The gap is narrowing at the top of the Vendée Globe. Yoann Richomme is only 86 miles behind Charlie Dalin, the leader of the 10th edition of the competitionwhile the two skippers have crossed the equator and are heading towards Cape Verde, according to the 7 a.m. tally this Monday, January 6.
To see them sailing, you would think that going around the world alone is easy, but this race also offers its share great moments of solitudesometimes from physical distress. Clarisse Crémer, 12th in the competition, is currently suffering from a lack of sleep.
“I think I'm officially starting, after a little less than two months at sea, to blow a bolt“, she tells us. “I don't know how much sleep I've had in the last 24 hours, but it must have been two or three hours.”
So, inevitably, fatigue makes itself felt: “In fact, I think I have a little hallucinations of fatigue. There, for example, the sea is weird. We go up, we go down, but it zigzags. For a few seconds, I had the impression that I was in Auvergne, going up and down hills,” says the skipper.
She also sometimes says be “convinced that there is someone in the cockpit navigating in my place”, as if she was “transporting herself elsewhere for a few seconds”. “I think that's the sign that we need to go to sleep”, she concludes with a laugh.
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