The skipper of Stand as One had a difficult last few hours off the coast of Spain.
Barely two days of racing in the Vendée Globe and already the organizations are tired. If the start was marked by mild conditions and very light winds, the passage of Cape Finisterre took place in tough conditions and some sailors were seriously tested.
This is the case of Eric Bellion, Stand as One, who has just spent a very bad second night at sea: “Friends, what a night… I don't know where to start, I hurt everywhere and I've been fighting for hours”said the sailor in a video explaining that he blocked his mainsail before encountering a problem in the process of rolling his gennaker. “I found myself with the mainsail and the gennaker loose with impossible waves and wind and big ones planted. I didn't know what to do, he continued, his face already marked.
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Eric Bellion ended up resolving his problem after fifteen times: “I succeeded but I don’t even know why.” Unfortunately, her mainsail jammed again a little later after a tack. “I made a terrible mark”he continued after this trying night when the challenge was only just beginning. “I didn't think I was going to get through it, I left feathers. I hope you sleep well under your little quilts, concluded the competitor, currently 30th in the ranking, far from Charlie Dalin, leader.
