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| Yes we Cam! racing again (white boat middle top) |
Wow, what a story. Jean Le Cam rescues fellow competitor Escoffier whose boat PRB was sinking. In 2009 it was the boat PRB who rescued Le Cam from his overturned boat, also off the Cape of Good Hope. Wonderful news! ADDED: Escoffier and Le Cam describe the rescue, aboard Yes we Cam!
As always the Vendée is exciting and dramatic. Saving a life at sea, in the huge seas of the Southern Ocean, just a day after Alex Thomson, the favourite, had to retire with a broken rudder: Shattered Dreams. And a video message from Alex.
Le Cam is already a monster hero. A mythical figure. Oldest in the fleet, at 61, racing an older non-foiling boat, yet lying third at the time of this rescue. What this dramatic rescue will do to his glistening reputation! From the Vendée site:
At 0118hrs UTC the PRB Team was informed that their Vendée Globe race skipper Kevin Escoffier (PRB) has been rescued by fellow Vendée Globe competitor Jean Le Cam (Yes We Cam!).
Escoffier had to abandon his IMOCA 60 PRB following damage yesterday afternoon around 1346hrs UTC and took to his liferaft some 840 nautical miles SW of Cape Town.
The rescue mission was coordinated from Les Sables d’Olonne by Vendée Globe Race Direction in collaboration with CROSS Griz Nez and MRCC South Africa. The President of PRB, Jean-Jacques Laurent was at the Race HQ with race director Jacques Caraës and the race direction team assisting through the entire process.
