It was around three o’clock in the morning, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, that the skipper ran aground north of the island of Batz. Contacted by France Bleu Breizh Izel, the firefighters explain that Antoine Magré is slightly injured. The Haut-Savoyard was taken care of by SNSM rescuers.
In a press release published this Thursday, the management of the Route du Rhum announces that twelve skippers are stopping ashore. Among them, Romain Pillard (Use it again by Extia) to “estimate the damage generated on his trimaran following its collision with a metal buoy off Bréhat”.