Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian Group) crossed the finish line of the twelfth edition of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe at 05:47:50 UTC on Wednesday 23rd November. He finished sixteenth in the IMOCA class with a race time of 13 days, 16 hours, 32 minutes and 50 seconds. The Italian skipper sailed the 3542 theoretical miles of the race course between Saint-Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre at the speed of 10.78 knots on the Great Circle route. Out on the water, the skipper of Prysmian Group actually sailed 4255.02 miles averaging 12.95 knots. He finished in Pointe-à-Pitre 1 day 22 hours 56 minutes and 25 seconds after the class winner, Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut).
Pedote
“The conditions at the start were more or less normal, except that on the second night my J2 split in two. I wasn’t expecting that in twenty knots of wind. I cried as it was so painful bringing down the sail. I continued under J3 but was handicapped, as we had a lot of upwind sailing. I took an option south, but it wasn’t the right one. I climbed the mast in the ridge and then in the second downwind part of the race, I had good speed and managed to close the gap on the group. I found some interesting sail set-ups, but still have a lot of work to do. I would have liked to have done better, but sailing is a mechanical sport. It was complicated sailing around Guadeloupe with a lot of manoeuvres, just like in the Glénans (sailing school) handbook.
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