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“This is the biggest salvation”: So Boris Herrmann experienced his time after the circumnavigation of the World
You can see in the Video: world sailor Boris Herrmann describes his Crash just before the finish.
Yesterday he went in the Vendée Globe, finished in Fifth place, today the Hamburg Skipper Boris Herrmann is already proposed for the Federal cross of merit. Back on Land, he is in demand as never. The next challenge waits at home.
A day after his goal in the Vendée, the flow of speech is not Globe arrival dried up by Boris Herrmann. “I have yet to tell always feel the need to,” said the circumnavigator on Friday. And all to hear the new German sailing-Star like.
According to the sea-Marathon Herrmann, the Interview Marathon began for Boris. After his fifth place in the Vendée Globe, the world sailor is a man in demand. All want to know something of the new German sailing Star. In spite of the dates of the 39-Year-old was seas after 80 days alone on the world and more than 28,000 nautical miles in the sleep. To not lie “In a bed that moves, you don’t need to be more careful – this is the biggest salvation after such a long tension”, said the Hamburg on Friday in the “morning magazine” from ARD and ZDF.
He did “like a stone comatose sleep,” he said. Only his little daughter had him aroused, as she “has me boxed in the back”.
His trip around the world with his yacht “Seaexplorer – Yacht Club de Monaco” had a talent for communication, Herrmann itself to a media event. On social media, he spoke regularly with journalists or discussed with children about climate change and the pollution of the seas. The dramatic final Chapter of the modern adventure, with the collision in a dark night with a fishing vessel increased the media interest in him once again.
Boris Hermann finished the Vendee Globe in Fifth
Just this momentous meeting on Wednesday evening with the Spanish boats about 90 nautical miles from Les Sables-d’olonne was also a day after Mr Mann’s finish for discussions. However, after a telephone conversation with the owner of the vessel, the waves seem to be smoothed. “We had a nice talk. In any case, no accusations from my side,” he said. You would have been “excuse to be nice to each other to each other”.
Most recently, Herrmann and the captain of the fishing boat had commented on the incident yet different views. Captain Josu Zaldumbide had assured the “süddeutsche Zeitung” that the AIS, the ships, their navigation and ship data exchange was turned on him. Herrmann had expressed doubts as to the.
“He’s right,” he said now. “In the haste of the Situation I perceived as the simplest and most obvious explanation, because I’ve seen the one or the other fishing boat had no AIS.” Why the alarm triggered system on his yacht, he could not explain even to herself.
Even if he missed the collision and the damage to his boat, the hoped-for podium place or even victory, he was not depressed. He tries to see the positive. “The collision has shown me how much I wanted this arrival,” he said. “Maybe once, later, when I realize what I missed with this Podium.” At the Moment, the joy outweighs “that I was able to continue sailing that nobody came to harm.”
The accident has not taken away the charm of the Vendée Globe. A re-attendance, he does not exclude. “I can imagine, the Vendée Globe is, again, to bring to,” he said, after he had expressed on the day of his return, be cautious.
Boris Herrmann for the Federal cross of merit in the conversation
Its performance has not escaped the policy. The Minister of state Annen, foreign office, Niels, proposed by Herrmann for the Federal cross of merit. With a suggestion he had made at the Hamburg state Chancellery, said the SPD politician of the German press Agency and confirmed a report in the “Hamburger Abendblatt”.
Not only because of the athletic performance, stressed Annen, a passionate sailor himself. Herrmann connected as a committed environmentalist also societal concerns with the Regatta. “This makes me very happy, if that is perceived to be and is appreciated,” said the athlete.
In the next two days, Herrmann wants to return to Hamburg. Then a Tour of talk shows are expected to be available. Requests there is enough. The biggest challenge awaits him at home in Hamburg with wife Birte Lorenzen-Herrmann, and the seven-month-old Marie-Louise: The baby bed for the daughter must be assembled and the curtains are to be hung. “Apparently, two of my tasks,” he said. “I also learn from the press.”
