HIS RACE IN FIGURES
Finish time: 21:57:10 (UTC)
Elapsed time: 12d 03h 57min 10s
Delta to first: 2d 00h 12min 40s
Distance sailed: 4 221.76 miles
Average speed (on the great circle): 10.89 knots
He said:
"It was a long race. The second part wasn't much fun in the end. I preferred the first bit of the transatlantic race to the Azores where there was a bit of sport. The moment when we realised that we weren't going to be able to cross the front like Charlie (Dalin) and Boris (Herrmann) was a bit hard to swallow. We found ourselves in a situation where the systems were not moving or at least not very much. little. I don't really know what esle we could have done. The Gulf Stream was part of that equation as did the state of the sea. After that had to reorganize ourselves. Jérémie (Beyou), Séb (Simon), Yoann Richomme (Paprec – Arkéa), we made up a good group in the south to race and have fun. As I already said, I had a lot of fun. the first part of the race but a little less in the second I like being on the water but doing 1,500 miles upwind much less. We have boats that like big slides, that like to go fast. . Here we were had a medium wind on a churned up rough sea and it wasn't very fun. We did not have the conditions we had hoped for. Those which would have allowed us to charge in front of a front and cross the Atlantic in seven or eight days. We had planned with that scenario in mind but that did not happen.... except for two of us. It has shuffled the cards a bit. I admit that at that moment, I was a little lost. Where are we going ? What are we doing ? What is the course? We didn't have a plan B and we had to get back into another weather pattern. I had to re-mobilize myself, get back into the match, go back to my files, set the right sails... I then managed to get back into the right group. To go fast when I wanted to and to be where I wanted to be. In the end, there are plenty of positives. I finish 5th and I am kind of where I should be as I have a boat lies breezeand downwind ie for the Vendée Globe. Obviously on a normal Transat I would hope to be in the lead at the finish but I didn't have the conditions for that."
