{"id":3899,"date":"2013-01-22T01:16:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2013-01-22T01:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:16:01","slug":"vendee-globe-virbac-paprec-3-loses-its-keel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/vendee-globe-virbac-paprec-3-loses-its-keel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vend\u00e9e Globe: Virbac-Paprec 3 Loses its Keel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jean-Pierre-Dick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1089\" title=\"Jean-Pierre Dick\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jean-Pierre-Dick-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>At 23.45hrs UTC, while sailing in the third position of the Vend\u00e9e Globe, about 500 miles northwest of the Cape Verde islands, Jean-Pierre Dick called his team to inform them that his boat, <em>Virbac-Paprec 3<\/em>, had lost its whole keel at 22.45hrs UTC. The skipper from Nice has stabilized the situation. The boat has full ballasts and Dick is sailing at 8 knots towards the Azores.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Dick told the race office by satellite phone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was sailing on starboard tack under mainsail with one reef and the solent (sail), in 20 knots of wind. I was inside when the wind increased suddenly. I went out to adjust the sails. At that moment, I heard a loud bang.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Virbac-Paprec 3<\/em> went to the luff and was pushed on its side. I eased the mainsail sheet and solent sheet. I furled it (the solent). I went to the end of the boom and eased the running backstay. I went downwind smoothly and the boat slowly went back into the right position. I filled all the ballasts to stabilize the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am heading to the Azores at 8 knots with two reefs in the mainsail and with a staysail. The situation is stabilized and I think that there is no risk of capsizing. My dream of a podium finish in the Vend\u00e9e Globe has suddenly sunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vendeeglobe.org\/en\/news\/article\/10667\/virbac-paprec-3-loses-its-keel.html\">www.vendeeglobe.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 23.45hrs UTC, while sailing in the third position of the Vend\u00e9e Globe, about 500 miles northwest of the Cape Verde islands, Jean-Pierre Dick called his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-news-and-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}