The Vendée Globe years coincide with those
of the Olympic Games, the 31st edition of which begins this Friday in
Rio. Several sailors signed up for the upcoming Vendée Globe have been
down the route of the demanding and formative Olympic series. This is
not the case for Armel Le Cléac’h, though he’s snapped up the chance to
head to Rio to support the promising French Sailing Team. Following on
from this Brazilian escapade, Armel will only have eyes for the Vendée
Globe, his personal Olympic Games, and his one mission: the gold medal.
This week we met up with two more key
figures from the Vendée Globe. Vincent Riou gives us an exclusive
insight into the construction of the new one-design wing mast for his
PRB. Meantime, Bertrand de Broc, gives us the low-down on his
preparation, with the focus on the progress of his brand new mast, which
it just so happens has been built in the same moulds as PRB’s spar.
We also learned about the loss of Canadian
Derek Hatfield, who participated in the 2008-2009 edition of the solo
round the world race without stopovers. The whole of the Vendée Globe
team would like to pass on its sincere condolences to his nearest and
dearest.
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