
With 579.86 miles (1,073.9 km), race leader Charlie Dalin broke the record for most miles covered in 24 hours, which had been set last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Heading towards Bonne Espérance, Charlie Dalin (Macif Santé Prévoyance) kept Thomas Ruyant (Vulnerable) and Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa) at a distance on Monday, despite new records for distance covered in 24 hours for the two sailors in the Vendée Globe.
In total, thanks to the depression that formed off the coast of Brazil which allowed them to accelerate on Sunday, six boats beat the previous record set between Tuesday and Wednesday by Richomme (551.4 miles covered, or 1,022 km).
But it was the 40-year-old sailor himself who improved this record the most, with 579.86 miles (1,073.9 km) covered in 24 hours, ahead of Ruyant (572.4 miles, 1,060.08 km).
“We’re not going fast to make the record but especially to try to keep the ideal position with this depression, we don’t know what the rest will bring but, in any case, if we can keep it as long as possible, that’s good, we’re getting closer to the objective and the Southern Seas”, Ruyant explained to the organizers.
At 19:00 on Monday, Dalin continued to keep Ruyant at a distance, ahead of whom he was 41 miles. Richomme, third, has for his part broken away from four immediate pursuers, but is still 77 miles behind the leader.
Sam Goodchild (Vulnerable) lost two places, going from 4th to 6th, but he is neck and neck with the 5th, Jérémie Beyou (Charal), and the 7th, Nicolas Lunven (Holcim – PRB).
Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil), climbs to 4th place with a 30-mile deficit on Richomme.
“The match is super tight, everyone is going fast, the fleet is really impressive! We are all here in a hundred miles, in Imoca it’s nothing!”, tempered Ruyant.
“I just made a little peak at 32 knots, I feel like a small animal in this hull that goes at Mach 12! But survival is going well”, joked the 6th in the previous Vendée Globe.
Obviously, these crazy speeds make the rest of the fleet envious, deprived of the windfall, like Louis Duc (Fives Group-Lantana Environnement), 26th more than 1,000 miles from the leader.
“We have a nice depression that will take our well-propelled foiling comrades towards the Southern Seas, and we will have the crumbs of their depression, we will have to follow the front along the Brazilian coast”, he lamented.
However, and despite several breakdowns since the start, there is no reason to sulk for the Mancheis, a novice south of the Equator and who is “eager to go and discover these landscapes, these seas, these long swells”.
Ranking of the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe on Monday at 7pm (GMT + 1):
1. Charlie Dalin (Macif Santé Prévoyance) 19,332.6 nautical miles from the finish
2. Thomas Ruyant (Vulnerable) 41.2 miles from the leader
3. Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa) 76.9 miles
4. Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) 107.48 miles
5. Jérémie Beyou (Charal) 129.84 miles
6. Sam Goodchild (Vulnerable) 131.14 miles
7. Nicolas Lunven (Holcim – PRB) 131.15 miles
8. Yannick Bestaven (Maître Coq V) 210.84 miles
9. Paul Meilhat (Biotherm) at 216.14 miles
10. Samantha Davies (Initiatives-Coeur) at 304.03 miles
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39. Szabolcs Weöres (New Europe) at 2,257.7 miles
Withdrawal:
Maxime Sorel (V and B-Monbana-Mayenne).
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