“I can’t go on, I’m abandoning this my second Vendée Globe” grimaced an emotional French Vendée Globe skipper Maxime Sorel early this Friday afternoon from Madeira. The 38 year old skipper of V and B – Monbana – Mayenne, who scored a brave, accomplished 10th on the 2020-2021 race, completing the racing circumnavigation with a previously unloved, unlucky boat which since 2008 had never finished the Vendée Globe, is unfortunately the first skipper to abandon the tenth edition of the race. He has been forced out by a combination of a bad ankle injury and damage to his mainsail hook system and his mainsail car. He will head ashore in Madeira forthwith to have his ankle X-Rayed.
And so while the leaders of the race are getting into light winds between the Canaries and the Cape Verde islands, British skipper Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) making the pace in first, Sorel’s race is over too soon.
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