Rainbow meeting in the Vendee Globe

Le Grand Sud welcomes you!
Don't be fooled by this beautiful rainbow, from now on the elements will become more hostile and the race more complex.
Guirec Soudee has been waiting for this moment since March 2018.

Back then, he had turned back with Monique aboard Yvinec 1, which wasn't a boat cut out for these conditions.
At the time, he promised himself he would return one day with a boat capable of tackling these Dantean seas.

Today, with the IMOCA Freelance.com, he has done just that, and Guirec is grateful for every moment of it.

 

Guirec is the second fastest dinghy over the last 24 hours (16 knots average speed), just behind King Jean, despite very heavy seas.
He will now have to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent without ever entering the ZEA (Antarctic Exclusion Zone) defined by Vendée Globe race management.
This high-risk ice zone is forbidden on pain of penalties.
In view of the depressions that will now follow one another, the expression “safety first” is the order of the day.
Go Guirec Go!
To find out more about the 40th and 50th, download the Guirec educational kit

 

A perfect rainbow in the South Seas with Thomas Ruyant  (Dec 7th 2024)

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Mapfre in the Volvo ocean

 

Dongfeng (Charles Caudrelier) in the Volvo Ocean (photo Jeremy Lecaudey)