Jérémie Beyou (CHARAL) crossed the finish line of the New York Vendée – Les Sables d’Olonne in third place! Congratulations to him! 👏
e [Music] hello and welcome to the live of the New York Von day today is Monday June 10th and we are welcoming Jeremy beu on board shahal he will very soon be crossing the finish line thank you for being with us and tuning in I am joined by Marcus Hutchinson Hi Marcus how are you I’m great Natasha great to great to hear you what amazing pictures we have here to look at yes beautiful um end of the day here in leab zolon um Marcus for for those who uh don’t know him he has been deeply involved in in the high-end racing scene for most of his career first as a naval architect with Rob humph later as editor of seahorse Magazine on America’s cap cup campaigns as well and now as a coach and Mentor for major solo ocean sailing campaigns including the furo and vond Globe he has been a top Oka project manager for the past 10 years most recently starting up and running Tomar Ron’s Link Link down project uh for the last vond globe and before that he was behind PA Maya’s SMA project so I’m very happy to have you by my side of course um experience needed to comment on this amazing arrival of this uh machine he is flying there to the Finish Line tell us how has it been this last uh few uh minutes that you’ve been watching what it’s it’s great it’s a fantastic evening for it there’s plenty of Breeze he’s cruising along I’ve just been looking at Marine Traffic he’s suing about 19 20 knots they’ve had to uh he had to do two jibes there just at the end to uh get in but he’s now on the lay line to the Finish Line I’d say he’s probably about 15 minutes from from crossing the line you can see uh a lot of spectator boats gone out to to meet him um but you can see from their wakes quite how fast he’s going uh it’s it’s a wonderful shot and it’s great light uh just just Before Sunset here in France and uh color scheme of cherel certainly stands out where whatever time of the day or night you’re looking at it but uh no it’s it’s a wonderful shot I’m delighted for Jeremy he’s uh he’s been working hard on this project for a number of uh years I mean it’s the culmination of a huge amount of work the guy’s been involved in this scene for 10 12 14 years if I’m not mistaken maybe even more 20 years um he’s had a lot of podiums this is his fourth imoc 60 and um it’s uh it’s going really well he’s he’s uh he’s uh he’s come third here unfortunately he had some bad luck on the way across he broke his for day fitting but when he was extremely well placed um but that’s part and parcel of this these incredible boats that go incredibly fast um it’s uh it’s good to see but he’s definitely showing that he’s uh one of the main candidates to watch for later in the year with the Von Globe which starts on the 10th of November from the same stretch of water that’s right this is the exact same place that on November 10th the Von Globe will set sail around the world non-stop unassisted um and single-handed so this is part of the training for that so like Marcus said it is 900 p.m. here in France it’s 7:00 UTC so uh good time for everybody to be joining us here after work to watch this arrival it’s the third arrival of the New York vond race which left New York City um well some of the boats left New York the other half of the fleet left uh Newport Rhode Island to meet out at Sea um for a virtual start which was uh probably uh one of the first times uh that we’ve seen that and um we already saw um a mif arrive with Charlie D and we saw um Boris Hermon on team Malia arrive in second place and now Jeremy beu will complete this Podium of this race the skipper of shal managed to hold on to his third place after a hard fight battle with his two Rivals um behind him are Sebastian Simon on group duy and Tomar ruon on vulnerable um this is another podium finish like Marcus was saying um in a transatlantic race after for Jeremy beu after recently finishing third in the Rut durum in 2022 and second in the r alabas which was late last year 2023 um in 2016 he won this race the New York vond in its first edition so this is not uh his first uh walk around this park is it Marcus no not at all not at all this is uh the second of the two transatlantic races of this year the the Race Across which left from Laural the Transat cic um as I said earlier unfortunately he was forced to retire from that race when he’s extremely well placed with gear failure um but in 2016 as you rightly pointed out on the way back we only had 14 votes in that race I think that’s like 28 Vats that started this race and he’s uh he’s um he’s been in the in in in the front uh or close to the front the whole way through it’s been a particularly complicated race this uh certainly the first few days out of New York or after out of that uh virtual start line that you so brilliantly described earlier was uh extremely complicated for everybody and uh only two boats got through a very particular uh complex wind and weather scenario which was obviously Charlie Dana and uh Boris Helman which um and they got a break away on everybody and uh so they they finished or as you said Charlie D finished on Saturday night or super early on Sunday morning um Boris finished yesterday afternoon and uh and now we’ve got Jeremy making up the podium but there’s a whole flurry of boats that are going to finish over the next 12 hours probably going to see six or seven more boats finish um and um and charal is the first of that group and I think that says an awful lot really about the potential of this boat and the way he sailed uh this race it was very clear from uh 3 days into it after that weather phenomenon that I was explaining that uh he wasn’t going to be able to catch the that first pair but he controlled completely the situation with uh with the second and third groups and um and here he is dictating into lebone how to sail a more conventional race um but hats off to Charlie D who who sailed brilliantly it was his first outing since uh before his illness last year and it was one of the first times we’ve really seen his new boat Massif uh out there racing we didn’t really have an awful lot of gauge as to how quick or slow or how well organized the boat was and how good he was so um but he really showed the way and sailed massively through that weather situation and then kept to massive control of what was going to happen afterwards um and uh really the the the hero of these two transs has got to be Boris Helman sailing manzia because he was second in the Transat cic on the way way across and he finished second in the in the return race so that’s two second places which is not bad bad not bad at all for uh for someone who hasn’t had that much solo success in in the amoca class before