Vendee Globe 2024, Brits

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Summary: Relay for the keel motor packed up. Spare was inoperable when fitted. serviceable relay made from parts of both. While asleep after initial attempts to fix, sail damage by broken furling line causing sail to unfurl and flog. General mood "Marvin the paranoid android" (my description not her's).
 
All this talk about storm hitting the leaders soon - and the track of 3rd place Richomme shows a HUGE course diversion, heading NW at times. Looking at the wind overlay looks quite calm - till you hit the +8h etc buttons through to +32h etc. Oooo er!
Hope everybody keeps safe.
 
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All this talk about storm hitting the leaders soon - and the track of 3rd place Richomme shows a HUGE course diversion, heading NW at times. Looking at the wind overlay looks quite calm - till you hit the +8h etc buttons through to +32h etc. Oooo er!
Hope everybody keeps safe.
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Richomme cut North earlier this afternoon and slowed to a couple of knots. In fact, he was heading NW at one of the trackers. I wonder what's up.
Becalmed in the path of the storm? I'm pretty sure that others near him swere goingh at nearly 20kn so probably not.

At one point it looked as if he was heaved to so maybe he is doing repairs. That's not an ideal place to break down with that weather coming in.
 
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 Marcus Hutchinson, as being to "either gain a huge lead or have no mast." He's out front on attitude, just as much as on boat design! "Its good to do these things," Charlie chuckles: (vid should open at 16.46)

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


Confirms that J2 (structural on an IMOCA rig) has failed (I think, pulled out of the deck). Expresses surprise because the wind “wasn’t that strong.”
 
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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 possibility of a ridge of high pressure blocking the leaders next week but it looks different on EC vs GFS vs ICON so it might not develop.
Charlie looks exactly how I would expect, he's suffering for his art! But he knows he's played a blinder. Remember his boat is more of an all rounder and the other new boats are more optimised for these conditions and yet he's dropping Seb Simon who is going to get the worst of this low pressure now he has slipped back into the eye.
 
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 (ie not auto-generated):


Position wise, she's probably not where she hoped to be, given her strong pre-race form. Although she is in 'good' company, with Boris Herrmann. Who also has a 2022 boat, like Sam. In Sam D's case, boat age might be a slightly deceptive way of assessing where she 'should' be, in the fleet. Whereas Jeremie Beyou's 2022 Manuard, Charal (presently up in 5th), was an all new design (I think I'm right in saying that) Sam D's Manuard, Initiatives Coeur, came out of the same mould as Armel Tripon's 2020 L'Occitane (now Louis Burton's Bureau Valee). So is effectively a (radical) previous gen boat, with latest gen foils. Although I stand to be corrected.......
 
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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 by the ridge of high pressure. Two races from then on. One for first and another for third. With the massive caveat that non of them have a serious breakage
 
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