The Barcelona World Race, round the world sailing non-stop takes place at this time. Since his departure on December 31, I wanted to talk about race because it has the feature of being held as a duo, what fascinates me ... Finally, I want to say a few words this evening for a Another reason ...
I just discovered a detail of the racing rules of sailing that was unknown to me. This is the joker "stealth mode". It appeared in late 2009.
It allows sailors to disappear from screens radars and scoring officials during a given period, according to different races. Their position known to the race director for obvious safety issue, is hidden from their opponents. The skippers and can hide at key moments, their choice of course, their options, weather ... The number of wild cards is limited, even some unique races, an entire strategy to use at the right time! The invisibility, and thus the hoax, adding excitement to the race.
In the BWR, this mode "ghost" can be used
36 hours
4 times in the race. Michel Desjoyeaux and François Gabart have asked yesterday for
Foncia
. Full fight with
Virbac-Paprec 3 Jean-Pierre Dick and Loïc Peyron
in the South Atlantic, they are at the approach of the 40th ... they will reappear at 5am Tuesday morning score. 
Here what they say:
"In fact, quite funny This stealth mode, whichever way you are. When is the one that hides itself, we try to imagine where it goes while we do what we want. And when it's us, we imagine that imagine what we do, imagining that it can be different from what you think. Clearly, we do not know and we'll see! " 
Here what they say: © Michel Desjoyeaux www.teamfoncia.com
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