Thanks Alex. Interesting discussion about how data drives the design and operation of the boat. My main tool for this when I was sailing was how the wind affected my hair! Sail safe, sail wise, sail on.
Very interesting point of view, and indeed quite different from what Jean le Cam advocated for : making sure that the Vendee Globe's doors remain open for young sailors and small businesses’ wallets. I am curious to see how these different point of view will settle.
@@sailingsunlinenorth3154 i hope I can get there one day. Currently I’m at a place where I can’t take my eyes off the sails, partly because I’m amazed by them, and partly because my brain is testing where the equilibrium is. One day I hope I can be at a point where I can let the wheel go and just manage the sails and be confident in my plan and be one with the boat!
@@IslandInsanity you will mate., you will. deliberate practice is ey, in lots of sea and weather conditions,.. just a lot of time on the water, as the vendee guys have , I am working on that as well,..but I love and live on my boat..so we are we!
Great to see you so chipper Alex’s and your enthusiasm in learning from your experience, tomorrow will no doubt be a very emotionally charged on so many different levels, but most importantly just enjoy the hugs from your family.👍🚲🐻
How valuable to have Antoine with you to test how the boat behaves in various conditions. You must be eager to be home. Can’t wait to see you back in Le Sables D’Olonne in 2024! From 🇨🇦
You’ve had the entire experience this Vendee Globe, Alex . Really massive appreciation to you for a few things as you consider the challenge and disappointment of having to abandon this race : 1. You have shown incredible good sportsmanship . Giving credit to the other sailors all along shows your character . And 2. Following you since you had no choice but to abandon its clear what a difficulty it was for you and yet you persevered and managed to still be supportive of all !! And finally for now 3. You have been the reason so many thousands of us followed the race from beyond France and French speaking countries . You are truly a natural ambassador for this event . Fair Winds on board and beyond, Alex !!
great to see this, and also great to see your repair was upto the job!. I'd love to request a live stream of you returning to Portsmouth tomorrow if that's possible? not being able to sail these days sucks, but at least seeing others enjoy it gives me some pleasure!
Je n'ai hélas pas tout compris, mais merci pour la vidéo et bon retour au calme. De nouvelles aventures très bientôt, j'espère! Nous sommes très fans ! Et merci pour votre formidable fairplay et votre courage dans ces jours si durs passés. Vive l'avenir!
This is fascinating. Great information on how things are developing and the progress being made. Be great to have a bigger video on this subject if you can in the future.
If i was the Engineer on that boat, i would do everything i can to be onboard to improve the design. Great exercise by the Hugo Boss team! Best of luck over the next few years from Canada
Alex, good to learn that you made it so close to the British channel. I do hope that you will be participating in the next vendee globe competing against Boris . Stay safe! Jens
if simulators were easy then the weather predictions would never be wrong :D glad you're getting data into the simulator, machine learning needs A LOT of data to create good patterns.
Alex, you're truly the best! Thanks for these great updates. I've not only learned a lot, I've been thoroughly entertained as well. Cheers from Toronto!
To finish first, first you've got to finish! Hopefully they learn more about the real forces rather than the simulated ones, even if a new boat means back to square one again. 😐
Some great low power number crunchers available actually. On-board is best. But running your full time data sets after the fact, is best done before 2024.
It really makes you respect the sailors years ago who had to sail “ by the seat of their pants” without the technology that they have today it’s sad really Once the computers go down they are kinda lost🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Before this technology we had sailors, another 10 years & the boats won't need anyone on board. The skipper will control the boat from his couch. At the start of the Vendee Globe, I sent a text to my friend Soho in France. I said Alex will break his hi-tec boat, Pip Hare didn't win but she beat Alex. It was Alex who said "Too win first you have to finish"
When I get rich with my music, I'm going to buy a sailboat and travel the world on the high seas. So, I always follow the videos, learning about. Success to the channel.
Wow I wsn't expecting this update...to be honest I haven't given the Vendee a second thought since AT retired. Sorry to the other competitors but, I retired when Alex did. My over riding feeling is that there is way way way too much crap in the ocean....nets, containers, plastic etc etc...and we should all bow our heads in shame. When you have cetaceans washing ashore with bellies full of plastic it's obvious that the ocean is in a bad way...
yeah that's weird, it sounds like he was really unprepared. Also i still wonder why he didn't have a third rudder to repair the broken one, just as Pipe Hare or other participants. He likes fancy words just as "machine learning" but he needs to come back to the basics sometimes....
Is there a point, Alex, where your boat becomes too hi-tech thus diminishing the likelihood of completing a race? I can't help but think the all-carbon-fibre materials in Hugo Boss let you down. Sacrificing rigidity for weight and thus improved foiling. The boat clearly just couldn't handle the impacts. Jean Le Cam with an old non-foiler Imoca came in fourth overall. Something to be said about skill (and luck to an extent) beating out all these other foilers. I'd love to see you on a less F1-like boat, relying less on super hi-tech kit and just sailing to 1st place. You deserve it.
Safe journey for the last few miles. Sadly the winds look a bit too light to enjoy the sail, but at least it's not a gale in the channel, which can be tedious.
Greetings from Wolfenbüttel where the Jägermeister comes from;) See you at latest next Vendee Globe please. Stay healthy and thanks for all these information.
A bit more technology and when Alex is tired, electric motors will change the settings, and a bit more tech and the equipment and food and human is going to be extra mass.
Thanks for the update Alex and it's a great shame that you were not able to finish in Sables D'Olonne.With all the easjurements you have managed to take on the voyage back home, have you now a better understanding of what caused the structural problems in the bow?
Ten metre waves in a broken boat, sounds hairy! Hugo Boss Boat will be Robo-Boat soon by the sounds of it! Fair winds, you already have following seas. ;)
Also big Boss fan. But is it going to stop you hitting anything? I hope you can come up with a solution, please. Looking forward to following your adventure to the next Vendee Globe.
That’s absolutely fascinating cutting edge stuff but technology has a habit of letting you down when you least want it to. Is there a danger that you may become overly reliant on it or will it just be used as an aide to the decision making process?
Rise of the digital twin in sailing. Not sure what the rules are on self optimising controls but 100% agree with you. If permitted it would be great to see a fully autonomous boat out there for the 2028 vendee :) I would still back the Boss, but it would be interesting to see how far they get with the models
Its a pity because the Win would have been up for grabs , the race was slow they were all off the pace nursing their boats, a strong boat that could have been sailed hard would have romped home. I am not buying the rudder blade breakage, imho something else happened.......... you only have to look at the great race YES WE CAM sailed in an old boat with no foils .....
Please put a lifejacket on ! You have a massive following and it would be nice if you could show some common sense and safety awareness to respect IMO / MCA / Solas convention rules as you are offshore sailing and demonstrate to your followers how important sea survival is. We have already seen one disaster in this vendee globe, knowbody wants to see another one !
I hope that someone else gets a budget like you have blown away.Races are not won on the first lap.I cannot get it that after all the time and vast sums of money you never had e clue on carbon structures and repairs.Ayrton Senna sat in the garage at night with his tecs learning.
