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Editorial Lannion
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Nov 13 2024 at 4:42 p.m
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Not so bad. While Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa) took control of the Vendée Globe, this Wednesday November 13 at 2:30 p.m., the skipper of Plougrescant Guirec Soudée was in 21st place aboard his Imoca, Freelance.com. Right in the middle of the 40 competitors, currently ahead of Clarisse Cremer, Romain Attanasio, Violette Dorange and Fabrice Amadeo…
Meritorious, because the thirty-year-old has had a series of struggles from the start. But he makes do with it and recounts his “2-3 concerns” in detail in a video posted Tuesday.
The spinnaker stuck in the keel
While he came back into the match after a bad start, everything went wrong on Monday evening.
When the spinnaker was lowered, the boat gybed and the spinnaker went underwater just as I wanted to recover it. It got stuck in the keel and it was a big mess.
The result is several hours of fighting to catch up.
“The cursed guy!” »
Two hours of rest to recover and new tile: “Then I put a headsail back on, it unfurled itself! Like the cursed guy! »
Arriving in Spain, he had to resolve to do without his small gennaker, which remained tangled, forced to hoist a sail too small for the wind conditions.
” SO that's why I drag myself and I'm getting a little overwhelmed. Other than that it's okay, but it's a little frustrating all the same, Guirec Soudée concluded on Tuesday.
Far from being stalled, it continued on its way at nearly 16 knots this Wednesday.
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