11 âeuros Valentin Lemarchand in 18 days 21 hours and 29 minutes
He crossed the finish line in Pointe-Ã -Pitre on November 21 at 11 hours 29 minutes and 48 seconds. It is a great performance that this young hope of the open sea has just established. At 23 years old, he joined the pontoon of honor of Pointe-Ã -Pitre and finished at the doors of the top ten. "The beginning was very hard. The first week, I rather played it safe and finally I did quite well, I quickly found myself in the top ten. Afterwards, I lived ten days of pure sliding happinessâeuros¦ Really great! I had long downwind runs with incredible surfs."
12 âeuros Bertrand Delesne in 19 days 00 hours 55 minutes and 39 seconds
He arrived in Guadeloupe on November 21 at 14 hours 55 minutes and 39 seconds. While he was announced as the favorite of this 10 ème edition, he encountered problems from the first night of the race and had to stop in Roscoff to start again 16 hours later in 38 ème position. He managed to catch up and was given compensatory time by participating in a CROSS mission to find a person who had fallen overboard. " Emotions from the beginning to the end! In the middle it was a bit "hollow "âeuros¦ so we created a new adventure at the end of the course with this intervention alongside the CROSS Antilles! But it was a spicy race from the beginning to the end. The start was magical, a Rum like one dreams of: I was quite contemplative and very happy to be on the line. And then the first nightmare with my technical problemsâeuros¦ And the re-start: I took a lot of pleasure from Gibraltar! Southern route, gliding, catching up with friends, great spinnaker tacks, fabulous surfing, strategy to negotiate the wind shifts, tactics for squalls and competitors on reach, and a special finish."
13 âeuros Jean-Christophe Caso in 19 days 01 hours 53 minutes and 11 seconds
It was on November 21 at 15 hours 53 minutes and 11 seconds that the skipper of Picoty-Lac de Vassivière arrived in Guadeloupe. Tired after two nights of squalls, he started the race at the head of the fleet. Suffering from light winds, he stalled and crossed the Atlantic with a group of 4 solo sailors who only separated at the arrival of the Tête à l'Anglais "It's been two days since I've hardly sleptâeuros¦ It was about time it stopped! Anyway, the arrival rum is good. It was really intense! I don't remember a break. Intense, demanding, but a great race. It didn't go as I imagined at the beginning, with very difficult periods because things happen for you and not for the others. Even though there are also things happening for others and not for you, you can always see through it."
14 âeuros Pierre-Yves Lautrou in 19 days 04 hours 16 minutes and 30 seconds
It was on November 21 at 18 hours 16 minutes and 30 seconds that Pierre-Yves Lautrou landed in Guadeloupe. It is a great success for the skipper journalist who could not take the start of the Route du Rhum 2010 because of a fisherman who had boarded him a few days before the start. And it could have happened again this year when he dismasted. So it's a well-deserved finish for the skipper of L'Express-Trepia. "Ah! Rum, ça arracheâeuros¦ And ça mérite jusqu'au bout! I still had to drop reefs in the Saintes channelâeuros¦ Who had the idea to make us sail around Guadeloupe? Who is responsible? It is hell! All the way to the end: the petulance, the close edges to finish. Finally, it's a good thing done: I had prepared a lot of speeches in the Saintes channel and I finally don't know what to say. Which is rare for me! But I am very proud: I gained a place last night as I passed Michel (Kleinjans) in a squall at 30 knots. But the ranking doesn't matter too much: I'm so happy to have finally managed to moor the boat here, in Pointe-à -Pitre."
15 - Michel Kleinjans in 19 days 06 hours 06 minutes and 36 seconds
He arrived on November 21 at 20 hours 06 minutes and 36 seconds. The Belgian skipper, forced to make a stopover of more than 8 hours in Spain, was then caught in the easing winds that split the class40 in two. It is a disappointment for the Belgian skipper who had a class 3 monohull in 2006. "The landing on Guadeloupe was laborious to say the least, but that's often the way it is here: I had time to look at the landscape! And it rained again and I was well rinsed out¦ I think it was one of the longest circumnavigations of Guadeloupe of the whole Class40 fleet! But it was good, this Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. The boat is doing well but my stopover in Spain cost me a lot: from the moment you set sail, things go downhill because you no longer have the same weather conditions."
