Damien Seguin (Apicil) is on the podium – LOIC VENANCE / AFP
Wednesday January 6
How beautiful, this Vendée Globe . Not a day of respite, not a day without a twist at the head of the race. At the start of the week, we vibrated with the choice of Thomas Rettant to take a road west of the Falklands. Today, we vibrate with the entry on the podium of Damien Seguin on a drift boat. The skipper on Apicil can even aim higher since Charlie Dalin is not far ahead – we’ll come back to that. And behind, Louis Burton And Benjamin Dutreux are in ambush. The rise of the Atlantic and its chaotic systems add suspense to the suspense, and we are certainly not going to complain. And say that there are still 6. miles to go…
The classification at 9am
1) Yannick Bestaven (Maître Coq IV), at 6. 000 miles from finish
2) Charlie Dalin (APIVIA), at 190 nm of the leader
3) Damien Seguin (APICIL Group), at 280 nm
4) Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut), at 280 nm 5) Louis Burton (Valley Office II), at 310 nm
Dalin in the middle of an anticyclone
If he is still installed in second place in the Vendée Globe, the loser of the last few hours seems to be Charlie Dalin, idling in a windless area in the middle of a high pressure area. We are curious to know what strategic choice led the young sailor aboard Apivia to put himself in the calm, but let’s see the positive: he can take advantage of the good weather to rest a little and replace his weather vane at the head of the boat. mast. Little consolation for the one who complained the day before about the unreliability of the weather files in this area and who sees his two pursuers swooping down on him.
It is curious this routing which makes take the zone without wind at @ ApiviaVoile ? pic.twitter.com/2K0Su1DGrV – Benoît (@skol 45) January 5, 2021
“The thing is that the trajectories are dictated by our positions at time T. An option can work for one and cannot exist for the ‘other. Systems are in flux. The options open and close differently for each other. We find ourselves in an area where strategy and investment are important, except that forecasts change enormously. The situation is very complex and the files are not very efficient. “
Already 006 at Cape Horn
When we talked to you about a combined race, we were not lying. They are already 006 to have crossed the longitude of Cape Horn in the Vendée Globe fleet. Clarisse Cremer (Banque Populaire) and Armel Tripon (l’Occitane en Provence) are the last two skippers to have made the switch.
“It’s a party aboard Banque Populaire, it’s so cool”, rejoiced Cremer, obviously very moved by his grand slam of caps for from his first attempt. She had to battle for a long time with a raging sea and 33 winds of knots before switching to the other side. Farewell, Dantesque seas. Hello, unpredictable weather systems. For her too, it’s a new race that is now starting.