The skipper of the monohull Macif passed the southern tip of the African continent after 19 days, 3 hours, 43 minutes and 2 seconds.
Navigator Charlie Dalin (Macif), leader of the 10th Vendée Globe for a week, passed the Cape of Good Hope on Friday afternoon in first position, at the tip of Africa, gateway to the formidable South Seas. . The Norman reached the latitude of the first of the three reference capes of the course, with Leeuwin and Horn, at 4:45 p.m. after 19 days 3 hours and 43 minutes of racing, according to the organizers. It took him 7 days and 18 hours to reach it from the equator. Here is the leading group ready to face the formidable seas of the Great South.
Dalin counts more than two days on the passage time of the previous edition. He himself had passed the southern tip of Africa in the lead in 22 days 09 hours and 51 minutes. But we are still far from the time achieved by Alex Thomson in 2016-2017, the reference time, in 17 days, 22 hours and 58 minutes.
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During this edition, Armel Le Cléach had established the absolute record for the solo round the world trip of 74 days 03 hours and 36 minutes with a passage time one day less than that of Charlie Dalin this Friday, in 18 days 03 hours and 36 minutes. 30 minutes.
Remember that the favorites estimated that with good weather conditions, the winner would be able to go within 70 days with a new generation of much more efficient boats. For the moment, the Jackal’s weather is not in danger but there are still nearly 17,500 miles to go before returning to Les Sables-d’Olonne.
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