Vendée Globe

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  January 02. 2009 at 20:49
  When 20 knots feels like calm
  
  Now lined up in Michel Desjoyeaux’ s wake, Roland Jourdain is now 63.9 miles behind,  losing only around four miles as the leading duo make ...
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  January 02. 2009 at 19:00
  One last bite?
  
  One final sting in the tail from the Pacific is being dealt out as the five leaders rush towards Cape Horn and the exit from five weeks of the Southern Ocean.
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  January 02. 2009 at 12:56
  Five to feel the full force of the Fifties
  
  The Vendée Globe leaders are expected to have to deal with a period of very strong winds as they dip down the Fifties for the final 1000-1500 miles of the Pacific to Cape Horn.
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  January 02. 2009 at 08:18
  Nought to 50 in 2000 miles
  
  Sam Davies, GBR, (Roxy), complained that there was not much wind during the night, while 2000 miles ahead of her, Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) is back in the Fifties having to contend with the usual ...
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  January 01. 2009 at 20:49
  It's good to talk
  
  Following the unfortunate retirement of Jean Pierre Dick, Sam Davies takes up sixth place in this Vendée Globe in the evergreen 2000 launched Roxy.
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  January 01. 2009 at 18:47
  Longer, faster, harder, tougher
  
  On the current schedule the leader in this remarkable 2008-9 Vendée Globe is set to round Cape Horn on Sunday night, which means he should have caught up to be close to the time set by Jean ...
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  January 01. 2009 at 12:54
  Sliding downhill into 2009
  
  Good, fast conditions presently for the leaders Michel Desjoyeaux and Roland Jourdain, as with their cushion of over 400 miles they slide downwind towards Cape Horn ...
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  January 01. 2009 at 08:46
  Steadily into 2009
  
  Michel Desjoyeaux starts 2009 in the same manner and style that he spent the final 15 days of 2008, in control of the Vendée Globe fleet and maintaining sensible strategies on board Foncia as ...
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  December 31. 2008 at 20:55
  The round up of Day 52
  
  Day 52 is summarised here -- watch it
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  December 31. 2008 at 19:38
  Paprec-Virbac strikes UFO, Desjoyeaux on the Cape Horn straight
  
  Jean-Pierre Dick looks set to give up his battle to stay in the Vendée Globe after a collision during his night which removed his port rudder and assembly off the transom of Paprec-Virbac 2. ...
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  December 31. 2008 at 17:56
  Paprec-Virbac 2 loses port rudder in collision with object.
  
  At around 1300hrs GMT, Vendee Globe skipper Jean-Pierre Dick suffered a collision with a solid object which is reported to have removed the port rudder and most of its assembly from the stern of Paprec-Virbac ...
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  December 31. 2008 at 13:20
  The final Pacific hurdle on the last day of 2008
  
  Roland Jourdain is 94.7 miles behind in second place as leader Michel Desjoyeaux takes the last hurdle before Cape Horn, the SE Pacific security gate.
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  December 31. 2008 at 08:10
  Captain concertina
  
  Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) and Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement) are again back on the concertina effect.
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  December 30. 2008 at 20:48
  Day 51 round up
  
  Day 51 round up - watch it here
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  December 30. 2008 at 20:43
  The inner journey
  
  And so a certain stability visits the race ( a phrase certain to wreak havoc upon the fleet in hours) but from Norbert Sedlacek and Raphael Dinelli, thriving on their own ...

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