The sailor-adventurer has announced his participation in the Vendée Globe 2024 with the company freelance.com but without his favorite chicken which made him known.
This time it will be without Monique his favorite hen. Guirec Soudée will be able to console himself with a partner, in this case the company freelance.com (which is responsible for streamlining relations between the self-employed and the companies with which they work, 670 million in turnover at the end of 2021). The adventurer-navigator announced the good news, this Tuesday in Paris, for his next big challenge: the Vendée Globe 2024.The Vendée Globe is a race that has made me dream since I was little, but which seemed to me as unfeasible as going to the moon. I have no experience in Imoca, but I am in good hands. The idea is to go cool with the help of Sébastien Audigane, my boat captain and coach, and Roland Jourdain, who is hosting us. My ambition is to be on the start line of the Vendée Globe and to finish it. I am more than motivated. It is an ambitious project. You have to dream big. And life goes too fast.”
Canape or whalebone, Soudée has chosen
The Breton doesn’t hide the fact that he has everything to learn about these racing boats but isn’t panicking. ” Life is full of obstacles, we are here to overcome them, he claimed. Even if sometimes you think you’d be better off on your sofa, when a whale swims next to your boat, you understand why you’re there.”
This world tour will be a homecoming by boat for the native of Yvinec Island, in the Côtes d’Armor, who made a name for himself through a five-year journey around the world told in three books. And it was during his first crossing of the Atlantic in 2013, and a stopover in the Canary Islands, that he met and embarked the famous red hen nicknamed Monique. With this reinforcement of weight, he then tackled the icy regions of our planet and survived one hundred and thirty days of voluntary wintering in the ice of Greenland, to become at 24 the youngest navigator to cross the passage of the North. -Where is. Before crossing the Pacific, rounding Cape Horn, reaching Antarctica and returning to his native Brittany to close this incredible journey punctuated by multiple adventures (damage, storms, prison, etc.).
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Not enough to cool the adventurer who is embarking in 2020-2021 on a double crossing of the Atlantic by rowing for 180 days (Canaries-Saint-Barthélemy on the way out, United States-Brest on the way back), without Monique . As during this Vendée Globe 2024 which he will compete on the former boat of Benjamin Dutreux (9and of the last edition and relaunched this Monday). “It is a reliable, efficient and simple boat. He’s great for this project.“, explained the Breton. “I just go there, discreetly, there are so many people with a lot of experience but the idea is not necessarily to finish last. I have always had a competitive spirit. 90 days is going to be too shortlaughed the sailor, happy to give good news of his beloved hen. Monique is doing very well, she’s in Yvinec but she won’t be doing the Vendée Globe with me, it’s forbidden and the Imocas aren’t comfortable for her. On the other hand, they are for me compared to what I lived before“.