The Vendée Globe plays part of its outcome around the high pressure which has constrained the head of the fleet for two days after having threatened it for a long time. This high pressure area is causing reunions and separations.
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The seat of the leader, Yannick Bestaven, is not a throne, but rather a rocking chair. All the attention today is on the advance of the skipper of Master CoQ IV along the ice barrier, a virtual line imposed by the Race Direction to limit the encounter of IMOCA with icebergs and growlers.
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Forced to brake to repair, Charlie Dalin (Apivia) conceded a lot of ground to Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut), again leader. Just behind, Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ) is on the lookout. Higher up, the hunters navigate on sight and, armed with their cameras, deliver images of this totally incredible moment.
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Charlie Dalin and Thomas Ruyant crossed the last strong gale of the Indian Ocean and are heading for the second of the three great capes of this round the world trip, in front of a horde of pursuers worn out by the aggressive sailing conditions of the Deep South .
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Alex Thomson arrived in Cape Town in the morning. Sébastien Simon is expected to moor there between Saturday and Sunday. For the two men, the South African port is the last stop in this 9th Vendée Globe. They are only 29 sailors in the race.
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The long game of surfing and leapfrogging between the southern depressions has started for the first 15 boats of the fleet which sail downwind near the Cape of Good Hope.
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Longitude 180 °: the antimeridian! This early afternoon, Yannick Bestaven was able to see on his GPS that the degrees of longitude East had taken two more letters, West.
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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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This morning, Kévin Escoffier left Jean Le Cam’s boat and was successfully recovered by the Nivôse frigate of the French Navy which is heading for Reunion.
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Sébastien Simon dejected, overwhelmed by a feeling of injustice and by the extent of the work he would have to do in a uncertain future. Sam Davies, sobs in her voice, shocked by his abrupt buffet stop yesterday at nightfall and the damage around the keel of his boat.
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