Worlds Apart, Leader Bestaven on song on Atlantic climb, Herrmann Repairs Mainsail
Rested and fully energised in beautiful sunshine, climbing north up the South Atlantic, the mercury rising and sailing in a moderate breeze, Vendée Globe leader Yannick Bestaven’s strategic choices may prove better than his off quay rendition of a Jonny Hallyday classic, but with a margin of over 170 miles – and at times peaking at over 20 knots earlier today, the 48 year old skipper of Maître Coq IV had every reason to be in full voice in a video he sent today.
Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco) reported this afternoon, "I am happy to have got around the Horn but I hardly noticed it. I was just fully focused on repairing my mainsail.
A sequence which is unprecedented in the history of the Vendée Globe continued early this morning when four more solo skippers passed Cape Horn in a period of less than four hours. Between 0240hrs UTC yesterday (Monday) morning when Damien Seguin (Group APICIL) rounded and 0401hrs this morning when Isabelle Joschke (MACSF) rounded eight IMOCA skippers rounded the famous Cape Horn and passed back into the Atlantic after over one month in the Southern Oceans.
Charlie Dalin 'I feel like I am back from another world'
Joined at 0400hrs UTC this morning, the skipper of Apivia looks back on his experience in the big South and explains the complex weather situation in the South Atlantic.
