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Cape of Good Hope Passage Time
Beam me up Charlie. Dalin first to Cape of Good Hope. Again!
“I feel like I've been teleported here from the equator! It’s really impressive how quickly we have done this section to the Cape. I really have lose all sense of time and space. I am only now realising if everything goes well this afternoon we will pass the Cape of Good Hope!” Charlie Dalin today
Discounts
Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) passes the Cape of Good Hope in the lead
Equator crossing times
Pip Hare: "the objective now is to get south"
A different way in the south?
As they track north eastwards this morning anticipating their passage of the first Great Cape of this Vendée Globe – Good Hope – the leading quartet of skippers are making slightly more modest speeds as they transition to the next system. Leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) still had…
Sam Goodchild has deployed his Argo float
The Agulhas Current, giant swirling whirlpools at the crossroads of three oceans
At the southern tip of the African continent where the Atlantic, Indian and Southern Oceans converge, is the Agulhas Current which forms giant whirlpools several hundred kilometers in diameter. This current is feared by skippers mainly for the the sea conditions which can be kicked up.
Nerves build as transition time arrives
Still led by Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) the top skippers on the Vendée Globe have now completed around a quarter of the solo round the world course. While they had a slow passage to the Equator, Dalin and co now seem to be on course to break Alex Thomson’s 8 days and 15 hours record…
