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Direction d'où provient le vent par rapport à un bateau à voile, ex : Près, travers, reaching, vent arrière...
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Elément de gréement long accroché perpendiculairement au mât et sur lequel sont fixés la base de la grande voile, les écoutes...
Désigne deux pièces transversales rattachées à la coque centrale qui soutiennent les flotteurs latéraux du trimaran. Pièces légères mais robustes car sont soumises à de fortes pressions, notamment lorsque les flotteurs sont secoués par les vagues.
Zone du bateau dédiée à la navigation où se trouve la barre (direction), les postes de réglages de voiles...
Structure qui supporte le cockpit*, le mât et les voiles hissées ainsi que les bras de liaison qui eux-mêmes portent les flotteurs latéraux. Abrite aussi la cellule la vie où notre skipper dort, mange et travaille sa stratégie en contact avec la terre via ordinateurs. Par sa position structurelle et sa taille imposante, une des pièces les plus longues à réaliser.
Pose de couches successives de matière (type fibres en rouleaux...) pour épouser la forme d'un moule
Enfoncer l'avant du bateau sous l'eau dans un mouvement de plongeon
Câble qui maintient le mât par l'avant
Partie avant du bateau
Désigne les deux pièces latérales qui assurent la stabilité du bateau et sur lesquels sont fixés des safrans*, les foils et les éléments qui portent le gréement (mât)... .
Unité de mesure de vitesse utilisée en navigation maritime. 1 nœud (ou nd) = 1,852 km/heure
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Surface parallèle à l'eau qui réduit la portance généralement imposé à la coque / aux flotteurs
Rail fixé sur le bateau et dans lequel coulisse le point d'accroche de la grand-voile qui permet de régler son ouverture en fonction de la provenance du vent
Réduction de la surface d’une voile grâce à des points d'accroche à différentes hauteurs qui permettent de la replier sur elle-même. S'utilise notamment lorsque les conditions de vent forcisse, pour garder la maîtrise de la vitesse du bateau.
Partie immergée pivotante qui permet de changer la direction du bateau en déviant les flux d'eau sous la coque
Titre d'une chanson de Céline Dion et Garou :-)... Dans le champs lexical maritime, s'utilise pour situer un objet qui se trouve du côté opposé à celui d'où souffle le vent par rapport à un autre référentiel. Par exemple, si le vent arrive sur tribord, on dit que le flotteur tribord est « au vent » et le flotteur bâbord « sous le vent » par rapport à la coque centrale du bateau.
Hauteur de la partie immergée du bateau qui varie en fonction de la charge transportée
Hauteur de la partie émergée allant de la flottaison jusqu'au point le plus élevé du bateau
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Bateau à trois coques
Collectif définissant les règles de jauge des trimarans « Ultim », notamment la longueur (comprise entre 24 et 32 mètres) et la largeur (maximum de 23 mètres)
Vague formée à l'avant du bateau lorsque celui fend l'eau en avançant
Entreprise spécialisées dans la fabrication de voiles
Type de treuil permettant de contrôler la traction des cordages du bateau
Zone d'efforts subits par une structure entre des pièces rattachées en différents points et suite aux chocs reçus par ces pièces
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S odebo Ultim 3
Bienvenue dans les coulisses du team Sodebo et de son trimaran géant! Partagez avec nous cette aventure humaine et technologique hors norme
La coque centrale
"La silhouette de Sodebo Ultim 3 est unique. Le skipper est vraiment au centre du bateau"
Les bras de liaison
"Avec la cellule de vie située sur l'avant du bateau, nous avons fait le choix d'une structure en H. Découvrez de quoi il s'agit"
Les flotteurs
"A la construction,nous avons utilisé les moules d'un Ultim déjà existant, mais les avons fait évoluer au fil des chantiers, et notamment raccourcis pour installer des safrans rétractables"
Les appendices
"Les appendices sont des pièces en constante évolution car ils peuvent vraiment faire la différence en terme de performance, ils peuvent toujours être optimisés"
