Capsized Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe Thibaut Vauchel-Camus rescued this morning
by La Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 13 Nov 2022 03:43 PST
13 November 2022
Capsized Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe Thibaut Vauchel-Camus rescued this morning © Easy Ride
After capsizing around 2000hrs yesterday evening whilst leading the Ocean Fifty class of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo race, French skipper Thibaut Vauchel-Camus was rescued this morning from the upturned Solidaires En Peloton - ARSEP some 240 miles north of the Azores.
Vauchel-Camus, 42, is reported to be in good health. A chartered rescue boat, the Merida, skippered by French Figaro racer Adrien Hardy, who is a salvage expert, is on the scene and the objective is to tow the Ocean Fifty to the Azores.
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