They had hardly ever experienced this at this time of year. Or for some "lucky" only on one stage of the Solitaire du Figaro in the middle of summer. A gigantic calamus area which held back all the Transat Jacques Vabre boats in the Bay of Biscay. And harshly shaken the nerves of their sailors. As much as the deliverance is great this Wednesday for the skippers of the Imoca monohulls, more accustomed to the breaking waves of the Great South during the Vendée Globe. The wind and suddenly the smiles are back off Spain and Cape Finisterre. As evidenced by the videos from the board sent by Jérémie Beyou (Charal, ranked 4th) and Romain Attanasio (Fortinet-Best Western, 9th), which were filmed at high speed, in sprays of foam. "
Attention ahead, launches the latter, hilarious and not unhappy to finally see his new monohull take off.
It was starting to take a long time, let's go…
”At 4 pm, the two boats were sailing at more than 15 knots, finally freed from the clutches of this calamitous high pressure ridge.
The road to Fort-de-France is still long ...