By phone, Cancalais captain Maxime Sorel kindly comments the world the latest news from fleet 10my edition of the Vendée Globe, which enters the Atlantic off the coast of West Africa, but they no longer entirely concern it.
Sure Vulnerable – Monohull with 18 m foils (Imoca category) –, Sam Goodchild, serious leader of this regatta outing, 5myhas touched the wind and could quickly dethrone Jean Le Cam and his It all starts in Finisterre-Armor-luxthat on Sunday, November 17 at noon he was still leading the debates in front of Sébastien Simon (Dubreuil Group), the Swiss Alan Roura (Window) and Benjamín Ferré (Money Maker – Duo for a job).
But Maxime Sorel will not get involved in the upcoming crossovers. On Friday, November 15, victim of a serious ankle injury and a damaged mainsail impossible to repair on his own, the sailor decided to reach a small, well-protected port northeast of the island of Madeira.
the exchange V and B-Monbana-Mayenne, his steed with foils – these lateral appendages that allow him to rise above the water – against a pair of crutches. And, between tears of pain and anger in his heart, he announced his abandonment of directing the solo, non-stop and unassisted round-the-world trip, launched a week ago from Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée).
Given the condition and the blue color of the ankle, a doctor consulted in the Portuguese archipelago made an initial diagnosis of “ partial tear of external ligaments “. Three members of the unfortunate skipper’s team, who immediately joined him, must set sail this Sunday to take his boat, also damaged, back to its home port in Concarneau (Finistère), while he returns to France by plane to perform, upon arrival, imaging examinations in the office of a radiologist.
“My damage was due to works”
“Nothing normally happened.”tells Maxime Sorel that World. Last Sunday I made a good start, but an hour later the wind died down and I broke my big gennaker. (staysail) Then cascading problems arise with the guidance of my mainsail. Things that we don’t even understand how they could have happened…”
Balancing on his boom to try to repair the damage, three meters high in a rough sea, Maxime Sorel is the victim of a brutal shock that ” violently rotates right ankle “.
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