Artemis: Sam & Sidney make repairs

Sam Davies & Sidney Gavignet have survived the storms, made their repairs and are still in the race.


Sidney Gavignet is quoted on the Jacques Vabre website: "We are set for another change, the wind is a bit all over the place but we are making miles towards the finish, between 17 and 20 knots of speed. Sam is on the deck and is taking care through the squalls. This morning my little British chum has lost her voice. There is a lot of tiredness on Artemis after the work caused by yesterday night and it has had an effect on us of course. We have done our sums and the loss to those in the north is about 300 miles. But that is the choice we made. The 20 hours we had fixing the mainsail did not help compared to those we are racing around us. Still, a certain satisfaction this grey Sunday morning we are still in the race. And we have the boat and the sails and are going, waiting for better days and hoping we will get an opportunity of getting back to the group. That’s it. We are last but that is just the way it is. The road is long."


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