Who will get the advantage on this nerve shredding final Vendee Globe sprint? It’s difficult to say because everything will depend on the direction and strength of the breeze in the last sixty miles
Charlie Dalin (APIVA) maintains his lead of the Vendee Globe ahead of Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée 2) and Boris Herrmann (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco)
Louis Burton (Bureau Vallee 2) and Boris Herrmann (Seaxplorer) continue to chase-down Vendee leader Charlie Dalin (Apivia) with less than 1,500 nm to the finish in Les Sables d’Olonne
Louis Burton, now up to second in the vendee Globe, is starting to see his westerly route pay a dividend. Burton has negotiated the western side of the high pressure zone quickest
The Doldrums did not give up the Vendee Globe leaders as easily as was initially predicted. But first placed Charlie Dalin (Apivia) appears to have skirted round the worst of a dynamic cloud system
The Doldrums are the next Vendee Globe hurdle, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is in the crosshairs, with its normal diet of squally showers, wind holes and unsettled, shifty breezes
