At the 9:00 am Tuesday score, Charlie Dalin (Apivia) was still leading the Vendée Globe fleet.
Approaching the latitude of Cape Verde, the skipper of Apivia was progressing at 15 knots over the last four hours and had 105 miles ahead of his new runner-up, Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut), and 107 over Damien Seguin (Apicil Group) .
Positioned further west and therefore further from the direct route to Les Sables d'Olonne, Louis Burton is temporarily downgrading to 4th place, but he has been the fastest in the fleet since 5h00 (average 18.5 knots).
Next hurdle for leaders?
The Azores high pressure area that they will try to bypass.
Yannick Bestaven is 5th (Maître CoQ, +142) ahead of Boris Herrmann (SeaExplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco, +155), Giancarlo Pedote (Prysmian Group, +156), Benjamin Dutreux (Omia-Water Family, +216.5) and Jean Le Cam (Yes We Cam !, +268.5).
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