Cu doar câteva zile până la startul Vendée Globe 2024, Ambre Hasson a vorbit cu Charlie Dalin, comandantul MACIF Santé Prévoyance, despre construcția sa perturbată a cursei, despre proiectarea noului său IMOCA și despre speranțele sale pentru cursa în sine.
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Charlie Dalin – favoritul lui Vendée Globe?
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If we should define "the favourite", Charlie s probably the one
Macif is a brand new boat but she has shown in the first races that this new Verdier design is again a front runner.
Charlie is probably THE MAN who manages better than the others his machine, adjusting well the cursor between "performance and reliability". He is not the only engineer but "Macif boat + Charlie" is probably the best pair exactly as we could speak about a "horse+rider" pair.
BUT, you know all the story, VDG IS NOT A TRANSAT
For a transat, we can do some reasonable predictions and say that Charlie Dalin, Yohann Richomm, Jérémie Beyou, Thomas Ruyant are the great favourites because theses are the best boats with the best skippers… and we could also say that Charlie would be the "little favourite"
"best skipper" means "they are also well prepared from an athletic point of view.
For example Justine Mettreaux recently admitted that trying to match theses four "fast and furious guys" in a sprint was from an athletic point of view, very difficult.
Let's say that on medium range races like "transat", even the best women have some disadvantages, but they are still able to win with better navigation options.
On VDG, the part of "imponderable" events on a so long race is a far step higher than in any transat.
So… women disadvantages become "little disadvantages", and between the four "fast and furious", it is IMPOSSIBLE to make a prediction. Some challengers can come back to the front on the podium.
Also note that all boats are differents and perform differently under different conditionsµ
So offshore racing in also a question of "meteo"
Remember that VDG 2020 was an atypical edition with uusual repetitions of lulls that compressed many time fleet, and so we saw non foilers boats getting in the top 10
With 13 brand new boats (98% being foilers), let's say that in "ordinary" conditions there are very very few chances to see a "dagger board" boats reaching the top 7 (but perhaps one in the top 10), except if we encounter similar meteo as 2020 edition.
For VDG 2024, let's say that there are :
– 4 great favourites :
Impossible to say who is "THE" favourite. For those who know well the VDG and give "real" respect to this event, giving "a favourite" in the current context (13 new boats, 98% being foiliers, the highest level of competition ever known with a lot of skipper professionaly prepared as the two british Sam, Justine Mettreaux…) is not possible, we should wait a little. VDG is hard, very hard, totally unfair… we can predict that on the 4 great favourites pehraps only one will get a place on the podium, the others will probably encounter some bad lucks.
MACIF (Charlie) is probably the most versatil boat, Guillaume Verdier hating to design too typical boat. This unit is probaly less "comfortable" than the others, but there are less compromises to performance. If skipper is ready to tolerate harsher conditions, this unit is "theoretically and only theroretically" unbeattable.
Vulnerable (Thomas Ruyant) and Arkea Paprec (Yohann Richomm) are sisterships with a typical design to perfom well in strong tailwind. Last races showed that this brand new design from Antoine Koch /Finot Concq is at the forefront.
– A list of what could be "challengers" in an ordinary transat, that become "favourites" in a VDG
Given the high level of "imponderables events" on VDG, some challengers become favourites in a VDG.
Sam Davies, Sam Goodchild, Boris Herrman, Paul Meilhat, Yannick Bestaven, Louis Burton
They have good boats, just behind the four front runners, and they are also good skippers. Boris Herrman could be a little ahead of this list. He is very well prepared having raced in last Ocean Race. Malizia boat is atypical, being heavier, more robust, but equipped with brand new foils (Sam Manuard's design that have been installed on three units, the boats of Sam Davis, Boris Herrman, Paul Meilhat) this IMOCA showed astonishing enhanced performances. We had already sawn in last ocean race that deficit in light conditions was lower than expected as surprinsingly Malizia won the last leg in Mediterranean.
– A list of forefront challengers :
Justine Mettreaux, Alan Roura, Maxime Sorel
Good boats, good athletes (Justine and Maxime) but offshore racing is also a question of clerverness, making the good choices..
This group of skippers haven't shown the same abilty than the others, but wait and see.
Alan is known to be a "risk-taker" often gambling with offensive options… sometimes it works, but only sometimes. His coach said him to "stop that", and to be able to do a "match race" if required, matching his opponents rather than always trying "extra" risky options.
Justine is a good athlete,with a better xperience in match race, but this is her first VDG, and VDG IS NOT a transat and moreover in a foiler.
