Difficult by seeing the images to know if he is disappointed or not.
Winner of the last Vendée Globe, Yannick Bestaven finished ninth in the Transat Jacques Vabre, with his teammate Jean-Marie Dauris, in the Imoca monohull category.
His delay at the finish on the winning duo Thomas Rettant-Morgan Lagravière (LinkedOut)?
3 days and 21 hours.
A more than substantial gap for Yannick Bestaven's last race on his faithful Maître CoQ IV equipped with small foils.
“
It was a difficult transatlantic race, we suffered from the lack of wind.
There was no trade wind,
explained the navigator
.
We are in the place we should be anyway.
There is no longer any debate on large foils.
Those who had left for Etretat… We raced well, we tried to play the blows
”.
Nevertheless, this transatlantic confirms that a sailor can never rest on his achievements and his laurels.
Bestaven's rivals, beaten on the last round-the-world trip, have taken their revenge, even if it is clear that winning a Transat Jacques Vabre will never be the same as triumphing in a Vendée Globe.
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