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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…
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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Nicolas Lunven: “The system is very bad, it's not comfortable”
Charlie Dalin beats the record for the passage Cape of Good Hope to Cape Leeuwin
Bulkhead problem for Pip Hare, small repair needed
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).
Louis Burton safely into Cape Town
Japanese rice for all the skippers
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…
