The skipper was at the top of his Ocean Fifty category when he was the victim of the cold front which rocked almost all of the fleet and caused three damage and several damage.
Le Monde with AFP
Thibaut Vauchel-Camus, who capsized Saturday evening on the Route du Rhum, was rescued in the morning of Sunday, November 13. The skipper spent the night in the central shell of his Solidaires-en-Peloton-Arsep Trimaran.
The Merida rescue boat, chartered by former skipper Adrien Hardy specially for this kind of operations, arrived in the area during the night and was able to recover the sailor once the day was raised. The Merida team is now working to secure its boat in order to tow it to the Azores, at 240 nautical miles further south.
While he was at the top of the provisional ranking of the Ocean Fifty, the 15-meter Trimrans, Thibaut Vauchel-Camus capsized around 8 p.m., for a reason still indeterminate. He had just crossed the cold, short but violent front, which rocked almost all of the fleet and caused three damage as well as many more or less serious damage.
The three skippers who have dismantled – Louis Burton (Office -Vallée, Imoca category), Amélie Grassi (La Boulangère -Bio, Class40) and Aurélien Ducroz (Crosscall, Class40) – are also unharmed and are on the road to the Cap Finisterre, in western Spain.
“We are all fed up with these stories of depression”
Yoann Richomme (Paprec-Arkéa, Class40), testified on Sunday morning hours tense from the day before: “The boat was jumping in the waves. It was creepy as desired. I thought we were going to explode everything.” Like He, the majority of the boats has returned to the road: “We are all fed up with these stories of depression. We believe in” infiltration “in the south of this famous anticyclone in a few days.”
After a trying evening, on the side of the Ultimate Maxi-Trimarans, Charles Caudrelier (Maxi-Edmond-de-Rothschild) took hold of François Gabart (SVR-Lazartigue) at the top of the race for the passage of the Azores. He kept around twenty nautical thousands in advance at the score of 9 am Sunday.
The two men have slightly increased their advance on Thomas Coville (Sodebo) and the trio, which has been going to more than 30 knots on average since Saturday evening, widens the gap on the rest of their direct competitors. But they will still have to wait before finding the trade winds who could carry them to Guadeloupe.