Le mât & les voiles
"Les voiles sont le moteur du bateau : parce qu'elles doivent être adaptées à toutes les conditions de vent, nous en avons fait fabriquer cinq, de 92 à 420m2"
Longueur de la coque centrale
Depuis le 07 janvier Débâchage de la Coque Centrale Peintures faites Anti dérapant fait Panneau éléctronique mis en place Début de la pose des plexis
Depuis le 28 janvier Fermeture trappe pont de la coque centrale cette semaine Première presentation de la bâche aéro Montage définitif des winches, accastillage, hydraulique
Depuis le 20 février Retouches peinture terminées Montage accastillage plage avant (amures) Stickage en cours Antifooling réalisé
Superficie de la cellule de vie
Depuis le 07 janvier Peintures faites Anti dérapant fait Début montage accastillage
Depuis le 28 janvier Pose des hublots Réception des plans d'amménagement intérieur
Depuis le 20 février Retouches peinture terminées Montage des bailles à boots en cours Aménagement intérieur en cours Accastillage et hydrauloque en cours de finalisation
Largeur du bateau
Depuis le 07 janvier Support éolienne en cours Supports de feux en cours
Depuis le 28 janvier Support éolienne à poste Démontage du rail de traveler pour finition stickage
Depuis le 20 février Support de jon buoy en cours Supports de feux posés Montage final accastillage traveler en cours Montage définitif du système de barre
Depuis le 07 janvier Début renforcement
Depuis le 28 janvier Strat de fermeture des renfort Début des retouches peintures
Depuis le 20 février Jauge fibre optique posée Retouche peinture en cours Montage bâche aéro inférieure en cours
de hauteur totale
Depuis le 28 janvier Contrôle ultra son état 0 fait Présentation à blanc de la belt sur le foil OK
Depuis le 20 février Les deux foils sont en place dans leurs flotteurs respectifs Reste à poser les butées hautes et basses
Hauteur du mât
Depuis le 28 janvier Mât entré dans le hangar Réalisation des supports composite
Depuis le 20 février Fin du câblage éléc et électronique Montage du gréement courant Montage des supports aériens
en position haute
Depuis le 28 janvier Montage des boîtiers de lattes Mise en place des lattes
Voile la plus grande
Depuis le 28 janvier J2 terminé J1 en cours de déco J0 terminé
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VIDEO: The launch of Thomas Coville’s radical new foiling maxi-tri Sodebo 3
Sea-trials commence imminently for Thomas Coville’s new ‘Ultime’ trimaran Sodebo 3. Meanwhile we thought you’d enjoy seeing the boat take to the water for the first time…
Article below posted 3 March 2019
Leading (and steering) from the front. Is Sodebo 3 the boat to retake the multihull single-hander record for Thomas Coville?
“This boat is crazy, it’s going to be like nothing you’ve ever seen before,” says Thomas Coville when we catch up with him at Helly Hansen HQ in Oslo a few days before the grand unveiling of his new 32m Ultim foiling trimaran. “To be honest, it frightens me a little bit, because I don’t even know how I’m going to be able to steer it or trim the sails.”
Hang on… that’s one of the world’s most experienced round-the-world yachtsmen talking. One of only five people in the world to single-hand a multihull around the globe – his 49 days 3hr circumnavigation on the 4 th attempt smashing the earlier record to pieces – and even he’s alarmed about what this latest €10m investment from long-term backer Sodebo has the potential to deliver.
Now we can show you why, because today – Saturday 2 March – Thomas has thrown open the doors to the yard in Morbihan, France, that’s built his new deep ocean weapon. Until now under a veil of extreme secrecy.
The boat many thought was going to be a sister-vessel to Banque Populaire is nothing of the sort. Far from a carbon-fibre copy of a racing yacht that came unstuck in such spectacular fashion in November when crashing water smashed off one of its sponsons, the new Sodebo 3 is more radical than anyone outside the team would have dared to presume. From the computer simulations at least, say Coville and the team that designed it, this boat has all the makings of a game-changer.
