2009.01.17 - The speed difference between Michel Desjoyeaux and Roland Jourdain is 3.6 knots this evening and so that margin is, as expected, still growing. Now 387 miles, ...

2009.01.17 - Resume of Day 69

2009.01.17 - Michel Desjoyeaux is turning the screw as he increases his margin at the front of the Vendee Globe fleet, now having earned the biggest lead yet of this race ...

2009.01.17 - Into the trade winds since yesterday evening Michel Desjoyeaux has been able to apply the Foncia turbo booster and is now leaving Roland Jourdain.

2009.01.17 - They sailed only 70 metres apart and chatted by VHF, both sharing their experiences and thoughts after 68 days of hard racing and more than 13,500 miles.

2009.01.16 - Three hundred miles to the S.E.E of Salvador de Bahia, Brasil Michel Desjoyeaux us making nearly three knots faster than Roland Jourdain ...

2009.01.16 - Day 68 a round up

2009.01.16 - Dee Caffari’s celebrations will have to wait, but the British solo sailor passed the longitude of Cape Horn at 1015hrs ...

2009.01.16 - 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 ...

2009.01.16 - Dee Caffari passed the longitude of Cape Horn at about 1015hrs GMT this morning, becoming the eighth skipper to enter into the Atlantic ...