The skipper Clarisse Crémer, the first woman to cross the Sables-d'Olonne channel, returns to the microphone of Europe 1, Thursday morning, on the adventure of the Vendée Globe, completed in 87 days and 2 hours.
The new holder of the women's record on the event finally relishes the fact of having "overcome the difficult times" at sea.
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Twelfth in the Vendée Globe, Clarisse Crémer crossed the finish line after 87 days at sea aboard Banque Populaire X, just six days behind the leader, Yannick Bestaven.
For this first solo round the world trip, completed on Wednesday at 4:45 p.m., the sailor won the women's record for the event, previously held by Ellen McArthur.
"Arriving first is a little extra, it's cool, but that was not the goal in itself", she said at the microphone of Europe 1, Thursday morning, still moved by the twists and turns of this mad race around the world.
The beauty of "completely innocuous" moments
"It's a bit of a shock to go alone on the boat to find your team, her family, her relatives and all the people who were on the channel in Les Sables-d'Olonne. It's been a lot of people from a blow, "says Clarisse Crémer.
"In three months, we forget a little his sociable side. Me, I have never been someone particularly lonely, but we are well on his boat, all alone."
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It is a huge privilege to be alone on your big boat
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From these three months spent isolated from the world, the sailor does not necessarily remember "the great key moments" such as the passage of Cape Horn, but rather "completely innocuous moments, contemplative states in front of the beauty of the elements, in front of the albatrosses. We realize that it is an enormous privilege to be all alone on his big boat, in the middle of nowhere, in countries where there are very few human beings who go. "
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Passages "at the end of the roll"
So much for the beautiful moments.
But the adventure of Clarisse Crémer was also marked by more psychologically complicated passages, which she did not hesitate to share on social networks.
“We have time to go through all kinds of conditions”, underlines the skipper, who celebrated her 31 years at sea. “There is fatigue which helps a little to be on edge and to have a little strong emotions . I made the choice to share the good times as well as the bad times to show a little all the facets of what we live at sea, because it is not always easy. At the same time, we are happy, afterwards , for overcoming difficult times. "
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We are a little on our own and we wonder how we are going to get out
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During these difficult times, how could one stay, sometimes thousands of kilometers from his family and from civilization?
"At the time, we are a little on our own and we wonder a little how we are going to get out of it," says Clarisse Crémer.
"We don't have too many loopholes, that's what can be quite unsettling. We can be as much at the end of our rope as we want, we have to keep moving forward. At the same time, that's what us saves. We are obliged to be in the action. In this way, we end up finding benchmarks and getting out of it psychologically ", says the one who has often joined her relatives and her team for" a little support psychological "salvation at sea." We cheat a bit compared to the past, when there was zero contact with the outside world. "