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Team Sodebo too:

Well it's Friday and they are on the back of the low. Boris will be no where near the leaders at the horn but the front 3 may get...

Francois Gabart, and team SVR Lazartigue, are having another crack at the Jules Verne:

Pip hoists her Mk l Trysail....quickly followed by Mk ll.......Doubles SOG..... Sam G drag racing, side by side, with Paul Meilhat...

Some of the boats are carrying self-rescue kites.

Pip's tune up underway (as foreseen by @flaming). Vid on FB If without FB access: Pip 'heading in the right direction' (and smiling...

Seems to be able to sail with the wind just aft of the beam now (14.00 sched): Not bad, for a boat without much in the way of low...

Update from Pip:

Because Parlier had been living on fish and seaweed the race doctor told him he would need a special diet on his return. Parlier said...

No wonder he's know as ET, Extraterrestre.

Of note is that he could only use the seaweed because as per the Vendee rules, he was not allowed to land above the high tide line, so...

Yves Parlier's 2000 Vendee Globe is referenced, as being 'on another level,' in today's 'Live:' Yves' carbon mast snapped, 1600nm from...

Pip talks to Dee (should open 14.46) Conrad Humphrys adds a perspective. Sam G (at 11.16) on the psychology of finding the limit.

The three leaders are within 900m of each other!

Charlie’s been on sail bricolage. Stand by for (more) fireworks, at the front.