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Prince set-up seven of the nine goals scored by the 67's in a pair of victories over the Peterborough Petes and the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors. On Thursday night he recorded a career-high four assists as part of a 6-5 overtime win over the Petes, and on Friday he contributed three assists in a 4-3 shootout win over the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors. The 67's have now won four straight games and are ranked second in the OHL's Eastern Conference with 21 points.
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Meer informatieEigenaren wonen in het historische rij huis gebouwd in 1895. Koetshuis is een apart gebouw achter het hoofdgebouw. Zeer prive met alley ingang of voer en uitgang via hoofdgebouw. Terras is ruim en comfortabel. Op loopafstand van de trendy boetieks, metrohalte, fitness-studio's, en vele restaurants en bars. Loop naar het Witte Huis als het mooi weer is of een fiets huren van DC rit aandeel, op slechts een blok verderop.
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Gelegen in een zeer hippe historische wijk-op loopafstand van jazz clubs, restaurants, bars, sportclubs. Dicht genoeg om te lopen naar het Witte Huis. Slechts 2 blokken van een metrostation.
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Wall Street perma-bulls got pretty beat up last week. The S&P 500 was down -6% in the first five days of 2016 trading. Make no mistake, the U.S. stock market is going to crash.
Wall Street perma-bulls got pretty beat up last week. The S&P 500 was down -6% in the first five days of 2016 trading. Make no mistake, the U.S. stock market is going to crash.
Takeaway: With global markets shuddering in the first week of 2016, volume was strong across all categories.
Weekly Activity Wrap Up
The first quarter of 2016 started off with a bang with high activity levels in all three exchange traded categories as global markets shuddered and volatility rose. Cash equity volume came in at 8.4 billion shares traded per day, which is +20% higher than 4Q15 and +22% higher than 1Q15. Futures activity (CME and ICE combined) came in at 21.0 million contracts per day, +17% higher than the previous quarter and +5% higher year-over-year. Options put up an average of 18.4 million contracts per day this week, +15% higher Y/Y and +19% higher Q/Q.
U.S. Cash Equity Detail
U.S. cash equities trading came in at 8.4 billion shares per day this week, a +22% Y/Y and +20% Q/Q expansion. The market share battle for volume is mixed. The New York Stock Exchange/ICE is taking a 24% share of first-quarter volume, -1% lower than 4Q15 but in line with 1Q15, while NASDAQ is taking a 19% share, a +3% Y/Y expansion but -5% lower than the year-ago quarter.
U.S. Options Detail
U.S. options activity came in at an 18.4 million ADV this week, a +19% Y/Y and +15% Q/Q expansion. In the market share battle amongst venues, NYSE/ICE has been trending downward at a moderate pace, but at an 18% share it is +8% higher than the year-ago quarter. Meanwhile, NASDAQ's recent declines bring it -17% lower than 1Q15. CBOE's market share has also been falling and is down -7% Y/Y, but it's starting the quarter on a strong note, +4% higher than 4Q15. BATS and ISE/Deutsche have been taking share from the competing exchanges, with BATS up to a 10% share from 9% a year ago and ISE/Deutsche taking 16%, up from 13% a year ago.
U.S. Futures Detail
CME Group activity came in at 15.4 million contracts traded per day, a +3% Y/Y and +17% Q/Q expansion. Additionally, open interest at CME currently tallies 95.9 million contracts pending, +2% higher than the 93.7 million pending at the end of 2014.
ICE activity came in at 5.6 million contracts traded per day this week, +12% Y/Y and +17% Q/Q growth. Additionally, open interest at ICE currently tallies 64.2 million contracts pending, +8% higher than the 59.4 million pending at the end of 2014.
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Monthly activity levels give a broader perspective of exchange based trends. As volatility levels, measured by the VIX, MOVE, and FX Vol should rise to normal levels after the drastic compression this cycle, we expect all marketplaces to experience higher activity levels.
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The exchange sector has broadly diversified its revenue exposure over 10 years as public entities with varying top line sensitivity to the enclosed trading volume data. The table below highlights how trading volumes will flow through the various operating models at NASDAQ, CME Group, ICE, and Virtu:
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Four Score and Zero Months ago the current expansion commenced. 0.5 Score months ago growth in the labor market peaked.
Inclusive of the solid monthly gain in December hiring, the trend towards deceleration remains ongoing. The net of a solid NFP print in December is likely more deflation risk.
