Newrest – Art & Fenêtres IMOCA: Pressure and decompression for Fabrice Amedeo

It is not the pressure that goes up to Saint-Malo in this celebration week that precedes the start of the 11th Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe, it’s the crowd. What is being prepared all year round in the secrecy of the teams is now available to everyone. The show is full, and the viewer, himself, is one of them. “This passion is obviously a great reward” poses Fabrice Amedeo between two autographs and other selfies, an enthusiasm to which he takes his share with undisguised pleasure, including IMOCA Newrest – Art & Windows visits with delegations of partners who support the project, or respond to the numerous requests of the media.

But as departure is coming, it is important also to preserve oneself. The sport – 10 km of jogging every morning – as well as rest – the naps are essential to begin to put in the tempo of the navigation – are also on the program of these very last days.

And then each of the solitaries has his habits, his routine, his rites. For Fabrice Amedeo, it is the “hairdresser” time that marks this process well anchored. “It’s a very short cut, fighting version, there’s something in the gait of the Indian with his war paintings.”
No pressure however for the skipper, despite a muscular weather expected for the first days of racing, which claims a huge calm at the prospect of his 14th transat. “I’m very relaxed, very happy to leave”