Status: 30.01.2025 01:53 a.m.
Boris Herrmann ended the tenth Vendée Globe as twelfth. The solo globe from Hamburg crossed the finish line ahead of Les Sables-d’olonne with his malizia on Wednesday evening.
Exactly 80 days, 10 hours, 46 minutes and 41 seconds, Herrmann was at sea with his Imoca yacht – and thus around two weeks longer as winner Charlie Dalin. The MacIF skipper had already arrived on the west coast of France on January 14th.
Herrmann sailed exactly 29.201 nautical miles, which corresponds to 54,080 kilometers. Its average speed was 15.13 knots (28 km/h).
A sip around to celebrate the day
When the Hamburger crossed the finish line, his team and close friends were switched on by live video call and celebrated this special moment with him. Herrmann treated himself to a deep sip for the celebration of the day.
“I am glad that this fight is over.”
Boris Herrmann
“It is done, the finish line is crossed and I have arrived safely. I am glad that this fight is over,” said Herrmann in a first video message from the Malizia. “I’m going alone here off the French coast this night. But that’s okay. Hopefully the team will come on board tomorrow morning. At the moment there is too much sea. Then we will be in. To enter.
VIDEO: Herrmann at the finish: “I’m happy to enter solid ground again” (1 min)
The Hamburger will not enter the famous channel of Les Sables-d’olonne until this afternoon. The NDR transfers from 2:45 p.m. in the livestream.
For Herrmann it was the second solo world of globe after the Vendée Globe 2020/2021. At that time, the Hamburger needed 80 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes and 45 seconds for the regatta and had become fifth. Four years ago, he was even on the podium course until shortly before the finish line before the collision with a fish trawler stopped.
Big ambitions, big gap, big problems
After the good performance in 2020/21, Herrmann started the tenth Vendée Globe with great ambitions and newly designed yacht, but had already a big deficit to the top around Dalin, Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa , 2.) and Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil, 3.).
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“The top favorites gave full throttle right from the start. Boris had cloud pitch in the Atlantic early, but also did not always have a happy hand with his decisions. What he later punished when he was traveling in other weather windows than the leaders became”, NDR said sail expert Tim Kröger at the course of the race.
In the meantime, Herrmann sailed in the top ten on the way back to the north, but then had to struggle with problems in the Atlantic – a lightning strike, repairs to the mast, damage to his most important pre -sail and a broken port foil. “There was a lot together in common,” said Kröger.
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So Herrmann fell out of the fight for fourth place and wanted “just home”, as he emphasized relatively resigned. But the way back to Les Sables-d’olonne was also demanding and nerve-wracking. In the final phase of the race, Herrmann had to fight with meter -high waves through the storm “Herminia”.
After all, he was spared from other serious setbacks, even if he had to accept a crack in his sail in the last few kilometers, but which no longer stopped him.
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