Manuel Cousin (Groupe SÉTIN) is 23rd in the Vendée Globe
‘You have to live your dreams not dream your life away’
That was the maxim that drove Manuel Cousin to leave his life as an executive selling forklift trucks to major accounts with Toyota, to move from his native Normandy to Les Sables d’Olonne and pursue new goals ocean racing.
Cousin, 53, reached the pinnacle of that new life today when he completed the 24,365 nautical miles Vendée Globe, crossing the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at 07:35:40 hrs UTC this morning in 23rd position. After struggling at times with a cracked rudder and more recently keel ram damage, Cousin’s elapsed time on Groupe SETIN is 103d 18hrs 15m. He sailed an actual course of 29,116 nautical miles at an average of 11.69kts.
Manuel Cousin due in Saturday morning for 23rd..... Huusela’s Stark wins sponsorship awards
Joschke and Davies slow to avoid worst of storms
Manuel Cousin, the 52 year French skipper who retired from his role as an executive with the Toyota motor group to pursue a career ocean racing will bring his IMOCA Groupe SÉTIN across the finish line of the Vendée Globe tomorrow morning – estimated for between 0500hrs and 1000hrs UTC – and return back into Les Sables d’Olonne the town where he has lived for 12 years.
Ari Huusela: “I feel like this is the never ending story.'
Speaking from on board the famous STARK Imoca this morning Finnish skipper Ari Huusela now has the 250 nautical miles wide ridge of high pressure to negotiate before the Azores, and today he will pass under the 2000 nautical miles to the finish. He is starting to find the continually changing ETA a bit frustrating but he says...... “Life is good, as always I am super happy, I am approaching the high pressure zone of light winds and it is quite wide and complicated and so I will struggle through it. I have 11 kts of wind and I am doing 11kts and so it is quite OK right now. Hopefully I will keep a small bit of wind, but I have been following Alexia, she is going quite well and has been going seven knots or something so it is fine right now.
'Incredible, Extraordinary' Miranda Merron at her Press Conference
After a night at sea with her partner and her close friends and team members, an ideal way to decompress after finishing late last night It was a relaxed and radiant Miranda Merron who was welcomed on stage for her press conference today to the soundtrackof Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ (Avicii remix) ready to discuss her Vendée Globe finish in 22nd place after 101 days and eight hours of racing on Campagne de France.
Britain’s Miranda Merron (Campagne de France) finishes 22nd in the Vendée Globe
With her usual quiet, understated efficiency British skipper Miranda Merron completed the Vendée Globe solo round the world race quest this Wednesday evening, breaking the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne, France at 22:16:51hrs UTC after 101 days 8hrs 56mins 51secs at sea to take 22nd place in the race on her IMOCA 60 Campagne de France.
