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The Ocean RaceMast breakage for Team Holcim - PRB!

Tatjana Pokorny

 · 27.04.2023

Leader in the Ocean Race so far: Kevin Escoffier's Team Holcim - PRB
Photo: Sailing Energy/The Ocean Race
Shock news from the Ocean Race: Kevin Escoffier's team Holcim - PRB has reported a mast breakage. According to initial reports, the crew remained unharmed

This news will change the current 14th Ocean Race considerably: Mast breakage for Team Holcim - PRB! The accident occurred on 27 April at 7 a.m. German time on the fourth leg from Itajaí over 5,500 nautical miles to Newport. At the time of the accident, there were moderate winds and a moderate swell about 20 nautical miles off the Brazilian coast. According to a press statement from the organisers, the crew remained unharmed.

At the time of the incident, the team was leading the Ocean Race fleet by nine nautical miles ahead of the US team 11th Hour Racing. Team Malizia was in third place. Team Holcim - PRB also leads the overall classification of the 14th Ocean Race edition with 19 points ahead of Team Malizia (14 points) and 11th Hour Racing (13 points).

Kevin Escoffier started this fourth stage with a completely new team after finishing second on the queen stage. On board are Fabien Delahaye, Benjamin Schwartz and Dutch rider Annemieke Bes as well as the experienced on-board reporter Georgia Schofield.

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Tatjana Pokorny

Tatjana Pokorny

Sports reporter

Tatjana “tati” Pokorny is the author of nine books. As a reporter for Europe's leading sailing magazine YACHT, she also works as a correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA), the Hamburger Abendblatt and other national and international media. In summer 2024, Tatjana will be reporting from Marseille on her ninth consecutive Olympic Games. Other core topics have been the America's Cup since 1992, the Ocean Race since 1993, the Vendée Globe and other national and international regattas and their protagonists. Favorite discipline: Portraits of and interviews with sailing personalities. When she started out in sports journalism, she was still intensively involved with basketball and other sports, but sailing quickly became her main focus. The reason? The declared optimist says: “There is no other sport like it, no other sport with such interesting and intelligent personalities, no other sport so diverse, no other sport so full of energy, strength and ideas. Sailing is like a constantly refreshing declaration of love for life."

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