Vendée Globe

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  January 10. 2009 at 18:33
  An adventure first and a race second
  
  Evidence is almost superfluous, but at this equivalent period during the 2004-5 Vendée Globe race there were three leaders in three days.
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  January 10. 2009 at 13:41
  A gain again to Foncia across the high
  
  Mich Desj on Foncia gained again this morning since the last ranking. He is further out from the centre of the high pressure and has a little better breeze than Roland Jourdain on Veolia Environnement, ...
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  January 10. 2009 at 08:24
  A South Atlantic Slow
  
  Struggling at times to make ten knots in a fading breeze when Michel Desjoyeaux departed the so called Roaring Forties last night they were more of a gentle ...
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  January 09. 2009 at 20:29
  Jourdain making repairs after hitting sea mammal Thursday evening
  
  Roland Jourdain’s Veolia Environnement team have just reported that he believes he hit a sea mammal early yesterday evening while racing some 800 miles off the Argentine coast.
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  January 09. 2009 at 19:04
  Sticking to the task
  
  With 12 boats left on the race course, Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) continues to increase his lead to 178 miles as second place Roland Jourdain is forced to ...
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  January 09. 2009 at 14:02
  Redress for Vincent Riou
  
  Following a request from the Vendée Globe Race Directors, Vincent Riou changed course and, as laid down in rule 1.1 of the Race Rules ( «A boat or competitor shall give all possible help ...
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  January 09. 2009 at 14:01
  From the radio vacs today
  
  Michel Desjoyeaux is still quicker than Roland Jourdain but they have both slowed again Foncia making 12.7 knots to Bilou’s 11. Jourdain’s gain is 30 miles spending some miles to come back ...
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  January 09. 2009 at 07:54
  A long weekend?
  
  The forecasts have been predicting lighter conditions for the two front-runners from this weekend with a high developing in their path, but both Michel Desjoyeaux ...
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  January 08. 2009 at 20:54
  Who'll be the head teacher at St Helena High
  
  The passage round the St Helena high pressure system may yet prove decisive in this Vendée Globe, but there is still no shortage ...
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  January 08. 2009 at 18:34
  The dirty dozen ride on
  
  More than two months of racing since 30 skippers left Les Sables d’Olonne and no more than a dozen will reach the finish.
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  January 08. 2009 at 12:53
  Dilemmas and deep disappointment
  
  PRB arrived in Port Williams, the ‘southernmost town in the world’ at around 0930 hrs this morning.
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  January 08. 2009 at 08:18
  PRB under tow to Port Williams, the plot thickens at the front
  
  According to the Chilean Navy PRB was taken under tow at around 0145hrs early this morning and is making about 10 knots towards Port Williams, home of the 33 metres patrol vessel Alacalufe which attended ...
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  January 07. 2009 at 23:20
  PRB dismasts Riou and Le Cam safe
  
  At 1920 GMT, only a matter of an hour and 20 minutes since passing Cape Horn, Vincent Riou called his team to report that PRB has been ...
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  January 07. 2009 at 21:15
  Jourdain looks for good fortune
  
  Roland Jourdain, 116.7 miles behind Michel Desjoyeaux, is scaling the south Atlantic, surveying his options as he pursues the leader
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  January 07. 2009 at 19:09
  A recovery process
  
  His face crumpled from much needed sleep, Jean Le Cam spoke this morning by video-conference about his accident and being pulled from the waters off Cape Horn by his ...

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