Vendée Globe winner Francois Gabart sounded as objective and upbeat as he possibly could this morning when he described the dismasting of MACIF which happened around midnight last night whilst sailing in relatively normal trade winds conditions, some 140 miles from Salvador de Bahia, Brasil.
For them, leaders of the highly competitive IMOCA Open 60 class in the Transat Jacques Vabre double handed race from Le Havre to Itajai, Brasil was suddenly and summarily over.
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