The moment promises to be sumptuous. If the start of the 10th Vendée Globe, a solo round-the-world trip without assistance and without stopover, will be given at 1:02 p.m. this Sunday, the 40 sailors entered will sail up the Sables-d’Olonne channel at 8 a.m. The city is preparing to receive between 500,000 and 700,000 spectators.
Previously, skippers joined their monohull in the morning at dawn whenever they wanted (some even slept on board). But this time, the organization has chosen to offer an “iconic and scripted image of the pontoon” (as specified in the departure protocol), in the hope of “offering a quality show highlighting the skippers to the viewers. » Proof of an extraordinary success which grows from edition to edition.
