Saturday, April 30, 2016

VINCENT RIOU SOLO, GOING LIKE A ROCKET IN HEAVY SEAS

Yes that is a great sailing boat but these guys are so good that make me ashamed of my little sailing skills :-( The IMOCA goes incredibly fast on stormy seas but we can see that he has that huge beast under control...alone. Awesome!!!

He is training already for the next Vendee Globe and you can see that the boat (PRB) has no foils and is not going to have them for the next Vendee Globe. They had studied the subject with JK and after many simulations they decided that it would be a better bet not to use foils. A post about foils or no foils on the IMOCA for the Vendee Globe will come soon.

1 comment:

  1. Fantastic video. I can imagine no other medium that helming a sport boat in primal nature wilderness that would evoke as much raw visceral feeling of being alive.

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