At the head of the Vendée Globe fleet every mile is won hard and not all are in the right direction, eastwards towards Point Nemo – 1000 miles away - and Cape Horn beyond. Stuck in a giant mess of an anticyclone which is tracking east with the fleet, it looks like it might be after the weekend before the train gets moving and the leaders can start moving east.
Yannick Bestaven (Maitre Coq IV) and Charlie Dalin (APIVIA), furthest to the east of the centre of the high have had the better breeze in first and second and have gained some miles on Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut) who is now over 200 miles behind, while Dalin’s decision seems to be to stick to the shortest route – running all the time along the AEZ – and sailing in what breeze he gets coming to him rather than to go on hunting.
