After finishing in second place in Act V which took place from Thursday to Sunday in Sainte-Maxime (Var), the Baulois Sébastien Rogues and his crew won the 2024 Ocean Fifty Series championship. Leaders of the provisional general classification before the last Act, they had a six-point lead over Erwan Le Roux (Koesio), the teammates of Primonial – one of the newest multihulls in the fleet – did not shake during the inshore and offshore races contested during these four days in the Bay of Saint-Tropez.
“We questioned ourselves”
However, the season got off to a bad start for Sébastien Rogues, who recalls that “we came out of the first Act in Saint-Malo with a disappointing result”. But the Baule skipper quickly bounced back. “We questioned ourselves, we changed the crew and we broke down these mental barriers, linked to a complicated winter with the construction of the boat then the breakage of a float on the Transat Jacques-Vabre, which deprived us a very good result. »
On the quays of the port of the Saint-Malo city, Sébastien Rogues and his teammates have made a clean sweep of the past. “We put everything that had been complicated behind us and Saint-Malo was mentally a founding act, everything smiled on us afterwards. »
Only beaten by Réalités by Fabrice Cahierc
Primonial had a string of victories, in Pornichet at the end of June, on the Route des Terre Neuvas in mid-August then the Med Max between Port-Camargue and Saida (Morocco) two weeks ago. Victories which allowed Sébastien Rogues and his crew “to gain confidence which is one of the drivers of performance”. Only beaten by Réalités by Fabrice Cahierc during Act V, Primonial ensured its final victory by even increasing its lead over its runner-up in the general classification.
The Pornichétin Matthieu Perraut, who discovered the multi 50 circuit, took the 7e place in the final ranking.
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