MAJOR CRASH DURING LEG 7 START: RACE LEADERS RETURN TO DOCK

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1. Charlie, and team – the kind of ….. "luck" you guys have had (over these past, what – 3 ocean races?) is phenomenal. Obviously….I know this has got to hurt like crazy…..(considering how close you were. finally). And while a win would certainly have been inspiring and reason to celebrate….so is your teams continued resilience, participation, and perseverence ….. through what is starting to look some sort of fate. While winning is a challenging feat to accomplish, it's an easy burden to bear. But you guys do shine….through all the difficulties and disappointments that seem to be repeatedly inflicting themselves upon y'all. Big ups! Big cheers. And continued 🙏⛅* (and, ABSOLUTELY, all the same to Team Guyot too. Both teams – all teams. Not enough can be said yet about all this….*)

2. Where was guyot skipper?????

3. Well everyone the optics are not good. Let’s see the boat with the fewest points takes out- spears the the dominant boat with the most points completely insuring dominate (foreign) vessel doesn’t finish on top. Interesting how Guyot didn’t even attempt to jibe. Blew right thru the turn heading out to see. Interesting how the coverages aren’t showing this from over head. I bet money changed hands. This used to happen in cad racing all the time. Guyot had what 2 point?
   And let’s all remember Lance Armstrong if any doesn’t think foul play doesn’t occur.

4. Retired but still a place on the podium!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

5. I see you are now retired😢

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   I will be following your team in the future for more fun!

6. Avoiding the collision and let the committee deal with infraction, is always the better course.

7. Talk about screaming like a scared little girl….🤣🤣🤣

8. 15 seconds.

9. Watched all legs since the start. Great racing and loads of determination. Really feeling so bad for you. I am sure nobody wanted this accident but the fall out seems to be catastrophic for you. Nevertheless your post race interviews from Mark/Charlie showed the world what a great team you guys are with exceptional sportsmanship even in those devastating moments. Keep your heads up and I hope we can all follow the team on the next ocean race

10. What an unbelievable accident I still can't believe. 🤦🏼 Please stay strong and come back. 🤙🏻

11. Goodness, thank god nobody got hurt, that was really close to where Charlie was! I hope 11th hour succeeds in glueing the boat back together and get to Genova with some welldeserved glory!

12. True leadership from Charlie and sportsmanship from the whole team. Hats off to the crew and get back to the race soon. ❤❤❤

13. We are gutted for you all. Don’t quit.

14. This is unbelievable, I think the race should stop and wait for Charlie. It's the last leg

15. Watched this Live – still raises the hair on my neck and makes my stomach drop. So glad no one was hurt. Pray the shore team can put her back together and this salty crew can get back on the water. The professionalism of both teams is off the charts. Saw Charlie and Ben’s emotional talk to one another. I’d shake both of your hands as being gentlemen.

16. Horror movie. Stop the Race.

17. OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WTF NOOOOOOOOOO

18. French connection

19. so ein Drama

20. Inexcusable 😢

21. If I had been in Charlie's position during this crash, I'd need Anje-Marijcke van Boxtel's help now. This was scary! So glad, nobody got injured.

22. 💔 Seeing the emotion catch SiFi at the end of the interview caught me too! Hopefully nothing structural was damaged and a patch (admittedly a good, watertight one) can be applied to keep Malama in the race. 🤞❤‍🩹

23. Désolée pour vous…

24. Got to see this boat in person a month or so before the race. Hurts to see.

25. Wow! Dramatic. Feel for you guys….

26. If this is a round the world race team Europe should not be there , it missed out a leg ?

27. What the f##k was gyout doing? Clearly not paying attention to what was going on!!! They won one inport race then take out the leaders of the overall race, it’s racing but wtf guys, oh and btw for those that are saying that 11th racing was tacking needs glasses!!!!cleary they were on starboard 🙏🏽

28. 😢so sad, so sorry. Really wait for you to come back and finish the Race🍀❤️ if !!anyone deserves to join again, its Charlie and his crew! They should also get the score of Guyot on their scedule.
    I really want to see onboard Camera of Guyot, where were they? Nobody on watch?

29. This very expensive crunching noise. Hope u can fix

30. I wish the whole team all the best! On which your boat will soon be able to sail regattas again‼️Greetings from a Malizian🙂

31. I’m sure you will get redress. Anything other that first in the regatta and second in this race is unacceptable.

32. mine and I am sure all of our hearts ache for 11th Hour.

33. These are supposed to be elite sailors. Inexcusable. Fortunately nobody is hurt. Disqualify GUYOT

34. The perfect ending to a stupid ocean race.

35. Have ti ask what is the point of the safety boats there was one there and this collision still happened. Hope they get back on the water and get to sail over the finish line

36. I feel sorry for you guys. – so sorry.

37. Take a boring ocean race and make it exciting again…yay!

38. Turns out that Guyot means “permanently banned” in some other language

39. I'm gutted for you guys. That's a lot of damage, but I sincerely hope the boat can be fixed, and reentered to complete Leg 7. Can you imagine? That's the stuff of legend.

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