– A list of challengers
Romain Atanassio, Kojiro Shiraishi
Romain has a good boat, the former boat of Boris, and a good experience.
This will be the first VDG where Romain will push for "performance".
Romain has now a prestigious American co sponsor, "Fortinet". Fortinet came into this adventure because the company wanted a more "performance" project, we will see later if "Fortinet" and "Best Western" push stronger after. I guess that Fortinet could get interest in the next Ocean Race…
The sponsor of Kojiro, DMG Mori asked him to target more performance trying to catch the 8th position
Until now, we never saw Kojiro in a "sport" mode. Kojiro just did the job to secure his qualification in VDG 2024, being careful. He has a good unit, also it hasn't been updated. Team announced to build a brand new boat for next Ocean race, that will be later converted to solo for VDG 2028
– Forefront outsiders :
Clarisse Cremer, Damien Seguin, Giancarlo Pedote, Pip Hare
There is a "hype" around Clarisse Cremer, especially in France.
This "hype" doesn"t take into account some realities
Alex Thomson's teams bought back lately the best IMOCA of VDG 2020 with "Occitane en Provence" as sponsor (former APIVIA of Charlie Dalin), but the big problem is that the team didn't have the time to update the unit.
So remember again that 13 new boats have been built, and this changes a lot of thing for the best unit in 2020 but that have not been updated since.
The other problem is that from an athletic point of view, Clarisse is far from people like Justine, Sam, Jérémie, Maxime… for the simple reason that she got an unexpected baby and also she qualified for the VDG, her preparation can't be compared to Sam Davies for example… for the simple reason that she got a baby.
Her first performance in 2020 on a non foiler has been done again under unusual light conditions that were perfect for "daggerboard"
The other IMPORTANT thing is that she got very few experience on foiler, and FOILER is radically different from DAGGERBOARD. Foilers are times more physical. This is probably one of the reason why her former team Banque populaire fired her. In offshore racing "Banque populaire" is somewhat comparable to Ferrari, this is a professional team that runs for the win. The team offered in 2020 a "adventure project" to Clarisse for her first VDG, for the second this was more a question of "sport" than adventure with a "performance" expected.
It is hard to classify Clarisse… adventurer of real sportwoman as Sam Davies of Justine Mettreaux ?
Making good "youtube videos" doesn't make you a good sportman/sportwoman.
VDG 2024 will reveals the real Clarisse, who is she really. Let's say that given the "handicap" reaching the top ten would be a good performance. Clarisse is a very clever woman, she has undoubtely some talent… but the question is to know better her motivations. In 2020, this was unclear. We saw her complaining a lot, on the contrary Pip Hare didn't complain, or just a few seconds, she showed strong ability to "fight", she knew perfectly for which reasons she was running, so Clarisse showed some immaturity… as a comparison, the younger Violette Dorange is far more mature.
Pip Hare runs this time a good foiler unit, updated since. Pip is not "young" and we knon how much foiler are terrible, so I am curious to see how she will perform.
– Outsiders
Jean Le Cam, Violette Dorange, Louis Duc
In daggerboard fleet where a lot of projects are "adventure projects" we will follow Jean le Cam, not only because he is the most experienced, but also because he is running a brand new "daggerboard" design from David Raison, that theoretically gives him a performances advantage
Violette Dorange is young, very young, but we saw her in last races performing surprinsingly well.
Violette is probably not a real "adventurer" she seems to be a racer, this makes the difference with Clarisse Cremer in 2020. This first VDG on "Hubert" the former boat of Jean Le Cam is mainly an adventure but let's say that she probably prepares herself for some more ambitious challenge targetting performance in the future
All other projects are more "adventure projects". Either boat are too old, either the skipper don't really compare in term of athletic, either skippers arent really racers from my point of view.
Arnaud Boissiere is the second better experienced skipper with the former foiler boat of Sam Davis, but from my point of view Arnaud never showed to date being a real racer. On the contrary Louis Duc runs an older non foiler boat, but he is more fundamentally a REAL racer.
Eric Bellion has a brand new boat, this is a sistership of Jean Le Cam, except that to date, Eric Bellion didn't prove to be an efficent competitor. Being a adventurer doesn't make you a good competitor.
Seems to me having a 4ft wide hatch is both useless and dangerous.
Wonderful interview, good luck to Charlie. A great ambassador of the Maritime Engineering (Ship Science) degree at the University of Southampton. It gave him the skills to be part of the design team, and combined with his natural sailing talent, we may be looking at the eventual winner. Go Charlie!!
I hope Charlie stays safe. With increasing speed on the newer boats my concern is that skipper may break 🤞🤞🤞🤞