The triple hulls came from the same moulds as Banque Populaire, but that’s where the similarities begin and end. And here’s the thing we can’t hold out from mentioning any longer – the cockpit and cabin are at the ‘wrong’ end of the boat, which means Coville will be helming and trimming the mainsail from a position in front of the mast.
Sportscar enthusiasts familiar with the Porsche 911 will know that moving key components to the other end of a vehicle can produce startling – and winning – results, and in fact Sodebo 3’s unusual configuration stems in part from the fact its 12-strong design team had an automotive engineer on board who was familiar with Porsche’s race-winning Le Mans strategy. It also brought in expertise from the aviation world, as well as bringing together rival designers from the Oracle and Luna Rossa America’s Cup camps. (To begin with the latter ‘looked at each other like dogs and cats’, Thomas reveals with a grin.)
It’s a far cry from the traditional method of building a racing yacht, which generally starts with a commission from a single naval architect who will oversee the whole concept. And Thomas is reassuringly open about why the new boat happened this way: “It was Sodebo who said to me, look, we will do what you want, but it has to be done differently, because it’s no longer possible for one person to have all the knowledge we need for a project this complicated.”
So that was it, a team of 12 was convened, and a concept was dreamed up that redraws traditional thinking about how such vessels should be configured.
“They started by taking off the roof off the cabin so it was like an open boat,” says Thomas, describing the team’s first stab at getting the boom down to deck level, and thus eliminating the turbulence-inducing gap between sail and yacht that reduces efficiency by as much as 25 per cent. “Later we had a meeting when one of the engineers asked if I’d be OK with living and steering in front of the mast,” Thomas recalls. “Sodebo were there too, and they said immediately ‘yes, we want to do that, we don’t want to build an ordinary boat… so that was it.”
Sodebo 3 will take to the water for the first time in a couple of weeks, at which point Coville and his team will begin to find out whether the computer analysis translates into real world performance.
Increasing sail efficiency by 25 per cent has meant the mast height has been reduced by 3m improving stability, and the yacht’s radical design is said also to allow the boat to use smaller rudders – creating less drag.
The result is more speed. Enough speed, says Thomas, to keep the boat ahead of weather systems, and eliminating the traditional need to wait for a succession of depressions to catch the boat up. Sodebo 3 will be faster than the wind between low pressure zones, and for the first time we can choose the weather system we want to sail in, he reckons.
With sea trials commencing on March 14 th , the boat has a packed schedule ahead of it. Over the next four years there are three circumnavigations and 14 transatlantic races and record attempts planned – not to mention the Fastnet Race for which the boat is entered this August.
Will this be the boat to take Coville around the world in less than 40 days, and reclaim the multi-hull single-hander record in the process? This boat is the first of a new generation that makes that time-frame possible, he says, and has confirmed that will be the goal for both crewed and single-handed attempts.
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Video: Sodebo Ultim smashes round-the-world solo sailing record
The 31 metre trimaran Sodebo _ Ultim_ has smashed the record for a single-handed circumnavigation with French sailor Thomas Coville at the helm.
Sodebo Ultim arrived into Brest on December 26 to complete the voyage in 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38 seconds, shaving more than eight days off Francis Joyon’s record, which had stood for eight years.
This incredible achievement required Coville to sail across more than 28,000 nautical miles of open ocean on the bare minimum of sleep. Speaking after his arrival, the 48-year-old told Le Parisien : “Mentally I had my highs and my lows but I knew where I wanted to get to. Physically I could not have gone much further.”
Launched by Multiplast in 2001 as Geronimo , Sodebo Ultim is a former Jules Verne record holder. She was refitted in 2013 in collaboration with VPLP Design and now sports a full set of 3DI and NPL sails by North, which gave Coville a wide range of options for dealing with the varied conditions that he faced on his solo circumnavigation.
