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Cargill-MTTM take 4th place
Always up with the leaders and in the match, Damien Seguin and Armel Tripon cross the finishing line of the Solidaire du Chocolat to take 4th place. At 3 o'clock 41 minutes and 5à seconds precisely this morning French time, after 28 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes and 55 seconds at sea. The Nantes-based crew logs a fine result in what turned out to be an extremely tough race marked by virulent weather conditions. Enthusiastic and motivated, Damien and Armel never left anything to chance and did everything they possibly could to finish among the top boats. Tried by the passage of six lows over the Atlantic passage, recurring energy problems on board forced the decision to make a pitstop in Saint Barts to repair the alternator belt. After the statutory minimum 3 hours (and 1 minute) stopover in the port of Gustavia, the crew of Cargill-MTTM set sail again having recharged their batteries in every sense of the term, determined to get onto the podium. Never the less, conditions that followed were such that little room was left for tactical tricks to juggle the rankings in the Caribbean. At an average speed of 7.33 knots, Damien Seguin and Armel Tripon sailed a fine race indeed over the 5 000 nautical miles ((9 260 km) from France to Mexico.
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