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The 11th Hour Racing Team’s campaign to win The Ocean Race 2022-23 is in need of better luck. Led by American Charlie Enright, it has been one thing or another.
In June, they had multiple collisions and damaged a foil during The Ocean Race Europe. In September, they had to drop out of the Défi Azimut race with a broken steering system.
And now in the Transat Jacques Vabre, a double-handed race from Le Havre, France across the Atlantic to Martinique, their older IMOCA was dismasted while their new IMOCA reports keel damage. Enright provides an update on November 21, 2021:
We’ve been dealing with a lot of breakages throughout the course of this race, such is the nature of a new boat on an action packed and competitive track like this one.
None of these “little incidents” compares to what we went through yesterday. While reaching along in what I will refer to as a typical doldrums squall, we hit 28 knots of boat speed with the J2 and a Full Main. Shortly thereafter, the boat essentially tripped over itself and we were no longer able to achieve speed…
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