Web series / Living in the heart of the race with Hugo, second on the Clipper Round the World Race


You have already heard the work of the sheets, the sound of the winches, the water on the Hugo hull which tells us the second stage of the Clipper Round the World Race allows us to enter this world of ocean racing.

Incredible immersion in the Clipper Round the World Race. Indeed, Hugo who films all his adventures is embarked all along this crewed round the world trip aboard one of the race's sailboats. On this one, he takes the role of second in command. If the first stage was laborious, especially with a slightly hesitant exit from the English Channel, this second stage, which starts from Portugal to join Brazil, is better announced.

But the sea always offers an apprenticeship to the sailor. If this time, during a beautiful spinnaker descent along the Moroccan coast, the crew managed to get to the first place, a false manoeuvre with the spinnaker rolling on the forestay requires 2 hours to clear itself. 2 hours which will be fatal for the ranking. Indeed, running in monotype (all boats are identical), it is difficult in this race to make the hole compared to other crews who have the knife between their teeth.

By filming life on the boat, on the deck, at the chart table, but also in his berth, Hugo shows us the atmosphere aboard a racing yacht where nothing ever stops, let alone a manoeuvre or an adjustment to win a few tenths of a knot.

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