Huey38 0 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Last week coming up for the leaders of the Vendee. One retired Vendee competitor docked in Lyttelton reluctantly. https://actu.fr/pays-de-la-loire/les-sables-d-olonne_85194/vendee-globe-l-amarrage-inedit-de-destremau-en-nouvelle-zelande-9-skippers-dans-l-hemisphere-nord_38783435.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Romany 92 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Respect for what he has done but me thinks he might have lost his marbles a bit there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 65 Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 Yes Sebastian Destremau has arrived in Lyttleton. He is the guy who used to do "DestopNews". A bit tired and emotional there. Wait till he gets on the cognac! One does not "abandon" the Vendee Globe. One "retires"! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1paulg 8 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Count down to the finish of this epic race - 3 competitors within 120 nm and around 24 hours to the finish line..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
muzled 77 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 10 minutes ago, 1paulg said: Count down to the finish of this epic race - 3 competitors within 120 nm and around 24 hours to the finish line..... It's unbelievably close, and there are still time reductions for Hermann and Bestaven to come into play so Dalin might cross the line first but not win. It'll be interesting to see if the gamble to go north for the 3 boats up there pays off. Yesterday they were predicting Dalin and Burton to finish 54 minutes apart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 91 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Well done Charlie Dalin a pretty faultless race Quote Link to post Share on other sites
muzled 77 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 there are a couple of live feeds - https://www.facebook.com/VendeeGlobe/videos/251296613064441 Apparently Dalins port foil has been roped up since before the Falklands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
muzled 77 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 omg, now Hermann who is vying for the win after time corrections has hit a fishing boat! At 1950hrs UTC this evening while racing in third place, some 90 miles from the Vendée Globe finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne German skipper Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco) was in collision with a fishing boat. He reports damage to his starboard foil and some other damage but he is unharmed and has secured the boat and is proceeding towards the finish line at reduced speed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JK 23 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, muzled said: omg, now Hermann who is vying for the win after time corrections has hit a fishing boat! At 1950hrs UTC this evening while racing in third place, some 90 miles from the Vendée Globe finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne German skipper Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco) was in collision with a fishing boat. He reports damage to his starboard foil and some other damage but he is unharmed and has secured the boat and is proceeding towards the finish line at reduced speed. Occurring 80nm from the finish and dropping from 17kn to 7kn he should drop from 3rd to 7th. Whilst 3rd/4th should finish within minutes of each other @ their current speeds. Close racing!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
muzled 77 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Excellent interview with Isabelle Joschke. https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/22331/isabelle-joschke-i-just-want-to-enjoy-this-sunny-day-to-feel-and-enjoy-the-stillness-under-my-feet-right-now-nothing-more Those boats sound like a nightmare to jybe. A tightly matched fleet That was super exhilarating and exciting, Every 4 hours there you had new standings, there was a new verdict. But at the same time I found it hard, sometimes I found it very hard in the manoeuvres. I felt I couldn't always run them together. In the gybes I could see I was losing ground. I was frustrated and sometimes panicked because when I was going towards the ice zone I could lose 50 miles in a manoeuvre. It was incredibly intense. But oh so much fun Seascapes The seascapes you encounters in the Southern Oceans are unique. The sea is wild, it's scary but at the same time it's made to just surf all day long. Surfing with our boats is a bit mad. Usually we sail for hours of upwind to surf for a few minutes. And there are whole long days of feeling the boat racing fast and hard. I really appreciated and enjoyed the nights in the Pacific Ocean. It was so beautiful! The nights were very short, there was an orange horizon and dream like moons. I felt like it was in a fairy tale when I watched the sea and the skies 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
180S 16 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 It has been a fantastic race of trial and tribulation, enormous respect for those that have done it. You’ve gotta love Samatha Davies finish though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
muzled 77 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Ari Husela looks like he's crossing the line right about now. It's been fun watching it, when does the next one start? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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