The solo sailors left the banks of the Loire-Atlantique on Sunday at the cannon shot of navigator Damien Seguin at 3:40
p.m.
) was first rounding the offset buoy.
Ahead of Laurent Bourgues (
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) and Achille Nebout (
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).
Then head for Port-la-Forêt, via the island of Skokholm in Wales.
644 miles were thus theoretically available on the program for this first leg of the 53rd edition of the Solitaire du Figaro.
The weather conditions looking rather calm throughout the journey, the leader at the time knew before the start that future events were going to be convoluted:
“This will allow us to get into the bath slowly.
There will be no front to manage before Wales and we will have to be opportunistic.
Then, the downwind slide to reach Finistère should…
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