Pascal Bidegorry (France) – 11th Hour Racing (IMOCA)

I'm in the cockpit of the boat. It’s calmed down a bit, we had some heavy landings, we put a reef in the mainsail, we’ve got the big gennaker up with 20 knots of wind. We never sent the spinnaker up again…

We played it pretty well to the north of the Canaries. We had to take a shift so that we could make our descent. On our boats, the temptation is to turn upwind, obviously it's easier, but the road to Bahia is south...

It’s a drag race now…we’ve crossed paths several times with Banque Popunder spinnaker and us under gennack. Everyone is working out their own way…