Sébastien Simon (France) - Arkema-Paprec (IMOCA)

We got out of the Doldrums reaching on a port tack, with 16-20 knots of wind, flat sea, so we said ‘these are our conditions, let’s go, it’s time to put our foot to the floor’. We were starting to think the podium was possible but two hours later the foil broke, without warning. So, we’re in a sailing without foils. There’s not much left of her!

Now, we have a bit of breeze, so it's nice. We need to send up the big downwind sails, but the boat is unbalanced by the loss of the foil, so we will take out the spinnaker a little later. Other than that, it's going ok, it's very hot, it's difficult to stand being below when charging batteries! We should arrive tonight (Sunday) or tomorrow in the morning in the Bay of All Saints.