Britain’s Sam Davies’ Initiatives Coeur has hit a floating object and is heading North.
Sam Davies is fine, she is unhurt.
At around 19:00hrs UTC Wednesday evening, Initiatives Coeur skipper Sam Davies informed her team that her boat had struck a floating object.
She is heading north at reduced speed and will inspect her boat to assess the damage with her team.
The race tracker at 21:00 hrs was showing Initiatives Coeur in the close vicinity of Isabelle Joschke on MACSF.
The damage to her Vendee Globe IMOCA yacht follows a similar incident early Wednesday morning, when ARKEA PAPREC of Frenchman Sébastien Simon, also struck an unidentified floating object, damaging a foil.
Vendée Globe Leaders – Day 26 – Thu 3 Dec – Updated at 11:00 hrs UK
1st FRA Charlie Dalin – APIVIA – 16,737 nm to finish – sailing at 16 knots
2nd FRA Louis Burton – BUREAU VALLEE 2 – 175 nm
3rd FRA Thomas Ruyant – LinkedOut – 232 nm
4th FRA Damien Seguin – GROUPE APICIL – 403 nm
5th FRA Yannick Bestaven – Maître CoQ IV – 417 nm
6th FRA Jean Le Cam – Yes we Cam! – 418 nm
7th FRA Boris Herrmann – SEAEXPLORER – 420 nm
8th FRA Benjamin DUTREUX – OMIA – WATER FAMILY – 459 nm
9th FRA Isabelle JOSCHKE – MACSF – 508 nm
10th FRA Giancarlo PEDOTE – PRYSMIAN GROUP – 538 nm
11th FRA Sebastien Simon – ARKEA PAPREC – 529 nm – Foil Damaged – sailing at 14 knots
12th FRA Maxime SOREL – V and B-MAYENNE – 708 nm
13th GBR Sam Davies – INITIATIVES-COEUR – 768 nm – Damaged – sailing at 5 knots
Other GBR:
16th GBR Alex Thomson – HUGO BOSS – 1099 nm – Retired
23rd GBR Pip Hare – Medallia – 2178 nm
27th GBR Miranda Merron – Campagne de France – 2972 nm
Retired: Nicolas Troussel, Alex Thomson, Kevin Escoffier
Full rankings available here . . .
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