now obviously the Von Globe he did pretty well finishing fifth I think it was in the end it was a bit complicated at the end but he uh dominated uh the podium on both of these uh both of these competitions and and uh must really be a force to be reckoned with going forwards so it’s going to be extremely exciting what what happens in November and over the over the months of the winter November December January we’re really really in good shape to uh have a fantastic sporting uh uh spectacle to to follow over over the next few months yeah for sure the vond globe is going to be very exciting we have so many okas um nowadays uh you know just state-of-the-art boats um so like you said he arrived in New York with a Vengeance Keen to get another chance for a battle after the damage uh to the for stay on his J2 in the trans at se which forc him to turn back and return to the States on basically a delivery mode rather than a racing one um he’s a fierce competitor uh he is I’m just going to interrupt you there natas to say that you can see the finish line that that navigation Mark you saw that yellow and black finish Mark called nuk Su uh that’s one end of the finish line and um it’s also the same finish line for the vond globe so it’s a particularly important Landmark or sea Mark as we should say for all of these Sailors uh an awful lot of uh Legends have been made around that boy um obviously now the the camera view yeah we can just see it there now from this point of view uh the boy is just where’s it gone now it’s just to his left I think uh I can’t see it now but anyway he’s filled up his um his uh A3 jib he’s only got one heads out there in front he’s slowing the boat down so that there it is the boy is now there just on the left there he is so he’s crossing the Finish Line about now and um there he is the podium is now complete but he doesn’t have much room in front of him there’s leab alone in the background the entrance to the harbor a lot of Spectators out on the water uh there he is fist up surprised happy as you can be yeah managed to do it well done Jeremy EX excellent job excellent job so he’s going to start to slow the boat down now and get his sh crew on board otherwise he’ll be he’ll be sailing out the peach before before too long but yeah there you go what a great stuff these These are the money shots photographers will be getting all of those uh shots ready for the Press tomorrow um yeah he’s been fighting really hard to get SL to get a win there we go now so there’s his jenica that he’s uh he’s going to start furling up and so he can slow down he’s borne away and very shortly we’re going to see the one of his team technical cre Come Along on board and help them yeah yes enter to port and of course the channel we will um await those images which are so such a a mythical um moment there I’m sure that it’ll be lined with people there they come technical team it’s actually a quite uh quite a a big team you know compared to most uh Oka teams um this is one of the the biggest and and most well funded here we go we get so amongst them will be Elan thees who’s the boat captain he was with the first guy on with the black jack ET um they’ll be all in there congratulating Jeremy and giving a big hug um get the there we go get the thing under control members of the family as well getting on board and the sponsors obviously yeah these are Great Moments to be able to just let go of your boat and have them bring it into port and just be able to savor the moment moment and the win of this Podium finish that he has been definitely been fighting hard to get um so I have the stats so he’s finished at let’s see 21 hours 11 minutes 49 seconds that’s French time so he’s completed the course in 12 Days 1 hour 11 minutes and 49 seconds he was 1 day 21 hours and 27 minutes and 19 seconds behind first first place well that that all comes down to that weather barer that’s almost two days when you think about it that’s a huge lead really for from first to third place for the first boat so um but as I said earlier it was a particularly unusual weather phenomenon that um Charlie and uh Charlie dalah and Boris Helman managed to get across um and um the the next Bunch back she included the boats that are coming next Tomar Ron Yan risham Sam goodchild who unfortunately won’t be coming back as he dropped his rig um and sepy Moore and Sam Davies um they couldn’t quite make it across that weather situation and had to poke their way around to the South and lost a lots of distance and uh that’s when Charlie and uh Boris managed to just sail away and open up a big big lead and and uh here we are so that that’s probably the biggest ever uh winning margin for for for um for Amoco over third place anyway nearly two days it’s quite something other than the V globe of course which is a rather peculiar race because it actually lasts three months yeah but there we are so just before Sunset and I think um if I’m not mistaken there’s enough water for Jeremy to get up the channel before low water um so they’ll you can be sure that in the in the in the in the channel when they sa alone uh especially uh as Jeremy is well known to the to the the crowds in the vond there’ll be plenty of people out there to celebrate him in because um well yesterday afternoon with boris’s finish in the middle of the afternoon was absolutely perfect for uh for the crowds it was a beautiful day it was windy made a spectacular finish with his boat leaping out of the water more at the end of the day but there we are yeah for our viewers who want to see the arrival of uh Boris and um mif uh Charlie D those both are on the YouTube channel of the New York vond day so you can go back and watch those um but yeah like you were saying there was that top start in New York with those unpredictable conditions um the Gulf Stream currents and that low pressure that Charlie D and Boris Herman were the only ones that managed to get through it really came down to about 5 miles which then turned into like 500 Miles fairly quickly yeah there we are so he’ll probably um have his engine on and uh be making his way towards the harbor now um and um crew getting getting themselves organized inside I saw a TV crew get on board there so I don’t know if we’ll get some live pictures from on board the boat at some stage but there in the fork right at the top of the screen is the harbor entrance to Le Abalone um tide is uh is about half tide so the beach is plenty visible there’ll be plenty of people watching and uh coming out of restaurants and bars to come and see Jeremy come up the channel tonight still a little bit good bit of sunlight that’s for sure yeah and symbolically um I mean charal you know his skipper had been the fastest in his group during the vond Liberty race uh this prestigious