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Route du Rhum: live, the positions and rankings of the boats on the cartography of the 12th edition
“That one, I've been waiting for it since 2006. Finally, here it is!”
After a last gulp of smoothie swallowed on the beach of the Créole Beach hotel, where he is resting after his Route du rhum, Thomas Coville (
Sodebo Ultim 3
) admits to waiting with a gargantuan appetite for the winter of 2023. The Rennais is right, because the menu promises to be titanic.
Indigestible, even.
The Arkea Ultim Challenge, which will set sail from Brest in January 2024 (or maybe December 2023), is a wild dream for the best solo skippers on the planet.
The Himalayas of navigation reserved for the Ultims, these giants of the seas, who will set off from Brest for a first solo round the world race (with technical stopovers authorized in the event of a problem).
For the 32-meter maxitrimarans capable of flying at 50 knots (92 km/h), the Route du rhum served as the last full-scale test, even if the short sprint in the Atlantic and its 3,510 miles are only an amuse-bouche in view of the 25,000…
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