Violette Dorange and Samantha Davies seal their alliance by putting in the water “Initiatives Coeur”

With a thousand precautions, the crane extracted Coard initiatives From his ber to deposit it, like a toy, in the racing sailboats of the old base of the Lorient submarines (Morbihan). It is 6:30 am, Tuesday, May 13, when, under the fixed and jaded eye of some sea volatiles and in the presence of a handful of outbuilders, the red and tapered mount of Samantha Davies (13^e On 40 of the last Vendée Globe) finds the sea, after three months of construction.

Superbly indifferent to the pouring rain, the team of a dozen people – who dismantled and reassembled the courier piece by piece for weeks to erase the stigma of the fourth round of the world alone, without stopover and without assistance, of the British – is active to rebuild the Imoca (18 -meter monohull) with foils (lateral load -bearing plans allowing to steal on water).

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