The Rochelais François Gabart wants to take advantage of the «rum magic» after a difficult year. For him, for other sailors and for the image of sailing.
“Now is not the time to talk about that…” The sailors of the Ultim trimarans have decided to press the pause button during the Route du rhum concerning the “Gabart affair”. Authorized last summer by the courts (which he had seized) to line up at the start of Saint-Malo, François Gabart, in his pre-race speech, also preferred to mention “the future more than the past” and talk about sport more than controversy.
At war with some of his rivals (in this case Charles Caudrelier, Thomas Coville, Armel Le Cléac’h) of the Ultim class, who judge his trimaran SVR-Lazartigue not in accordance with the regulations (the point of dispute concerns his fully closed cockpit and installed under the deck of the boat), the Rochelais wants to take advantage of the “magic of rum” after a difficult year. For him, for other sailors and for the image of sailing. “In the Ultim class, we need to vibrate, to experience very strong things on the water and to share them with the general public. You have to look ahead.” we…
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