kind of like run competition race between the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan um so true to his temperament the Sherer quickly got back into the swing of things um and took the lead from the southerners What followed was the rounding of the assores and then the climb up towards leab zolon uh it was intense racing throughout pretty much that that whole section um the group had conditions they had downwind sailing upwind sailing Heavy Seas big scare with uh the Deming of of Sam goodchild um a lot of intensity it’s sort of like a a fig race wasn’t it it was it was very very intense and uh what was normally with a with a race from the West to the east uh you expect it to be downwind most of the way but um unfortunately there is no more normal with the weather that we have in offshore racing everything is a bit unusual and stuff and so the allrounder boats and the all round Skippers and the opportunist Skippers are the ones that that do the best but uh cherel has proven once again that uh they’re extremely competitive you have to shout out for their team because uh behind Jeremy obviously is an incredible team of shore crew and and management that really do an incredible job to keep that boat and also by by uh uh incidentally they also run the a second boat in in this race that’s um sailed By Justine Metro called teamwork uh it’s the same uh Racing Stables for both both teams but not to take anything away from Jeremy and and his his his his um his achievement tonight uh and that of his team um his boat’s an interesting one it was launched last year it’s uh it’s um s manoir design um it’s his third UH imoca 60 design um uh or probably the second one is there’s there’s a couple of others that are built to uh San manu’s designs in in this race one is um buau Valley which was the first boat that s manoir designed for the last F Globe uh sailed by Louis Burton from s Mano and the other one is Sam Davies also from L’Oreal um her boat’s called initiative cures bright red and she’s having a hell of a race as well I think she’s uh sixth or seventh or about battling it out with Yan ream there for seventh place at the moment they’re going to finish tomorrow at some stage um uh but this boat is a little bit different from from Samantha’s boat um uh and front Kamas the legendary front Kamas has had an awful lot to do with a lot of design details and Design Des ideas on this this boat is a slightly different shape and very different deck layout and some of the appendage positions especially the rudder system and things like that are very different to to the other boats every little thing on this boat is very special yeah what strikes me at first glance is the narrowness of the hole um you know I I I believe it’s probably the narrowest of all the okas the bow has been designed as a scow a rounder shape which uh also helps to conserve power the center of gravity and weight distribution have also been optimized and move back as far as possible with the same Aim so this is chal 2 um it’s been retaining the the racy and high performance DNA that shal one had yeah they the shal sailing team they basically set out um to create a seaworthy and faster more agile imocha resulting in an ambitious and bold design cherel one uh was one of the the previous boat which just as I said earlier is now Teamworks held by Justine Metro the Swiss lady from uh from Geneva uh has um uh unfortunately had a difficult time in the uh uh in the in the last vond globe and had to uh come back after a few few hours into the race with some structural problems he restarted again but um he never really caught up again with the fleet finished 13th in the race but I think it was uh was extremely courageous of him to go back out there and to race around when normally a skipper like him would be fighting for first place you he was absolutely last when he started and and managed to call his way all the way up to 13th Place saying in completely different conditions to to the leaders um but uh most to the point you know every time you do a race like that you have an awful lot of time to to think about what you do better next time and the the experience of of of doing that race and everything you’ve learned and everything the team’s learned from watching other boats in the race uh has um has culminated in going into this boat and uh this boat is very very definitely one of the boats to watch in the fond Globe that’s that’s coming up at the end of the year yeah for sure there were about 15 Engineers um that took turns designing the this this boat it took over 100 of Specialists that got busy building the boat designing and machining all the parts almost of which were prototypes they say that they spent about 35,000 hours designing and 40,000 hours building it so yeah little statistics there almost as much as a Formula 1 car yeah [Laughter] yeah is like formula um Formula racing as fast as these boats go now but these boats are are uh it’s really really impressive anybody who’s in the saone region should really should go down and have a look at the have a look at these boats tied to the dock over the next few few days before they all leave to go back to their main home bases because you’re seeing the very very Pinnacle of uh modern offshore racing yacht as design and uh the most advanced composite structures that are that are around other than perhaps a few rockets and maybe bits of Formula 1 car uh it’s very difficult to to understate quite how much engineering goes into these things and the loads and the speeds that they go at uh it’s really impressive we can just see from behind with the boat upright the profile of the two foils both of which now are are uh I know they’re not they’re not they’re not fully retracted but um they are the lifting surfaces on the side of these boats that give them a huge amount of extra writing moment which allows you to apply an awful lot more power and hence go faster for a given wind speed but uh having boats that are part of the time or all out of the water or three qus of the boat out of the water means the balance changes the loads and slamming loads on the hull and every other thing changes not only because the speed increases but because the boat is supported differently in the water to how it would be if it was a conventional boat and um we’ve spent a long time several cycles of vond globe in mooca 60 designs and build projects to work out um where these boats need to be strong and uh they are a lot heavier because of the extra structure that’s been put into them the boats were perhaps uh two two V Globe Cycles ago and uh it’s really quite interesting uh from an engineering perspective quite how uh quite how these things are developed over the while and every time a new generation of boats is built