Bostik is back in Cherbourg

"It's infuriating", explained Charles Caudrelier, "we had more than forty hours of dead calm. Otherwise, it would have taken us less than 10 days. The Veolia Oceans® one-design is a fast boat and she is very easy to steer. We had long planning at speed between 24 and 26 knots, and we really felt that we could still go faster. Actually, during a race, it should be possible to have days at more than 20 knots on average" i.e. more than 480 nautical miles in 24 hours. And Yann Clavier added: "We sailed the whole of the Channel at 18 knots on average, it was great!"

The Veolia Oceans® one-design Bostik left Cherbourg harbour on the 6th July with Alexia Barrier as the skipper (Read the news) in a wind Force 6 to 7. It was also in a Force 5 to 7 breeze that Charles Caudrelier and Yann Clavier sailed the Veolia Oceans® one-design back to Normandy.

Bostik is now heading back to the boatyard in Caen where, during the next ten days, as it was decided last Spring it would be brought up to standard with the rest of the one-design fleet and with the second unit of the series currently in the boatyard. On Wednesday 27 August, Bostik will then resume her test sails towards la Trinité-sur-Mer, La Rochelle and then the Mediterranean Sea.