Gilles Lamiré, skipper of Groupe GCA – Mille et un sourires (winner of Multi50)

It’s a long and difficult road, we knew before the start that it wouldn’t be easy. I still felt apprehensive before we left. We had an incredible adventure, the level in Multi50 is super high. 

It's my first big race with the boat. Antoine is a great sailor, he helped me a lot to get the best out of the boat. I’ve already started to look at our track, it unfolded like beautiful illustrated book. We’ve got some great pictures, like in the Canaries with the gennaker filled with 35 knots of wind. The race with Primonial, where we were bow-to-bow, was amazing! We had great weather strategy from Christian Dumard. He was superb. He must be very happy because we went exactly the way he told us. We made an extraordinary visit to Cape Verde. We knew we could lose everything in the Doldrums, but we were lucky, and Christian told us where to go. It went really well! We’re really happy to have arrived in Bahia in front!