Loïc Peyron was below working at the nav table, in third position, when his mast shattered. He is unhurt and he cleared away all the pieces before it could damage the hull. Now he is working on a jury rig using the boom.
Where he heads for depends on how well the jury rig works – Capetown, Réunion, or Australia.
Steve White must be completely knackered. Taking in his Code 5 in a 35 knot wind, he suffered a jammed furling line -”The line cover had wrinkled up like Norah Batty’s stockings inside the drum… and got wedged very tightly”. With the bowsprit burying as the boat surfed down the waves, he had to try to work on it remotely, using a knife taped to a broom handle – but he got washed back to the mast by one wave. Eventually, he gave up on the furler and dropped the sail half-furled – neatly on deck initially, but the it got washed over the side and round the keel, so he had to cut it adrift (and go into the water part of the time). On top of all that, he has to bear the cost of losing a twenty thousand pound sail…
