Sir Robin Knox-Johnston amongst first to congratulate Charlie Dalin for file Vendée Globe victory
by Barry Pickthall for IACH 14 Jan 01:36 PST
14 January 2025
Charlie Dalin (FRA), skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance, is pictured after successful the 2024 Vendée Globe, on January 14, 2025 in Les Sables d’Olonne, France © Jean-Marie Liot / Alea
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“Pricey Charlie,
I’ve simply watched you crossing the ending line
WOW – what an achievement! You may have damaged nearly each race and solo monohull file going:
- Quickest from the Equator to Cape of Good Hope
- Quickest throughout the Southern Ocean from Good Hope to Cape Horn
- Quickest from Cape Horn to Equator
- Quickest from Equator to the end in Les Sables d’Olonne
Whereas doing so you’re the first to interrupt by the five hundred mile day barrier with a brand new solo 24 hour monohull file of 509.05 n.miles – a tooth (or filling) shattering 29.02 knot common, and likewise smashed the earlier solo monohull circumnavigation file by an enormous 9 days!
You and your podium rivals Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa) and Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) have reworked the Vendée Globe Race from a 3-month journey right into a 2-month sporting dash across the Globe.
We Cape Horners tip our caps to you all.
55 years in the past once I accomplished the primary solo continuous circumnavigation in 312 days aboard my sturdy little yacht Suhaili, it was inconceivable to suppose that anybody would possibly someday obtain the identical in my lifetime inside simply 65 days!
It’s a tribute not solely to your individual abilities in navigation, seamanship and sporting prowess, however to the designers and engineers who produced your IMOCA 60 MACIF Santé Prévoyance to face up to all that has been thrown at it by the weather with out breakages.
In keeping with our information, you’re the 194th individual to have now accomplished what’s your second solo circumnavigation by way of Cape Horn, and we Cape Horners prolong to you a heat welcome to one of the vital unique golf equipment on the planet – The Worldwide Affiliation of Cape Horners
I hope to have the ability to attend the Vendée Globe Prize giving to personally current you with our Cape Horner’s pennant.
Your time is nearly unimaginably faster than anybody may have anticipated. An outstanding efficiency!
Enormous congratulations!”
Sincerely
Sir Robin Knox Johnston
President of the Worldwide Affiliation of Cape Horners
capehorners.org
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