Big Seas and Storms at TJV (ENG) Second Start Ocean50 and Class40s in Lorient France. Nov 6 Report

We are a Sailing only highlights show so please help by Subscribing to our channel, Liking our exclusive content, Sharing with your sailing mates and checking the "ALL" uplods alert Bell. Thank you. Some eight days after the initial start from Le Havre a week past Sunday, 46 duos aboard their Class40 and Ocean Fifty multihiulls returned to the Transat Jacques Vabre race course from Lorient this Monday morning heading for Martinique. The pairs set off in fairly typical late autumn weather with 2.5m high waves and a 20-knot WSW’ly wind. The breeze was peppered with many squalls to deal with, some bringing in heavy rain and gusts of 35-40 knots. So conditions were very much as might be expected at the start of the Coffee Race. The fleets of six trimarans and forty monohulls which crossed their lines at 1030 and 1045hrs local time respectively are going to find it very hard work to get to the trade winds. There was a damp, early start for those who took to the pontoons to big farewell to their crews. It was a bitter moment for the French co-skippers of Dékuple, William Mathelin-Moreaux and Pietro Luciani, who confirmed they would not be racing on after being unable to repair in time the damage they suffered in the first leg. They could not hide their emotions. Check back tomorrow to the "Sailing World on Water" channel for the long awaited start of the IMOCA60 flying foiling boats. It should be spectacular.