Monday morning, at the 7 a.m. check-in taken by the organizers of the Vendée Globe, this solo round-the-world trip without stopovers or assistance, Justine Mettraux (TeamWork -Team Snef) had moved up two places compared to the ranking established 24 hours earlier.
The Geneva sailor, who is traveling at a speed of 14.98 knots, overtook the French Paul Meilhat (Biotherm) and Nicolas Lunven (Holcim – PRB) to find herself in eighth place. While she is off the Brazilian coast, Justine Mettraux is 78 miles behind 7th place, the German Boris Herrmann (Malizia – SeaExplorer). And 2120 miles behind leader Charlie Dalin (Macif Santé Prévoyance).
Despite this positive sporting context, the Swiss broadcast a video on Sunday in which she reported “very difficult conditions to live in.” “I haven’t been very efficient in the last 24 hours,” she said. I really feel like I’m not doing everything right in terms of strategy, but I think it’s hard for everyone.” So hard that she didn’t have time to take care of herself. “This whole weekend, I haven’t changed, I really don’t smell good… As it’s warming up, I’m going to take the opportunity to shower, it’ll do me good, it’ll put my mind back in place to start again off to a good start.”
It has a margin of 17 miles on Meilhat and 33 miles on Lunven.
Some 1600 miles behind Mettraux, we find the Genevan Alan Roura (Hublot), who crossed Cape Horn on Sunday, in 17th place. As for Zurich’s Oliver Heer (Tut Gut), he is 30th (6,603 miles from the lead) among the 35 boats still in the race.