Sail designer Gautier Sergent worked in collaboration with sail coordinator, Loic Le Mignon and North Sails expert, Quentin Ponroy to design this flexible set-up.
Coville had made five previous attempts before breaking the record, and his 49-day solo circumnavigation now ranks as the fifth fastest round-the-world voyage by any sailing boat.
“Sailing these boats is tough, they are unforgiving,” he added. “If you lose your concentration for two minutes, the boat will take over, and you risk breaking equipment in what quickly spirals into life-threatening situations. You can not back off and 49 days of intense sailing is a long time to maintain your mental focus and physical strength.”
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Coville sets incredible new 49-day solo round the world record – with a blistering average speed of 23 knots
- Elaine Bunting
- December 25, 2016
French solo sailor Thomas Coville has succeeded in his fifth attempt to break the solo round the world record with an incredible time of under 50 days
Solo sailor Thomas Coville has pulverised one of the hardest records in sport: the single-handed round the world record. He took his 105ft trimaran Sodebo Ultim over the finish line off Ushant on Christmas Day to set a new time of 49d 3h 7m, smashing the record set in 2004 by Francis Joyon by an incredible margin of 8d 10h.
This new sub-50 day record is one that exceeded all expectations, including perhaps Coville’s himself. It equates to a mind blowing average speed of 23 knots over the entire 27,325-mile course.
The previous record, set by Francis Joyon record in the maxi catamaran IDEC, had stood for 12 years and had resisted three previous unsuccessful attempts by Coville.
Thomas Coville
Thomas Coville’s long quest to gain this record has been punctuated by disappointment and, on two occasions, the bitterest of defeats. His previous challenges have all ended in retirement through damage and, on two attempts he completed circumnavigations only to miss out on the record by days.
But this time Coville had good fortune to match his skill, and benefited from favourable weather that sped him south through the Atlantic. With one gybe he entered the first Roaring Forties low pressure system and managed to stay ahead of a cold front with the following wind angle and low sea state in which his boat performs best.
Coville had no hesitation in diving south, much further than the Vendée Globe yachts have been allowed to do, in pursuit of the right winds and best VMG. He crossed the Indian Ocean in just 8 days ,12 hours and kept going through the Pacific to Cape Horn in 8 days 18 hours.
To put this in context, compare those times to the fully crewed round the world record times. Crossing the Indian Ocean took Banque Populaire V 8 days 7 hours in 2011 and Spindrift 2 8 days 4 hours in 2015.
Such weather occurs perhaps once a decade – and it has taken Coville all these attempts to find and make use of it.
Thomas Coville breaks the solo round the world record on Sodebo Ultim
He made these speeds despite hugely difficult conditions. Through much of the Indian Ocean, Coville experienced 30-40 knots of wind and 10m seas. “We often sailed under three-reefed mainsail and J3. It’s exhausting,” he said. “Living with it is not easy, because you have to be very focused and available for the boat. You have to be outdoors; there’s a lot to regulate.
“The problem there is that either you have too much canvas, or not enough canvas. It is therefore necessary to accept that, at times, you are sailing underwater. Sodebo is big, but in troughs of 10m waves it’s like a model yacht.”
Guided by his weather router, Jean-Luc Nélias, with whom Coville sailed in the the Volvo Ocean Race winner Groupama IV, and with help through 24 hours a day also from friend and fellow sailor Samantha Davies, Coville picked his way carefully through the south to avoid ice.
He had more favourable winds and a much quicker time back up the Atlantic than Joyon had in 2004, when the route was beset with headwinds. This meant Coville was able to extend the handsome lead of over 5 days he had accumulated at Cape Horn.
Coville communicated with his weather team using Skype instant message, and very rarely by speaking and every day the team would put weather maps, satellite photos, synoptic charts, wave height models, grib files and routeing options on an FTP server for Coville to pick up and download.
