Multiple Blessings. All Winners.

Bestaven wins, Dalin Line Honours
Herrmann Survives Fishing Boat Collision
Jean Le Cam Due This Evening

“There are two winners in this Vendée Globe” smiled Yannick Bestaven sportingly as he warmly greeted Charlie Dalin, the French skipper who hours earlier had broken the finish line of the solo round the world race in first place.

Boris Herrmann : the Vendee Globe has changed me !

"I’m good – I was just trying to have a little nap, but I’m too excited. The finish was really nice – to see the faces in the RIBs – in the first moment you can’t recognise them because people have masks, but then you see the eyes and they are so smiley."

Italy’s Giancarlo Pedote finishes 7th into Les Sables d'Olonne

This Thursday, January 28 at 12:02:20hrs UTC Italian skipper Giancarlo Pedote crossed the Vendée Globe finish line in seventh position.  

Damien Seguin (Groupe APICIL) sixth over the line and first daggerboard IMOCA

Damien Seguin crossed the finish line at 11:18:20hrs UTC today, in a south-westerly breeze of 20 knots to become the sixth skipper to arrive at Les Sables d’Olonne. His race time is 80d 21h 58min 20s. His delta to winner Yannick Bestaven is 18h 13min 34s

Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer - Yacht Club de Monaco), provisional fourth

German skipper Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco) crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe off Les Sables d’Olonne this morning at 10:19:45hrs UTC to place in a provisional fourth place. He must wait until this evening for Jean Le Cam to finish to see if the veteran 61 years old will displace him because of his 16 hrs and 15 mins of time compensation.