designed and built and sailed and raced the bar understanding across the whole board the bar is raised massively the Record Times drop every time uh but our general understanding of uh uh of of of loads and uh engineering um constraints in in Naval architecture and Yacht design uh leap forwards and ultimately everybody benefits from that yeah and the saw the ocean race is the same exactly except that the legs are shorter but there’s more people on board so the boats are pushed harder for longer yeah well that’s what they were able to do do with this Ocean Race they were really able to push the machines I mean it is a a mechanical and Technical sport as as much as it is a a a a sportive sport um but yeah during the Ocean Race they they really kind of got a lot of information and you can see like Boris Herman with the experience that that he had he’s been performing a lot um better than he did before the Ocean Race so it must say something about getting all those miles and all that experience um not only for the Skippers but also for the machines I’m not sure what they’re waiting for exactly they still have the main sale up um but they’re uh probably yes here they are starting to drop the main sale now um get ready to go up the uh up the harbor and see the crowds yeah hopefully we can get there before the sun sets and we lose all light but yeah like we said before you can go and watch some of the other arrivals for first place and second place um boris’s arrival was beautiful yesterday afternoon uh in with beautiful sunshine the weather has changed a bit now there’s been a a a low pressure that that is moving through um but yeah like Marcus said if you are around these areas what is so nice about uh the offshore sailing communities and and sport in France is that you can just walk right up to the boats and really get an up close and personal view of them and I believe some of them are actually going to be staying around L zalon to do some PR um sailing and stuff I know that initiative C is for example so um they’ll be there for about a week um and I’m sure that that others perhaps will as well because it is such a uh an important port and um the vond globe uh will depart from there very soon that’s going to come around super fast um so yeah you can see the main sale is coming down they’re dropping the main sail onto the boom very slowly and the boat is now motoring hasn’t ticked up a toe uh getting ready to go up the harbor there you see the shore crew and there’s a big uh microphone on the board there that’s what that uh that thing is and so that team is going to go up alongside and escort the boat up the channel protect it from other boats and maybe even take it into to if required later on yeah so like Marcus said they are um some of the boats that will arrive after shahal we are waiting for group duy will be next um with Sebastian Simon and uh after that it’ll be Tom on vulnerable uh but they it’ll be too late for them to come up the channel there won’t be enough water for as much draft of these okas um have and they will have to take a buoy and and stay out outside until tomorrow morning around 8:00 we will be live with the rest of the fleet um but of course tonight as well at least even if it’s dark we will be live with um our two boats that are arriving tonight uh might be able to hop on board and in an interview with them while they tie up to the buoy so stay tuned for that as well that might be coming either in the same one um or in the um in in another different live but we have um looking at the chart right now I’m looking to see how far um those boats are I see now Natasha why they’ve been delayed going up the harbor there’s a fishing boat coming oh there’s a fishing boat or a ship coming down the channel coming out and so coming out you can just see it there in the middle of the screen or just to the right of the master of Shel and so shelle’s had to wait until that’s out of the way before they can go up but clearly they can see it now and it’s just going to be a few minutes before they uh start to put the power on with the engine and and and get up the channel the main cell is nearly all the way down now um and uh they’ll be uh they’ll be uh cheering for both sides of the channel uh probably in about 10 or 15 minutes so um if you’re in leab delone you need to get down there and have a look yeah so I’m looking at the tracker and it looks like Sebastian Simon has made his last J and is looking like he will be able to go straight into the finish line now he’s going 19 knots and Tomar Ron he’ll have to do one more jve it looks at it looks like it he is going 20 knots 20.7 knots so we’ll be glued to the tracker at the same time as were live um for the arrival on the dock and the first interviews of Jeremy beu in third place aboard his um iron or carbon horse shahal yes so uh so uh yeah so sey Moore is about 30 miles out as you said he’s done his last job so um he’s probably at least an hour and a half maybe two hours from the finish line as they get closer to the shore they slow down a little bit obviously because the wind dies down uh but um he’s just got one thing in in mind now because sh’s gone and ahead of him and cross the finish line but he has to protect himself from tomario tomaro has two jibes left to do which a job is when you change sides for the wind wind going over the stern you can’t sail straight downwind uh you have to a bit like upwind you have to jve on a course close to straight downwind but not quite so um and so from a tactical and strategic point of view um SE simor now is um is pretty relaxed because he just has to say sail a straight line from where he is for one and a half hours more and he’ll cross the finish line in fourth place and sepy mo is a local hero because he’s from this part of the world his sponsor is from the Von region his boat is based in leab alone so uh Local Hero getting in uh and coming in in fourth place but a super close fourth place to to charel is uh is is going to be very very good for him it’s it’s it’s a fantastic result for Seb it’s probably his best ever imara result actually um interestingly sebs uh did the Ocean Race on a boat that’s further back in the course sailing with his his friend also from is abdan Benjamin D uh but he bought after the last Ocean Race 11th Hour raceing Bo won the last uh that won the last Ocean Race and um it’s with that boat that he’s Rec christened du that uh he’s coming forth here so it’s uh it’s a second and fourth for the boats that came first and I think third did where did uh uh Mia come in the Ocean Race they come third I think they came third didn’t they anyway two boats that did the ocean race are very very competitive in the current solo fond Glo Fleet so uh uh well done to them yeah well done yeah and