In the leading pack, “Jérém'”, as his team nicknames him, crossed the Equator and recovered from a depression off the coast of Brazil to head back, at full speed, towards Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. This legendary milestone should be reached at the end of the week.
It will mark the entry into the terrible South Seas. Handicapped by a painful knee after an impact, the strong Breton forty-year-old is holding on, as evidenced by this Vendée Globe logbook sent to the JDD, this Monday, November 25, while the sea shook his IMOCA.
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“We are in the northeast of the Brazilian depression. We are moving forward in a “north” flow which is increasingly sustained, with somewhat rough seas. The wind is gusty. It's complicated to have constant speeds on boats. There, we had to reduce the canvas,” indicates the skipper of Charal 2.
“It’s going to be long and hard”
“Conditions have changed quite a bit. It's a lot less peaceful than a few days ago. The trajectory? We bypass the anticyclone [de Sainte-Hélène, NDLR]. We can't cross it. We are going around Brazil, these are classic routes for a world tour. Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope? November 29, in principle. It represents the entry into the Indian Ocean »he elaborates. Before planning: “We know that it’s going to be long and hard. »
