Watch Groupama's video of their awesome effort of constructing a jury rig with the remaining mast.. It's considerably more detailed, from a mast and rigging perspective (and much less watched!), than the official VOR coverage.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
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Hello Rigging News;
First I would like to thank you and congratulate to you for your Blog and all the information you share with us, readers, we learn a lot from your posts, interesting information always and fresh.
On another hand I just wanted to write to you to tell the world that Groupama has been in Punta Del Este as you all know working trying to go back into the race and get to Itajai to get their points.
This is all well known by everyone who follows the race, but what I want to tell you all is that from the moment the Groupama Team contacted the Yacht Club Punta de Este to let them know that their had lost the rig and that the boat was heading to Punta del Este to stop for repairs, a lot of things had happened that are not seen in the video nor the reports you can read in the web around, as the most important thing is the Groupama Team is back in the race sailing to Itajai.
The personnel and authorities from the Yacht Club Punta del Este
http://www.ycpe.com.uy/
where working since they know about in trying to find solutions and finding the needs and requests from the Groupama Shore Team that was in contact with them to be able to organize things to repair the boat, meanwhile the Groupama yacht was trying to reach Punta del Este a big storm passed through the area which make the arrival of the yacht more dangerous at night with strong winds.
Finally they where safe at port and after that they were invited to go to the Yacht Club to have some hot meals and be able to get a proper shower and sleep at their rooms, after they left things organized talking to their Shore team that was delayed due to the stormy weather in Barsil and though arriving next day at noon.
The Yacht Club Punta del Este organized the crane and tools they need and also gave them some resin and other stuff for the repair. The Yacht Club Punta Del Este make all efforts in trying to support the Groupama Team so the crew can go back out to sail again, doing this with no other interest than the one their always had " The sport of Sailing and the Sailor"
This Yacht Club was in the past the stopover for the Withbread for 5 times and was the only port where the race stop twice in the tour around the globe, it has been the stopover for many other ocean offshore sailing races and inshore regattas as well like world championships and continental regattas for many international classes.
Their main objective is to teach the young sailors how to sail a boat and if they like to continue how to race on them as well.
Just wanted to let you all know that the Stop in Punta del Este of Groupama has been a challenge to the city and their people who where watching them and wishing them success and that everything they asked once they arrived to Punta del Este was in the first priority for the authorities and people.
Hopefully we can keep our dream of receiving the race again here where they use to come some years ago, and we will all work in trying to make it happen.
Hope I did not make this too long... but just wanted to let every other know the dark side of the history that is never told.
Uruguay Natural
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