The hero Le Cam is done with his exhausting Vendée Globe and finishes 4th

Jean Le Cam aboard his boat in the Vendée Globe -

Jean Le Cam was on Thursday evening the 8th to join Les Sables d'Olonne.

Thanks to the compensations linked to the rescue of Kevin Escoffier, who owes him a great deal, he finished in 4th place, which he described, as well as that of dolphin, as “place of the con” not so long ago. .

It was obviously for fun.

Thanks to this ranking, King John finished number 1 among drift boats, he who has long competed with the new foilers in the descent of the Atlantic.

“The day before yesterday (Wednesday) I was eighth, after that I found myself sixth and there I finished fourth.

Then !

I haven't had much luck in my life but on that one, I was served!

», Launched Le Cam, returning to port six hours after cutting the line because of the tide.

"You tell yourself it's going to blow up anytime soon"

But this round-the-world tour will not have been a rest for Le Cam.

Operation Escoffier left traces on his boat, and the experienced skipper admits to being afraid of sinking in his turn.

"When I landed Kevin on the Nivôse (French Navy frigate), I was in the hot front and the next day I went to see the front and the boat was delaminated," he says.

"When you have the shell that moves two inches like that, that you have the foam that cracks, you tell yourself that it's going to blow up any moment.

And if it breaks, you sink ”.

Succeeding in repairing before "it starts again", he continued his race without saying anything, but with fear in his stomach.

"I have known a lot of rather difficult things in my life but there, I experienced the unbearable and in fact the unbearable, we get there," he breathed, completely exhausted.

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