The organizers announced on Saturday that the race could not start on Sunday at 1:02 p.m., due to expected bad weather conditions.
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The 138 skippers of the Route du Rhum will have to wait. Initially scheduled for this Sunday, November 6 at 1:02 p.m. from Saint-Malothe start of the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum has been officially postponed to “Tuesday or Wednesday”the organizers announced on Saturday 5 November.
This postponement is due to bad weather conditions with “the passage of a very violent depression” expected in the Channel over the first 36 hours of the race according to a press release.
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Due to the weather conditions expected in the first hours of the race, the Race Direction and the organization of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe have announced the postponement of the start. #RDR2022
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— Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe (@RouteDuRhum) November 5, 2022
“We have received and listened to all the comments that the skippers have been able to communicate to ussaid race director Francis Le Goff. In consultation with OC sport [l’organisateur de la course], I decided to shift the start from Sunday to Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. I am very confident, the race will be beautiful, it is just postponed and this beautiful story is only postponed for a few hours”.
Four years after the epic duel that smiled on Francis Joyon against François Gabart, the legendary solo transatlantic race has reached its record number of participants with 138 skippers departing from Saint-Malo this year (131 men and seven women). The competitors in the six classes of boat, the multihulls (Ultim 32/33, Ocean Fifty, Rhum Multi) and the monohulls (Class40, Imoca, Rhum Moni), must cover 3,542 nautical miles (6,560 kilometers) to reach Pointe-à -Pitre, in Guadeloupe.