October 28th : facing new challenges !

Yesterday : debatings of the jury came to an end very late yesterday evening, not before 10.25pm. I will publish corrected results as soon as possible. Whereas jury members were debating about several protests, all the teams were invited to attend an oyster tasting and then a ‘Frenchie’ party. Cheese, pork meat products and French wine, all the necessary to make our international guest discover a part of French gastronomy.

Rankings after the first 6 races (worst race discarded) :

1. Portugal – UTL- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa — 10 pts
2. Italy – Centro Universitario Sportivo Milano — 15 pts
3. Ireland – Cork Institute of Technology — 16 pts
4. France – IUT/IST/UBS de Vannes – Groupe Atlantic — 18 pts
5. USA – U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Team — 20 pts
6. Switzerland – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — 29 pts
7. Scotland – Aberdeen University Sailing Club — 33 pts
8. Norway – Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway — 34 pts
9. England – Great Britain Solent University — 38 pts
10. France – X-Course Au Large, Ecole Polytechnique — 39 pts
11. Japan – Kobe University — 47 pts
    

Today : crews are waking up under a sunny weather. I cannot see a single cloud from the SNT at 8am. Hopefully this nice weather is going to persist, it would be great to improve the tan of our crews ! Busy timetable for the competitors today : two rounds in the morning (start signal expected at 10:30am) and the start for a night race in the afternoon (probably around 4pm, will be confirmed later).

Update 1.39pm: the weather is still very good, but the wind is very light (NNW 7 knots). Here are the provisional results of the two first rounds:

Round 1:

1. Portugal – UTL- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
2. Switzerland – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
3. France – IUT/IST/UBS de Vannes – Groupe Atlantic
4. Italy – Centro Universitario Sportivo Milano
5. France – X-Course Au Large, Ecole Polytechnique
6. USA – U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Team
7. Scotland – Aberdeen University Sailing Club
8. England – Great Britain Solent University
9. Ireland – Cork Institute of Technology
10. Norway – Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway
11. Japan – Kobe UniversityRound 2:

Round 2:

1. England – Great Britain Solent University
2. Ireland – Cork Institute of Technology
3. Switzerland – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
4. Scotland – Aberdeen University Sailing Club
5. France – IUT/IST/UBS de Vannes – Groupe Atlantic
6. USA – U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Team
7. Italy – Centro Universitario Sportivo Milano
8. Portugal – UTL- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
9. Japan – Kobe University
10. Norway – Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway
11. France – X-Course Au Large, Ecole Polytechnique

Detailed results (provisional !!) atfter eight races (the worst one is discarded) :

Detailed provisional results

Update 6.25pm : the boats are currently near Taillefer. The Italian team is said to be far ahead. Small surprise as the Portuguese team would be quite late. The team of the Ecole Polytechnique is doing good : 5th at the moment. Right now, wind of around 18 knots with an agitated sea.

Sunset for the SYWoCers ! (Photo shot by Gilles)

Update 6.47pm : the Italian team reached the buoy of Basse Mer at 6.39pm still far ahead. They are followed by England, Switzerland and USA (they have just reached the buoy), the three of them very close.

Update 6.49pm : other teams have just reached the buoy : France (Vannes – Groupe Atlantic), Ireland and then France (XCL – Ecole Polytechnique).

Update 6.57pm : the last four teams are reaching the buoy, in order Norway, Portugal, Scotland and Japan. It is now completely dark. Hopefully we will not lose anyone !

Update 9.18pm : at last the (provisional as the jury has not received the protests yet) results of the last round of the day (the night race) :

1. Italy – Centro Universitario Sportivo Milano
2. England – Great Britain Solent University
3. Switzerland – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
4. USA – U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Team
5. France – IUT/IST/UBS de Vannes – Groupe Atlantic
6. Ireland – Cork Institute of Technology
7. France – X-Course Au Large, Ecole Polytechnique
8. Portugal – UTL- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
9. Norway – Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway
10. Scotland – Aberdeen University Sailing Club
11. Japan – Kobe University

The jury will debate tomorrow. Here are the provisional rankings after the 9 first rounds (the two worst scores are discarded) :

Provisional results (october 28th)