GUYOT Environnement-Team Europe face challenges to return in 2023 The Ocean Race after dismasting

GUYOT Environnement-Team Europe are weighing up when they can return to The Ocean Race after losing their mast on Leg 4. Benjamin Dutreux's crew were just over 600 miles east of the finish in Newport when they were forced to dismast in challenging weather conditions that saw gale force winds rise above 30 knots.

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The Ocean Race‘Pretty amazing!’ – Watch the arrivals in Newport after Leg 4 of the Ocean Race11/05/2023 AT 22:26 Despite the frustration and uncertainty about the reasons for the mast mishap, Dutreux is trying to look ahead to the next stage of the adventure, even if he recognises that the budgetary constraints pose some concerns for a team of this size. «It's a real battlefield...we are trying to find solutions», says Dutreux, who this weekend arrived in Halifax, Canada after a cargo ship agreed to give the team fuel after they ran out.

GUYOT Environnement-Team Europe had already had to deal with frustration during Leg 3 of The Ocean Race as they suffered serious damage on the bottom of the hull and the whole team had to work hard to repair it in order to take the start of the next leg. A race against the clock was brilliantly won, but fate intervened again when the mast broke as they approached Newport.

«There was wind and sea, and even though we were fairly conservative, being only under mainsail with three reefs, the boat was hitting hard,» says Dutreux. Disappointed and inevitably frustrated, Dutreux is all the more so because