um like you were saying uh one of the sponsors of the race is French B which is part of the group duy um so yeah so it’s calm calm on board now if initial Euphoria is is is done uh you can be sure that jerem’s on the phone to media and stuff like that inside the boat whilst his crew get ready to or Tiding the boat there’s the ship I was talking about ear looks like a small tanker small coastal tanker that’s that’s leaving the port which now leaves the way clear for uh for uh for charel to make its way up the channel perfect so for how long have they been battling it out these these three Bo boats that are coming so close to each other shal and vulnerable and group duy they’ve been um well they’ve been at it for yeah 10 days now but um uh since since that first Breakaway but interestingly SE seore was quite a long way back and he’s the one who’s made the biggest gains in reality with this this third group and that a lot of that was due to the fact that the the way ahead was blocked for the guys that were nicely in the lead but um it’s been a fascinating race and and if you want to see the uh the course that they all took on the tracker there’s a fantastic feature on the tracker on the on the website New York hyen v.org where you can replay uh the race click on the weather the wind button on the top left and you’ll see how the weather developed and you’ll see the winds that they the the fet experienced wherever they are across the course and um and uh interestingly you can see uh the different colors of the boats they’re well labeled and you can see how which one have foils which ones don’t The Trackers have really come a long way yeah yeah yeah but from a from a sporting Fan’s point of view to understand who was going who was going well what decisions they made and which strategic decisions to say with which which which boats and great trackers that we have now there we are just a few minutes now before sherel gets into the harbor and uh we have a uh yeah they’re under power there on going forwards interestingly um one of the uh one of the important uh features on these races is that the propeller seal is sealed the propeller shaft is sealed so that the Skippers can’t use their uh engines in in forward gear during light airs to move them forwards and so one of the things they have to do when they cross the finish line um is take a photograph of the seal uh and uh and something a code that is given to them by the race management so that everybody knows that the seal was broken after he crossed the finish line now you can see the Boat Moving forwards just under under engine power uh with the with the uh the flo tiller of supporter boats all around it um even this it’s a Monday night uh it’s it’s early June uh it’s nearly dark uh there’s probably what two dozen boats out there on the water following them in it’s it’s a great spectacle yeah for sure the the French love their sailing and there there’s a lot of support here for offshore professional single-handed sailing and vond the department of vond is definitely with the vond globe is one of the the most important places for offshore Sailors and like you said there’s a few a couple of rokas that are based in leab doon yeah they’re totally welcomed they’re totally welcomed and it’s a great spectacle for tourists that come to this part of France it’s uh the most visited Department in in France the V region and uh um this is just another feature of what they have so there there’s um TV crew on the or photographer on the for deck there um be getting ready to go up the channel where there’ll be crowds and know here they’re going to drop the the reaching um headle is coming down there you can just see it on the bow sprit all filled up and there’s one sailor or one of the shore crew bringing a sail bag up and another one waiting there to catch the sail um this is uh this is where Jeremy is either on the phone or having something to eat or just sitting down and catching his breath he’s not really involved in any of these Maneuvers that’s every every Shore crew member likes to get on board and play their part in making all of this happen for him in the last few minutes before they go up the channel yeah it’s the moment to brush your teeth and get ready for for the interviews on the dock put on a fresh shirt yeah exactly look like uh like you haven’t been uh yeah out at sea for um so here comes um uh camera I think is being passed over yes he has more people coming on board there a cameraman it’s going to film uh the passage up the up the channel the microphone’s gone on board this semi rigid uh boat coming up alongside is the uh support boat for the team um no risk of any damage because that’s a rubber boat against the carbon Hull and uh yeah we can see quite a lot of people getting on board now quite a lot of equipment sound gear and probably a bit of lighting and a camera meanwhile that that um reaching sail is coming com down onto the deck being lowered slowly and will’ll be uh put in its bag and put in inside the sail Locker in the bow of the boat now F of V Globe finish of course there’d be fireworks firing off about now but uh it’s uh it’s only the prelimary so uh we can wait for another few months before we see the fireworks as they come up the harbor let us know if you have any questions on the YouTube we will try to answer those as they come through Natasha V sabed alone where there been some vond Globes and some other events have been delayed because of bad weather as you can see this Harbor entrance is uh is right out into the Atlantic so you go past this lighthouse in the foreground and that’s it you’re into the Atlantic there’s no there are no Islands or sand bars or anything to protect you and it’s quite often the pretty hairy part of the world to to sail in and in fact the Finish Line Mark that they went past nud actually marks a small plateau of rocks called the nuke uh Reef um and there’s often a lot of breaking water there and breaking water over that uh that break water of of where the lighthouse is situated and we’ve had situations where the V globe and even other events of Le ABD have been delayed for a few days because it just clear clearly wasn’t safe to come out of the harbor and get ready to start a race with uh the shore being so close uh to the harbor entrance um this is uh a part of the world where the Westerly wind is the prevalent wind and we’re on the downwind side of the North Atlantic so when it blows hard from in the North Atlantic you feel the full brunt of it here and Le sa alone but tonight is is a pretty calm night I think there’s about 15 knots of wind and it’s from the north uh so um it’s a pretty benign situation although you can see the boat is jumping around a little bit there but uh it’s soon going to come down get