There's no dearth in NFP data reporting so we'll keep it to a quick quadfecta of key takeaways. There's a visual tour of the employment data below:
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Takeaway: The US stock market has only had 16 up days in the last 42 – please, don't blame China.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs...
That's what Old Wall is talking up today.
Thinking like consensus is the biggest risk right now. On today's non-farm payroll number, Old Wall is staring at the absolute number this morning, instead of the rate-of-change. Don't forget that the US employment cycle peak was a NFP growth rate of 2.3% year-over-year in Q1 of 2015. It's also the latest of late cycle indicators (put another way, nothing could change our bearish TREND view).
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In other words, this is the last data point you'll see that the bulls can try to hang their hat on. It was a nice ride. It's over.
The S&P 500 appears to be shrugging off the NFP number today anyway. Remember, the US stock market has never NOT crashed (i.e. a 20% or more decline from peak – that would get you 1704 SPX from the 2130 #bubble high) when corporate profits go negative for 2 consecutive quarters. We'll have that in earnings season that starts next week.
Just look at the chart...
That's why JPMorgan's (JPM) earnings are way more important to me than this today's jobs report.
You won't hear that from anyone on Wall Street though.
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This year at Cisco Live in Melbourne, we were lucky enough to visit St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne to get an overview of the hospital's IT strategy and to see some of the technology in action. Simon Richardson, the CIO for St Vincent's Health Melbourne, and his team talked us through the hospital's three main initiatives:
Providing Anywhere, Anytime Access for Physicians with Quick Connect
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St. Vincent's Health Melbourne is absolutely committed to improving clinical operations through the use of collaboration, mobility and investments in a patient-centric clinical model. It was great to see some of the technology in action that is helping the hospital in this quest.
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Constructing Home Network System and Integrated Services Using Legacy Home Appliances and Web Services International Journal of Web Service Research, January-March 2008
Outline INTRODUCTION PRELIMINARIES ADAPTING LEGACY HOME APPLIANCES TO HNS IMPLEMENTATION: NAIST-HNS CONCLUSION
Introduction Home Network System(HNS) HNS Integrated Services Networked Appliance Networked Appliance Not Spread Adapts Legacy Appliances to HNS Smart Adaptor
Home Network System (HNS) TVs, DVD players, lights, ventilators, refrigerators, air conditioners, blinds and curtains, to be connected with a local area network at home A system consisting of such networked appliances
HNS Integrated Services DVD theater service lights become dark curtain is closed 5.1ch speakers are selected sound volume is adjusted contents are played with the DVD player
Networked Appliance Equipped with smart embedded devices A processor and storage A network interface In order to provide and execute the appliance features required for various HNS application and services
Networked Appliances Not Spread The network appliance are still quite expensive Types of available appliance are limited Lack of programmatic interoperability Users want to keep using the legacy appliances
Adapts Legacy Appliances to HNS Legacy appliances with the conventional infrared remote controllers (IrRC) Smart adapter on a PC Web service layer Service layer IR device layer Service-oriented architecture(SOA)
Smart Adaptor Web service layer Services are deployed in the HNS as Web services Service layer Aggregates multiple Ir-API call within self- contained services IR device layer Ir-APIs : PC can send any infrared signals to appliances
PRELIMINARIES Home Network System(HNS) Home Server Service-Oriented Framework for HNS Software Controller for Legacy Appliances
Home Network System(HNS) One or more networked appliances connected to LAN at home Each network appliances has a set of control APIs The user or software agents can control the appliance via the network
Home Network System
Home Server An application server which manages various value-added services Plays a role of the gateway to the external network
SOA for HNS Service layer Export the features to the network as the self-contained services with open interface Aggregates the control APIs according to the logical features of the device Device layer Hardware control APIs
Architecture of Networked Appliance Based on SOA Service with open interface Logic feature
Software Controller user can control legacy appliances from a PC or a handheld device
Soft-controller for a legacy TV UI : user interface IrRC : Infrared Remote Controller for home appliances IrRC I/F : IrRC interface
