PRESS RELEASE • 21st February 2013
Orion Racing join MOD70 Class.
Multi One Design (MOD) announced today that US-based Orion Racing has purchased MOD nr.02. “MOD is delighted to welcome an American boat-owner as it increases the number of nationalities in the circuit”, said Marco Simeoni, President of Multi One Design. “Orion will bring a new dynamic to the development of the circuit and promote the MOD70 series in the American Market.”
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Leg 5 : Marseille – Genoa
PRESS RELEASE • 2 October 2012
Spindrift racing wins stage 5, FONCIA winner of the MOD 70 European Tour
Chapo …
FONCIA left Marseille on Sunday afternoon needing to protect their six points lead from Spindrift racing by ensuring that, at worst, they finished directly behind Yann Guichard’s crew.
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Leg 5 : Marseille – Genoa
PRESS RELEASE • 30 September 2012
Match Point
After some 3,700 miles of offshore racing, over four weeks since leaving Kiel on Sunday September 2nd and 23 City Race heats in Kiel, Dun Laoghaire, Cascais and Marseille, it will be the final 651 miles leg to Genoa, Italy which will decide the MOD70 European Tour overall winner. But, according to the key protagonists it might be the very last miles that settles it.
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PRESS RELEASE • 29 September 2012
Spindrift racing win in Marseille, a morale boost for the finale
In winning the Marseille City Race, Yann Guichard’s Spindrift racing did all that they possibly could, over five races on the bay off Marseille, to improve their chance of overhauling overall leaders FONCIA to win the MOD70 European Tour, but with Michel Desjoyeaux’s crew finishing in second the overall difference between the two title chasers is cut only by one point.
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Leg 4 : Cascais – Marseille
PRESS RELEASE • 24 September 2012
FONCIA strengthen their leadership, Marseille shaping up to be vital
With all five of the MOD70 fleet safely finished into Marseille after the most mentally demanding stage of the MOD70 European Tour yet, Leg 4 from Cascais to Marseille, skippers and crew were keen to immediately catch up on their required rest.
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Leg 4 : Cascais – Marseille
PRESS RELEASE • 23 September 2012
Further gains for Musandam-Oman Sail
The MOD70s have spent the night gybing along the south coast of Spain with the separation between first placed Musandam-Oman Sail and last placed Groupe Edmond de Rothschild showing yet another dramatic increase.
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News – Tuesday 18 September 2012, 18h22
FONCIA win Offshore Leg 3, Cascais to Cascais, and returns to top of MOD70 European Tour Leaderboard
They lead out of Cascais yesterday at the very start of the 213 miles Leg 3 of the MOD70 European Tour and this afternoon finished first across the Cascais finish line at 16hrs 07mins 44secs local time (UTC/GMT+1) this afternoon. In so doing Michel Desjoyeaux and his crew of FONCIA collected the maximum points on offer for the third stage, 3 bonus points for the start prologue and 12 points for winning the third of the five offshore stages of this MOD70 European Tour.
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Leg 3 : Around Portugal Race
PRESS RELEASE • 18 September 2012
Tall order for shortest leg
The shortest leg so far of the MOD70 European Tour, Leg 3, cut to just 213 miles is set to endure some of the lightest winds yet. But the points available for this brief tour out of Cascais are just the same and as equally vital as the two preceding legs from Kiel to Dublin and from Dublin to Cascais.
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Cascais, Portugal
PRESS RELEASE • 16 September 2012
A tale of three cities – Musandam-Oman Sail win in Cascais
Musandam-Oman Sail, skippered by Sidney Gavignet with his international crew became the third different team to win City Race series in successive stops of the MOD70 European Tour when they triumphed in the sixth race in Cascais, Portugal.
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Cascais, Portugal
PRESS RELEASE • 15 September 2012
Musandam-Oman Sail consolidate Cascais
Light winds limited the planned itinerary of Cascais City Race series heats to just the one single ace today on the MOD70 European Tour in Portugal.
Cascais, Portugal
PRESS RELEASE • 14 September 2012
Musandam-Oman Sail staying cool and in command in Cascais
After three City Race series heats off Cascais it is the quiet consistency of Sidney Gavignet’s hard working Musandam-Oman Sail team that prevail. As a light sea-breeze gave way to a very slightly stronger N’ly wind, the Omani team added their first race win this season to a pair of third places to lead the overall standings in Portugal by one single point.
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Leg 2 : Dun Laoghaire – Cascais
PRESS RELEASE • 12 September 2012
Spindrift racing beat the dawn patrol in Cascais
Breaking the finish line off Cascais at 05hours 37minutes 36seconds GMT/UTC (06hrs 37mins 36secs local) this Wednesday morning Yann Guichard and the crew of Spindrift racing won the 975 miles second leg of the MOD70 European Tour from Dun Laoghaire, by Dublin, Ireland to Cascais by Lisbon in Portugal.
