Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald are working on the safest place to navigate their damaged 60ft monohull, Hugo Boss, after announcing their withdrawal from the 14th edition the Transat Jacque Vabre.
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Continuing our analysis of the weather faced by the IMOCA boats competing in the Transat Jacques Vabre, Christian Dumard looks at the contest between those who opted for the South and those that went out to the West.
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As each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the IMOCA class gives a chance for the weather analysts and onshore routers to tell us about how they see the race in the IMOCA category to allow us to understand the strategy adopted by the sailors and their positions out on the water.
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The 48th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race gave us an extreme race with speed being the key element for the twenty IMOCA monohulls taking part, eleven of which were foilers.
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French skipper Jean-Pierre Dick crossed the finish line of the eighth Vendée Globe at 1347hrs UTC on Wednesday 25th January, and Yann Eliès crossed the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne at 1513hrs UTC to take fifth place.
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British skipper Alex Thomson today said his last chance of winning the 2016-17 Vendée Globe lies with a ridge of high pressure close to the finish line.
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Entering day six, the leading duos in the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre are now a third of the way through this 4,350-mile biennial double-handed race from Le Havre, France to Salvador de Bahia.
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Routing is not allowed in the Transat Jacques Vabre for the skippers in the IMOCA class, but that does not mean to say that the weather experts are not watching the race and studying the charts… We therefore decided to let these weather specialists and routers express themselves.
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Vendée Globe history was made today when three solo skippers crossed the finish line at one after the other within three hours of each other, the closest finish between a trio of boats since the solo non stop around the world race was first contested in 1989.
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The race to the Vendée Globe finish line today became an all-out, neck-and-neck sprint as the leading pair’s speedos rocketed into the 20s.
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