“It’s really cold, it’s hot and it’s hard”… Sébastien Simon recounts his extreme daily life in the Pacific

Ranked this morning in third position in the Vendée Globe, 60 miles behind Charlie Dalin (Macif) and 21 miles behind Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa), Sébastien Simon continues with his two friends his cavalcade at the head of the world tour, despite the breakage of the ‘one of its foils. Located near the Antarctic restricted zone, the three men are approaching Point Nemo. And in a video posted this Thursday morning, the skipper of the Groupe Dubreuil monohull gives its meaning: “Hello, I am still on starboard tack in the southern part of the Pacifiche explains. We will approach Point Nemo tomorrow morning. So the furthest point from any Earth, even the ISS is closer to the Earth, it is 400 km from the Earth, while at point Nemo, we are approximately 2000 km from the furthest Earth. close».

And the former winner of the Solitaire du Figaro recounts the extremely complicated living conditions in this Pacific Ocean which bears its name very poorly. The noises and jumps his boat makes are also impressive while he speaks: “These last few days have been difficult, it should have been quite nice conditions, when we look at the forecast, and in fact the sea is horrible, we type. So life on board is very hard, and it’s really, really cold. Look, even cooking is difficult. The olive oil is frozen! It’s an ice cube. Amazing that you have to melt olive oil to use it. This is what we experience», he adds after a new shock. And to conclude: “ Come on, 5 more days in the South Seas, and then we’ll find the Atlantic again. Courage ! Have a nice day everyone».

The day before, his rival Charlie Dalin had also posted a video where, after revealing a resolved sail damage, he tried to warm up with his small stove designed for cooking and transformed into a fireplace, while the temperatures inside his boat drops well below ten degrees…