within the confines of the harbor yeah here’s our team on board and we’re going to hear some words from Jeremy uh they’re going to be in French but we’re going to listen in and um I will translate um right after for [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] for for well Natasha I don’t yep I think that’s it for the questions um we won’t get any words from him in English um unfortunately but we will from some of the other International Skippers um and some of the uh other arrivals uh that are coming up tomorrow um he basically said it was very hard but it was a very nice battle um he gained a lot of confidence in himself during this race he he felt it was like 10 days of fig racing is what he said the boat performed really well um what did you get out of it Marcus yes well I I think he he uh he alluded to to what we were talking about earlier where there was a a gate and two boats got through it and the weather shut the gate behind them and and the rest of them were were basically trapped in a area of no win for a few days and and a secondary race started with that group of people and and he said look I can’t win the race because the leaders are gone but I can win this race which is the group that are around me and uh he said he had an extremely intense race for for 10 days with um Tom Aron Sam good child big shout out to him and uh and and more lately um SE simore and that um he he uh wondered where he still had it in him remember he talked about the figuro race which is a one design race uh in in smaller boats where all of these Sailors learn their trade basically where they begin to uh um understand what offshore racing is about and what it takes to be a real champion and quite often they compare these races to the figuro because the figuro has an incredibly um competitive environment for Sailors because basically it’s all about the sail it’s not about the boat because all the boats are identical which is not the case here and uh uh I I I’m very warmed to hear that you know he had an incredible battle with Sam goodchild which unfortunately as we mentioned earlier Sam goodard lost his m a couple of days ago and is unable to finish the race but uh Sam was uh effectively in his first cycle of ocra sailing and uh Jeremy’s in his fourth cycle fourth fourth generation ocra sailor and although theyve both done the figuro to a very high level Jeremy’s won it three times Sam almost won it a few years ago go uh but has been very very competitive for a long time and uh they they they treated this race certainly the last 10 days of this race like a 10day figuro leg which is basically intense like you you won’t believe so so here we are going up the channel interrupt you there for a second because we actually had somebody on YouTube uh saying that they wanted to see this moment so there it is um I will read to you what they said on YouTube it was Andre de Brun he said I want to see a nice show with flares because the timing is perfect with this light Sun just went down still dusk bring it on so there it is Jeremy be is bringing it on Inon with uh in the Channel with the flares of course this makes uh for spectacular photographs that they tend to use for um you know the V globe of course a few people made it out um this evening to to see third place so there’s Jeremy pris he’s not wearing gloves they’re pretty dangerous those things he’s going to drop it in a bucket of water now and maybe pick up another one come on Marcus don’t be a policeman was it well no need for him to hurt himself at this stage yeah of course so this is the most famous uh stadium in in in sailing this is the 1 kilm long uh channel that leads from the sea all the way up into the town of Lalone uh past the old town on the right hand side is leabon on the left hand side is another town called LOM and the river divides the two and uh there’s crowds on both sides of the river um and uh he’s um well he’s waving to the few that are out there tonight I I don’t want to sound like a spoil sport but obviously uh once you’ve finished the Transat transatlantic race isn’t quite the same as when you finish the the vond globe but uh uh it’s uh nevertheless always encouraging to see this is another fishing boat coming down the channel in the other direction um always good to see people that come out to to chair with these incredible athletes and their incredible exploits I don’t know how many people we’ve got watching this or watching the the tracker but uh uh there’s a huge following for this and uh uh we don’t often get to see them as relaxed as they are now and um you know there’ll be a press conference when Jeremy gets ashore and there’ll be some good laughs that’ll come out of that as he can finally relax and uh be back amongst his uh his family and friends um reflecting on this incredible race that he’s just sailed more people getting on I think there maybe some fresh flares yeah so um the battle goes on out at se still for SE Simo and uh and tomario um I think it’s pretty uh it’s pretty straightforward now and other than the gear failure for Seb Seymour he should get fourth place um I don’t want to be the curse of the commentator but uh he’s only got 20 mi to sail in a straight line in and uh I’m pretty confident he’ll uh he’ll be the next vote to finish yeah and like um I was saying it is the same organizers um for this race the New York vond and the vond globe is organized by the same um same people so this is effectively a prologue for that race and a little a little dry run for a lot of the systems be it TV be it uh various other things I’m just looking at the tracker here as I speak to you Natasha and Tom Maron has Jed as well now uh he’s on his second last uh leg he’s going to um um he’s going to have one more JB in about uh half an hour I’d say um but meantime uh sepy MO is going to sail across in front of him sepy MO is currently doing 22 knots which is plenty fast in these these conditions and um uh th’s just uh just speeding up after his maneuver he’s doing 17 knots and uh Seb is uh just uh 17 nautical miles from the finish so probably 3/4 of an hour and he’ll be at the finish line and I’d say that Tom is probably going to be maybe uh half an hour after that so very close when you think about it the these three boats are finishing the race a bit like a normal a normal race that we’d expect everybody so close together um and um this was a second race that Jeremy was alluding to the the race that they they could only sail because the two leaders had made a jump on them and there was no way they were going to be able to catch them back not sure if you’re still there Natasha yep I’m still here just charging uh putting to charge my mic that went out thank you for covering for me there while I uh fix my technical problems um but yeah