Sailing-France's Dorange Withdraws From Route Du Rhum After Collision Damage
- France’s Violette Dorange withdrew from the Route du Rhum after colliding with Romain Pilliard five days into the race.
- Dorange sailed to Roscoff and then Lorient, where her team found more serious structural damage to her IMOCA boat.
- Her Initiatives-Coeur team said repairs would take too long for her to restart before the December 3 finish deadline.
- Dorange called the withdrawal “a great disappointment,” while both teams planned to file complaints and the race jury had not ruled.
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His foiled Imoca collided with Romain Pilliard's trimaran, damaging a foil and several elements of the hull."These findings require that the boat be returned to shelter, let it dry, and then rebuilt," his team said.
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After her collision on November 1, the damage is too great on the boat of Violette Dorange (Initiatives-Coeur), which is forced to abandon the Route du Rhum for her first participation. "It is obviously a great disappointment," the young navigator reacted.
France's Dorange withdraws from Route du Rhum after collision damage
France's Violette Dorange has withdrawn from the 13th edition of the Route du Rhum, five days after a collision with Romain Pilliard in the early hours of the race, her Initiatives-Coeur team said on Friday.
The Initiatives-Coeur navigator collided with Romain Pilliard after only a few hours of racing last Sunday.
After her collision on the day of the start and a return to Lorient to repair, the navigator finally decided to abandon the race.
Sailing-France’s Dorange withdraws from Route du Rhum after collision damage
PARIS, Nov 6 : France’s Violette Dorange has withdrawn from the 13th edition of the Route du Rhum, five days after a collision with Romain Pilliard in the early hours of the race, her Initiatives-Coeur team said on Friday. • The 25-year-old sailor, who became the youngest competitor to finish the Vendee Globe in 2025, first headed […]
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