Twenty-four hours after taking ninth place in the Vendée Globe rankings, this round-the-world trip with no stopovers or assistance won on Monday by Frenchman Charlie Dalin, Geneva’s Justine Mettraux (TeamWork – Team Snef) has climbed another place .
Wednesday at 7 a.m. posted on the organizer’s website, while Frenchman Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkea) was preparing to cross the finish line in Les Sables-d’Olonne in second position, she was in eighth place.
While she was sailing 2,827 miles (5,235 kilometers) from the finish, the Swiss, a columnist as fascinating as she is regular and dedicated for lematin.ch, was 31 miles ahead of the Frenchman Thomas Ruyant (Vulnerable), 9th. And a margin of 130 miles over the German Boris Herrmann (Malizia), 10th. Ahead of her, Frenchman Nicolas Luven (Holcim – PRB) had a cushion of 121 miles on his Imoca.
One day after crossing the equator, Justine Mettraux therefore seems to be in a favorable position and is expected in Les Sables-d’Olonne between January 23 and 25.
First woman in the ranking, the Genevan sails at a speed of 14.65 knots (27 km/h) and has some 400 miles on the second sailor in the race, the Frenchwoman Clarisse Crémer (L’Occitane en Provence), 12th.
Behind her, the second Swiss in the hierarchy of the 10th Vendée Globe, the Genevan Alan Roura (Hublot), is 17th. It is 4628 miles from the finish.
As for Zurich’s Oliver Heer (Tut Gut), he is 29th among the 34 boats still in the race.
