Boris Herrmann Has Started

Boris Herrmann Has Started
Boris Herrmann Has Started

Video: Boris Herrmann Has Started

Video: Boris Herrmann Has Started
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Idec start
Idec start

"Idec Sport" at the launch tonight at two o'clock

It was a tactical game, because Francis Joyon and his crew wanted to start on "Idec Sport" a few days or weeks before "Spindrift 2", as Boris told YACHT online yesterday. That way you would at least have the chance to break the record and keep it for a few weeks if the opponent comes through and is faster.

So yesterday the team briefly surprised with the message that they were going back to "Condition Red", which would have meant that the start was not expected in the next few days. But around midnight the six-person crew - Francis Joyon, Boris Herrmann, Bernard Stamm, Alex Pella, Gwénolé Gahinet and Clément Surtel - finally left the dock in Brest.

The "Spindrift 2" team around DonBertarelli and Yann Guichard stayed true to themselves, as the faster boat they stayed calm, announced their start via WhatsApp 24 hours in advance and then crossed the line accordingly at 4 a.m.

Idec start
Idec start

"Idec Sport" at the start tonight at two o'clock

So now the duel for the planet has begun in the most exciting form imaginable, the two boats are perhaps 60 or 70 miles apart, at their speed no more than two hours. The high swell at the start, Herrmann reported from four to five meters, and a little less wind, around 10 knots, is currently slowing the boats down a bit, which is why both are already around 40 nautical miles behind Loïck Peyron's existing record from 2012 lie. But already this morning, when the boats reach the Biscay, the wind should pick up around 30 knots, then the Maxi-Tris with Etmalen should storm around 500 to 600 miles to the south.

The next exciting milestone is now the time to the equator, which Loïck Peyron sailed in 2012: 5 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes.

Film for the start of "Idec Sport"

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