16 âeuros Halvard Mabire in 19 days 14 hours 09 minutes and 56 seconds
The skipper of Campagne 2 France arrived in Guadeloupe on November 22 at 04 hours 09 minutes and 56 seconds. He has been experiencing technical problems since the start and has constantly had to make repairs. "I missed everything, even my arrival time! I'm glad to get it over with because it wasn't easy: getting on the field and taking a goal in the first ten seconds is tough! The remaining 90 minutes are longâeuros¦ The wind was really not stable: I don't remember having experienced such a strange weather situation: incredibly violent squalls! If there had been this in 1990, I would have put myself on the roof with my catamaran."
17 - Jean-Édouard Criquioche in 19 days 14 hours 33 minutes and 05 seconds
It was on November 22 at 04 hours 33 minutes and 05 seconds that Jean-Edouard Criquioche crossed the finish line in Pointe-à -Pitre. He experienced some problems quite quickly and was not able to use his boat at 100%. Nevertheless, he pushed his Class 40 to the maximum of his possibilities to arrive on the Caribbean island. "The first three days were very complicated because after that, it was all about speed. What is great is to have finished in a fight with Halvard (Mabire) under the island and until the finish line. In my first Rhum, I had fought against Cécile Poujoul whom I had beaten by 43 seconds! So the finishes here for me are always very close."
18 - Jean Galfione in 19 days 23 hours 19 minutes and 32 seconds
Serenis Consulting arrived on November 22 at 13 hours 19 minutes and 32 seconds. Although he had to make a 24-hour stopover shortly after the start of the race, Jean Galfione was able to use all his athletic talent to remobilize himself and face the challenges. "I am very emotional, it's a lot due to the fatigue. But there is also a lot of emotion to have succeeded in doing it, because it was still a bad story. I have always had problems that require finding solutions. I know that a lot of people have had it rough, but I found the conditions very difficult. It was a transatlantic race with a lot of challenges."
19 âeuros Juliette Petres in 19 days 23 hours 52 minutes and 07 seconds
Juliette Petres crossed the finish line on November 22 at 13 hours 52 minutes and 07 seconds aboard Eau et Patrimoine. It is a magnificent performance that this country veterinarian has just achieved, even though she discovered the world of sailing only 6 years ago. Starting with a sinking feeling in her stomach, she was able to keep the pace and impose herself alongside experienced sailors. " I'm happy, really. The last few hours have been very intense with lots of squalls. I was ahead of Jean Galfione at the Rum Bottle mark (Basse Terre mark, editor's note), but then he got ahead again. We had a great battle together for 36 hours. I'm so happy, especially since there are so many people who came to welcome me, including Bertrand de Broc, the boat's godfather. It's because of him that I did all this."
20 âeuros Emmanuel Hamez in 20 days 08 hours 07 minutes and 09 seconds
He arrived on November 22nd at 22 hours 07 minutes and 09 seconds. This amateur, who started his third solo transatlantic race since a first Mini 6.50 raced in 1989 without GPS, joined the pontoon of honor alongside Sir Robin Johnston, 3 ème in the Rum category. "We're starting out a bit on the ball, and then anything that has to break in the boat breaksâeuros¦ Not to mention that ça goes fast in front and ça pushes behind. I am an amateur, when I saw that I was 20th, I lit the third night and I took back 8 places. I was 12th, I was happy, I saw that I was in the game. And I don't know what happened, I think you get tired without realizing it, it builds upâ?¦ Maybe that's the difference between the amateurs and the professionals. Amateurs, you make one or two hits, while professionals are consistent, they don't make mistakes."
21 - Brieuc Maisonneuve in 20 days 17 hours 30 minutes and 15 seconds
He arrived on November 23 at 07 hours 30 minutes and 15 seconds. While he participated in this Route du Rhum as an enlightened amateur, wishing to take an oceanic vacation, he had to face some problems, especially on the last two days of the race with a pilot failure. "I really had a long succession of big galères which mean that, strangely enough, five minutes after arrival everything is already forgottenâeuros¦I lost four airfoils, I broke all the batten pockets, I broke down my computer, I shattered my solent, I lost my code 5âeuros¦and I finished without a pilot. You can ask yourself where the fun is in that. It is afterwards that you realize that it is the ability to overcome, to send the spinnaker back when you have a knee downâeuros¦. That is the quintessence of the race
