The label will be difficult to peel off.
The “castaway of the Vendée Globe”, for a long time.
“I understand that people retain the human adventure,
the rescue of Jean
(Le Cam).
I don't mind talking about it, it's part of my career, but I didn't want to surf on this shipwreck, I didn't write a book.
My goal is to do high-level sport, with pretty boats, and to win races.”
Kevin Escoffier, son of Franck-Yves Escoffier, fisherman in Saint-Malo, was quick to bounce back after this Vendée Globe 2020 which ended on November 30 with the sudden disappearance of his monohull PRB, broken
in
two by a roaring forties wave off South Africa.
Passage over its capsize
The Malouin has obviously forgotten nothing of his eleven hours spent in his life raft and the Homeric rescue of Jean Le Cam.
And, at the helm of the new
Holcim-PRB monohull,
he is about to take the start of the third leg of the crewed round the world race with stopovers, The Ocean Race...
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