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Gabart and Le Cléac’h take off again quickly and well

REPORTAGE – The two sailors, on the podium of the Transat Jacques Vabre, successfully launched their new maxi-trimarans in the Atlantic.

Special envoy to Fort-de-France

Radiant smiles and a podium that has a hell of a face. Tuesday evening on the edge of the bay of Fort-de-France, where the public was finally at the rendezvous despite an atmosphere still tense against a background of social protest, the champions in a hurry of the oceans took the time to “redo the match”. Gathered on the pontoon, the rivals, sometimes lifelong friends, retraced this pretty battle fought in the Atlantic on their flying maxi-trimarans, the fastest oceanic sailing ships on the planet. There were only beautiful people there: Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier, authoritarian winners on their Edmond de Rothschild, their dolphins François Gabart and Tom Laperche (SVR-Lazartigue) and third Armel Le Cléac’h and Kevin Escoffier (Banque Populaire XI). For the crème de la crème of ocean racing, it was time to relax after 16 days of intense crossing (9,000 miles covered, a third round the world). To relief too.

Three years later

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