Launched in 2019, the only Japanese 60-foot boat is skippered by Kojiro Shiraishi, who will be taking part in his second Vendée Globe in 2020. With this innovative and well built boat, Kojiro is above all looking to complete his round the world voyage.
A quasi-sistership of Charal
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Foiler manufactured at Multiplast on VPLP plan, DMG MORI was designed in the same mould as Charal, Jeremy Beyou's IMOCA. The hulls are therefore almost identical, but Kojiro preferred to approach his 2020 Vendée Globe with a more conservative philosophy.
Not looking for a performance race, he kept the 1st version of his foils, where the Charal team has developed three different versions. As the Japanese skipper's main concern was to finish the race, he gave priority to the reliability of his machine.
Another notable difference is that the cockpit is better protected than Charal's, even if it means making his IMOCA slightly heavier.
The DMG MORI team was able to benefit from regular contacts with Jérémie Beyou's team, which enabled the Japanese sailor to better understand how his state-of-the-art foiler works. Kojiro is also being assisted in his preparation by the talented Roland Jourdain, who brings his experience from three editions of the Vendée Globe to the team.
In July 2020, DMG MORI lined up at the start of the Arctic Vendée, which it will finish in 10th place, out of around twenty competitors.
Like a Frenchman going to Japan to play sumo
Being Japanese, finding the human and technical resources to line up for the Vendée Globe is extremely difficult. The land of the rising sun does not benefit from a sailing culture and even less so for single-handed ocean racing.
With his sword at his waist and traditional fighting costume, Kojiro had impressed on the day of his start in the Vendée Globe in 2016. He made a fine start to the race, but the breakage of the top part of his mast forced him to turn away towards South Africa, forcing him to abandon his first Vendée Globe.
His background and his extraordinary personality have made him one of the most endearing characters in the race. After his retirement, his boat was sent to Japan and he took the opportunity to share his passion with the public - who had followed him thanks to the two major television channels NHK and TV Asahi - and the sponsors he took to sea. Among them was DMG Mori, his title partner, one of the leading machine tool manufacturers.
Kojiro has thus contributed to introducing millions of Japanese to sailing and ocean racing.
When the student sails with his master
All of Kojiro's boats are named 'Spirit of Yukoh', in homage to his mentor Yukoh Tada, who introduced him to sailing in the 1980s.
Yukoh Tada was one of the first Japanese sailors to take up ocean racing. He won the 1st Boc Challenge (race around the world with stopovers) in the 50-foot category. Victory acquired, he had returned to his job as a taxi driver in the streets of Tokyo.
A few years passed, then Yukoh decided to align itself with the 91 edition of the Boc, with Kojiro as a preparer. Built in software to recover hard drive files mac. The exchange between master and student was intense and sincere, but Yukoh ended his life during the Australian stopover.
Since then, in order to pay tribute to him, Kojiro has been sailing in symbiosis with the spirit of Yukoh.
Some concessions on the Japanese IMOCA alone
Kojiro's goal is to complete his second Vendée Globe. But there is no question of renouncing certain principles. There are no plans to take on board freeze-dried meals, even if it means adding a little weight. His diet during the race will be based on Asian products.
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In addition, since spirituality is preponderant in Kojiro's life, a small meditation space has been set up in his 60 feet.
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- Baptismal Name: Spirit of Yukoh 5
- Sail number: JPN 11
- Architect : VPLP
- Job-site : Multiplast
- Launch date: September 05, 2019
- Width: 5.85m
- Displacement (weight): 8t
- Presence of foils : Yes
- Sail area upwind : 320m2
- Sail area downwind: 580m2
The relative silence from among the Vendée Globe leaders speaks volumes. Increasingly background activities are pared back to only what is necessary as the solo skippers devote all their energies to weather strategy, keeping fast and managing their energy reserves for what promises to be a final push, pressing tired bodies minds and boats to their limit in the pursuit of Vendée Globe victory.
Some skippers have made it be known, after 74 days, they want a few days respite from telling their stories to focus entirely on racing, to remain in the zone. Others like third-placed Thomas Ruyant yesterday showed the stress and frustration of not being able to race the last 2200 miles sprint at full competitive capacity due his missing port foil, while fifth placed Yannick Bestaven – long time leader in the south – is happy to assert that, after repairs to his furlers and other damage, he will be back at close to 100% for the final sprint.
Import qbb file into excel. “Thomas is first and foremost a competitive animal who wants to be able to be giving it everything in these final days so it is frustrating to be compromised like this when you are in the heart of the battle. And knowing that the podium positions might be decided on compensated time weighs heavily in his mind. It is not at all easy for him,” Marcus Hutchinson, Ruyant’s team manager observed today.
Bestaven told his team today, “I want to finish in the top five, beyond that I know that the podium will be difficult, but it is still possible. They are not very far in front of me. Thomas (Ruyant, LinkedOut) is in fourth place, not far in front of me, he is handicapped with his foil and I am faster than him; Boris (Herrmann, Seaexplorer - Yacht Club de Monaco) is going fast, he is coming back at Charlie Dalin (Apivia); and there is Louis (Burton, Bureau Vallée) who is fast out to the left, that can be interesting for him if he catches the SW’ly wind first. Everything is open and possible between us, it will be super interesting.”
Bestaven concludes, “The result will also depend on the capacity of the boats downwind, I don't know if everyone will be 100% in these conditions.”
The Maître Coq IV skipper confirmed he is missing his J2 and FRO but still has his spinnaker, a big and a small gennaker and a J3 so he will be much less handicapped downwind. As the same time he issued a reminder how important it will be to stay in the ‘normal’ rhythm as long as possible to avoid burning out before the finish. Considering that the decisive miles across the Bay of Biscay can be downwind in more than 30 knots, a wipe out due to a momentary lapse of concentration could be fatal.
Charlie Dalin (Apivia) has seen his lead shrink to 77 miles ahead of the fast moving second placed German skipper Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco). But meteo expert Sébastien Josse still sees a small advantage falling to Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée) who is furthest west and north.
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Three times Vendée Globe racer Josse, who sailed the last Vendée Globe on the IMOCA Herrmann is racing, said this morning, “Louis can sneak around the edge and hook into a very localized corridor of southerly wind, it is quite narrow and local, but the slower Louis is the narrower the channel of wind is and the faster he is then the wider it is.'
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Josse is convinced though that the skipper of Bureau Vallée 2 is the only one in the leading group to be able to benefit from this.
But Josse adds, “It is important to correlate what is forecast on the weather files and what is happening on the water. There are still clouds, squalls, fronts and rain. You have to be eyes out of the boat, watching what is happening and sailing by feeling. It's on the deck you really see these things evolve.”
Kojiro, the words of a totally fulfilled skipper
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“Every day at sea, I am the happiest man in the world.” Talking with Kojiro Shiraishi is guaranteed to be inspirational. The skipper is currently at the farthest point on the globe from his native Japan. And he receives dozens of messages from fans, admirers and those getting to know the Vendée Globe for the first time.
“They all tell me that the name Vendée Globe is now known to everyone in Japan,” says Shiraishi who had to retire into Cape Town in 2016 with a broken mast.“That I am still racing is a miracle as my mainsail tore. I have always been positive but I never thought it would hold out for so long so I hope now it gets to the finish. There is still a lot to do.”
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Shiraishi’s DMG MORI Global One is currently in 19th place in the race.