Yoann Richomme's New Year's Eve, currently second in the race, was notably disrupted by bad weather off the coast of Brazil.
Published on 01/01/2025 10:40
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“I've had a lot of trouble sleeping lately. I slept three, four hours. It's tiring. Everyone's energy level is low, everyone is worn out, the sailors and the boats. 50 days, it feels” says French navigator Yoann Richomme on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
Currently second in the Vendée Globe race, behind skipper Charlie Dalin, the sailor talks about “difficult days“, who do “sixteen to seven p.m.“because of changing time zones.”For example, in the west of Brazil, we travel almost half a time zone, or even a time zone per day“, specifies the French skipper.
Yoann Richomme says he had a complicated New Year's Eve: “I had a very active night, because we are in a meteorologically complicated area opposite Brazil, I did not have a very good New Year's Eve“. “We are caught up in the race, we are constantly on the weather files, on the right trajectories, the right sail choices“, confides the 41-year-old from Lorient.
After 50 days at sea, the skipper expects to have “a small opportunity“to get back on the leader of the ranking, Charlie Dalin,”which has slipped away a bit in the last two days, which is a bit frustrating“, explains Yoann Richomme, while he is currently approximately 180 kilometers from Charlie Dalin.
For the skipper, who is participating in the Vendée Globe for the first time “the sooner it ends, the better“. On December 23, Yoann Richomme broke a record by passing Cape Horn at 43 days 11 hours and 25 minutes, a new reference time in the Vendée Globe race.
