Aboard the
Express Boat
The virtual waypoint in the Celtic Sea, bypassed Tuesday around 9 p.m. with a good lead over its closest competitors, Tom Dolan (
Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan
) and Basile Bourgnon (
Edenred
), Tom Laperche (
Bretagne-CMB Performance Region
) could begin its comeback to Breton waters.
Firstly, there was the question of passing through the Isles of Scilly archipelago while avoiding the areas prohibited to navigation (DST).
When reading the 5 a.m. ranking, a surprise awaited the leader.
He was preceded in the provisional classification by four competitors.
The Swiss Nils Palmieri (
TeamWork
), Jules Delpeche (
Orcom
), Laurent Bourguès (
United for Ukraine 56-Become a Partner
) and Romen Richard (Passion Santé/Trans-Forme).
The latter, accompanied by Chloé Le Bars (
Bretagne-CMB Océane Region
), were the only ones to try the option to the East and therefore targeted the western tip of English Cornwall, called Land's End, and its famous lighthouse of 'Eddystone.
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As the bulk of the fleet approached the island of Saint-Martin, the wind had just died out.
Virtual lunch break under a shy sun.
Tom Laperche thus had time to analyze the situation.
“I imagine that there are people behind who have moved on to the English tip.
Afterwards, the approach to the goal, seen where we are going, depending on the place, it could be almost favorable but I don't really know.
Now, at daybreak, there is no wind at Scilly and I arrived first in the soft.
I lost my lead.
I had 3 miles yesterday afternoon.
I expected that there would be a regrouping, with something that was not easy to manage.
Fortunately the current is helping us for the moment in a good way.
We'll see how it goes today after finding a bit of wind.
I'm impatiently awaiting the broadcast of the day's weather report, but we're not far from the starting situation.
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For the fugitives from the East, their respective speeds were not amazing either for their entry into the Channel.
It will take a few hours to find out who was right.
