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“Since my podium in the Vendée Globe, the other sailors say hello to me more”

PORTRAIT – The third in the last Vendée Globe, which is about to start the Transat Jacques Vabre, now has a status to defend.

He was one of the very first to draw. On February 16, less than a month after having climbed to the third step of the Vendée Globe 2020-2021 podium, Louis Burton announced the purchase of the Imoca L’Occitane in Provence by Armel Tripon, promising Manuard plan despite his 11e place on the world tour. Then on May 28, he took with his proud monohull, renamed Valley Office, the start of his first race, The Ocean Race Europe, concluded in the 5e and last place.

And at the beginning of September, it made the buzz by managing to make this same boat fly completely out of the water, equipped with a rudder equipped with a home-made load-bearing plane… “It was goofy. It is absolutely essential that for the Vendée Globe 2028, the regulations of the class authorize the buoyant planes, but it will also be necessary to find a way not to fly, because in certain sea conditions it will go too quickly. In the Great South, it is essential to be able to brake», Confided Louis Burton before the press conference.

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