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Sailing. Route Du Rhum: a Few Hours After Departure, Violette Dorange Must Stop After a Collision

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Bad start for Violette Dorange on the Route du Rhum. After a collision with another competitor, she will have to stop at Roscoff (Finistère) to repair her damaged boat.

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At the helm of the Imoca Initiatives Coeur, the 25-year-old sailor damaged her starboard foil by striking Romain Pilliard's trimaran Use it Again, off the island of Bréhat. "The two skippers are fine, but the two boats require repairs. They are currently on their way to Roscoff, where the team of Initiatives-Coeur is waiting for them," said the surrounding of Dorange in a communiqué transmitted to the AFP. Romain Pilliard's multihull and the mon…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Bad start for Violette Dorange on the Route du Rhum. After a collision with another competitor, she will have to stop at Roscoff (Finistère) to repair her damaged boat.

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The navigator hit Romain Pilliard's multihull in the evening, Sunday. Both skippers are out of danger, but their boats will have to undergo repairs.

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Violette Dorange (Initiatives-Coeur) and Romain Pilliard (Use It Again) collided this Sunday off Bréhat. If the young navigator was able to continue her race, her competitor must return to the Finistère.

·Paris, France
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Violette Dorange hit Romain Pillard's trimaran, forcing the skipper to make his way to Roscoff A few hours after the start of the Route du Rhum this Sunday from Saint-Malo, a collision between the

·France
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The multihull of Romain Pilliard and Imoca de Violette Dorange collided on Sunday, two hours after the start of the Route du Rhum off the coast of Bréhat. Damaged floater, the skipper suspended his...

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Sud Ouest broke the news in France on Sunday, November 1, 2026.
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