Martinique la 1ère introduced that the sailors of the twelfth version of the Route du Rhum already spent their first night time at sea. The skippers who left Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) on Wednesday November 9, are on their solution to Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe). Charles Caudrelier (Ultim 32/23) is main the best way on the Atlantic and Guadeloupean sailor Kéni Piperol is main the Class40s. [Also see previous post on Piperol at Kéni Piperol, Guadeloupean Skipper.]
With a lead of round thirty miles, and given the efficiency of the Ultim 32/23s, which sail between 22 and 25 knots, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is about an hour and a half forward of her closest rivals.
Having begun on Wednesday November 9, 2022, at 2:15pm, the beginning of the competitors is above all marked by the strategic determination taken on how greatest to strategy the Bay of Biscay. A lot of the solo sailors appear to be choosing western routes, with roughly southern instructions for his or her trajectories.
After this primary day, harm has been reported among the many Class40s. A number of boats hit rocks or boulders. Twelve rivals have gone ashore [for repairs].
Kéni Piperol, good begin to the race
[. . .] Kéni Piperol is main the Class40! By noon on Thursday, the Guadeloupean was west of the island of Ouessant, heading for a “large piece:” the Bay of Biscay.
Thibaut Vauchel-Camus is sixth within the Ocean Fifty.
Willy Bissainte (Tradisyon Gwadloup) Rum Mono is 4th in his class. Daniel Ecalard (SOS Pare-Brise) flying the colours of Martinique, is at present 4th and heading for Ouessant.
Damien Seguin has handed the Raz de Sein and is heading alongside the coast of Finistère. “All the things is okay aboard, no worries, and on we go.”
Martinican Sacha Daunar, crusing underneath the colours of Guadeloupe, needed to flip round in direction of Saint-Malo and was tended to by the medical doctors who indicated “that he should be handled on land urgently with an intense remedy over two or three days,” his affiliation defined on Fb.
Rodolphe Sepho, whose boat was broken, stopped on the port of Roscoff to restore his starboard foil and a float after a collision with an unidentified floating object.
Etienne Hochédé additionally stopped within the port of Roscoff after an influence failure on his boat.
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. For full article in French, see https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/route-du-rhum-le-guadeloupeen-keni-piperol-leader-de-la-class40-apres-24-heures-de-course