"It will be necessary to return", amuses the skipper Cherbourg Louis Duc at the arrival of the Route du Rhum

Far from the first in terms of speed, the sailors still engaged on the road of the Rum realize performances equally beautiful. A few hours after the Normande Miranda Merron, the first woman of this 2018 edition on her class 40 "Campagne de France", it is the skipper Cherbourg Louis Duc who cut the line with his sailboat in Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe.

On his class 40 "Cararc", Louis Duc officially completed the race after 22 days 6 hours 48 seconds of racing. It ranks 19th in its category. "It will come back!", he wrote on his Facebook account, before venting more on this difficult race at the microphone of our journalist.

"I never looked like that and I needed that to see what it's like to be in a rough sea, when it does not go in. I've never been able to go until then and for me it is a beautiful lesson of boat ", said Louis Duc. Tired, but happy.