these uh moments are super special um and very soon uh he’ll be coming on the dock and seeing his family those moments are really nice too but um yeah just going through the channel and waving to all the fans and um sometimes you can see people hanging out in their balcony and and they’ll be banging pots and pans and yeah they definitely like their sailing here in France and they always come out to to greet their Skippers yeah there’s about 25 boats there in the littley is he doing there to so this is the last Corner in the channel before he hits the dock there’s a few people on the at SL home side come out to wave do you know him personally have you ever worked with him or um what is he like I don’t no I’ve never worked with him I don’t really know him that well Jeremy yeah he’s kind of reserved you know out of all the Skippers I think he’s he’s one of the most quiet and reserved and kind of like um yeah I I’d agree with that no I’ve I’ve known him since 1990s when he was a young figuro sailor we were contempories in the figuro class in the late 90s um and uh you know our paths obviously cross a lot because we’re in the same field obviously he sails and and um I’m uh involved in the management of these boats and so see a lot there’s a lot of uh Administration and and I don’t want to say politics but there’s a lot of uh you know sports management that goes on and we we see a lot of each other at different meetings and and things like that but um I I wouldn’t call him a close friend but uh you know we’d stop and have a chat from time to time about different things that concern us both and um yeah he’s probably one of the more senior uh MOA Skippers now this is this will be his uh his fourth V Globe which that is coming up this year which is uh which is quite a lot with the big scheme of things you know there’s not that many that have done that many um team manager he’s Canadian is that right um Jean Seas yes yes he is yeah I don’t know him at all I think I’ve met him once um no I mean Jeremy has had the same team all of the time new on the job yeah yeah yeah but he’s um he’s he’s more of a uh he’s come from different parts of sports and that’s really interesting I think it’s important also to understand that as these boats become more complicated more Technical and the teams get bigger and the sporting competitions become more numerous uh there’s an awful lot more management that goes into it’s not just about having a sailboat it’s obviously uh the relationships with the sponsor the managing the budgets that go with it managing the hospitality and returnal investment that goes on everywhere and uh interestingly Jeremy’s new team manager is more from a Sports Marketing background than a technical background and um he’s uh he’s uh yeah well they’re they’re they’re doing what they need to do and keeping control of things but it’s always uh it’s always up to the skipper to per perform on the water but the the team just puts the puts the platform in place and um uh there not none of this hope for the best it’s more uh uh remove excuses not to perform well and and um ultimately it’s a team effort the whole thing here you can see the the main pontoon there uh on the right where he’s going to go and um the other boats are beautiful the helicopter images with the sunset they’re really spectacular yeah yeah yeah so that’s the learn is his brother the the general director of the van be you no it’s his his cousin I think it’s his cousin cousin okay and his so this is this is um that’s Nicola andreo the guy just coming towards us there he we lost him he’s the technical director for the team uh as an engineer some repute and his father before him was also a very is still a very renowned yach designer Daniel andreo okay I see his uh I see there in the background dressed in black I see his um riger Val Le so there’s bit of headphones on so he’s probably communicating with his uh sh team about the maneuver uh it’s with all of this noise it’s sometimes very to hear what’s going on yeah yeah difficult to park these machines with their with their foils oh I think it’ll be relatively straightforward tonight there’s daylight there’s not much wind there’s plenty of support are sure there we are you can just see in the foreground there the yellow and blue boat that’s another UH imoca 60 that is based in leab delone he didn’t beat Jeremy um uh in this race you’re probably wondering why it’s already at har it didn’t do this race it did the Race Across and then delivered back so they’ve been back home uh here for a while it’s likei khen belonging to to Young Kelly yeah so that makes how manyas based in subon what is it three four oh there a good half dozen no no it’s more than that it’s probably half a dozen if I think about it yeah um so um uh P um environment uh guo um uh laikin we have uh theung boat Sebastian Simone um that’s five who have I missed um yeah six boats I think yeah so they on the left so straight in front of him that’s uh that’s the boat that came second that’s militia um I would imagine just in front of them though I can’t see it would be bassive and uh or maybe they’ve already left yeah two no no I can see two Ms there they’re still there okay yeah so they’ll be they’ll have a Podium picture there you can just see now me CI in the yellow and blue boat that’s C’s boat and we’ll see if Charlie D um or Boris her are here to meet them to meet Jeremy beu because that’s sort of the tradition isn’t sure they will be tell us about this I’m sure they will be yeah I’m sure they’ll be there I’m sure they be there and there’ll be a Podium photograph of the three of them together interestingly just uh before we lost that last picture was uh that Miken the blue and yellow boat and there was a white boat just in front of that that was Ur AIT 10 that’s the boat that won the first ever V Globe by ton lamazo in in 1991 a dinosaur of a boat compared to these new ones still well indeed I don’t know whether we call it a dinosaur as opposed to a legendary boat so when they set off to do that race no 1990 it finished 1989 was the start and 1990 was the Finish took 119 days the first Bond glob oh my goodness and uh nobody was sure if anybody could uh uh sail for that long non-stop uh alone before and obviously technology wise we didn’t have the communication systems we had today we didn’t even have the navigation systems we have today we didn’t have GPS we didn’t have satellite telephones uh they were very much on their own it was a very different uh very different kind of um proposition to do the Von Globe that’s that’s um Nicola andreo there in the picture with the red a little bit of a crowd here on the dock some spotlights yeah I see some Malia jackets already there I bet you do yeah I bet you do I don’t know how it is in Formula 