Software Controller Use Case user controls a single appliance at a time Not supposed to be invoked by other applications To be orchestrated by other appliances via the network The same controller cannot be used directly for other appliances
ADAPTING LEGACY HOME APPLIANCES TO HNS Requirements Proposed Architecture IR Device Layer Service layer Supplementary Service Web Service Layer HNS Integrated Services
Requirements Achieve easy creation of HNS integrated service Using generic PCs and IrRC devices Applicable to a wide range of types and vendors of the appliances
Proposed Architecture for Adapting Legacy Appliances
IR Device Layer Ir-APIs on the top of the IrRC driver A set of generic interfaces Relatively low-level but generic APIs Typical Ir-APIs must include Initialize IrRC Set signal type Send signal Start sending burst signal Stop sending burst signal
Conventional HNS Architecture
Proposed HNS Architecture
Service Layer The service layer aggregates several Ir- API calls within a service method Every service method must be self- contained
Service Method Condition Method is executable by itself, independent of the context of other services or appliances Method achieves by itself a consistent logical feature of the appliance
Service Method ON() for TV A
Service Method setVolume() for TV A
Supplementary Service Stores the current state of the appliance according to the history of service execution Every appliance have a database(state DB) When a service method is executed updated in the state DB Return the current state upon the request from the external applications
Web Service Layer Standard SOA framework The interface definition by WSDL An external application first interprets the interface definition and invokes a Web-API via network
HNS Integrated Services The legacy appliances is Distributed components A client application consisting of invocations of the Web-APIs and a control flow among the APIs
Integrated Service (DVD theater)
IMPLEMENTATION: NAIST-HNS Legacy Appliances Used Implementation of Legacy Adapter NAIST-HNS Integrated Services User Interfaces
Legacy Appliances Used Plasma display: NEC PX-50XM2 DVD/HDD recorder: Toshiba RF-XS46 Wireless LCD TV: Sony KLV-17WS1 Ceiling light: Panasonic HHFZ5310 Curtains with actuator: NAVIO Powertrack Air cleaner: Hitachi EP-V12 Air circulator: MORITA MCF-257NR Power plug with IrRC: HORIBA IS-100 Climate monitor (sensor): IT Watchdogs WxGoods-1
Implementation of Legacy Adapter PC: Celeron, 512MB, 80GB, WinXP Pro IrRC I/F: Sugiyama Electron – Crossam2+USB IrRC Driver: Serial COM library for Crossam2+USB Ir-API: Java Native Interface(JNI)Wrapper Service Layer: J2SE 5.0 Web Service Layer: Apache AXIS 1.3
NAIST-HNS Implementation Ir-APIs Crossam Serial COM Library States Log Crossam Programmable Remote Controllers
NAIST-HNS Integrated Services DVD Theater Air Cleaning Wakeup Support Auto illumination
HNS Experimental Room
User Interfaces for NAIST HNS
Response Time of Integrated Services STR: service response time DRT: device response time
CONCLUSION A framework that adapts the legacy home appliances to the emerging home network system Features of the legacy appliances are exposed as self-contained Web-APIs with Web service Future work includes the security issues and the feature interaction management
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(51 Posts)Hi, I've not been on this site before and was just reading through some of the previous posts. I've noticed you all seem to use real butter rather than stork for buttercream. Can I ask why. Is it just personal preference, or is there another reason? I always use stork and it tastes ok to me.
Thanks for your replies. I picked Trex up by chance really, it had a picture of lots of baked goods on it! Vegetable lard is a good description. Will try gold block stork next.
Sorry meant Lurpak spreadable not Lighter WRT Delia.
I use Trex for pastry half and half with Stork/Pure, had never thought of using it in cakes.
My mum was an amazing baker Gwendoline, she won all sorts of baking competitions when I was a kid and she always used Stork IN her cakes. She was even asked to make a cake for Harold Wilson when he visited Glasgow in the 70's! Unfortunately I have not inherited her natural flair!
Ir's snobbery I think. I hate the taste of Stork but it's very good for cakes. And as for Delia and her bloody lurpak spreadable, I feel indulgent enough buying it for our toast, I'm buggered if I'm using it in cakes. It would bankrupt me. She has no idea . If I used pat butter for cakes I would have to cut my baking down by 2/3 as it is.
So it's vege lard then? That be why I've never used it as I haven't had any recipes call for lard. what is it like in pastry?
I love the phrase another poster used "stork is full of mark". A man made product full of nasties.
<shuffles off to gransnet muttering about the tragic legacy of the loss of Domestic Science as a compulsory subject for Girls>
Trex is a white vegetable fat and is often used as a vegetarian replacement for lard. I wouldn't use it in cakes, but I would in pastry.
Can I ask what the issue with Stork is?
