January 12. 2021

Interview with Isabelle Joscke just before she was forced to quit the Vendee race due to damage to the keel of her boat. She became the seventh of the 33 starters to retire.

December 22, 2020

This is Karen Lile from Sail Sport Talk, with a report from the Vendée Globe 2020. 

The Vendee Globe seems set to deliver a South Pacific Ocean cliff hanger worthy of Christmas Holiday week fireside viewing as the front running group try to negotiate a large, tricky high pressure system which is blocking their route east.

If the plot line were written only by leader Yannick Bestaven he would be allowed to escape from the aggressive clutches of the anticyclone and to ride off to a much more substantial distance on the two groups that are chasing him.  But we don’t yet know the outcome of this storm.

Here is an update from Charlie Dalin on Sunday.

Dec 20, 2020

For the three boats with sailors Roman, Clarisse, and Louis, a new low pressure system will soon be upon them. The red stripe on their weather files that comes down from New Zealand is a fairly deep low-pressure system generating gusts in excess of 40 knots. The three are going to have to weather the storm between Wednesday and Thursday with strong a northeasterly winds forecast, forcing them to sail upwind in very nasty seas.

Credits: 6ème Sens

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Dec 8, 2020 – Rick Tittle and Karen Lile Talk Vendeê Globe