Vendée Globe

Sam Davies (Roxy) will be setting sail on Sunday at 13h02 (1202GMT) on the IMOCA Open 60 that won the previous two editions of the Vendée Globe: «I'm feeling fine. I know I'll feel stressed in the final hours leading up to the start. After all the excitement of the past few weeks, suddenly you find yourself alone and you don't know if you are happy, sad or nervous. In the beginning, I wanted to win, but today my goal is more personal: I want to beat the boat's record (87 days 10 hours 47 minutes and 55 seconds) held by Vincent Riou. I've written it down on the entrance to the cockpit to make sure I keep that in mind. It is a long race and there are often a lot of breakages, so we never know… »

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