Vendée Globe

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  January 16. 2009 at 20:53
  Into the trades?
  
  Three hundred miles to the S.E.E of Salvador de Bahia, Brasil Michel Desjoyeaux us making nearly three knots faster than Roland Jourdain this evening and is probably emerging ...
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  January 16. 2009 at 19:55
  Day 68
  
  Day 68 a round up
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  January 16. 2009 at 18:57
  Dee's first solo Horn west to east, Le Cam wants to be back in 2012
  
  Dee Caffari’s celebrations will have to wait, but the British solo sailor passed the longitude of Cape Horn at 1015hrs GMT this morning in eighth place, her third ...
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  January 16. 2009 at 15:26
  Le Cam and Riou speak on their return to Paris
  
  Vincent Riou and Jean Le Cam met with the media in a packed conference at the Vendee Globe race direction HQ by Montparnasse. Le Cam described in detail his thoughts and actions from the minutes before ...
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  January 16. 2009 at 13:30
  Caffari passes Cape Horn this morning
  
  Dee Caffari passed the longitude of Cape Horn at about 1015hrs GMT this morning, becoming the eighth skipper to enter into the Atlantic Ocean.  Caffari's celebrations ...
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  January 16. 2009 at 11:14
  Moving off slowly
  
  For the trio off Cape Horn the worst of the northerly winds seems to have passed to their north pretty much as it was expected to do.
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  January 16. 2009 at 08:37
  On hold at the Horn
  
  Since yesterday afternoon Brian Thompson’s Vendée Globe race has been stuck in a Cape Horn holding pattern, stalled for safety reasons as he awaits the ...
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  January 15. 2009 at 20:53
  Safety is number one priority
  
  So the trio will, as Dee Caffari puts it this evening, ‘hang out’ round Cape Horn. Of course she is making light of a difficult ...
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  January 15. 2009 at 19:18
  Strong advice
  
  In certain circumstance it is not unprecedented for Meteo France and the Vendée Globe Race Direction and safety consultants to give advice to competitors.
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  January 15. 2009 at 15:09
  The Prof bounces back
  
  Michel Desjoyeaux is regaining miles again. The Professor said yesterday he expected to regain miles and has now emerged from the high pressure ridge and is making better speeds again.
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  January 15. 2009 at 08:41
  Between the rock and a hard place
  
  Brian Thompson (Bahrain Team Pindar) rounded Cape Horn this morning at 3h15 GMT passing just two miles offshore from the legendary rock at the end of South America after running down ...
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  January 14. 2009 at 20:51
  Guillemot's Falklands Pitstop is completed
  
  Marc Guillemot left his temporary haven in the Falklands Islands ...
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  January 14. 2009 at 18:48
  Cape crusaders
  
  There has been little time for respite for Dee Caffari, GBR, Arnaud Boissiéres and Brian Thompson, GBR, as Cape Horn looks set to deal them their ...
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  January 14. 2009 at 16:17
  More repairs for Dee and an escape route for Desjoyeaux
  
  Roland Jourdain continues to profit as Michel Desjoyeaux struggles to clear himself of a ridge of high pressure.
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  January 14. 2009 at 08:49
  Please Release Me
  
  Skippers all the way through the Vendee Globe fleet are looking for relief from the conditions which they are encountering, from Norbert Sedlacek in light headwinds, to Dee Caffari, Arnaud Boissieres ...

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