Route du Rhum: Last participant finishes; Vincent Lantin, 30 days at sea!

Posted on December 3, 2014 by bill

Route du Rhum : Le dernier concurrent est arrivé

Voile par media365.fr mercredi 3 décembre 2014

Vincent Lantin, dernier concurrent de la Route du Rhum encore en course, est arrivé mercredi matin à Pointe-à-Pitre. A bord de son Class40 Vanetys – Le Slip français, le skipper de 33 ans a bouclé sa transat en 30 jours, 14 heures et 35 minutes. He arrived on Wednesday morning (today) in Pointe-à-Pitre. The 33 year old skipper sailing solo in Vanetys – Le Slip français (Class40)crossed the Atlantic ocean in 30 days, 14 hours and 35 minutes.

La 10eme édition de la Route du Rhum est terminée. Le dernier concurrent, Vincent Lantin, est arrivé mercredi matin à 4h35 heure de Paris à Pointe-à-Pitre. A bord de son Class40 Vanetys – Le Slip français, le skipper de 33 ans a bouclé sa course en 30 jours, 14 heures et 35 minutes à la vitesse moyenne de 4,85 noeuds. Il a franchi la ligne d’arrivée plus de trois semaines après Loïck Peyron (Banque Populaire), vainqueur de l’édition.

His average speed was 4.85 knots. He broke the finish line three weeks after the overall winner Loïck Peyron (Banque Populaire).

Joint par France Info, Vincent Lantin s’est dit “soulagé“. “Ca n’a pas été de tout repos“, explique-t-il. “J’avais prévu de mettre 20 jours, ça s’est terminé en 30 jours“. Mais cette aventure reste magnifique pour lui. “C’est une victoire personnellle, pas un demi-échec“, précise-t-il d’autant qu’il y avait foule pour l’applaudir à l’arrivée.

Talking to France Info he said “relieved”. “This wasn’t a holiday” he explained. “I planned for a trip of 20 days, that finished in 30 days. But this adventure was magnificent for him. “It was a personal victory, not a semi-failure”, he emphasised when he saw the enthusiastic applause at the finish line.  (Opinion: this was not really last place because there were over 20 abandonment’s among the 90 participants who started the race.)

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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