The Vendée Globe 2020 is played in a pocket square (Illustration).
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JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP
Do you know the story of the guy who gets off on vacation in the depths of the equatorial forest to be relaxed, and who finally finds himself face to face with a group of French tourists on an excursion?
Well that's pretty much what's happening in the Vendée Globe, somewhere thousands of kilometers from here, straddling the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
On Tuesday, the skipper Damien Seguin shared a mind-blowing video on which we can see no less than five boats engaged in the race, almost side by side (edge to edge, as we obviously say in the jargon).
Around him and his camera, we find Boris Hermann, Louis Burton, Jean Le Cam and Benjamin Dutreux.
😍 Incredible images of this grouping!
5 boats are now sailing side to side in the middle of the Indian Ocean!
📣 No more need for VHF to communicate 😅
👋 @borisherrmann @LouisBurtonOff @JeanLecam @BDutreux |
@VendeeGlobe @GroupeAPICIL |
# VG2020 pic.twitter.com/PICEbMiKcl
- Damien Seguin (@sailingdamien) December 15, 2020
A rare image in a race where the skippers are more used to finding each other on the radar, the vastness of the ocean requires.
With all that, we would almost want to see them form a compact group to launch the most beautiful aperitif of this (dirty) year 2020. But there is a race to be completed, it seems ...
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