Informationen zum Kurs und Skipperpertraits - Segel.de
Informationen zum Kurs und Skipperpertraits - Segel.de
Informationen zum Kurs und Skipperpertraits - Segel.de
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LEG 2<br />
CAEN DÚN LAOGHAIRE (IRELAND)<br />
470 MILES<br />
Upon covering the first forty-mile run to leave the bay of Seine, the first obstacle the fleet will<br />
encounter is the passage at Barfleur point, always a tricky spot to negotiate due to the strong<br />
currents that can entrap more than one competitor at the beginning of the course.<br />
The course remains an inshore one as the single-han<strong>de</strong>d skippers then sail along the<br />
Cotentin shoreline to the Hague headland, before making way towards the Channel Islands.<br />
They will have to leave the islands of Aurigny, Herm and Guernsey to starboard. In or<strong>de</strong>r to<br />
negotiate this tricky passage the skippers need to sail away from the merchant traffic<br />
exclusion zone.<br />
Free of the coastal area obstacles, the competitors then embark on a long crossing of the<br />
English Channel, some 120 nautical miles, from the Hanois Lighthouse to the most Western<br />
p<br />
The last third of the course is an almost full North run covering 190 nautical miles to reach<br />
Dùn Laoghaire harbour, south-east of Dublin.<br />
The route is clear to reach Ireland, yet with many pitfalls when negotiating the passage in the<br />
Saint-Georges Channel, the narrowest point between Wales and Ireland, with steady and<br />
sustained currents.<br />
There will be two possible options: either to sail up along the Welsh coast, drawn by Smalls<br />
Lighthouse, an area well-known for its choppy seas; or to follow the Irish coast and Tuskar<br />
Rock Lighthouse, an option that may not provi<strong>de</strong> much respite for the single-han<strong>de</strong>d<br />
skippers. The sailors will need to negotiate their course carefully along the several large<br />
sandbanks such as Arklow bank, Codling bank, Bray bank and finally Kish bank, before<br />
reaching the pretty Irish harbour of Dùn Laoghaire on the outskirts of Dublin, strongly<br />
protected by long stone walls that make it a veritable stronghold.<br />
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