I am a very new baker so looking for advice an all things baking and there seems to be a real divide between the 'it's great for making lighter cakes' and the 'I'll never have it in my house' opinions. Is it because it's bad for you (is it?) or is it baking snobbery? I don't have a clue what I'm doing yet so I didn't realise it could invoke such emotion!
This is a genuine question, as I said I'm such a novice and trying to find my own 'baking feet' as it were.
Never heard of trex what is it?
Delia is right and wrong: Lurpak spreadables have slightly more butter than their competitors but all the lighter ones have much less butter than the ordinary spreadables: Lurpak Lighter has 43% butter vs Country Life Spreadable Lighter at 38%; ordinary Lurpak Spreadable is 69% butter.
Lurpak Lightest spreadable has only 27% butter, tastes vile, and costs as much as Lurpak Spreadable despite being mostly cheap oil and costs nearly as much as Lurpak Block Butter. I think it's a swizz.
Can I ask why none of you dairy-free bakers use Trex? I know it sounds old-fashioned but I picked it up when I wasn't very impressed with Pure. It also hasn't got any of the nasties in it. I'm not wildly taken with the taste but rest of family like it and it does give light cakes. And is cheap!
Still hoping DS grow out of the intolerance though
Like others on here I use stork for school baking and for dds dairy free friend. I have made buttercream with stork for the same child's birthday cake. I think it tasted ok, not as good as butter but didn't "come together" in the same way IYSWIM
I'm stunned, such cake ingredient snobbery!! I had no idea such a thing existed...
Personally I find cakes and pastry made with butter too heavy, greasy and strongly flavoured, and butter cream is vile regardless of the fat used.
Never have marge in the house butter all the way.
Oh blimey the emotions run high on the old Stork debate ( I was sleeping).
LadyD - GOLD wrapper Stork , we make cakes and cookies with it and pastry ( when I don't cheat and buy the stuff in a roll already made - also dairy-free). Works well in the fact cakes rise, biscuits are great. But tbh I couldn't tell you if there's a slight taste difference as been a while since we baked using butter. Have to remember if cake baking to get it out of the fridge before using to go softer.
We cannot use the Stork marg ( in a tub).
But when I have used sunflower spreads from supermarkets (inc. M&S) I I have found they seem to slightly crisp things up - fairy cakes have a little crispy top.
We do had butter in our household as the rest of us love it and my fav is Jersey Butter.
Sorry OP, my post is called "hi-jacking" . Welcome and you like food there's a lot of other people on here who love it too.
I always put a small splodge of Stork in with the huge amount of butter in my buttercream. Makes it much easier to mix/spread and tastes like my childhood
Stork is great for the actual cakes (I use the tub sort), gives light cakes and is the right consistency straight from the fridge. I regularly bake dairy free and use Pure sunflower marge for that, it isn't quit as nice but perfectly acceptable.
I rarely make buttercream (none of us are that keen on it, we prefer glace icing) but if I do I use real butter.
In her new baking book Delia recommends Lurpak Lighter as it is easy to work with but has a higher proportion of butter than other spreadable butters.
Yes, but Mary Berry is well aware that rationing and wars are over and she's hardly hurting for money. What a silly thing to say!
I personally think uncooked Stork is just not nice. Butter for buttercream for sure.
Yes, but Mary Berry experienced rationing and wars. I bet if she could have used butter, she would have. Butter for me, all the way, in (and on) everything.
Don't listen to them. Stork makes fabulous sponge cakes. If it is good enough for Mary Berry it is good enough for me.
Crikey there seems to be a real issue with Stork. I bought some yesterday after asking the question on here if it's OK to use in sponges and a lot of people seemed to think it made them lighter. Now I feel as if I shall be feeding my family made with Satan's tears!
"Harsh first line in your response Bunbaker."
Yes. I apologise for that, and welcome to this forum. I promise not to give you a flaming next time . But I still think that using Stork for buttercream is not on.
For baking it is excellent - We did a blind tasting recently and couldn't taste the difference between a sponge made with butter and one made with Stork. The butter cake was a little more golden brown, and that was the only difference.
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We love the recent surge of historical recreations of famous trips; not only do they set out to verify important facts about history, but they introduce a typically diverse and young pool of landlubbers to the soul of sailing. The Hokulea project has been racking up the miles (most recently seen dockside during Charleston Race Week), but the Draken is even more up the SA alley.
