Second boat home will be Yves le Blevec’s Actual Leader, due some five hours later, with Thomas Coville’s  Sodebo close behind.

The Ultims were not the only class to dive south on exiting the Solent. While the conventional yachts have plugged the usual tactical course along the English south coast, playing the tidal gates around the headlands, the largest trimarans and IMOCA 60s also opted to sail further mileage by heading south of the Casquets Traffic Separation Scheme. 

The IMOCA 60s Hugo Boss, Apivia and Charal heading west from Cowes after the Rolex Fastnet Race start Photo: Rolex

Charlie Dalin and Paul Meilhat on the IMOCA Apivia took the most extreme route, sailing to within 20 miles of the Paimpol peninsular of Brittany. The gamble paid off, and at Lands End Apivia was side by side with the ClubSwan 125 Skorpios , despite the Swan having more than double the IMOCA’s waterline length.

Initiatives Coeurs skipper Sam Davies explained why so many of the IMOCA fleet had chose the route: “Nico [Lunven, her co-skipper] had done a lot of work on the weather routing with lots of different models and pretty much all of our routing went that way, because we might get flat water in the Alderney Race, sheltered by the Channel Islands and be first into the west going current off the north French coast.”

Skorpios leads Rambler 88 in the Rolex Fastnet Race Photo: Rolex

As anticipated, the ClubSwan 125 Skorpios is leading the monohull fleet on the water. The largest boat ever to compete in the Rolex Fastnet Race was first monohull to round the Rock at 1818 on Monday night, after after 30 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds (leaving the record set in 2019 by Rambler unbeaten at 26 hours 45 minutes 47 seconds).

Last race’s line honours winner Rambler 88 had a challenging night of manoeuvres, ducking the tide closely around Lands End.  George David’s Rambler 88 took the east side of the Land’s End TSS, while Skorpios passed to the west, between the TSS and the Scilly Isles. 

However, Dalin and Meilhat on the IMOCA 60 Apivia stayed neck and neck with the giant Swan all the way to the Rock, rounding just 1 hour 5 minutes behind them at.

The Class 40 Project Rescue Ocean was leading class with skipper Axel Trehin before dismasting. Photo: Rolex

Elsewhere in the fleet the brutal conditions continued to have an impact, with over 70 retirements by Monday afternoon.

These included the leading Class 40, Project Rescue Ocean , which was dismasted off Lizard Point – the crew is unhurt and are making their own way to Cornwall.

With potentially significant breeze shifts and windspeed forecast to reduce as the fleet approaches Cherbourg, the IRC overall lead is likely to change. However currently the IRC leaderboard is topped by the Volvo Open 70, I Love Poland , which is 1st in IRC Zero. 

Published on November 16th, 2019 | by Editor

Maxi trimarans battle the South Atlantic

Published on November 16th, 2019 by Editor -->

(November 16, 2019; Day 12) – Having emerged unscathed from the past 24 hours of very strong winds and particularly rough head on seas, the four Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans in the 14,000nm Brest Atlantiques continue their crossing of the South Atlantic in upwind conditions averaging around 30 knots for the fastest on a course for Gough Island, located at the edge of the ice zone. Maxi Edmond de Rothschild continues to hold the lead today with 107 miles over second placed MACIF.

The worst of this second leg since the turning mark off Rio de Janeiro is over for the fleet who have been sailing upwind in 25-30 knots gusting to 40 and especially rough seas against them for the past 24 hours. It has been particularly punishing on both the boats and the sailors.

Despite these testing conditions, average speeds remain high and particularly for the leader, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, who, in seas of up to 3 metres, is able to free itself from the waves and literally fly over them.

With peaks at over 30 knots between the 4am and 8am rankings today, Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier eased slightly between noon and 4pm (28 knots), which enabled trimaran MACIF (François Gabart/Gwénolé Gahinet) and Sodebo Ultim 3 (Thomas Coville/Jean-Luc Nélias) to reduce the gap (107 and 215 miles at 4pm), while behind, Actual Leader (Yves Le Blevec/Alex Pella), 489 miles away, is holding on (at an average of over 24 knots over the last four hours), aware of the need to go fast to stay in the same weather system as the others.

“They have a little pressure because they’re on the edge of the front, 35 miles from the wind shift, they have to be able to stay with the low going down to the southeast, but for now, they’re keeping up the pace,” explains Christian Dumard, the race director’s weather consultant. “The risk for them is to go to the wrong side of the depression, and in this case, their delay in Cape Town could go from about fifteen hours to at least two days.

“They are still going down in a little less sea than yesterday, it’s a little more manageable, but it’s still very hard, they’re going to have these conditions until Sunday night included. They are all on course for Gough Island, the island just at the edge of the ice zone, which they will leave to starboard before rounding the high which should be pretty fast.”

According to the routing, the first duo could reach Gough Island overnight withing the next two days, then arriving in Cape Town, the second and last mark they need to pass, by November 20.

Event details – Race brochure – Tracker – YouTube

The race sends these doublehanded speedsters on a course from Brest that will turn at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Cape Town (South Africa) before returning to Brest. The Ultim Class is for trimarans with a maximum length of 32 meters and a maximum width of 23 meters.

The turning marks will see the boats leave to port the chain of Cagarras Islands, in front of the famous Ipanema beach in the Bay of Rio and Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.

It is an unprecedented course, lined with several weather traps, especially along The Cape, a route almost never taken in offshore racing.

Each entry will be skippered by four fantastic pairs and accompanied by a media man who is not allowed to take an active role in the performance of the boat. The teams are:

• Actual leader: Yves Le Blévec/Alex Pella • Maxi Edmond de Rothschild: Franck Cammas/Charles Caudrelier • Trimaran Macif: François Gabart/Gwénolé Gahinet • Sodebo Ultim 3: Thomas Coville/Jean-Luc Nélias

Source: BREST ULTIM SAILING

Tags: Brest Atlantiques , Ultim Class

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The story of our maxi-trimaran’s design

A year ago, the entire Spindrift team was in the starting blocks, almost ready to unveil and launch our maxi-trimaran, freshly renamed  Sails of Change.  Not only the name changed, but the boat itself, with the addition of a new cockpit and the reduction of the central hull by 3 meters. In the meantime, a new challenge arose: to produce all the energy requirements onboard self-sufficiently.

To emphasize the team’s ambitions alongside Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard family values, the boat’s design was fully reinvented during this same refit period. The goal? To embark as many people as possible, sport and nature lovers, to make them discover the beauty of nature and join us in our navigations around the planet. In the meantime, the maxi-trimaran, the biggest racing multihull in the world, had to integrate Sails of Change’s colors, while carrying the #30×30 campaign, a global call to action aiming to protect at least 30% of the ocean and land by 2030.

We decided to work with French artist Jean-Baptiste Epron, whose job is to imagine, draw and design boat’s identities. A reference in the sailing world, Jean-Baptiste has created more than 350 boat designs, for teams that competed on the most prestigious races in the world. He actually designed most of the Spindrift boats. If you love racing yachts, you’ve probably seen a lot of JB’s designs without knowing it. 

To shine a light on his work, and give you an insight into the design process, we spent an afternoon with him in Brittany – France, where he took us in his office, to tell the story of the maxi-trimaran Sails of Change’s design. 

Watch the full video below, and jump into JB’s office. 

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