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Les leçons de l'Indien | Daily Recap | Vendée Globe 2024
RACE, DECEMBER 10, 2024 : Photo sent from the boat GUYOT Environnement - Water Family during the Vendee Globe sailing race on December 10, 2024. (Photo by skipper Benjamin Dutreux)

The next obstacle….

After the chasing pack closed in rapidly on Vendée Globe leaders yesterday Charlie Dalin (MACIF Prévoyance) and Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil), the whole leading posse of nine skippers are contemplating their next obstacle as they pass successively under Australia towards the longitude of…

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 10, 2024: VULNERABLE skipper Thomas Ruyant (FRA) is photographed in the channel before start of the Vendee Globe, on November 10, 2024 in Les Sables d'Olonne, France - (Photo by Mark Lloyd / Alea)

A first, interim debrief after one month of the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe

At one month since the start of the race, the Vendée Globe is fully underlining its huge popular, sporting and media success. Between the record number of visitors to the start village, historic audiences and unprecedented sporting performances so far, this 10th edition is already making a big…

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Weather report #30- December 10 | Vendée Globe 2024

Nicolas Lunven: “The system is very bad, it's not comfortable”

Tuesday, December 10 | Vendée Live
COURSE, 09 DÉCEMBRE 2024 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau MACIF Santé Prévoyance lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 09 décembre 2024. (Photo du skipper Charlie Dalin)
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Charlie Dalin beats the record for the passage Cape of Good Hope to Cape Leeuwin

English news of Justine Mettraux | Vendée Globe 2024
COURSE, 09 DÉCEMBRE 2024 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau Initiatives-Coeur lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 09 décembre 2024. (Photo du skipper Sam Davies)
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COURSE, 09 DÉCEMBRE 2024 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau Singchain Team Haikou lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 09 décembre 2024. (Photo du skipper Jingkun Xu) Cap de Bonne Espérance
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In brief

Bulkhead problem for Pip Hare, small repair needed

RACE, DECEMBER 09, 2024 : Photo sent from the boat La Mie Caline during the Vendee Globe sailing race on December 09, 2024. (Photo by skipper Arnaud Boissières)

Thinking ahead

Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) passed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin at 01:24hrs this morning in second place so about 11hrs 11minutes after race leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance).

Cap Leeuwin pour Charlie Dalin ! | Vendée Globe 2024
À chaque jour suffit sa vague | Daily Recap | Vendée Globe 2024
In brief

Louis Burton safely into Cape Town

In brief

Japanese rice for all the skippers

RACE, DECEMBER 09, 2024 : Photo sent from the boat PAPREC ARKÉA during the Vendee Globe sailing race on December 09, 2024. (Photo by skipper Yoann Richomme)

Law of the jungle…

And after the breakaway…. the comeback. As is very often the case in the Southern Ocean, big breakaways caused by one weather system are rarely maintained on the Vendée Globe and today the tables have turned a little more in the favour of those immediately behind the top two skippers, leader…