While the volunteer crew was already chosen for the America 2016 voyage of this massive Viking replica (from over 4000 applicants!), you can still go and check her out when she visits the Canadian maritimes and then the Great Lakes this summer. And if you really want to sail aboard, here's a tip from an old square rig mariner: Drop them a line anyway and let them know your background and availability. Typically, there's some serious attrition on these voyages, and if you're available, you might just get the call.
Tip o' the hat to SA'er "Driftw00d". Thread here.
- Tags: history, longboat, replica, Transatlantic, viking
May 24th, 2016 by admin
First it was Sarah Palin. Then it was Donald Trump. Now it's 71-year old Bob Weise and Steve Shapiro, the latest morons to make Americans look like the stupidest people in the world. Worse yet, like crappy sailors! Title shout to an icon of the 80s.
Threads abound about this winter Norway to US 'voyage', but this one was first.
- Tags: bob weise, rescue, steve shapiro, Transatlantic, voyages
January 28th, 2016 by admin
From Plymouth, England to Plymouth Rock on the 400th anniversary of the trip that colonized the New World, the 106-foot Mayflower Autonomous Research Ship (MARS) might make history in 2020 if the right commercial partner can be found by MSubs, Plymouth University, and Shuttleworth Design. It's the latest (and maybe the prettiest) in a long line of vaporware sailing UAVs, and with a new bag of tricks: Sailing at 20 knots, motoring in light airs with near unlimited range at a quarter of that, and launching and recovering its own aerial drones. We likey. More from Giz, and chatter over here.
- Tags: autonomous, drone, mayflower, shuttleworth, Transatlantic, UAV
August 17th, 2015 by admin
Offshore obsessive and solo Figarist Henry Bomby turned a little help into a berth delivering the MOD-70 Phaedo (ex-Foncia) from the Canaries to Antigua, and he wrote one of his customarily good reports on the trip. Follow Henry over here.
Sitting here in Antigua airport waiting for my flight back to London, life is good having just blasted across the Atlantic in just under 9 and a half days on board the new Phaedo3 MOD 70, one of the fastest sailing boats in the world.
I originally joined the team just for the day to help take their race sails over to Portsmouth for painting. When I got back to France however my name was next to a bunch of jobs on the job list! I agreed to help out for the week as I heard talk they were going sailing on the Friday, and I was hoping I could tag along to grind for the afternoon if I was still around!
Tag along I managed to do and the next day I was asked if I fancied joining them for the trip across the Atlantic. I was super excited but hesitant, it would mean missing a weeks training in the Figaro and also (and much more importantly of course) mean missing a long planned Valentines weekend away with my girlfriend.. Fortunately coaches and Soph agreed it was a fantastic opportunity, and so it was sorted!
Arriving in Antigua
We were to be five on board. Skipper Mr Brian 'easy cool, cool easy' Thompson, the most laid back man on the planet, Sam Goodchild fellow Figarist currently enjoying a side project while on standby with Mapfre. Romain Attanasio, another Figarist (and Volvo 'WAG'!), and Warren Fitzgerald (the boat captain fresh off the Hydroptère project) and me. We would be two watches, the roast beefs and the frogs, with Brian floating in between.
The first night we got straight into it and ripped across the Bay of Biscay at over 22kts. Rounding Cape Finistere within 15 hours. The boat as I said, is pretty remarkable…Shortly after leaving the sun went down, and we were straight into the watch system, Sam and I alone on deck of this 70ft machine which quite frankly scared the crap out of us in 25kts of breeze! We joked that Brian clearly had way more confidence in us than we had in ourselves as two young Figaro guys tore across Biscay in the pitch black. I broke my own personal speed record during our first watch, 30.7kts, with two reefs in the main and the J2 up, certainly 'not pushing' hard in anyway. Apparently?! The whole watch all I could think of was Brian's last words before he went down for a nap 'escape is down, escape is down, escape is down..'. On multihull a broach is a capsize, and you always need to know where your escape route is, 125 TWA is down , 95 TWA is up, as a very general rule. Anywhere in between is just terrifying!
After two days motoring South, we passed Spain and Portugal and were soon into the trades, 16-23kts and downwind VMG sailing all the way to Antigua. This thing punches out 500nm days like it's nothing. At the beginning Brian was telling me how on Bank Populaire V during their Jules Verne record attempt, 30kts by the end felt slow, and how in a weeks time, 20kts would feel pedestrian to me too. I couldn't believe him, but it was true. You do get used to the incredible pace these machines chuck out, and it's hugely addictive; you just want more and more.
