Kojiro Shiraishi (DMG MORI Global One) suffers mainsail damage
Around 1100hrs UTC this Friday morning Japanese skipper Kojiro Shiraishi suffered damage to his mainsail onboard DMG MORI Global One.
After his IMOCA gybed wildly twice in succession he sustained five broken battens with some of the mainsail cars becoming dislodged from the mainsail rail. The boat and he mast are otherwise intact and Kojiro is uninjured. The skipper has altered course to the NE to find some better weather conditions to effect some repairs.
More information to come.
Source : Vendée Globe
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