Damien Seguin (Apicil) is on the podium -

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Wednesday January 6

How beautiful this Vendée Globe is.

Not a day of respite, not a day without a twist at the head of the race.

At the start of the week, we were thrilled 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 to think that there are still 6,000 miles to go ...

The classification at 9 a.m.

1) Yannick Bestaven (Maître Coq IV), 6,006 miles from the finish

2) Charlie Dalin (APIVIA), 213 nm from the leader

3) Damien Seguin (APICIL Group), at 273 nm

4) Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut), at 280 nm

5) Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée II), at 424nm

Dalin in the middle of a high pressure area

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 saw his two pursuers swooping down on him.

Is it curious this routing which makes @ApiviaVoile take the windless zone?

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- Benedict (@ skol33) January 5, 2021

“The thing is, the trajectories are dictated by our positions at time T. An option may work for one and may not 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 the forecasts change enormously.

The situation is very complex and the files are not very efficient.

"

Already 13 at Cape Horn

When we talked to you about a combined race, we weren't lying.

There are already 13 of them 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," said Cremer, visibly very moved by her grand slam of caps for her first attempt.

She had to battle for a long time with rough seas and 45 knot winds before she fell to the other side.

Farewell, Dantesque seas.

Hello, unpredictable weather systems.

For her, too, it's a new race that begins now.

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