Her race in figureS
Finish time: 15h 00min 40sec (french time)
Elapsed: 14d 19h 00min 40sec 48 sec
Delta to first: 4j 15h 16min 10sec
Distance covered: 4 019.17 milles
Average speed (on the great circle route): 8.93 knots
She said
"For me, the most important thing was to finish this race. There were four transatlantic races to finish and this New York Vendée - Les Sables d'Olonne was the fourth. It was fastidious. I broke a bulkhead on the way out and that was long. It's not easy to sail with a Damocles sword hanging over your head. To say to yourself that you absolutely have to finish. There are so many parameters involved in this whole project! That obviously had a lot of influence on my choices on the water. I was really afraid of having a problem and that was hard. Normally, you do all this to compete and so it's not easy to make compromises. At every moment of doubt, I kept reminding myself that the goal was the Vendée Globe. The whole project was orchestrated with that in mind: we put in the old foils, the small sails... in short, everything in 'safe' mode, in 'Vendée Globe objective' mode. Today, we've been rewarded. Obviously, we could have done better but we could also have done a lot worse. I just wanted to finish but in the end there were a lot of good sections, some very good phases and some good things to remember. Whatever happens, it's been good preparation. After all, I've just spent 34 days at sea with two short breaks, one in the Azores and one in Newport. All in all, it's been a lot of time spent on the water and on the boat, even if it hasn't always been optimal. Now, I have to admit that I'm relieved that these three years of the selection process are over and I'm looking forward to this round the world race, which will certainly be very different from the last one."
