On Friday, 11th December, the crew of the Maxi Banque Populaire V will leave the pontoons of Lorient for a delivery trip to Brest, where they will continue their stand-by for the record of the Trophée Jules Verne. Image copyright B.Stichelbaut/BPCE.
by Virginie Bouchet (in translation)
The crew of the Maxi Banque Populaire V will leave the pontoons of Lorient to head for the port of Brest, where they will continue their stand-by for an attempt on the record of the Trophée Jules Verne.
At 9h00 on Friday, the Maxi Banque Populaire V will leave with the complete team for the Trophée Jules Verne. The multihull, which was not able to leave Lorient recentla due to the bad weather and sea conditions, was at last able to take the opportunity of a weather window to sail with her thirteen crew.
Pascal Bidégorry, skipper of the maxi trimaran reflected on the departure: « We have finally decided to rallier le port de Brest because that enables us to sail with the copmlete crew and on the other hand to get us nearer to Ushant. For more than a month the conditions at Lorient have been very difficult and we have been kept on land. We should have good weather on Friday and not bad wind, 25 knots from the southeast, for leaving. We will arrive in Brest in the middle of the afternoon where we shall continue the stand-by. »
If the departure for the delivery on Friday is certain, it is not so for the « big departure » as Pascal says « for the moment there is no weather window on the horizon for which we would be able to leave for the record, so we still need to be patient for a while. »
Crew for the Trophée Jules Verne
Pascal Bidégorry, Ronan Lucas, Kévin Escoffier, Yvan Ravussin, Pierre-Yves Moreau, Xavier Revil, Emmanuel Le Borgne, Florent Chastel, Ewen le Clech, Thierry Chabagny, Erwan Tabarly, Yann Eliès et Jérémie Beyou
Banque Populaire V
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