It's worth noting that the MOD70 is probably the 7th 'ish' fastest boat in the world, and it would absolutely eat up the latest high-tech new 100ft monohull on any angle of sail and in any wind speed. It struck me massively on this trip: why aren't trimarans more common, especially for offshore racing? I for one, am completely sold on them! Tthey are faster, and definitely more dangerous which suits many offshore events which label themselves 'extreme', meaning they really do need the very best sailors in the world to sail them. They are also dryer, comfier and have the potential for foiling which is definitely the way professional sailing at least, is going. In fact Gitana already has t-foil rudders fitted to their MOD 70 and is currently in the shed to develop full flight for this season.
Maybe now with the Americas Cup in multihulls, the tide is turning, and by the time I am 40 years old, I fully expect the boat taking on the Jules Verne record to be a fully foiling machine, so learning to sail these machines at any possibility is vital experience. I am unbelievably thankful to Brian and the guys for allowing me to jump on board with them. My eyes have officially been opened and dreams now become even bigger! Exciting times ahead in sailing that's for sure.
Aerial photo by Team Phaedo/Rachel & Richard
- Tags: figaro, henry bomby, phaedo, Transatlantic
March 3rd, 2015 by admin
Bob Salmon ignored the hundreds of people who told him he was crazy. He ignored rules, convention, and tradition. He knew it was possible, and along with the folks at the Penzance Sailing Club, he drug the Mini Class and Mini-Transat Race into existence. It remains today one of the most respected and extreme races in the world, and without Bob, it wouldn't exist. Rest in peace, Anarchist.
Lots of background at the PZSC over here, where we got the pic, too. For a 2012 interview with Salmon and some ancient footage, click here. Here's a little more from our friends at Adonnante.
- Tags: bob salmon, classe mini, lost, Mini, Mini Transat, penzance, Transatlantic
November 26th, 2014 by admin
Solo Figarists Nick Cherry and Henry Bomby begin our 2014 Route Du Rhum coverage with a great form guide for the fleets. Follow Nick here, learn more about his Figaro campaign here, and tune in for all the info when the race starts in less than two days. There's always the Ocean Racing Anarchy thread for the very latest. Huge thanks to Bruce Schwab Energy Systems for supporting our coverage of this great race. Please get in touch with the Vendee veteran to find out how his energy storage, solar power, and charging systems can benefit your cruising or racing boat today. Photos from Christophe Launay.
Anyone who's never been to the start of this race needs to go, and it seems like most of France has. The population of St Malo swells from 45,000 to around 2 million over the ten-day period before the race, with massive park-and-ride car parks set up outside of town; getting to and from the boats is an absolute nightmare for the shore crews. There's something about the simplicity of this 3500-mile solo race across the Atlantic every four years that really captures the nation's hearts. Walking around town and jostling with thousands of the non-sailing public just to get around is cool and rare in our sport, and seeing just how rock-starrish the 91 skippers are – and how real a return they can offer to their sponsors – offers solo skippers hope of what may be achievable.
Beat Down?
At the moment it looks like the fleet will be starting in post-frontal westerlies, beating out through the chops of the channel before cracking sheets a little and heading across Biscay into quite a lot of pressure. Early indications are that the trades are developed quite a long way north and most of the boats should have a fairly straightforward and fast run to Guadeloupe. Things are still fairly unstable with some models predicting a very fast race and others showing a lot of the boats having a tough time due beating towards Cape Finisterre in some mildly heinous conditions.
Run Down
Ultime Class
This is the blue ribbon, main event, 'real deal' part of the race. Eight proper rockstars of the French sailing world lining up in, without a doubt, the filthiest boat porn on the planet (hopefully as a precursor to an imminent race around the planet, but more on that in a future installment).
In the last edition in 2010 'Petit Franck' Cammas showed us the light (albeit in fairly straightforward conditions) by going against conventional wisdom that said that the smaller, more manageable tris would probably beat his 105-ft Jules Verne trophy winner Groupama 3 when it came down to a solo race. Pundits say Yann Guichard will have a hard time handling Spindrift (ex-BPV) all by himself, that this time (with 200tm of righting moment compared with 160tm in BPVII and 28 in an IMOCA) it really is too big. He has the fastest boat, that's for sure; can the Jules Verne Trophy holder be handled by a lone, mortal man, or is the old G3 the maximum?
