Rhum 2018:The opposing forces

The start at St Malo: an intense moment, but also always risky, with 120 singlehanders on the line this year!
The start at St Malo: an intense moment, but also always risky, with 120 singlehanders on the line this year!
Celebrations on the pontoons at St Malo, and then…a leap into the unknown for the majority of the skippers, with 3,543 miles to cover across the Atlantic.
Who will succeed Loïck Peyron in the Ultim category? The winner of the 2014 edition will be setting off this year in the Rhum category, for pleasure!
For 40 years, the skippers have taken the same route… But the race time has been divided by three.
In the Ultim category, the fight will be particularly intense: hard to risk making a forecast!
In the Multi 50 class, the victory will be hard-won… A class to follow...closely!
In the Rhum Multihulls category, there will be several races within the race. To be followed, of course, all our friends from the Golden Oldies…
Still in the Rhum category, the race of the ‘almost production boats’ will also be particularly interesting to follow.
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François Trégouët
Publié le 18/09/2018
Par François Trégouët
Numéro : 162
Parution : Nov. / Dec. 2018
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Multihulls World #162

The Route du Rhum Destination Guadeloupe is an extension of the summer in the middle of autumn, a good swig of ti-punch before winter. It’s above all months of excitement for all enthusiasts, for a few days of racing, when we live to the rhythm of the placings, addicted to the websites, ‘night owls’ by proxy of a few skippers, as lucky as they are tenacious in pursuing their dream. Taking part in THE transat, the one everyone dreams about. But who are these lucky people who have succeeded in solving the magic equation of boat, budget and early qualification? That’s right, there weren’t enough …

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