From the following article on the Transat Jacques Vabre website:
http://www.transat-jacques-vabre.com/en/actually-speaking-first-words-le-blevec-and-de-pavant
Yves Le Blevec , skipper Actual:
“It is still pretty challenging in these boats. They are great. To take less than 15 days to get from Le Havre to Itajaí is good, but having said that we went to Normandy to arrive in Brittany (wet weather joke) even if it is bit warmer. These are good averages, super fast, but it is not comfortable at these speeds. And what a great battle!”
Kito de Pavant, co- skipper Actual:
“We are not too disappointed. They had it to win. We had three problems, the technical stop in Madeira did cost us a few hours although it was fast and we had a good passage of the Doldrums we were back in front. And lately it was interesting, there were tactical games. We still managed to pick up a bit, we were in the game. Then we had a technical problem which caused us to lose 20 miles. But don’t get me wrong, Erwan and Yann deserved to win, they sailed really well. And we knew they would before the start. We knew all along it would be difficult to beat them. It is astonishing to have kept up that pace all the way through, to be on it all the way. I am so happy to get here, we had plenty of wind, we had some harsh conditions
Last night and the night before it was difficult. There is so much stress on these boats, you are on high alert even when the weather is nice. And the stress generates fatigue and you have to take account of that and deal with it. It is a while since we were in the red but we did make mistakes that we should not have done.
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