Vendée Globe

Moving in to increasing ESE’ly winds Loick Peyron is into his eighth day at the front of the Vendée Globe fleet on Gitana Eighty and looks likely to set the pace into the Southern Hemisphere tonight.

With about 190 miles to the Equator this morning, Peyron’s lead is at 16 miles over his most consistent shadow Seb Josse (BT). Vincent Riou (PRB) has progressively eased east of Jean Pierre Dick (Paprec-Virbac 2) to occupy third, but there is still just 32 miles between second and sixth places.

The two lead boats are now making slightly west of south, Riou and Dick still taking a small measure of east. 

The western route has got Roland Jourdain (Veolia Environnement) established back with the top group again in seventh, regaining 100 miles to lie 64 miles behind Peyron.

Mike Golding has had a less profitable night and lies ninth this morning less than one mile behind Delta Dore. To his east Golding has Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) just 1.6 miles behind as well. The British skipper had been moving consistently west overnight.

Dominique Wavre, SUI, (Temenos II) still holds the upper hand over Brian Thompson, GBR, (Bahrain Team Pindar) as they work towards the Doldrums. Wavre has eked out another 5 miles on Thompson’s powerful Juan K design overnight, and leads by ten miles, while Sam Davies, GBR, (ROXY) is still hanging on five miles behind Thompson.

Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) has gained two places overnight, moving ahead of Steve White, GBR, (Toe in the Water) and Arnaud Boissieres (Akenas Verandas) and the 2000 winner is now 16^th.

For the leaders winds should increase a little through the morning reaching more settled 12-15 knots.

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