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Charlie Dalin on Apivia retakes the lead in the Vendée Globe © Charlie Dalin / Apivia #VG2020 The Doldrums did not give up the Vendée Globe leaders as easily as was initially predicted but first placed Charlie Dalin (Apivia) appears to have skirted round the worst of a dynamic cloud system and emerged this afternoon with his margin intact. Dalins more easterly position and his timing seems to have kept him away from a nasty zone of cloud and light winds which slowed Germanys ...

Louis Burton on Bureau Vallée II - Vendée Globe © Stephane Maillard Considering the speed that phenomena evolve in the Doldrums a little luck is always needed - Vendée Globe meteo adviser Christian Dumard annexes his prediction for the Vendée leaders passage of the ICTZ with a warning. Even with all of the tools and assimilated knowledge, no doubt enhanced during last winter and springs lockdown learning phase in Europe, the passage of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zon...

Charlie Dalin on Apivia leads the Vendée Globe © Vincent Curutchet / Alea / Disobey / Apivia #VG2020 Today passing Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, there are no options in terms of strategy and choices on the northwards climb up the Atlantic for the tightly matched Vendée Globe leaders. But the conditions are difficult and tiring. The Ely tradewinds shift in direction and more particularly in strength and that is proving especially wearing, with squalls and gusts which make setting...

Didac Costa at Cape Horn in the Vendée Globe © Didac Costa #VG2020 With nothing more than a handful of small miles separating them, the leaders of the Vendée Globe are engaged on a straight head-to-head speed test which may yet prove decisive, and which may finally show the ultimate value of a fully functioning latest generation foil package. In what is likely to be a close reaching then reaching drag race up the Brazilian coast past Recife, 600 miles to the north of leader C...

Charlie Dalin (Apivia) - Vendée Globe Day 66 © Charlie Dalin / Apivia / VG2020 After 65 days racing and over 23,000 nautical miles sailed on the course, the Vendée Globe in effect restarted off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil today with the five top boats regrouping within 26 miles of each other in terms of the distance to the finish line in Les Sables dOlonne. Charlie Dalin (Apivia) has taken the lead again from Yannick Betaven, the French skipper of Maître Coq IV who lost the big...

Thomas Ruyant on LinkedOut during the Vendée Globe © Thomas Ruyant / LinkedOut #VG2020 All bets are off. Normally by the 64th day of recent editions of the Vendée Globe, the solo non-stop race round the world has been distilled down to a choice of two or at the outside three potential winners. But as the group of six chasing solo racers are now compressed to within 300 miles of leader Yannick Bestaven, and the skipper of Maître Coq IV has seen his lead of 435 miles melt li...

Louis Burton on Bureau Vallée during the Vendée Globe © Louis Burton / Bureau Vallée #VG2020 "Any one of four or five skippers can still win this race." Warned Jean Pierre Dick on the French Vendée Globe Live show this afternoon. With less than 5000 miles to sail now to the finish line, the leaders are passing Itajai in southern Brazil, the finish port of the Transat Jacques Vabre, and therefore retracing a now familiar climb back to France which many sailed solo last y...

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Ari Huusela passes Auckland Island in the Vendée Globe © Ari Huusela / Stark #VG2020 British skipper Pip Hare kept her Vendée Globe on course when she replaced her damaged port rudder on Medallia yesterday evening, completing the difficult operation in the South Pacific Ocean some 1000 miles west of Cape Horn. Having discovered a crack in the shaft of her rudder, the 45 year old had no alternative to stop her IMOCA 60, drop out of the damaged rudder and ship the spare in 20 k...

Vendée Globe Day 60: Tunnel vision for Pip Hare, dream realised for Cape Horner Tripon by Vendée Globe 6 Jan 17:34 GMT 6 January 2021 Armel Tripon on LOccitaine en Provence passes Cape Horn in the Vendée Globe © Armel Tripon / L’Occitaine en Provence #VG2020 With 1300 miles to sail to Cape Horn this next week will be the toughest of British skipper Pip Hares Vendée Globe. With her autopilot system compromised due to the lack of true wind direction a...