Sticking my neck out a little bi, I'm going to put Thomas Coville in the new (to him) Sodebo (the heavily modified ex-Geronimo) as favourite. He will benefit from a lot of up-to-date design work on the floats and foils as well as plenty of time sailing these sorts of boats alone thanks to his 4,5 failed attempts. Or is it 6???! Watching him go through the start line on his last failed RTW record attempt with all three rudders well clear of the sea shows that he certainly isn't lacking for balls for this race – almost a sprint in monster-multi terms.
Loick P is the final podium bet, having already done this race 7 times! On top of about 45 transats in total. Seriously. And he's a nice chap. Many are sad we didn't get the incredible story of him racing across in his little yellow boat 'Happy' which would have gone down a storm in France, being the man he is and the name he has there. But he was the only man Banque Pop (the Ex-G3) could go to after Armel hurt his hand (in a freak car washing accident?), the boat is fast, it's been breaking records throughout 2014 and may be the best optimized for a solo run.
Never to be discounted, in his somewhat conservative (by modern standards), Nigel Irens-designed 105 footer, we have Francis Joyon. Probably the hardest man in sailing and a true solo obsessive. We have been wowed by stories of his solo transatlantic records attempts for years, and by solo we mean no shore team whatsoever, sailing on and off mooring bouys in New York harbour all by himself. (Is this true or just a rumour?!) If this race gets rough and decimates the fleet like the 2002 storms that destroyed piles of ORMA 60s, IDEC and Joyon are the combo I would back to be the last one standing.
Watch out for the race-within-a-race in this fleet between the three somewhat modified MOD 70s. These boats have shown they can be pushed hard with a crew and hopefully the improved emergency sheet release systems mean that Sydney Gavinet's prediction that he has a 50% chance of capsize won't come true. The other two MOD-touting skippers Seb Josse and Yann Ellies both have a reputation for pushing hard, and whilst it would take something odd to happen for a MOD to come in first you can be guaranteed a good old battle going on here. Yann has the least time in the boats and the least modified, but he has been smashing the Figaro Circut for the last 3 years, and could pull something impressive out of the bag. As a pair of Figaro sailors ourselves, we would love an underdog victory from Paprec in this one. It would probably be rude not to mention the race record holder from 2006 Lionel Lemonchois in his deeply modified former Orma 60 'Prince de Bretagne'. If the four more powerful boats have some sort of major calamity or follow each other into a meteorological black hole then Lionel is our man! He should really beat the MODs, but they've shown themselves to punch well above their weight…
The extra dimension is this class compared to the others is that outside weather routing is allowed, which to us, makes sense – you wouldn't want to be stuck at a computer for any length of time downloading the latest gribs whilst the boat careens down a wave at 35 knots into a full somersault. All the big French names in French Meteorology are on the payrolls here and it will be interesting to see how the different approaches pay off once things kick off on Sunday.
There are 9 boats in this fleet. Four favourites in order are: Francois Gabart, Vincent Riou, Jeremie Beyou and Marc Guillemot. It would be brave to bet against Vendee Globe golden boy Francois, but rumours from recent training sessions in Port La Foret have Riou's PLB being right on form with a lot of caginess surrounding modifications to aft ballast arrangements in relation to the new rule; IMOCA is the land of big secrets, and nothing is easy to call in this class as a result! There's no doubt Jeremie has a good boat in Maitre Coq, sister ship to Macif and he delivered the goods again in the world's toughest one-design race – the Solitaire du Figaro. Guillemot's Safran certainly has form in the transatlantic races of recent years and I'm sure he'll be keen to make a mark in his last race before Morgan Lagraviere takes over the new boat next year.
The most interesting thing here is dock gossip regarding the six new Vendee-bound boats due off the drawing board of VPLP next year under the new rule, and the wide variety of foil solutions they've come up with. DSS, outward-facing J and L foils, canting, raking, in and out and up and down and potentially adding a few more letters to the foiling vocabulary. As in every new generation of Open 60, these new boats are going to be a big jump faster, and when reaching in big breeze, they could be light years faster. Hopefully older boats can be retrofitted, and even more hopefully, the new one-design mast spec will be able to handle the added load of a faster, foiling boat. No one wants to let their cat out of the bag too soon in the build up to the all-important Vendee and we will have to wait for this exciting installment a bit longer.
