More Quotes from the Finish
David Sineau, who was second across the line had this to say:
” The repair list is long. The most penalizing damage was the loss of my gennaker just before the doldrums. This is actually the sail we need the most to help us get out of the doldrums. This might have been for the better as I had to steer away from the rhumb line to sail better angles under spinnaker. I then lost all my wind instruments because of three birds who damaged them. So no more wind speed and wind angle….truly blind. Then the torn gennaker passsing under the boat damaged the keel foil, affecting greatly the hydrodynamic… Yves Le Blevec is a superb winner. He sailed really fast… I had a lot of fun sailing. I never pushed myself over the edge. My training on the water for the last 3 years paid off, I did not do any broach, which cost so much to my competitors.”