NEW 24-HOUR SOLO MONOHULL RECORD FOR YOANN RICHOMME!
Going fast since yesterday in the NE’ly trade winds on a practically flat sea, French Vendée Globe solo skipper Yoann Richomme has just covered a total of 551.84 nautical miles between yesterday at 9:30 and today at the same time today (i.e. 1,022 kilometers).
And so on the eleventh day of racing in the Vendée Globe, the skipper of the IMOCA 60-footer PAPREC ARKEA has improved the recent record set Nicolas Lunven (Holcim - PRB), 12 and 13 November by 5.24 miles on this race. This distance record is awaiting homologation by the WSSRC
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IMOCA Race Report #3 I Day 18 on the Vendée Globe
The IMOCA fleet is now split into two distinct groups as they approach the Cape of Good Hope. At the front, the leading group is navigating under the influence of a particularly intense depression.
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Like everyone else who has been gripped by what has been an extraordinary 10th edition of the Vendée Globe so far, the French sailor Christopher Pratt has been glued to the action as the leading boats have boarded the po…
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