The final miles of this Vendee Globe are already a nailbiter but the tension will not ease up this afternoon, there are still five skippers in the match for overall victory. In essence there are three different strategies and the outcome is unfolding mile by mile......
It is still too close to call. And it likely will be for much of this final morning racing for the leaders. Louis Burton in third this morning noted the discrepancy between what the weather models are forecasting and what he has on the Bay of Biscay, the yellow bow of Bureau Vallée 2 pointed a Les Sables d’Olonne some 315 nautical miles in front of him.
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Title will be decided between the Famous Five, Dalin ETA Late Afternoon Early Evening Wednesday
With something less than 24 hours until the first solo sailor finishes the Vendée Globe off Les Sables d’Olonne Wednesday night, even the most advanced modern weather routing programmes operated by some of the finest minds in ocean racing cannot seem to agree who the likely winner of a truly epic ninth edition of the non-stop solo round the world race will be.
Boris Herrmann this morning, For 24 hours we have been sailing through some kind of fog. I could see the moon above through the cloud but on the surface here it is super humid and water is dripping down from the sail and you get wet hair immediately. So like waves it intensifies with the humidity of the fog and each time it gets more intense with the same numbers on the wind instrument we go less fast and when it clears then ‘clac’ the speed goes up a bit again. It is interesting to see this gradient due to this fog
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