Thanks to his latest generation foiling sailboat and foolproof seamanship, the sailor Charlie Dallin (Macif) won the 10th Vendée Globe in Les Sables-d’Olonne on Tuesday, shattering the event record.
Here are some key figures from his extraordinary epic:
64 days 19 hours and 22 minutes. This is the time taken by the 40-year-old navigator to circumnavigate the planet via the three reference capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn), i.e. 9 days and 8 hours less than the record established by Armel Le Cléac’h in 2017.
27.667,91 nautical miles or 51.240 km. The distance covered by the skipper and his boat over this duration before raising their arms to the sky in Les Sables-d’Olonne at 8:24 a.m. (GMT+1) on Tuesday.
17,79 average knots. Across the oceans, the sailor traveled at an average of 33 km/h on his journey, a speed more than twice that of Titouan Lamazou during his victory in the first edition in 1991 (9.7 knots).
4. The incredible number of new reference times established by Dalin on his passage: equator – Bonne-Espérance (7 days and 18 hours), Bonne Espérance – Leeuwin (9 days 22 hours), equator – Sables d’Olonne (8 days 16 hours ) and finally Sables d’Olonne – Sables d’Olonne.
42. The number of days spent at the top of the ranking, the vast majority of the race. He scored 254 times at the top of the score, performed six times a day. His first pursuer Yoann Richomme was first on 76 occasions.
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