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Berlin (dpa / lno) - After her departure from the Vendée Globe, the Franco-German circumnavigator Isabelle Joschke may have narrowly escaped an accident on her way to the Brazilian coast.
In a violent storm with waves up to six meters high, she fought for her yacht “MACSF” for 24 hours.
“The mast was already in the water.
I was pretty scared that my boat would capsize completely.
I was sure it would be soon.
I fell too.
It was pretty dangerous, ”she told the“ Süddeutsche Zeitung ”(Thursday).
Your boat had an incline of up to 120 degrees: "Hope it doesn't sink, that's more or less all you can do."
The Munich-born skipper had given up at the Vendée Globe on the night of January 10th in eleventh place.
The main hydraulic cylinder on the keel fin of her yacht, which had previously been poorly repaired, broke again in heavy gusts of wind in the South Atlantic.
By then she had made about three quarters of the way.
Since then she has been trying to get to Brazil with her damaged boat.
"I'm sailing at eight or ten knots, and I hope to be in Brazil, the port of Salvador, in a week or two," said Joschke.
In the meantime, the daughter of a German father and a French mother, who lived in Lorient in Brittany, was fifth.
The 43-year-old was one of six women out of 33 participants in the Solo Marine Marathon.
“Now the regatta is over for me, but it's still an adventure.
I have to get myself and the boat to safety. "
When she arrives is not important.
«It's not easy to live on land at the moment.
And when I come back I might think: How good it was at sea! "
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