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I knew you'd have made a vendee globe thread zwabu. Despite not sailing myself i absolutely love it. Always awesome to see competitors abandoning their race to help each other
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Amazing rescue in those conditions.
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Dec 1, 2020 22:50
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https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobeENG/status/1334045623255961600?s=20 Charlie Dalin remains well out in front but there's a big pack of boats behind. Interesting looking at his route, he almost touched the ice exclusion zone and then tacked much farther north than anyone else.
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Dec 2, 2020 10:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22IDI1ntXhk This channel has some good analysis of IMOCA boats including a really good video on why Alex Thompson's boat might have failed. Really recommend viewing all 3. Simon Sebastien's damage seems worse, he's having to heel the boat over to prevent water ingress and apparently is about to enter a storm system
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Dec 2, 2020 22:14
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It's a shame sailing is not more popular because it's a really good warning about pollution. There should be no way these boats have a chance of hitting anything but Britain's last hope has hit something too https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobeENG/status/1334252769226739714?s=19
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Dec 2, 2020 23:20
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Charlie Dalin's lead over LinkedOut has reduced a ton, he's now just in front of the pack of chasers. Going to make for a good race
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Dec 7, 2020 12:36
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Absolutely incredible le cam is still in touch with the leaders after taking part in the rescue.
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Dec 12, 2020 14:27
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 race at the front continues to get tighter, it's now down to 60 nautical miles! Going to be a huge battle for the win. L'Occitane continues it's amazing charge through the field, definitively the fastest boat at the moment. What's interesting is it's very different to many of the others in design. While most of the top boats have wave piercing bows this one is designed to go over waves and avoid the deceleration's of all that water on the boat each time it hits a wave. Charal is also charging at the back, such a shame 3 of the top boats have had issues or we might have had an even tighter race at the from but that's the vendee
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Dec 13, 2020 23:54
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https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobeENG/status/1338591396345896961?s=19 Huge drama! Race leader has hit something and one of his foils is damaged, hugely disappointing for Charlie. Boris Hermann has also had to make repairs to his mainsail.
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Dec 14, 2020 22:11
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It's admirable he's trying to continue but no autopilot on top of multiple other system failures has surely got to mean he retires. That's going to be so dangerous when he's at his most exhausted later on.
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Dec 18, 2020 22:02
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It is so unbelievably close! Is sea explorer technically in the lead given it was part of the rescue effort earlier in the race?
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Jan 17, 2021 20:55
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Wow, 4 boats within 12 hours of each other after sailing round the God drat world.
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