Awards ceremony partners.

Despite, the postponment of the start in Gijon, the awards ceremony will be set ,as agreed, at 3 pm today Friday the 14th of May (Société des Régates Rochelaises). And when there is a prize ceremony, there are partners. Thta is why, GPO wants to say thank you this Mini Pavois 2010 ceremony's partners, that are: Pochon SA, Voiles & Voiliers, Karver, Big Ship and Lyophilisé.fr that offered products before the start.

Series in-crowd...

Night brought its share of arrivals as expected... The series boat that arrived last night are: Jean-Marc Allaire (464 - Baker Tilly - AG2R La mondiale) and Conrad Colman (480 - Colman Course au large), Jean-Marie Oger (774 - JMO Sailing), Pierre Cizeau (746 - Colibri), Brendan Archin (757 - Association La Touline), Jonas Gerckens (473 - PragmaWork), Yann Le Pautremat (483 - As de Coeur - Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque).
Three protos also reached La Rochelle last night: Milan Kolacek (759 - Follow me), Pierre Denjean (36 - Oufti) et Henri Patou (551 - Ecartip).

Series podium before jury.

Xavier Macaire (472 - Starter) is the winner of this Mini Pavois with two victories. (leg 1 and 2).
The second series boat is Amaury François' www.amauryfrancois.com (697) followed by Robert Rosen Jacobson on the 602, Ned602.

Second leg's series boats podium...

Xavier Macaire (472 - Starter) folowed by Robert Rosen Jacobson (602 - Ned602) and Amaury François (697 - www.francoisamaury.com).

Amaury François is the third to reach La Rochelle as for series boats

Amaury François (697 - www.amauryfrancois.com), that was 2nd in Gijon, just finished third in the second leg as for series boats, after Robert Rosen Jacobson. 

He should remain second at the overall.

Ryan Finn (252 - Myrna Minkoff) is back to La Rochelle.

Ryan Finn (252 - Myrna Minkoff) has arrived in La Rochelle on his 1999 prototype Finot.