The nonstop and unassisted solo round the world race is an incredible mechanical, physical and mental challenge. This is what the 33 skippers came looking for at the start of Les Sables d’Olonne on November 8th.
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In patterns that have naturally caused the fleet to tighten over the past 24 hours, Thomas Rettant played a trick, which could have been a winner, but the door closed. The LinkedOut skipper gave up 2nd place to Charlie Dalin, 100 miles from Yannick Bestaven, the leader. The “Jean Le Cam” group has recovered almost 100 miles in 24 hours!
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Samantha Davies (Initiatives-Cœur) formalized her retirement this Saturday morning. She reached the port of Cape Town, like Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) the day before and Sébastien Simon (ARKÉA-PAPREC) in the middle of the afternoon.
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The skipper of Apivia played fair. His little shift downwind of LinkedOut as close as possible to the small cold front allowed him to touch a little more air than his opponent and thus take the lead of the 9am standings this morning.
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Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut) took the lead of the Vendée Globe since Friday evening. With 32.43 miles ahead of Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS), the northerner is leading the way in the Saint Helena high. Charlie Dalin (Apivia) rounds off this trio, which rushes forward with the hope of making the most of a weather option that will not smile on everyone …
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Just over a fortnight after the lockdown ended, the sailors and their teams are now busy catching up on lost time. Many IMOCAs have been relaunched after their winter refits, which took longer than planned. There have been more and more measurement checks and trips to check out the changes made during the winter. Other sailors have to wait a while before heading back out to sea. We look at what has been happening at the end of the refit season.
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Since the passage of the Finnish skipper, Ari Huusela, at the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope this afternoon, the 27 IMOCAs still in the race are now all sailing in the Indian Ocean on a great garland of 3,700 miles long.
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Unable to repair the starboard rudder, damaged on Friday evening, Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) decided to give up completing the 9th Vendée Globe.
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Thunderclap on the Vendée Globe fleet: Alex Thomson faces major structural problems on his HUGO BOSS. The Briton, yesterday in 2nd position, 40 miles in the transom of Thomas Ruyant, decelerated considerably, letting his opponents slip away to repair a longitudinal beam at the front of the boat, and is already 200 miles behind.
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Alex Thomson leads the Vendée Globe by some 26 nautical miles this afternoon, first to deal with the worst of storm Theta at some 250 miles south of the Azores.
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