HIS RACE IN FIGURES
Finish time: 20h 01min 02sec (french time)
Elapsed: 15d 00h 01min 02sec
Delta to first: 4d 20h 16min 32sec
Distance covered: 3 540.58 milles
Average speed (on the great circle route): 8.80 nœuds
HE SAID
"It was an absolutely crazy race. I mean, when we started to race we knew that the weather wasn’t like a normal New York Vendee race, but the restart like 500 miles away from here, where all the boats lined up in one line. I only experienced this once in a lifetime and that was in this race.
And all to finish within a couple of hours was mad. But that’s sailing! That’s the nice thing about sailing, you never know what to expect and this was an extraordinary race definitely.
The the weather models were also quite often not correct, so at some point I decided to just try and sail the direct route, not too many miles, and at the end it kind of didn’t matter because there was a re-start anyway. But I’m very happy to be in Les Sables d’Olonne, very happy.
In a way I was mentally tough but in a way it was good training because normally the transatlantic races, they’re quite intense and this race was very different. We actually had quite a lot of time and we got into a rhythm that’s not a typical transatlantic race rhythm. I think, thinking about this year for the Vendee, this kind of rhythm where you just settle into the race and you see what happens, because you can’t plan the whole race."
