Niall Myant-Best looks back on the standout moments from an eventful Leg 3! Full of twists and turns, this incredible journey provided us with plenty of drama as it unfolded. Team Malizia fought to take their first Leg victory, beating Team Holcim-PRB in second, and 11th Hour Racing Team and Biotherm in third and fourth.
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I'd be interested in knowing how they do their sailhandlong manuvours like reefing. Can they do that while on a reach, or do they point the boat to the wind. Also having seen this, how do they race these boats alone in vendee globe? Sailing more Conservative, or?
Very very very cool – such special people
what is the overall score for each boat, how many legs to go, when does the next leg start? THANK YOU!!
I just want to say; the coverage of the race has gotten really good! Congrats to the Ocean Race for turning it around
I'm totally in awe of the skill, bravery & perseverance of all the crews. Blown away by the savage sea, it's beauty & power plus the chance to see it up close & raw is a rare privilege. Please can you tell me more about their food. Good luck to all in the next legs, may Neptune smile on you.
Thanks in advance for any future insights! Questions: How do they prepare for the next leg, which will be very different? Can Biotherm repair their foil in time? How will 11th hour deal with their mainsail? Since they have only one left…
11th hour team found themselves in trouble in the 11th hour of the leg. unfortunate.
Honestly, these boats should not be breaking like this. Next ocean race i hope to see a notch up in durability. Race is decided based on what thing will break.
The spirit of MALIZIA-SEAEXPLORER on YouTube counts to:
PRB-HOLCIM: 4940 followers
11TH HOUR RACING: 6560 followers
BIOTHERME: 1380 followers
GUYONT TEAM EUROPE: 885 followers
TEAM MALIZIA-SEA EXPLORER: 61.600 !! followers
Great coverage again, and what a leg it was! I would love to hear more about the tactics and techniques of recovering situations like, for example, broaches. You see a lot of the action inside the boat, but sometimes it is hard to imagine what all the doing actually does 🙂 Would also be cool to hear more about the fact that the boats could hit stuff anytime and abut unknown floating objects.
I’d love to see how the recovery process for the sailors is going, how they try to get back up to speed in this short amount of time and, of course, how the boats are being rebuilt. The more detail the better!
Are the teams allowed to replace their worn sails? Can they chose a different suite of sails for the next leg? Thanks.
I've noticed that here in the USA the Ocean Race is not being covered by any of the national networks. As viewers and enthusiasts what can we do to correct this issue. Watching from central Ohio USA.
Can you talk about rigging and different sail types and choices?
Why don't they carry a spare mainsail?
Congratulations to all teams on this fantastic race in the southern ocean. I'd like to know if there is any chance of moving the stop in Brazil to the beautiful All Saints Bay in Salvador , Bahia.
Thanks Niall , well done. Your excellent and comprehensive summary is well appreciated.
Thanks a lot for the insights which help me to get in close contact with this incredible race.
Awesome!
Nigel, there is a lot of electronic on board. Are the sailers that decided what sail configuration is used or the computer confirming to the polar diagram?
Thank Niall for these great updates. What I would like to see and hear from the sailors is the amount of spare parts and repair tools/parts they are taking with them? How much weight does this add to the boat? Does it differ per leg. Does it differ a lot per team?
Good on you. Enjoy Brazil!
Thank you Niall. Your passion for this competition flings over to us audience as well as the professional reporting. Goosebumps! Well produced and sharp wrap-up! Awesome!
Love the coverage. Thank you. A few questions. The Onboard reporters? Did each team pick their own? What made the reporters want to do this?
I find it weird Niall that all the teams are so concerned [apparently] about the heath of the oceans yet the whole circus burns thousands of tonnes of kerosene, and its ok to fly back to Europe for 10 days, I think its time to stop the race we must win bullshit.
Q: from my wife, how do the crews get chosen?
i would like to know what different types of Composites the Teams are using. I notice that for Exempel 11h have used a Composite in a bag and mixed it with resin inside this bag and team Malizia prepared their composite by putting on resin with a Paint roll.
The live start and finishes on your free to air channel would be really appreciated. The tracker, race reports, ocean race show and content from the boats are brilliant… but there is a dark hole, where starts and finishes are concerned since the brilliant departure from Cape Verde!
AWESOME coverage as usual! QUESTION: How much of the sailing equipment on the boats is just standard commercially available items and how much of it is "Ocean Race" specific? Seems to me, that too much of these standard items are breaking causing all sorts of grief and potential losses. I think of Motor Sports for example; pretty sure there are not ANY non-specific items on an F1 car. OR at least if there are, (something like an o-ring?) it has had SPECIAL attention as to making sure that all failure modes are reduced to the bare minimum. Just seems to me that there are too many "off the shelf" items on these boats, and the risk of failure is way too great. As a design engineer myself, I know there are always ways of eliminating these risks, usually at great expense, but these programs have to be HUGE investments and to throw that away on a rope or block or friction ring? Seems silly. Also, I will apologize in advance as I am not a sailor, never even been on a sailing boat, but I love watching the ocean races! CHEERS!!!!
QUESTION: In the End Of Watch podcast by Boris and Rosie, Boris mentioned their top of mast block failure and how the manufacturer went back and analyzed this failure and created a "fix". I would love more details on this and any other failures that have resulted in similar revisions. CHEERS!!!!
Hello, would like to know more about the sails and the autopilot.
It looks like the sails of the teams have different reliability and robustness.
Is this due to different concepts and/or manufacturers?
Are the autopilots proprietary developments of the teams themselves?
Že dolgo sledim tem največjim regatam na svetu. Tehnologija in hitrost čolnov sta za nas mornarje visoko zrahljala. Čast ekipam, ki so uspele rešiti tehnične težave na morju. Naj zmaga najboljši…!
Kind of a miracle nobody drowned. These boats are clearly not up to spec.
Will future editions of TOR use IMOCAs?
Which of their many failings can be corrected by a change in class rules, and which will be for designers, builders and teams to resolve?
Also, I agree with the comment that not being able to stand up is a bloody stupid design feature.
NIALL… What an excellent analysis of Leg.3! You captured the challenges of weather diversity and yacht management to excellent conclusions…well done! I strongly recommend your "Deep.Dive" interview with Juan (done 1yr. ago) on the engineering and sailing characteristics of the IMOCA.60. As an offshore sailor and commercial pilot, I especially enjoyed the crossover in fluid dynamics from aviation principles to marine physics…. Great Stuff! 😎
I am hoping that team Malizia shares the secret of the magic noise cancelling whatzits they installed in the cabin with the other teams.
Niall do you have COVID? Is that why you are presenting outside of the studio in quarantine?
What type of drones do the OBRs use? Do they use special firmware to make it easier to retrieve a moving drone? Or is there a trick that they use? A video/section with interviews of the OBRs on how they do this would be cool!
Show us the behind the scenes road show. Do the teams only have 1 shop that goes to each city, or is it like F1 or a rock concert?
I‘d like to know if there are any changes in the team setups known yet for the next leg? (Basically I just hope, that pirate Rosie will be fine and racing again 😊…)
April 21 is holiday here in Brazil. Wait for a crowd for the In Port Race and for the leg start on Sunday. We will be there. See you in Itajai.
I am still wondering why the VO65s are not sailing the whole race. Keep up the great show!
Hi, can you please show a profile of Malizia's hull that differed from the others?