The Vendée Globe as seen by Clarisse Crémer: "I need to reconnect with the land"

“30 degrees, flat sea, big sun, grapefruit buffet, unlimited lemonade, sunset shower, lazing around and free entertainment: this is not the program of a giant ferry cruise between the Bahamas and Miami, it is 'is the description of the day that just took place aboard my beautiful Banque Populaire X. I am happy to be able to relax, almost guilty of living such a beautiful moment of calm and heat when the earthlings are grappling with less fun daily constraints.

Here I am in mild latitudes, struggling to imagine that only a week ago I was still suffering from the cold and worried about the approach of another depression.

Each day inevitably brings me closer to my goal, or at least a return to dry land.

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Clarisse Crémer, new wave sailor

This trip up the Atlantic will have made me experience a whole range of emotions that only ocean racing can make you experience in such a short time.

From the joy and immense pride of crossing Cape Horn, to the unexpected dismay that the South Atlantic was anything but lenient;

from the disappointment to see my boat diminished by some technical nonsense, to the renewed fighting spirit to find solutions and climb the mast three times to repair an essential sail at the end of the course.

Some routings make me arrive in Sables-d'Olonne in 17 days.

Even if at sea you must always be careful not to announce an arrival date, especially 4000 miles (

) from the goal, it's funny to start putting a countdown to the end on such an engaging adventure. , grueling and complex as a solo trip around the world.

I feel that I need to reconnect with the earth, to find the people I love and that my body would not last forever at this rate, I need to find a less stressful environment, to stop d be on the lookout all the time.

But despite all of that, this countdown to the end is tinged with a lot of nostalgia.

I am still in the middle of the Atlantic and already deep inside I feel that I have touched something so precious and so overwhelming that arriving ashore will not be just a deliverance.

A new job will impose itself on me: that of landing.

A small deal compared to what I just accomplished?

Not so sure!

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