#35 | Reliving Vendée Globe rescue with Kevin Escoffier

03/02/2021 59 min

Listen "#35 | Reliving Vendée Globe rescue with Kevin Escoffier"

Episode Synopsis

SEASON #2 of OFF WATCH starts today with a dramatic story of survival that captured the whole of the sporting world. 😯 Kevin Escoffier 🇫🇷 is a two-time competitor in The Ocean Race, a winner with Dongfeng Race team in 2017-18 and recently a survivor when his foiling IMOCA 60 boat PRB sank 840 nautical miles SW of Cape Town during the Vendée Globe. In this exclusive interview Kevin gives an incredible blow-by-blow account of the incident and his rescue, and explains why The Ocean Race creates the best sailors in the world.

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