Coville’s previous failed attempts took a huge amount out of him psychologically, he has admitted.
On his first attempt in 2008, the same year Joyon set his superb record, the crash box of Coville’s theoretically faster trimaran was damaged in a collision, possibly with ice, and he had to retire.
On a second attempt, he endured some quite hair-raising times, including one occasion in the Southern Ocean when, overcanvassed for a squall, his boat lifted up onto one float and set off blindly on a huge surf. Coville was on the point of retreating to the cabin, the only place he’d be sure to survive a capsize, when the boat sat back down, picked up on another surf, and a piece of the traveller whistled by, decapitating both carbon wheels.
He went on to battle up through the Atlantic, only to finish 2 days outside Joyon’s record.
When he tried again in 2013, he suffered in the Southern Ocean, rounding Cape Horn some 800 miles behind the record time (potentially less than a day-and-a-half in such a yacht) and had no better luck in the Atlantic. Once again, he finished in Brest just days outside the record. He broke down in tears and was inconsolable.
Although not as well known outside France as he deserves to be, Thomas Coville is one of the most experienced and accomplished ocean racers in the world. He has now raced round the world eight times. He has twice won the Jules Verne Trophy for the outright (crewed) round the world record: in 1997 with Olivier de Kersauson on Sport-Elec and again in 2010 as part of Franck Cammas’s crew on Groupama 3.
He was also part of Cammas’s winning crew in the 2012/3 Volvo Ocean Race in Groupama 4. He has also race in the 2000/1 Vendée Globe, finishing 6th.
His trimaran, Sodebo Ultim, was originally Olivier de Kersauson’s trimaran Géronimo, built for an (unsuccessful) attempt by de Kersauson on the crewed round the record.
As Sodebo Ultim, little remains of the original configuration other than the platform itself, as it was completely modified by Coville and designers VPLP. A key feature is the foils the trimaran now sports, which came from the USA 17, Oracle Team USA’s 2010 America’s Cup winner.
Key statistics from the record
Start on 6 November at 13 hours 49 minutes and 52 seconds GMT
Passage of the equator: on 12 November at 07h 04min 54s GMT
Time from Ushant / Equator*: 5d 17h 15m 2s
Passage of Cape of Good Hope: 20 November at 18h 33min 40s GMT
Time from Ushant / Good Hope*: 14 days 4 hours 43 minutes and 48 seconds
Passage of Cape Leeuwin: on 27 November at 16:59 GMT
Time from Ushant / Cape Leeuwin: 21 days 3 hours 9 min and 8s
Indian Ocean Record* (Cape Agulhas /Tasmania): 8d 12h 19m on 29 November at 06:51 GMT
or 23h 47min faster than the previous record set by Francis Joyon in 2007 (9d 12h 6min)
Average speed: 25.16 knots for 5,325 miles
Time from Ushant / Tasmania: 22d 17h 1m 23s – or a lead of 2 days 5 hours 4 mins over the record set by Francis Joyon
Pacific Ocean record* (Tasmania/Cape Horn): 8d 18h 28m 30s or 1 day 19h 58min better than the previous record set by Francis Joyon in 2007 (10d 14h 26min)
Time from Ushant / Cape Horn: 31d 11h 30m 8s – Or a lead of 4 days and 59 mins over Francis Joyon’s record
Record Equator/Equator: 35 days 21 hours 38 min 6 sec – Or 5 days 11 hours 36 minutes better
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Around the World in 50 Days
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- Updated: March 21, 2017
Thomas Coville (FRA) and his 31m maxi trimaran Sodebo Ultim’ has successfully broken the solo round the world record
Unique seamanship skills, prodigious tenacity and exceptional luck defined Thomas Coville’s 49-day around-the-world solo record — breaking Francis Joyon’s record set in 2008 — came down to the 110-foot trimaran, Sodebo. “I didn’t really beat the record — the boat did,” says Coville.
