Charles Caudrelier won the first edition of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge. The 50-year-old sailor set foot on land after 50 days and 19 hours of racing.

“We had a huge number of problems, we obviously didn't say everything,” Cyril Dardashti, the boss of Team Gitana, tells us with a smile. The race is renowned as “the most difficult race in the world”, according to observers.