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Yachting World 0shares Pip Hare fulfilled a lifelong dream when she finished the Vendée Globe, the first British skipper in this year's event, though the race was also her toughest challenge yet. Pip recounts her experiences. The Vendée Globe race was everything I ever dreamed it could be, and more. It challenged me every day, it made me scream with laughter, it brought me to my knees with physical fatigue and the emotional agony of disappointment. But there is not one single day I did not want to be exactly where I was. It had been a hard battle to get to the lin...
© Olivier Blanchet/Alea 28 January 2021 - 00:59 • 9487 views Share Article Louis Burton, the popular hard driving 35 years old French skipper of Bureau Vallée 2 crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe in second position, emerging from the inky darkness on his yellow hulled IMOCA to break the line at 23.45hrs 12mins on Wednesday 27 th January, 04h 09min 25s after Charlie Dalin in what is the proving to be race’s closest and most hotly contested finish ever. Burton’s elapsed time for the course is 80d 10h 25min 12s. But, like first p...