Une première semaine difficile à bord du Maxi Edmond de Rothschild.
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00:00 A difficult first week aboard the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild.
00:04 In the second part of his daily "Around the World",
00:07 the navigator Charles Caudrelier, one of the six sailors engaged in the ultimate challenge,
00:12 is part of the AFP of his spectacular departure.
00:15 Well placed in second position on Monday,
00:18 Caudrelier is now preparing to face the seas of the South and confesses
00:22 not having a minute to get bored by relentlessly pursuing his young competitor,
00:26 the leader Tom Laperche.
00:28 "This first week of racing was challenging.
00:31 We were in contact all together the first three days,
00:35 and since the middle of last week, I'm almost on board with Tom.
00:40 The pace we're setting ourselves is a bit crazy.
00:43 Since we're not very far, only a few tens of nautical miles away,
00:47 note from the editorial, we talk regularly on the radio.
00:51 This morning we were both saying that we were in regatta mode
00:54 when there was a round the world to do behind.
00:57 I admit that I don't have a minute to get bored,
01:00 for the moment, we don't give each other a moment to rest.
01:03 I didn't listen to music, to podcasts.
01:06 And there's a lot of maneuvering to do to stay in contact.
01:10 At your age, I didn't bother the old ones.
01:13 We spend our time looking at the other's speeds,
01:16 we try to set the boat to go faster.
01:19 Sometimes I wonder who is 26 years old,
01:22 because I made small tactical mistakes, when he's not far from the faultless.
01:26 I still remember a few years ago when he was training on a small boat
01:30 on the waterfront next to me in Brittany.
01:33 I didn't imagine he was going to bother me on a round the world a little later.
01:37 Besides, I told him,
01:40 "At your age, I didn't bother the old ones and I stayed in Figaro Plus.
01:44 It's really very grisant this start of the race, it motivates me.
01:48 It helps to avoid thinking that there is still a very long journey behind.
01:53 You focus on your day, your daily gestures.
01:57 But still, at one point I wondered if I could keep up.
02:02 That said, little by little, we start to get used to the machine,
02:07 sleep settles in, we manage to take little naps during the day,
02:11 to sleep a little more at night, we eat better.
02:14 These are not easy living conditions, but let's say we get used to it.
02:18 The craziest thing is to think that it was almost the easiest part.
02:23 It's still hot, sometimes too hot, the fleet is Monday offshore Brazil,
02:28 note from the editorial, but in three or four days,
02:31 we will start to feel the cold of the south and to enter the wind.
02:34 And there it will be the beginning of a great corridor, sometimes brutal,
02:38 the seas of the south.
02:40 On board, it may seem to last an eternity.
02:43 The moments to come may be less joyful, we'll see.
02:47 In any case, for the moment, everything is fine.
02:50 We have routed very well for the moment with the team on land
02:53 and chosen beautiful trajectories.
02:55 It happened to us to cry for a few thousand lost,
02:58 but at the scale of the challenge that awaits us, it's really not much.
03:02 Everything remains to be done.