Justine Mettraux should complete her Vendée Globe on Saturday morning. An XXL performance for the Geneva sailor who should smash the women’s record and the Swiss record on this round the world trip, solo, non-stop and without assistance. The offshore racer, Valentin Gautier, was invited by Béatrice Rul, at 7:30 a.m., to analyze the feat of Justine Mettraux.
Justine Mettraux should arrive next night in Les Sables d’Olonnes and complete her Vendée Globe on Team Work in 75 days… What a performance!
“It’s indeed a gigantic performance which doesn’t surprise me at all coming from Justine. I think the performance is exactly up to Justine’s level, discreet and very effective, in the end we didn’t talk about it that much so far and there she is completing a world tour which is approaching the absolute value of the women’s world tour record which is held by Ellen MacArthur.
“Justine is also on her way to becoming the winner of the boats of her generation”
A performance made even greater by the fact that his front sail was torn at the start of the Vendée Globe.
-“It’s difficult to imagine because she lost one of her front sails which is actually a sail which is quite useful on this type of boat. Afterwards she still had other front sails so it was less serious than her competitor who tore her main sail a few days ago for example. Jsutin is already a very efficient sailor. She has an excellent boat, excellent preparation, we are on an edition of the. Vendée Globe which experienced conditions very favorable for records, we see that the first ones also broke the record by almost ten days so it is also a bit in line with this edition of the Vendée Globe The competitors who arrived before Justine all actually have a boat. last generation, which is not her case, Justine is also on her way to becoming the winner of the boats of her generation.
“It is not by chance either, there are public subsidies which have been put in the right place”
What pride, a Genevan who performs like this! Initially, she learned to sail on the lake, which is still very different from the sea!
“No, it’s not quite the same thing, in fact the lake is still an excellent incubator of talent for sailors because it’s a lake with very particular conditions, many mountains around which make the winds are very changing, very complex and it has historically also trained many very good sailors. We must also underline the vision of the city of Geneva which has subsidized a structure like the regatta training center for decades. . Just this year we have Justine Mettraux who will have the best female performance in the history of the Vendée Globe coming out of this structure. We also had sailors who were on the America’s Cup who also came out of the training center at the regatta. Justine’s sister, races in Sail GP, which is the closest thing to Formula 1 in terms of sailing. It’s not by chance either, there are public subsidies which have been put in the right place and. we can only congratulate structural work like that”
