Vendée Globe: It All Comes Down to This:
(January 17, 2017; Day 73, 22:00 FR) – Vendée Globe leader Armel Le Cléac’h has seen his margin over second-placed Alex Thomson slowly slip away as the solo round the world race enters its final 500 miles. Adding to the moment, there is nothing simple about their approach to the finish.
Despite already reaching the latitude of the finish line in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, they are being forced to sail much further north due to an anticyclone currently blocking their path home. The routing the pair must follow could take them as far north as the Scilly Isles, an archipelago off the coast of Cornwall in the south-west of Britain, before they can tack and finally point their bows …
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Podium Complete in Virtual Vendée Globe:
(January 17, 2017) – On his black and yellow boat, wearing the IMOCA Hugo Boss’s colours, Matt Johnston and his entry Mangina-PYR have won the 2016-2017 Virtual Vendée Globe Edition. At the end of a very tight race, and after more than 26,000 nm around the world, this virtual sailor arrives ahead of 451,000 players.
New Zealander Derek Watt (NZ-Eligo ‘’IST”) and Frenchman Didier Flament (Didflam) complete the podium.
After the start on November 6, it took 72 days, 2 hours 23 minutes and 10 seconds to sail virtually around the globe, which started and arrived in Les Sables d’Olonne. For over two months on the Virtual Regatta’s flag game, competitors tuned their settings, …
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