{"id":48823,"date":"2025-06-02T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/the-low-down-on-an-epic-week-un-the-english-channel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:35:22","slug":"the-low-down-on-an-epic-week-un-the-english-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/en\/the-low-down-on-an-epic-week-un-the-english-channel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LOW-DOWN ON AN EPIC WEEK IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_large width_full with_img parallax_ver\"><div class=\"l-section-img\" role=\"img\" data-img-width=\"1600\" data-img-height=\"1067\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1.jpg);background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-overlay\" style=\"background:rgba(0,0,0,0.40)\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_d392eac1\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #f4ad14;\">RETOUR SUR UNE SEMAINE D&#8217;ANTHOLOGIE EN MANCHE<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_large\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-image align_center\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/normandy-race.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250525NCR_1JML0557bd-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_large\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong><em>Communiqu\u00e9 de presse n\u00b0 9\u00a0&#8211; 3 juin\u00a02025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>L&#8217;arriv\u00e9e de JANGADA RACING ( n\u00b0152) de Richard Palmer et Rupert Holmes \u00e0 Ouistreham \u00e0 00.21 dans la nuit de samedi \u00e0 dimanche dernier a marqu\u00e9 la fin de cette 16\u00e8me \u00e9dition de la CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE. Une 16\u00e8me place et un podium sur le classement des &#8220;pointus&#8221; pour cet \u00e9quipage , dernier &#8220;finisher&#8221; des 32 partants. Pour \u00e9voquer cette semaine il faut mobiliser tous les ressorts de la langue fran\u00e7aise: semaine d&#8217;anthologie, \u00e9pique, ann\u00e9e de tous les records&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D\u00e9s le d\u00e9part dimanche 25 mai le tempo avait \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9 avec la collision 2&#8242; avant le d\u00e9part des deux concurrents VSF SPORTS et WASABIII , provoquant le d\u00e9matage du second ( collision jug\u00e9e en fin de semaine aux torts du 1er ). Les 32 concurrents pr\u00e9sents sur la ligne de d\u00e9part repr\u00e9sentaient non seulement un record pour l&#8217;\u00e9preuve mais \u00e9galement le nombre le plus important d&#8217;un \u00e9venement unique Class40 depuis la cr\u00e9ation de celle-ci il y a 20 ans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En 15 \u00e9ditions l&#8217;\u00e9preuve n&#8217;avait jamais connu de collision, de d\u00e9m\u00e2tage, de demande d&#8217;assistance ext\u00e9rieure: la loi des s\u00e9ries faisant son office on verra dans la suite de la semaine que cette ann\u00e9e 2025 allait connaitre un ou deux \u00e9pisodes de ces registres d&#8217;accidentologie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La nuit suivante le d\u00e9part fut l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;une chevauch\u00e9e sauvage des Class40 qui traversaient la Manche en 3 heures entre Barfleur et l&#8217;\u00eele de Wight, embouquaient le Solent dans la foul\u00e9e, avant pour la plupart de retraverser la Manche comme les routages leur recommandaient pour atteindre la marque suivante \u00e0 Wolf Rock. Image un peu surr\u00e9aliste de voir le groupe de t\u00eate aux environs du Raz Blanchard le lundi matin moins de 24 heures apr\u00e9s le d\u00e9part de Caen \/ Ouistreham. D\u00e9s lors l&#8217;\u00e9preuve s&#8217;emballait et la mont\u00e9e au pr\u00e9s dans 20 \u00e0 25 