Around 1600hrs UTC this afternoon while Manuel Cousin was racing upwind in the strong NE'ly trade winds 750 miles west of the Cape Verde islands her reported that Groupe Sétin's a keel cylinder ram has broken. The skipper Cousin is in contact with his shore crew to try to secure the boat in order to put in place the emergency pins to block the keel. He is in 22nd place 88 miles to the NE of Clement Giraud.