1 but what I like about the offshore sailing is that the teams they really um you know help each other during the you know on Shore they really if they need a part because they don’t have it they can go to the next door neighbor and ask for it you know and replace it with one that they buy later you know right before they leave for a race I mean all of that sort of like come Ry is is is really nice here we go they’re approaching the dock making sure that they’re foil with those big parab batage that they have now those big big fenders fenders thank you looking for the word I’ve forgotten so much of my vocabulary now with the the French has taken over so here he comes he’s probably still on a call with some journalist somewhere yeah so as you can see that there’s been an extension to the dock here so this is the arrival um dock where they arrive in the reporters can get close to them and take pictures and ask uh their questions and and then later on uh like we’ve seen with mif and Malia they they move them a bit further down but this is um sort of like the arrival uh doc yeah and I wonder what he’s listening to or concentrated with talking to here we go champagne time champagne shower is coming flares champagne what else what else do you guys want to see just order it right here on the YouTube chat we’ll try and deliver it that must be somebody from the vond department handing him the champagne bottle let’s see how how their personality really shows through with the champagne show doesn’t it each Skipper uh you can really kind of like see their personality uh with these moments congratulations to Jeremy beu aboard shahal third place in this New York vond [Applause] no giving a little bit to his boat of course as well who brought him to Safe Port and in third place there you have it there’s the shot that shows you the three boats first second and third so Massif on the right melissia in the middle and shal that’s just arrived the dark boat um at the end there we have our so they have the podium exactly good stuff Natasha well done it definitely looks quite different than it does during the vond globe no um I mean the village that they set up we just see a few tents there but uh okay we’re gonna go with another interview with Jeremy um so we’ll let you listen to that in French so you can practice your French oh there’s Charlie d y shaking his hand welcoming his competitor maybe we can hear a little bit of what they’re saying we’ll try and translate for you for fore fore foreign fore Boris foree foree for fore forch [Music] very cute moment here we go with the photograph of the podium finish with G Boris Herman and Jeremy be Bravo to all three of them so basically they were it’s cute to see them when they when they talked that went on for a while we’re going to listen to this interview and then we’re going to what tell you a little bit for uh [Music] guys [Music] for for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] spee oh [Music] what uh [Music] uh for [Music] [Music] [Music] spe for [Music] [Music] [Music] Goode speech [Music] for fore okay so basically um yeah he is very very happy to have won this race um uh I you you can see it if you if you know him um you you can see that yeah he’s definitely very happy to have won this race um he said everyone sailed very well that it was really um his objective after abandoning the Transat say the race that the transatlantic that went there um he really pushed hard this time but it’s always hard to find that balance between you know keeping uh the boat in one piece and also preserving the the human um uh and and they kind of spoke about that a little bit when all three were there it was interesting to hear that conversation uh between Boris Charlie and Jeremy um and and saying how much uh upwind they had to do versus how much downwind uh Boris had to do but um but yeah Marcus are are you still there with me I am I am so yeah I agree with all that what was for me I think the most the big takeout for me of that was that uh he knew pretty soon that uh the first two were gone there wasn’t an awful lot he could do about it um and so he really wanted to win the race that you described there the second race and uh he um thinks in hindsight certainly talking to Boris and to Charlie that uh they probably had a tougher race or much tougher race than than Charlie and Boris who were just off on their own and just sailed towards the Finish Line um Jeremy uh fought really really hard and had a Regal battle with the other four boats only three of them or two of them now but uh uh he’s very pleased with himself because he found that he still has what it takes to to beat them uh he wasn’t sure psychologically it’s really difficult we’re playing at the absolute highest level here imaginable uh with the best teams the best prepared teams the best Sailors uh before the start of the race 10 votes could have won could have won this race and um he knew he couldn’t win after those two had slipped through that weather phenomena he was going to make damn sure that he he won the secondary race which which he managed to do but he he uh he mentioned a few times there am I not too old for this and being at this for such a long time am I able to uh push this hard still and what am I doing here and realizes that sometimes you have to ask yourself what am I doing here but every time you go out you have to ask what’s this all about why am I here and you need to do that to refocus yourself and to keep going uh but his um his uh his breakdown in the transa cic on the way over was uh something was obviously very difficult for him to swallow as a sportsman you know to be in the thick of it and then to come back to to France fix it and then with his Shore crew they sailed the boat across to uh to America and got it ready for for the race back um but uh it’s really uh really tough to get back in it but it’s super super important to get back into it but psychologically from a Sportsman’s point of view really got to uh to work out what you’re doing there and and to push hard and uh and he managed to do that and he’s pretty pleased with himself but he’s absolutely exhausted he left nothing on the nothing on the left everything on the field as as they say in SP and um he doesn’t remember the last time he slept he it was a couple days ago a bit like the uh for the figure out where they go for long long periods of time without sleeping because it’s all about pushing pushing pushing and knowing go beside them is uh is pushing as hard as they are and it’s really about who wants to win this the most and uh so we had real competition right we’re going now to the same sort of thing for [Music] [Music] f uh [Music] [Music] for for for [Applause] J for [Music] [Music] mer forner mam miss [Music] you for e