Marie Boscher (Martinique la 1ère) studies that begin of the Route du Rhum is postponed to Tuesday or Wednesday because of the unfavorable climate situations introduced for Sunday, November 6. It was an unprecedented determination however effectively understood by the contestants. The skippers of this transatlantic occasion deemed it a “sensible determination.”
The administration of the Route du Rhum, OC Sport Pen Duick, introduced this Saturday, November 5, the postponement of the beginning of the race, initially scheduled for Sunday at 1:02 p.m. An unprecedented determination within the historical past of the race, taken on account of very unfavorable climate situations within the English Channel, the place troughs of seven meters and gusts of as much as greater than 50 knots are anticipated.
This main upheaval is comparatively effectively understood by the skippers, together with the ten ultramarines concerned. “The Route du Rhum isn’t just in regards to the commerce winds downwind, the place the climate is ok, we now have a beautiful welcome, remembers Thibaut Vauchel-Camus. It begins by leaving the Channel in autumn, dealing with the Atlantic and its depressions, it was wiser to postpone. Everybody desires to go to Guadeloupe, we perceive them, so we now have to provide ourselves the possibility that there are as many individuals as doable who go there and profit from the magic of this arrival.”
A tough however sensible determination
“It’s true that it’s not straightforward for the group, given the village, the companions, the racers, provides Rodolphe Sepho. It’s 138 initiatives to reorganize at present. It’s a call that’s heavy with penalties, however sensible, as a result of the situations turned clearerly technical”.
Ary Chalus, president of the Guadeloupe area, explains that on arrival, “preparations” have already been made to “welcome the skippers”. “What issues to me is that there’s most security and that ought to come earlier than pleasure.”
[Photo above by Marie Boscher: The Ocean Fifty in Duguay-Trouin, Saint-Malo, on November 5, 2022, before the start of the Route du Rhum regatta.]
Translated by Ivette Romero. For unique article (in French), see https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/report-de-la-route-du-rhum-une-sage-decision-saluee-par-les-skippers-ultramarins-1337464.html