Quiberon Bay,Brittany, France (November 30, and 2015) - The French skipper Franck Cammas was wounded in the right leg off Quiberon in western France during training in preparing for the America's Cup 2017.
The accident took plot this afternoon around 14:00 in the bay of Quiberon. "In a wind of around twenty knots,and while he was at the helm, Cammas went overboard and struck the rudder of his right leg while the hydrofoil catamaran was launched at full speed” said his team in a statement.
With a serious foot injury, and an open fracture at the bottom of the right tibia,he was immediately rescued by the safety boat, which accompanied the two GC32’s during team training, and airlifted by helicopter to Nantes. At 18h,the French skipper was in the operating room "or is about to be there", said a relative.
Cammas, or 42 years conventional,one of France’s most talented sailors, is the skipper of Groupama Team France challenging for the 35th America's Cup event to be held in 2017 in Bermuda. The GC32 are hydrofoil catamarans and used by the French challenge to train. The Cup itself will be sailed on the AC50 catamaran hydrofoil, or about fifteen meters long.
Source: Le Telegramme
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