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Vendée Globe boats, German skipper Boris Herrmann having moved into third place overnight

Leading duo Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton will be starting to recognise a threat from German skipper Boris Herrmann

Apivia skipper Charlie Dalin who has led now for two days is 20 miles ahead of second placed Louis Burton on Bureau Vallée 2

Not too blessed these last few days, Yannick Bestaven isn't where he would have liked to be, but he’s still in the running

The leaders of the Vendée Globe are engaged on a straight head-to-head speed test which may yet prove decisive, and which may finally show the ultimate value

Bestaven has picked up wind to the west of his rivals, closer to the Brasilian coast, and is heading NNE in the ENE’ly wind

The Vendée Globe in effect restarted off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil today with the five top boats regrouping within 26 miles

After Charlie Dalin (Apivia) took the lead last night this morning, incredibly, there are five boats within 50 nautical miles of each other

The solo non-stop race round the world has been distilled down to a choice of two or at the outside three potential winners

Charlie Dalin and the chasing pack have continued to reduce their deficit behind leader Yannick Bestaven 

Any one of four or five skippers can still win this race.” Warned Jean Pierre Dick on the French Vendée Globe Live show this afternoon

Additional keel ram damage for The Franco-German skipper Isabelle Joschke (MACSF) who has abandoned her Vendée Globe

The Pacific is proving particularly unrelenting for the Vendée Globe competitors still racing eastwards towards Cape Horn

The next group to reach Cape Horn and the release into the Atlantic have less than 700 nautical miles to go, among them Alan Roura and Pip Hare

British skipper Pip Hare kept her Vendée Globe on course when she replaced her damaged port rudder on Medallia yesterday evening

Yannick Bestaven is snared in a zone of light winds and can do nothing more than try to keep crawling north whilst always monitoring the progress of his rivals

Britain’s Pip Hare is looking for a benevolent small weather window in the depths of the South Pacific Ocean to allow her to replace the port rudder of her IMOCA

Second on the Vendée Globe leaderboard since yesterday Damien Seguin is not unhappy with his ranking

With 1300 miles to sail to Cape Horn this next week will be the toughest of British skipper Pip Hare’s Vendée Globe

On the morning radio calls at 0400hrs TU the skipper of LinkedOut, in hunting mode, explains his Westerly option, which he is not unhappy with