Time penalty decides Route du Rhum

After French skipper Roland Jourdain (We Explore) was deemed the winner of the Rhum Multihull class in the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, he dropped to second after being been given a statutory time penalty of 90 minutes as he had a broken lead seal on his boat.

Jourdain had finished today at 19:06:00hrs UTC with an elapsed time for the 3542 nautical miles solo course from Saint-Malo to Guadelope of 16 days 5 hours and 51 minutes in his 61-foot Outremer.

Loïc Escoffier (Lodigroup) had crossed the finish line second today in his 50-foot Barreau design but has now been declared winner of the Rhum Multi division. He crossed the line at Pointe-à-Pitre line at 19:52:23hrs UTC, some 43 mins 23 seconds after Jourdain…

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