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Leg 2 : Dùn Laoghaire – Cascais
PRESS RELEASE • 9 September 2012
MODe: Ocean Racing Groupe Edmond de Rothschild leads out of Dun Laoghaire
Dun Laoghaire, Ireland bid a brisk, breezy farewell to the MOD70 European Tour fleet with Sébastien Josse’s crew on Groupe Edmond de Rothschild collecting the maximum 3 bonus points from the prologue circuit and leading the fleet out on to Dublin Bay for the leg to Cascais, Portugal.
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Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
PRESS RELEASE • 8 September 2012
First among equals
After six City Races it took one exciting Speed Match tie-break finale, a short out-and -back reaching sprint, to decide the overall winner of the Dun Laoghaire City Races.
From two days of tight competition in a great mix of breezes Spindrift racing, Groupe Edmond de Rothschild and FONCIA finished locked together with the same 63 points aggregate.
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Dùn Laoghaire, Ireland
PRESS RELEASE • 7 September 2012
Dublin Double for FONCIA
Nothing was easy or straightforward for the five crews of the MOD70 European Tour on their first day of City Races on Dublin Bay off Dun Laoghaire’s East Pier, but it was Michel Desjoyeaux and the crew of FONCIA that emerged with the best points tally from the three City Races.
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PRESS RELEASE • 6 September 2012
FONCIA wins on the wire
From an incredibly close finish which saw all three top teams arrive at the Dun Laoghaire, Dublin line within 77 seconds of each other, it was Michel Desjoyeaux and his crew of FONCIA which stole victory on the MOD70 European Tour first leg of the from Kiel to Dublin.
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Leg 1 : Kiel – Dùn Laoghaire
PRESS RELEASE • 5 September 2012
Channel Express to Land’s End
With the MOD70 European Tour leaders Spindrift racing and second placed Foncia making 22 and 31 knots respectively on the early morning ranking, the high speed chase west down the Channel sees Yann Guichard’s crew hanging on to a lead of just over seven miles as the MOD70 fleet on Leg 1 of the close fast to Land’s End which they should reach between 0800hrs and 0900hrs UTC this morning. The leaders have made the best part of 190miles in just nine hours!
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KIEL, Germany
PRESS RELEASE • 1st September 2012
Double Triumph for Kiel Sailing City
Michel Desjoyeaux and the crew of FONCIA narrowly collected top points across the six Betfair City Races on the Kiel Fjord, just holding off the late charge of Yann Guichard and the Spindrift racing crew who finished the MOD70 European Tour stage in Germany with two back to back race wins to clinch second overall.
MOD70 European Tour musters in Kiel, Germany
from 28th August.
The MOD70 European Tour fleet of five MOD70 multihulls will muster in Kiel, Germany on Tuesday 28th August, making ready for five weeks and almost 5000 miles of racing around the European mainland coast, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, finishing in Genoa on October 2nd.
Spindrift racing win the KRYS OCEAN RACE,
New York to Brest in under 5 days
Yann Guichard and his crew of five crossed the finish line on Thursday July 12 at 12hrs 08m 37s UTC (14hrs 08m 37s) to take overall victory in the inaugural KRYS OCEAN RACE transatlantic race in an elapsed time four days 21 hours 08 minutes 37s, an average of 25.03 kts on this 2950 miles race course.
PRESS RELEASE • 12 July 2012
Scilly gains?
Gains by the chasing duo Groupe Edmond de Rothschild and FONCIA which were revealed when the leading MOD70 Spindrift racing reappeared last night from undercover ‘ghost mode’ may continue through the first part of today but Spindrift’s
Pascal Bidégorry seemed confident that their crew have enough in hand in an improving forecast to cross first at the Petit Minou finish line this afternoon.
© MOD70 Spindrift racing / On board
PRESS RELEASE • 11 juillet 2012
Lined up nicely
With under 900 miles left to sail to the finish line in Brest of the first KRYS OCEAN RACE, Yann Guichard, the skipper of leading MOD70 Spindrift racing, considers that strategic options for their nearest rivals Groupe Edmond de Rothschild and FONCIA are running out.
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PRESS RELEASE • 10 July 2012
Mid-Atlantic, no change at ‘half time’
With the incredible pace scarcely relenting during their third night at sea Yann Guichard and his crew of Spindrift racing have continued to maintain the small advantage over their nearest rivals as the KRYS OCEAN RACE plunges towards the halfway mark on the headlong sprint from New York to Brest.
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High speed, high level.
Finding the level, whether to try and set the pace or simply stay with it; those were just some of the questions which occupied the minds of the five KRYS OCEAN RACE skippers before they left New York, Saturday for the first ever trans-oceanic race for the exciting new one design Multihull class.