Indeed, Sodebo is, at the very least, one of the fastest multihulls on the planet, with Francis Joyon’s IDEC and François Gabart’s Banque Populaire also on the roster.
The 115-foot mast has 3,050 square feet of mainsail and 2,230 square feet of total sail area. Voluminous hulls and foil design allow the boat to maintain 30-knot averages in 15 to 22 knots of wind. Coville’s average speed over the 28,400-mile passage was 24 knots, with intermittent speeds blasts of 40-plus knots.
Sodebo’s speed potential helped Coville stay out of trouble numerous times. On such a big boat, if you don’t do the tough maneuvers at certain times, then there will be breakages or worse,” Coville says. “You have to be fast enough to stay ahead of the fronts and strong gales.”
Coville leveraged Sodebo’s design with favorable conditions, especially when he navigated deeper than Joyon toward iceberg-laden zones in the low latitudes. His team’s excellent choice of routes allowed him to benefit from 35-knot average windspeeds, first at 90-degree angles, before shifting to an optimal 120-degrees. Thanks to exceptional conditions, Coville sailed Sodebo across the Indian Ocean in eight and a half days.
Coville’s mission also came with mental baggage. This was his fifth record attempt, and his rough slog included securing sponsorships to keep his dream alive for more than 15 years. Along the way, he completed the circumnavigation twice but remained just a few days shy of breaking the record each time.
The journey was touch and go at times, particularly while passing Cape Horn.
“After Cape Horn, it was almost a handicap to have such a big boat because of the physical difficulty in the maneuvers you have to make,” Coville says. “I was really close to giving up. It was really hard to manage such a large boat in the South Atlantic.”
Sodebo is a lot for a full crew to handle and represents a nearly insane workload for a single-handed sailor, who must subsist on intermittent 20-minute naps. A forced jibe or miscalculated tack in gale-force winds and 30-foot waves are more than enough to doom such a giant ship.
“If you are not awake when you need to react quickly, then you are going to capsize,” Coville says. “It definitely makes for nervous sleep. I would be a liar to say that I was able to fall asleep each time when I wanted to.”
Every maneuver requires intense physical effort. A jibe on Sodebo takes 20 minutes to complete and 20 minutes to recover from. The sustained effort is like running for 20 minutes at 80
percent of your maximum speed. “I actually did the same number of maneuvers as part of a crew before on Groupama, but it takes more time alone, and it is certainly a lot more difficult,” says Coville.
At one point, Coville had to complete 23 jibes in a day and a half near Cape Horn. “I had to open the gates between the icebergs and the high pressure areas. It was really tough to remain in that zone and to just keep going,” he says. “If I didn’t succeed, then it was game over. Sometimes, you just have to do it.”
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Onboard tour of Thomas Coville’s giant Ultime trimaran, Sodebo, which measures 104 feet long by 75 feet wide. Video published Nov 1, 2019.
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Route de la Découverte : Top départ pour Sodebo Ultim 3 !
Partis samedi de Lorient pour rejoindre le sud de l’Espagne, Thomas Coville et ses cinq équipiers de Sodebo Ultim 3 – Thomas Rouxel, Guillaume Pirouelle, Nicolas Troussel, François Duguet et Léonard Legrand – se sont élancés ce mardi à 10:39:12 UTC (soit 11h39min et 12 secondes heure française) à l’assaut du record de la Route de la Découverte entre Cadix, en Espagne et San Salvador, aux Bahamas. Le temps à battre sur ce parcours transatlantique de 3 884 milles nautiques (6 250 kilomètres) est de 6 jours 14 heures 29 minutes 21 secondes. Le rythme est intense à bord de Sodebo Ultim 3 qui file déjà à plus de 30 nœuds…
En stand-by depuis le 7 janvier, l’équipage de Sodebo Ultim 3 et la cellule de routage, composée de Philippe Legros et Christian Dumard, guettaient une fenêtre météo pour s’attaquer au record de la Route de la Découverte, propriété depuis novembre 2013 de Spindrift 2 en 6 jours, 14 heures, 29 minutes et 21 secondes. Une opportunité se présentant pour ce début de semaine, Thomas Coville et ses cinq équipiers ont quitté samedi dernier leur base de Lorient pour rejoindre Cadix, à l’extrême sud-ouest de l’Espagne. « Nous sommes passés rapidement dans l’action avec de l’enjeu grâce à une fenêtre intéressante et qui peut nous faire faire un bon score. Nous sommes opportunistes » , a expliqué le skipper au moment d’appareiller.
