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Bringing the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe to an incredible crescendo eight competitors arrived back in Les Sables dOlonne within 23 hours and 44 minutes. With a record entry of 33 boats and an atypical sequence of weather systems which meant the top 10 or 12 boats regrouped and re-started on three main occasions, the race went down to the wire with five boats pitching for the podium places at 36 hours from the finish. Three skippers carried time compensations, Boris Herrmaann, Yannick B...

"There are two winners in this Vendée Globe" smiled Yannick Bestaven sportingly as he warmly greeted Charlie Dalin, the French skipper who hours earlier had broken the finish line of the solo round the world race in first place. Granted a 10 hrs 15 mins time allowance for his role in the search and rescue of Kevin Escoffier, Bestaven displaced the pre-race favourite Dalin to win the Vendée Globe by 2hrs 31secs, the narrowest margin ever in the history of the race, earned by the oldest eve...

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Vendée Globe Day 80: Everyones a Winner by Vendée Globe 26 Jan 18:38 UTC 26 January 2021 With something less than 24 hours until the first solo sailor finishes the Vendée Globe off Les Sables dOlonne Wednesday night, even the most advanced modern weather routing programmes operated by some of the finest minds in ocean racing cannot seem to agree who the winner of a truly epic ninth edition of the non-stop solo round the world race will be. The margin of victory looks se...

Vendée Globe Day 79: The perfect layline to win by Vendée Globe 25 Jan 17:33 UTC 25 January 2021 After 24,300 nautical miles and more than 80 days of racing around the world victory or a place on the podium on this ninth edition of the Vendée Globe might go down to the final lay line, picking and sailing the perfect compass course from more than 100 miles out to the finish line at Les Sables dOlonnes famous Nouche Sud buoy. At 48 hours to the first finisher is expected ...

Vendée Globe Day 78: Tumbling Dice by Vendée Globe 24 Jan 20:27 UTC 24 January 2021 Less than 1000 nautical miles to the finish of the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe in Les Sables dOlonne and it is still too close to call, not least as the Saint Malo maverick Louis Burton seized the race lead from Charlie Dalin in the late morning today. Burton, 35, who finished seventh on the last edition of the Vendée Globe was computed to have a lead of just over five nautical ...

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Vendée Globe Day 74 © Stephane Maillard / VG2020 The race at the front of the Vendée Globe is electrifying. None of the eight previous editions has ever witnessed a race finish as open and intense. Right now the leading skippers are trying to get their heads around a do-or-die sprint to the finish line in Les Sables dOlonne which has now less than one week to run. Even the most informed of Frances pre-race race prognosticators did not project a podium finish for the maverick ...

OPINION Eastside needs a trust fund I remember attending a city function years ago and talking with a City Council member about the city being unable to fund various projects, citing lack of revenue. This council person said, “Don’t you believe that. We can always find the money.” That statement, I believe, is still true today, especially when the administration and 12 council members supported the give-away of more than $230 million for one project. Now that the Lot J project is gone and...

Vendée Globe Day 73: Happy, Super Happy by Vendée Globe 19 Jan 18:29 UTC 19 January 2021 Clement Giraud on Compagnie du Lit - Jiliti passes Cape Horn in the Vendée Globe © Clement Giraud / Compagnie du Lit - Jiliti #VG2020 The Vendée Globe remains wide open. A leading group of nine skippers form the vanguard with a slight advantage for two skippers, Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton. The skipper of Bureau Vallée 2 continues his more westerly route and al...