All about: Outremer 51

Pierre, Serge, Catherine, Sylvie, Hervé and Vincent: the 6 crew that set off aboard the Outremer 51 Piment Rouge at the start of the ARC+. On the program, a transatlantic passage in a “We’re pulling each other’s leg” style from Las Palmas, in Gran Canaria, with a stopover in Mindelo, in Cape Verde, before the big crossing to Grenada, toward the southern end of the West Indies. Following on from their tales of the first leg (see MW184), here’s their logbook from the second - the story of a merciless battle with the NEEL 47 Bigbird…