Pierre left Santa Cruz on Friday, October 29, and led this second leg between the Canaries and Guadeloupe. After some hesitations at the start because of a high pressure cutting the route to the Caribbean, Pierre quickly opted for a southern route, looking for wind and pressure. And after a week of gybing, looking for pressure to the south while shifting to the west to stay in contact with the fleet, Pierre finally hit the usual trade winds and finally took the lead of the fleet. Displaying good speeds, Pierre went on and did not let go of the lead until he arrived in Guadeloupe this morning.
The French skipper, who was 1 hour 9 minutes and 19 seconds behind Tanguy Bouroullec (winner of the first leg between Les Sables d’Olonne and Santa Cruz de la Palma), put enough distance between himself and his competitors to take the overall victory and enter the big league.
History will also remember that Pierre’s TeamWork prototype was a scow boat designed by David Raison, himself a Mini Transat winner in 2011 under the colors of… TeamWork. David had also won the race with a scow he had designed. At the time, this revolutionary boat had left the connoisseurs septic and had made a lot of noise in the world of ocean racing.
2011 – 2021: 10 years later, TeamWork wins again in the Mini Transat. The story is beautiful