“In 200% stress”, the last of the race passes Cape Horn a month after the first

This Thursday, January 23, at 6:35 a.m., Denis Van Weynbergh rounded the famous Cape Horn. The Belgian amateur skipper is thus the last of the 34 surviving sailors to pass the legendary cape located at the very bottom of South America and return to the South Atlantic. A passage made just after that of Fabrice Amedeo (Nexans Wewise), our former colleague from Le Figaro, and just a month after that of Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa), first to pass the Horn, on December 24 with 9 minutes of ahead of Charlie Dalin (Macif), finally winner in Les Sables d'Olonne on January 14 with 22 hours ahead of his rival.

The red lantern of the world tour unfortunately did not take full advantage of this great moment in a sailor's life, as he explained during a liaison with the organization. “ Honestly, I didn't enjoy it at all. I saw on the map that I had passed but nothing more. I didn't see the Horn, it was full of night. And here I am 200% stressed. The boat is hitting hard in a head sea, it's not a party. I'm under-canvased, I have to go maneuver, throw back some canvas, because I'm going to break things».

The sailor of the D'Ieteren Group monohull will surely later celebrate his passage of this legendary cape as he celebrated the passage of Cape Leeuwin off the coast of Australia. This Thursday, it is still just 7,000 miles (or 12,964 kilometers) from Les Sables d'Olonne…