Anonymous wrote:

Bonjour Paul

I suppose that it is a handicap race. If so, how did you get a handicap and what is the value in comparaison of the same boat with a bermudien riging ?

Eric

Bonjour

I checked and it is not a handicap race. 

The small keel boat is THE most important serie with a lot of professional or semi-professional sailors with dedicated single handed racing boats as for example the Dehler 30OD (One design). 

This class is rather heterogenious (25.01 to 30.00 feet incl) and Ilvy (25,26feet - 7.7m) is among the smaller boats in the class. 

At start Ilvy was rather late with a 55tth position out of 65 starters. She kept in the same group for almost all the race. When they arrived at the northern part of the island, this group was blocked by the tide (in French racing terms we call it a "passage a niveau" -" a level crossing") while the most of the fleet passed before the tide shift (at the arrival time there is a gap of 5 hours betwenn Ilvy and the boat just ahead). In that narrow passage head wind against the tide, Ilvy started to overpass boats and she finished at the head of this group. 

Eric

Paul’s approach to everything is really impressive:  he make his plans, then finds a way to test his work against competition or with data.  Thanks and congratulations to him!!

I agree 100%

I am surprised that there is so little response about this event.

Even though I am not a racer, I found it to be super exciting to follow it on the web. 
Ilvy was racing in the keeboats small class. Just look at the crazy things happening when they pass through LilleBelt.

Hopefully, this link will work...

Arne

https://tractrac.com/event-page/event_20250919_Silverrudd/3196

Bravo Paul

Great result and a achievment of several years of hard work !

Eric

Ilvy finished 54th! Congratulations Paul!