Charles Caudrelier wins the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest

French solo racer Charles Caudrelier has won the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest.

Charles Caudrelier has left the Azores heading to finish of ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest

Charles Caudrelier, the skipper of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild left the Azores Saturday morning at 11.45 a.m. French time (10.45 a.m. UT)

ARKÉA ULTIM CHALLENGE – Race leader Caudrelier takes shelter in Azores

Charles Caudrelier on the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, has elected to take shelter in the Azores, thereby making a technical stopover.

Caudrelier on Maxi Edmond de Rothschild first past Cape Horn.

French skipper Charles Caudrelier on the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is first to past Cape Horn

ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE – Leader slows to avoid brutal storm systems at Cape Horn

Race leader Charles Caudrelier has paused his attack and slowed Maxi Edmond de Rothschild down whilst he waits for two brutal storm systems to pass him by

New Indian Ocean record for Caudrelier on Maxi Edmond de Rothschild

ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE solo round the world race leader Charles Caudrelier sailed into the Pacific Ocean after setting a new solo record time for the passage of the Indian Ocean

ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE – Leader Caudrelier passing the Kerguelen Islands

Charles Caudrelier, leader of the ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest, is passing the Kerguelen Islands exclusion zone, racing on a SE’ly course at around 35kts as he plunges towards the ice exclusion zone.

ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE – Leaders pass Cape of Good Hope

Friday, 19 January at 13:32:22hrs UTC, ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE-Brest leader Charles Caudrelier crossed the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope