Page 45 - Pip Hare News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Louis Burton Seizes Vendee Globe Race lead with 900 Miles To Finish 24th January 2021 Louis Burton seized the race lead from Charlie Dalin in the late morning today. Less than 1000 nautical miles to the finish of the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne 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 miles from the Apvia skipper Dalin. As ...

Bureau Vallée - Vendée Globe © Vincent Olivaud It seems to be Louis Burton on Bureau Vallée who has finally escaped from the Doldrums first. He has been making a consistent 17kts early this morning in the 16-18kts NE'ly trade winds which seem to be well established. With the exception of Charlie Dalin who is 115 nautical miles to his SE, the pack is well dispersed and mostly still struggling with an ICTZ which is proving much more active and sticky than was expected. At this stage northing - that is latitude the north - is everything and Burton has emerged to be at 6 deg...

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. Dalin's more easterly position and his timing seems to have kept him away from a nasty zone of cloud and light winds which slowed Germany's Boris Herrmann for a period today, conceding third place on the leaderboard to Thomas Ruyant (Link...

Vendée Globe Day 71 morning update: Louis Burton first back into the northern hemisphere by Vendée Globe 17 Jan 08:43 UTC 17 January 2021 Louis Burton on Bureau Vallée 2 is first back into the northern hemisphere in the Vendée Globe © Stephane Maillard #VG2020 Louis Burton, the 35 year old Saint Malo skipper of Bureau Vallée 2 was the first Vendée Globe skipper to break back into the northern hemisphere last night, crossing the Equator at 1911hrs UTC last night. Just less than one hour later and some 50 miles to the east of him Charlie Dalin cros...

Pip Hare has won many fans during this year’s Vendee Globe for her determination, resilience, and brilliant communication