Two Irish sailors, Ian Moore from Carrickfergus and Jeff Condell from Limerick, are on board the giant catamaran Team Phaedo this morning for the West Indies race.
Team Phaedo is a 66–foot Gunboat design from the drawing board of Nigel Irens. Yesterday the crew were out in the deep blue waters of St Barth exercising in a practice race, working out maneuvers for today's Les Voiles de Saint Barth.
Held on the fashionable French island in the northeastern Caribbean, today's regatta continues to show signs of healthy growth for its third edition, showcasing top sailing talent as well as some of sailing's most phenomenal racing machines competing around the French West Indies.
Navigator on Ireland's Green Dragon in the 2008 VOR, Ian Moore is the 41-year-old expert, who is now based in Cowes when he isn’t calling the tactical shots on some of the world's leading sailing machines is a regular on Afloat's pages, after he won the Volvo Ocean Race in 2001-2002 as navigator on Illbruck.
Jeff Condell has been racing on Phaedo over the past year. He was previously Shore Operations Manager for Ger O'Rourke's Delta Lloyd VOR campaign.
The video is the work of Richard Langdon, the well known British sailing stills photographer who brough us the front cover image of Annalise Murphy for Afloat's Spring issue, Richard's handling moving pictures pretty well too these days!