noeuds dans une mer dure provoquait les premiers abandons techniques, le mat\u00e9riel comme les hommes \u00e9tant particuli\u00e8rement sollicit\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">C&#8217;est ESPRIT LARGE ( n\u00b0209) de Corentin Douguet et Axel Tr\u00e9hin qui passait en t\u00eate la marque de Wolf Rock \u00e0 05.11 le mardi 27 mai. Cette nuit fut marqu\u00e9e par le d\u00e9matage d&#8217;AMARRIS d&#8217;Achille Nebout et Gildas Mah\u00e9 ( Class40 n\u00b0182) apr\u00e9s la rupture de l&#8217;\u00e9tai de la voile d&#8217;avant J1.Wolf Rock \u00e9tait aussi synonyme d&#8217;un changement de parcours puisque la direction de course envoyait les comp\u00e9titeurs non pas au Nord dans la d\u00e9pression vers la mer Celtique et le phare de Tuskar mais au Sud vers la pointe bretonne et une cardinale \u00e0 virer \u00e0 l&#8217;extr\u00e9mit\u00e9 de la chauss\u00e9e de sein, puis vers le Fastnet ; une d\u00e9cision qui avait donc pour objet de prot\u00e9ger la flotte d&#8217;une d\u00e9pression forte d\u00e9j\u00e0 en cours et qui fermait la porte vers l&#8217;Irlande. Les Class40 redescendaient \u00e0 nouveau dans une folle chevauch\u00e9e avec des vitesses de 18 \u00e0 20 noeuds vers la cardinale ouest Chauss\u00e9e de Sein ; marque atteinte \u00a07 heures 30 apr\u00e9s le premier passage \u00e0 Wolf Rock toujours par ESPRIT LARGE le mardi 27 mai \u00e0 12.49. Plusieurs nouveaux abandons \u00e9taient \u00e0 regretter dans cette journ\u00e9e tant du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de ceux qui descendaient vers le sud que du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de ceux qui avaient encore \u00e0 passer la marque de Wolf Rock. Devant ces difficult\u00e9s croissantes la direction de course op\u00e9rait un second changement de parcours conduisant les Class40 \u00e0 faire route directe vers Caen apr\u00e9s avoir pass\u00e9 le Fastnet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mais la nuit de mardi \u00e0 mercredi allait \u00eatre marqu\u00e9e par un \u00e9v\u00e9nement dramatique quand vers 02.00 du matin NST CABINET Z (n\u00b0191) de Thomas Jourdren et C\u00e9dric de Kervenao\u00ebl \u00e9tait heurt\u00e9 par un porte- containers de grande taille au sud -ouest du DST de Ouessant en violation des r\u00e9gles de navigation. Un drame \u00e9vit\u00e9 de peu pour un \u00e9quipage qui une fois le choc pass\u00e9 a su parfaitement adopter les bonnes techniques enseign\u00e9es en particulier dans le briefing s\u00e9curit\u00e9 qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 tenu avant le d\u00e9part \u00e0 Caen ; la pr\u00e9sence r\u00e9guli\u00e8re dans ces briefings d&#8217;intervenants des flotilles de l&#8217;a\u00e9ronavale ou des douanes permet de transmettre une exp\u00e9rience pr\u00e9cisieuse dans les moments critiques ; qu&#8217;ils en soient remerci\u00e9s ainsi que tous ceux qui ont concourru au sauvetage, Cross Corsen, A\u00e9ronavale et flotille 32F,Pr\u00e9fecture Maritime de l&#8217;Atlantique et l&#8217;\u00e9quipage concurrent qui \u00e9tait sur la zone de Pamela Lee et Jay Thompson sur le n\u00b0178 #EMPHOWER et a apport\u00e9 une aide d\u00e9terminante.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Une fois rassur\u00e9s sur le sort des skippers naufrag\u00e9s la course a repris dans tous les esprits et ESPRIT LARGE passait \u00e0 nouveau en t\u00eate la marque du phare du Fastnet le mercredi 28 mai \u00e0 10.58; mais cette fois-ci challeng\u00e9 de pr\u00e9s par plusieurs concurrents qui lui avaient fait perdre la plus grande partie de son avance r\u00e9duite \u00e0 5 milles. Et ce fut un long sprint pour la descente du Fastnet vers Caen dans des conditions plus cl\u00e9mentes de 15 \u00e0 20 noeuds de vent mais avec un stress encore accru avec la remont\u00e9e des poursuivants et