The editions follow one another, technologies are perfected, the speed of Imoca monohulls continues to improve, but the seas are still just as merciless with the Vendée Globe fleet.
Once again this year, the ocean and the winds put the competitors and the mechanics to the test, especially the favorites.
Their ranks are even considerably thinner when the leader Charlie Dalin has just crossed the Cape of Good Hope after 22 days, 9 hours and 51 minutes at sea. The skipper of
Apivia
crossed the mythical longitude on Monday night. to Tuesday (at 00:11 precisely) with a delay on the record (about 4 and a half days) but a comfortable lead over its pursuers well engaged on the dreaded highway of the Roaring Forties.
This year, several candidates for the succession of Armel Le Cléac'h, crowned four years ago, did not have time to enter the "washing machine" of the South Seas so dreaded to be disillusioned on board. from their boat
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