Une fois sur place, l’équipage de Sodebo Ultim 3 a eu confirmation par la cellule de routage que cette fenêtre météo devait être saisie, d’où la décision de s’élancer ce mardi. Comme le rappelle Philippe Legros « La fenêtre n’est pas aussi séduisante que lors de notre départ de Lorient samedi, mais nous avons l’objectif de tenter en équipage, puis d’enchaîner en solitaire. Nous sommes en butée de notre première session donc il faut y aller ! C’est une fenêtre complexe à réaliser avec beaucoup de transitions et d’enchainements météorologiques. Il nous faudra un peu de réussite mais les fichiers de vents donnent des temps intéressants. »
Crédit photo : Fred Morin
Les conditions attendues sur cette transat entre l’Espagne et l’archipel des Bahamas ? Le trimaran géant a pris un départ au portant dans la baie de Cadix a plus de 30 nœuds. Un début de tentative dans une bonne brise d’Est d’une vingtaine de nœuds qui va vite forcir à environ 30 nœuds dans le couloir de vent sortant de Gibraltar.
Dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, Sodebo Ultim 3 va négocier un premier front et faire route vers les Canaries, qu’il traversera mercredi à la mi-journée. Il mettra alors de l’ouest dans sa route pour se glisser sous l’anticyclone des Açores, avec sans doute une petite transition à gérer dans la journée du vendredi 17 février. Il sera ensuite temps de mettre le cap, dans un alizé encore incertain, vers les Bahamas, où Thomas Coville et ses cinq équipiers doivent arriver avant le 21 février à 01h 8minutes 33 seconde UTC pour s’emparer du record.
Crédit photo : Léonard Legrand
Rappel des informations :
- Route de la Découverte : Cadix (Espagne) – San Salvador (Bahamas), avec l’obligation de contourner à Gran Canaria, soit 3 884 milles.
- Temps à battre en équipage, détenu par Spindrift depuis 2013 : 6 jours, 14 heures, 29 minutes et 21 secondes
- Équipage de Sodebo Ultim 3 : Thomas Coville, Thomas Rouxel, Guillaume Pirouelle, Nicolas Troussel, François Duguet, Léonard Legrand.
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May 15, 2019. The massive Sodebo is the latest Ultime to emerge from the shed. If anyone doubted that the ocean racing multihull scene was a hotbed of innovation, the new Sodebo Ultim 3 trimaran will lay those questions to rest. The demand from Sodebo, sponsor of veteran solo sailor and sometime Jules Verne record holder Thomas Coville, was for ...
Bateau à trois coques. Collectif définissant les règles de jauge des trimarans « Ultim », notamment la longueur (comprise entre 24 et 32 mètres) et la largeur (maximum de 23 mètres) Vague formée à l'avant du bateau lorsque celui fend l'eau en avançant. Entreprise spécialisées dans la fabrication de voiles.
Onboard tour of Thomas Coville's giant Ultime trimaran, Sodebo, ahead of the Brest Atlantiques race Become a FREE SUBSCRIBER to Yachting World's YouTube pag...
Sodebo Ultim 3 en chiffres. 18 mois de construction. 50 000 heures d'étude. 110 000 heures de chantier. 29 256 cafés. - 32m de long par 23m de large et 34m de hauteur de mât, soit la surface de 4 terrains de tennis…. - 65T de compression dans la boule de pied de mât. - 17T de tension dans l'écoute de grand-voile.
