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Louis Burton safely into Cape Town.

Race mantra: "In the Vendee Globe, anything can happen." My two penn'orth: 'and it usually does.' We still have (arguably) the most...

Looks like the front two will get the jump next week and be one system ahead going into the Pacific. The other leaders will get blocked...

Pip (and Pete Goss) on Andi’s ‘Live’ today. (Watch on YouTube or via Vendee Globe news page. 13.30 UK time).

Yes. Good spot. Quite an achievement. Though, as Charlie is proving, it’s sustained high average speed (plus bold tactics) that count…..

Not heard much from Sam D, so far (en Anglais, at any rate). Her week, plus routing analysis and a Q&A, with proper English subtitles...

Sam G, still ‘Zen,’ still boat-most-out-of-position-by-age (in a good way), takes rudder bricolage in his stride:

Pip hits 40 (well, 39.6) knots! Video here. Keep Calm and wind those handles!

Looks like the front 4 will ride this low to Cape Leeuwin but the other boats will fall off the back starting now. There is the...

Louis Burton limping in. Tired and disappointed, but safe. Its upwind all the way, to Cape Town, just to rub salt into his wounds...

Update, went back to the sailmaker and the sails will now most probably be Hydra Net Radial, radial cut with vertically battened main...

Look at that grin, from Charlie Dalin. Asked (by Andi, on today's 'Live') about his his call to stay south. The gamble, described by...

It's all getting a bit full on.... Pip averaging 24 knots over the last 4 hours.... Conrad puts out good videos. Older, slower...

And Pip just posts that she's hit 39 knots....

Precarious position, for Louis Burton, with rig problems. (Sounds like new issues - not deterioration of earlier hull / deck crack...