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... About Bernard Stamm's case,
there's exceptional pictures that you are going to discover
from New Zealand TV
cause he his mooring on the South Island
and we are coming back on Bernard's case
So Bernard's case actualy is a typical case
of sailboat racings
it answers to precise rules,
and I just remind that un a sailboat racing, there's a direction, SAEM Vendee
and there is a sport power, represented as in a lot of other sports
by the French Sailing Federation
the federation names an international jury
which meet when there are cases to rule on.
a race committee, and a measurement control committee
Here it's going to be two people
two institution which are going to intervene
the race committee and the measurement control committee.
So, just a little reminder of the facts :
Bernard was, we know it, mooring recently
to fix his hydrogenerators
in a bay in Auckland Island
and, while he was doing his repairs
he saw that a boat has moored in the same bay than him.
The boat is called "Professor Khromov", it's a Russian scientific boat,
which is doing New Zealand islands
He saw, and apparently there's no causal relationship,
but at the same time, he saw that his anchor was sliding
why was it sliding ? Cause it was laying, probably on long laminaria seaweeds
which makes that the anchor can't grip on the ground
To secure his boat, when he saw that the anchor was sliding,
Bernard called by VHF the sailors of the Russian Boat
ans asked them if I could moor on their boat.
Cause otherwise, we got to remeber that Bernard has lived
an extremely hard experience for a sailor
he lost his boat at Kerguelen Islands in 2008
for a relatively similar problem of slipping anchor
and he still lost his boat, which is the worst thing which could happen to a sailor.
So, here, the sailors from Professor Khromov answered positively.
"Yes you can moor on my boat".
But, at the same time,
they were taking a rib, they were boarding on their own initiative on the rib,
and were coming on Cheminee Poujoulat, retrieved the anchor of Cheminee Poujoulat,
they were taking Cheminee Poujoulat's mooring rope
and were setting it on Professor Khromov
In those condition, Bernard, who is in one hand an exceptional sailor
and on the other hand, of a remarkable honesty
was obviously informing the race direction about it.
Us, we were informing, as expected, the race committee and the jury
the two organs which precisely,
are watching at the sport application of the race
and, the race committee filed a protest.
what is filing a protest ?
it's, attacking, by the sports rules, a competitor.
So, here is what the race committee says :
I protest against the boat Cheminee Poujoulat, because
there is a suspicion that the boat, or the skipper
haven't respected an essential point of the notice of race, which is the 3.2
What does this point says ?
It says : "during the event, a competitor would not be allowed to have any material contact with any other boat
or aircraft, he won't be allowed to be resupply in any way
a competitor will be allowed to moor on an anchor, or on a buoy by his own
but must not receive any outside help
except medical help
strictly limited under the article etc, etc ...
competitors won't be allowed to land
nor going behind biggest high tide limit
in case of failure to respect this article
the competitor will be disqualified by jury ruling
So the committee is relying on this fundamental article
of the rules
so the committee filed a protest agains the boat
then, gave notice to the jury
the jury preceding exactly the same way said :
Ok, I now got the race committee protest
Mr. Bernard Stamm, can you bring me additional informations
in a way that I can know, from your side, what happened ?
-That's what's actually happening ?
-That's what's actually happening !
Bernard said, well, no problem, I give you a sea report
of what happened, but, it happens that I'm actually fixing my hydrogenerators
that I'm using to produce electricity
when I will have electricity, and made my report, I'll send it to you !
so we are actually waiting
for additional information from the competitor
which he is going to send to us quickly as soon as he got hydrogenerators
Then, once the international jury
which is composed by 5 people, who are kind of wise
is going to meet, when it will have all the elements
It will say : taking care of the race committee protest,
but also taking care of what the competitor tells us, here is what I state
so we are actually in this process
a little bit long, but we can't rush thing
we gotta do it with the most ad-hoc process
after listening to everybody
-Thank you Denis Horeau