l&#8217;arriv\u00e9e dans des zones \u00e0 risques avec beaucoup de courant et des calmes attendus dans la soir\u00e9e de jeudi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ESPRIT LARGE passait finalement la ligne d&#8217;arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 Ouistreham le jeudi 29 mai \u00e0 18.23 soit \u00e0 peine plus de 31 heures apr\u00e9s avoir vir\u00e9 le Fastnet; avec un total de 1187 milles parcourus sur le fond \u00e0 la vitesse moyenne de 11,83 noeuds; une vitesse impressionnante qui illustre l&#8217;\u00e9volution des Class40 en t\u00eate de flotte, toujours plus rapides, toujours plus puissants, et n\u00e9cessitant une pr\u00e9paration technique de plus en plus pouss\u00e9e pour ne pas casser avec des \u00e9quipages qui ne veulent jamais rien lacher dans cette \u00e9preuve; car si les conditions de vent et surtout de mer ont \u00e9t\u00e9 dures elles n&#8217;ont pas extr\u00eames avec un vent moyen jusqu&#8217;au Fastnet de l&#8217;ordre de 20 \u00e0 25 noeuds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SOGESTRAN- SEAFRIGO ( n\u00b0197) de Guillaume Pirouelle et C\u00e9dric Chateau et LEGALLAIS ( n\u00b0199) de Fabien Delahaye et Pierre Leboucher compl\u00e9taient le podium dans le classement g\u00e9n\u00e9ral tandis qu&#8217;au classement des pointus Djemila Tassin et Simon Koster sur BELGIUM OCEAN RACING (n\u00b0153) remportait la course pour la premi\u00e8re \u00e9preuve de la jeune skippeuse belge. Mais la course ayant d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de mettre les nerfs \u00e0 vif de tous jusqu&#8217;au bout il aura fallu pr\u00e9s de 3 jours et 3 nuits pour r\u00e9cuperer l&#8217;ensemble des comp\u00e9titeurs dans un vent quasi nul et dans les courants de la Baie de Seine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cette 16\u00e8me \u00e9dition de la CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE restera dans les m\u00e9moires m\u00eame si l&#8217;\u00e9preuve a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 depuis sa cr\u00e9ation tr\u00e8s exigeante; le chiffre de 50% d&#8217;abandon est certes marquant mais il n&#8217;est pas en soi une anomalie, d&#8217;autres \u00e9ditions ayant eu aussi des taux d&#8217;abandon \u00e9lev\u00e9s ( 45% en 2013 et 2020). A noter aussi que des \u00e9quipages en avarie technique ont pu reprendre la mer comme BLEU BLANC PLAN\u00c8TE LOCATION de Quentin Le Nabour et Thierry Chabagny ( n\u00b0205 ) apr\u00e9s un arr\u00eat \u00e0 Roscoff. Les conditions de cette ann\u00e9e ont pouss\u00e9 chacun dans ses retranchements que ce soit les skippers en mer ou l&#8217;organisation \u00e0 terre avec en particulier la directrice de course Miranda Merron qui vivait sa premi\u00e8re exp\u00e9rience de direction de course d&#8217;un \u00e9v\u00e9nement de cette taille ; un \u00e9v\u00e9nement qui a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 maitris\u00e9 en d\u00e9pit des difficult\u00e9s.L&#8217;int\u00e9r\u00eat du public et des m\u00e9dias a suivi en tout cas la pente ascendante des vitesses et des \u00e9venements de la semaine avec un double direct d\u00e9part d&#8217;une heure de la chaine L&#8217;EQUIPE et de FRANCE 3 NORMANDIE, 21 sujets quotidiens sur 12 jours entre les 2 chaines, de multiples sollicitions de la presse, et pr\u00e8s d&#8217;un million et demi de vues sur le site internet et les r\u00e9seaux sociaux en quelques jours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE va continuer \u00e0 \u00e9crire son histoire dans les ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir avec ses skippers toujours fid\u00e8les \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9preuve, ses belles \u00e9quipes, ses partenaires du CIC ou des collectivit\u00e9s normandes. 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