End of course for Alan Roura? The skipper of La Fabrique was very scared this Saturday, at the start of the Pacific Ocean, with his keel hydraulic system no longer responding and his sailboat was again flooded with oil. With the help of his technical team, obviously remotely, he finally managed “to reset the entire hydraulic system … and to angle his keel on each side”, as we learn in a press release. “I don’t want to claim victory right away, but I’m happy to have a tilting keel that works again,” he rejoiced at the end of the afternoon. The keel may be a little more difficult than usual but the main thing is that it works and that I was able to return the canvas and regain speed. Now, I’m going to go and rest because I’m burnt out at home: when I was finally able to put my nose outside, I told myself that it was strange, that it was daylight in the middle of the night. But no, it’s just that I spent 13 hours in the keel then! ”. Alan Roura, 27, was 15th in the general classification in the last score, 2,265.1 miles behind the leader, Yannick Bestaven (FRA / Maître Coq IV).
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