Vendée Globe Day 45: Bestaven looking to land a big Christmas bonus
Yannick Bestaven leads the Vendée Globe © Jean-Marie Liot / Matre Coq #VG2020 Leader Yannick Bestaven is being forced to play chicken with the Vendée Globe's ice zone limit in the South Pacific as he seeks to extricate his Maître CoQ IV first from a frustrating anticyclone which is offering unusually light to moderate breezes even though they are racing at 55 degrees south. ?Bestaven, who has seen his margin eroded to 84 miles by Figaro one design ace Charlie Dalin while Thomas Ruyant is also about 80 miles behind. The problem all three leaders face is that the centre of...