With nine days and eight hours better than Armel Le Cléac'h's record, Le Havre set an impressive reference time. Explanations.
He, the discreet, the modest, the “I hide my emotions so as not to give weapons to my adversaries”, let loose like never before in the dawning and icy day off the coast of Les Sables-d'Olonne. Fists brandished, knees on the ground and even a sailor lying completely stunned on the deck of his monohull Macif. A single sentence said during his very first interview on board sums up Charlie Dalin's state of mind after his first great triumph: « I feel like I left two days ago »…
Suffice it to say that Le Havre, to win and shatter the reference time for the event established by Armel Le Cléac'h in 2016-2017, lived as if in a bubble, without a time marker. Everything for the win, all the way, always, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On a mission. His nose to the handlebars and his mind totally focused on a single objective, which allowed him to push his boat to the maximum
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