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Is it east is best or west is best? Right now on the Vendée Globe the east has retained a more consistent breeze as the ‘leaders’ work more to the west looking to get out of the high pressure zone of very light winds soonest. The fleet is super tightly grouped with 30 boats all within 100 miles.....

"I can't go on, I'm abandoning this my second Vendée Globe" grimaced an emotional French Vendée Globe skipper Maxime Sorel early this Friday afternoon from Madeira.

Maxime Sorel the skipper of V and B - Monbana - Mayenne has taken the tough decision to retire from the Vendée Globe this Friday at midday. Since the second day his ankle has been badly swollen following a shock sustained when he was trying to repair his hook and mainsail track problems. His…

Having passed west of the Canaries now the Vendée Globe leaders are set to really come into much lighter winds as they negotiate the east side of an anticyclone which will impede their course south.

Day four of the Vendée Globe solo non-stop race around the world brings another new leader. As the leaders pass the latitude of the Canary Islands, where they might normally find the trade winds blowing to carry them down towards the Cape Verdes and the Equator beyond, the breeze is lightening and…