"There's this little voice in my head that tells me: 'You'll never get through this'": six skippers filmed their Vendée Globe and bring you the race from the inside

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They thought they were alone, but you are going to sail with them around the world. Six skippers, three men and three women, who accepted the cameras on board. They tell their own stories about their Vendée Globe. Among them, Pip Hare. The Briton is 15th in the south of Australia when her race changes in two seconds: "My boat is in great shape and so am I. But suddenly the wind starts to blow in gusts and the boat starts to fly. And when the boat lands... The mast is falling towards me. That's it, it's over", says skipper Medallia with emotion. “It’s chaos! But I have to get through it. I have to get through it,” Pip Hare then testifies on camera.

She is alone, adrift 1,500 kilometers from the nearest land. “It’s a nightmare. There’s this little voice in my head that tells me: ‘You’ll never get out of this, you’ll never get out of this…’ It’s torture,” the sailor remembers.

Hallucinations for Clarisse Crémer

In her head, Clarisse Crémer does not a priori hear voices, but it is a fog of hallucinations. The L'Occitane en Provence skipper is exhausted: "We feel that we are completely burnt out, but for the moment, the brain starts to hallucinate. And I have this feeling where I know that I am on my boat, but I also have the impression of being in a car in the mountains of Auvergne, going up and down the hills", she recalls.

She films herself in this daze: "In any case, I would like to show you the mountains of Auvergne, but they have turned blue, I don't understand", she assures, looking out the porthole of her cabin. “It’s a little scary, because we know that it’s a sign that we need to go and rest before doing too much stupid stuff,” she admits in hindsight. Clarisse Crémer will finally cross the finish line of the Vendée Globe in 77 days.