For a potential spoiler, we'd love to see one of the nicest guys in sailing, Tanguy De Lamotte, get some real speed out of his new 'Initiatives-Coeur' (ex-Foncia, ex-Mare). This older boat was heavily modified by Class 40 sailor Joerg Richers before he pulled out of the project, and she's potentially quite quick.
Class 40s
Loads to choose from here, and special props to youngest competitor in the race Paul Hignard who slept in and missed a big sponsor/press do on Tuesday after rumours of a big night on the sauce/with some chick. Legend! Otherwise, there's a load of good boats, good skippers and not a lot of recent bust ups to show form.
Seb Roues is undefeated in his Mach 40 GDF Suez in 2014, although some questions remain regarding his solo skills. A lot of people rate Spaniard Alex Pella highly in his sexy looking Botin designed Tales 2 but there are plenty of boats with a reasonable shot at the top spot. Yannick Bestaven has a very new Verdier boat and a reputation for pushing hard, Halvard Mabire is sailing a new Pogo s3 and has a lot of experience and a good track record. Stepping down from his laughing cow Open 60, Kito de Pavant should be in the mix and whilst he's had a bit of a break from solo sailing, brit Conrad Humphreys seems to have a good sponsor in Catphones and plenty of motivation.
Our wildcard favourite is Nicholas Troussel in his Humphrey's designed Credit Mutuel de Bretagne. A real last-minute campaign but this guy has a record of winning two Figaros with well-judged flyers. His boat is quick enough and if there is a good corner to be banged, expect Nico to be right in there, making it work.
Multi 50s
A walk down the Multi 50 dock in St Malo is quite interesting, a history lesson in the development of offshore trimarans over the last thirty years. It would also be interesting as a standalone race but I think we'll be too busy following the big tri's and the 40s to get too bogged down here once the race starts. Four top contenders here based on previous form and newness of boat are: Erwan La Roux, Yves Le Blevec, Lalou Roucal and Loic Fequet. Fair play to everyone involved in this class as sailing solo across the Atlantic in a 50ft tri takes some proper balls, and it's great that there's 11 of them out there doing it. Interestingly, this class prevents foils, and you can't argue with their numbers, but would it certainly kick off big time if foil development was allowed? Imagine these lightweight 50 foot tris flying solo across the Atlantic. There is definitely some Frenchman out there crazy enough for it.
The Rhum Class
As far as we're concerned, it's cool that the race has this class. They might not look as cool as the big tris and the 60s but it does allow retired doctors from La Trinite, bearded blokes with odd looking cruising boats, and the living legend that is Robin Knox-Johnson to add some colour to this French classic. We won't be watching too closely to see who wins this fleet but expect some nice stories and that. Shame Loick isn't here with his Happy project, but hopefully he'll be back in 2018.
The start on Sunday morning is set to be a massive affair with literally thousands of spectator boats predicted, and the major viewing headlands along the Brittany coast rammed with fans. Due to tidal constraints in the St Malo Basin, the boats will be docked out by shore crews under cover of darkness before the sailors rib out after breakfast to race across an ocean. We'll be standing by to cover the start and offer a bit more insight into goings on as the race unfolds.
- Tags: France, imoca, route du rhum, st. malo, Transatlantic, trimaran, Ultime
October 31st, 2014 by admin
Hannah Jenner & Rob Windsor are the newest threat in the big Class 40 Route Du Rhum fleet; the Anglo/NY duo are safe and sound after a 'nice' Transatlantic delivery to Hamble from Newport. Marine media guy Will Lyons was aboard to document the trip and he's put together some stuff that captures it incredibly well on their FB page; check it here. They're all about zero fossil fuel and mininum impact, and we dig that. Plus we're stoked to see yet another plucky yank – and Anarchist -taking on the French, and our (one-way) love affair with past SCOTW Hannah Jenner continues…revisit their pre-race video here and stay tuned for a docudelivery video in a couple weeks.
- Tags: Class 40, Transatlantic
June 28th, 2013 by admin
Bjoern Kils from NY Media Boat took advantage of NY's recent spate of sailing activity, getting both video and photos of the Atlantic Cup on Wednesday and shooting the awesome 97-foot IDEC playing around in light air yesterday.
We dug this pic the most, juxtaposing the sailor who embodies "freedom" with the tower named for it.
More on Joyon and IDEC here, and don't even think about using this photo…© NYmediaboat.com
- Tags: IDEC, Joyon, Transatlantic
May 17th, 2013 by admin