SODEBO ULTIM 3. SODEBO ULTIM 3 is a 32.0 m Sail Yacht, built in France by Multiplast and delivered in 2019. Her power comes from a diesel engine. She has a 23.0 m beam. SODEBO ULTIM 3 is one of 390 sailing yachts in the 30-35m size range. SODEBO ULTIM 3 is currently sailing under the France flag (along with a total of other 111 yachts).
This week solo yachtsman Thomas Coville opened the doors to the build of his Sodebo Ultim 3, the newest Ultime trimaran and a conceptually very different design to those seen in the class so far.
http://yachtpals.com Thomas Coville sailing the trimaran sailboat Sodeb'O for a new world sailing record. Sodeb'O sets new sailing record for the most miles ...
After 5 days and 9 hours, Thomas Coville FRA and his team passed the equator yesterday, the first milestone of their record attempt. The crossing of the inner-tropical convergence zone slowed down the pace considerably during 24 hours, but now in the southern trade winds, the maxi-trimaran Sodebo is making good progress again, and had a 73-mile lead this morning UTC.
The result is more speed. Enough speed, says Thomas, to keep the boat ahead of weather systems, and eliminating the traditional need to wait for a succession of depressions to catch the boat up. Sodebo 3 will be faster than the wind between low pressure zones, and for the first time we can choose the weather system we want to sail in, he reckons.
The 31 metre trimaran Sodebo _ Ultim_ has smashed the record for a single-handed circumnavigation with French sailor Thomas Coville at the helm. Sodebo Ultim arrived into Brest on December 26 to complete the voyage in 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38 seconds, shaving more than eight days off Francis Joyon's record, which had stood for eight ...
He took his 105ft trimaran Sodebo Ultim over the finish line off Ushant on Christmas Day to set a new time of 49d 3h 7m, smashing the record set in 2004 by Francis Joyon by an incredible margin of ...
Thomas Coville (FRA) and his 31m maxi trimaran Sodebo Ultim' has successfully broken the solo round the world record Sleep deprived upon his arrival in Brest, France, on December 29, 2016 ...
Onboard tour of Thomas Coville's giant Ultime trimaran, Sodebo, which measures 104 feet long by 75 feet wide. Video published Nov 1, 2019.
Thomas Coville's Sodebo eased out of Newcastle harbour at dawn on the 2nd July, set a triple reefed main and small jib then turned south for Sydney. The 105 foot Irens - Cabaret trimaran built at Boatspeed had a crew of fourteen on board, including the CEO of the food company Sodebo, plus Boatspeed build staff to thank them for their efforts.
Partis samedi de Lorient pour rejoindre le sud de l'Espagne, Thomas Coville et ses cinq équipiers de Sodebo Ultim 3 - Thomas Rouxel, Guillaume Pirouelle, Nicolas Troussel, François Duguet et Léonard Legrand - se sont élancés ce mardi à 10:39:12 UTC (soit 11h39min et 12 secondes heure française) à l'assaut du record de la Route de la Découverte entre Cadix, en Espagne et San ...
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The city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is divided into two parts ( Upper City and Lower City ), eight districts, which are in turn subdivided into micro-districts, and municipal settlements. Upper City - historical and cultural part. Located on the right hilly bank of the Oka River. It is divided into three districts.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. locator map. Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is a city in the administrative center of Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia . Nizhny Novgorod. capital of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in central Russia. Upload media. Wikipedia.
English: Sormovo, formerly a village in Balakhna Uyezd, now a city district of Nizhny Novgorod. Русский: Сормово, бывшая деревня в Балахнинском уезде, теперь район в составе Нижнего Новгорода. Sormovsky City District. one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny ...
Sormovo. Sobornaya Street. The village originally known as Soromovo (Соромово) had existed since 1542.In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo—was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic Sormovo.Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922 ...