Benoît Sineau, skipper of the Class40 Ekinox-Rhétores, has been rescued safe and well after triggering his EPIRB beacon during the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe.
Race Direction was alerted at 2.30pm Paris time on Saturday when the MRCC reported the activation of Sineau's emergency beacon. Race management immediately launched rescue procedures.
Race director Francis Le Goff diverted Jules Bonnier, sailing Plastic Odyssey, to the scene as the nearest competitor able to assist.
Bonnier reached Sineau at 8.45pm Paris time and brought him aboard, safe and uninjured.
No further details have been released on the cause of the EPIRB activation or the condition of Sineau's Class40.
