Equator crossing times
Dalin leads descent to the magic carpet depression
Thomas Ruyant (VULNERABLE) led the 2024 Vendée Globe fleet into the Southern Hemisphere yesterday evening at 19:10:15hrs UTC, so taking an elapsed time of 11d 07h 08m 15s since starting the solo non stop race round the world on Sunday 11th at 1202hrs UTC. The leader’s passage to the Equator is the…
Discover the official water bottle
A date with a low
Thomas Ruyant (VULNERABLE) took over the lead of the Vendée Globe solo race round the world very early this morning benefiting from his position to the west of his rivals which include his teammate British sailor Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) who holds second place. Ruyant was first to emerge from the…
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Pip Hare : "I had an unexpected good night"
Keeping it in the family, Ruyant takes over the lead
The Vendée Globe race leaders are emerging from the Doldrums and into the SE’ly trade winds. Thomas Ruyant (VULNERABLE) is about 80 miles to the west of his stable mate Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) and has been making double figures boatspeeds since last night. Ahead of them it looks like a race…
Richomme rockets to new 24 hour distance record
One week on exactly since Nico Lunven (HOLCIM-PRB) set a new solo 24 hours monohull distance record, Paprec Arkéa solo skipper Yoann Richomme dramatically bettered that mark this morning on the Vendée Globe, before running out of track and hitting the buffers as he and the other leaders of the solo…
It was pretty unexpected because the run in between the ridge and the ITCZ has been quite short and so I was not even looking at beating because I thought it would be less than 500 miles but apparently it was enough and it is my main pleasure to beat Nico Lunven in life (jokes). It is good, I really pushed hard, I wanted to catch the guys in front because I am really afraid of a breakaway near Brazil and so I thought I could cover some miles on that day and it worked out. It is not paying off too much right now as I am stuck in a light spot and have been here for three hours doing three or four knots. And so the thing is maybe if there was a hundred or so miles of breeze it could have been a good number of miles more.
If we do get into a warm front in front of a cold front on a flat sea I think the crewed record is doable because I don’t think it matters too much if you are solo or crewed for a few miles it does, we can get a lot closer to the crewed record. But you have to have the right conditions so let us see if that happens. I feel most of these boats have these kind of speeds now.
