As the leaders pass the Azores the leading skippers are starting to play different options. Behind the top group Yannick Bestaven and Damien Seguin were first to gybe and are heading north in search of the stronger breeze.
Questions At the Azores, when to gybe?.....Burton’s Blip.....Barrrier, Huusela at Cape Horn Sunday
The margin of victory on this Vendée Globe may be down to minutes rather than hours. And while there seems to be a more remote chance that the actual winner will be decided on corrected time – after time compensation for being involved in the rescue of stricken skipper Kevin Escoffier – the projected time margins for the podium places are extremely tight.
Relive the eleventh week of the Vendée Globe in 26 minutes !
Alex Pella, winner of the Route du Rhum in 2014 (Class40) was the guest of Andi Robertson on the Vendée English Live #77 today.
Boris Herrmann at 0800hrs UTC this morning
I’ve been under small gennaker, one reef, the breeze is up and down. I just had 28kts, but down to 19kts and it is still pitch black dark so there has been a big cloud. I am waiting for the gybing but I am waiting for the morning weather model to look at what we do now and so I can see also where the others are. I can do that now it is 0800hrs UTC. I did not get so much sleep but it is all good.
There are some big lulls now it is quite stressful, from 14 to 28kts, I just crossed the ship CMA CGM Fort Fleur Depee (container ship which is heading to Point a Pitre, Guadeloupe), they are heading SW at 20kts, our partners CMA CGM asked them to come close and say hi so that was cool, they were one mile off, put their spotlights on and greeted me from the bridge and that was cool, and so it was dark, pitch black night, the moon is only in the first part of the night, so we have 12 hours or more of darkness, unlike in the south where you navigate all the time in the light except for a few hours but now, here, more than half of the day is pitch, sailing in the dark.
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