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Vendee Globe feature on SBS today - MySailing com au

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Kojiro Shiraishi finishes 16th in the Vendée Globe

Kojiro Shiraishi finishes 16th in the Vendée Globe by Vendée Globe 11 Feb 15:32 GMT 11 February 2021 Kojiro Shiraishi, the 53-year-old Japanese solo skipper of DMG MORI, crossed the finish line off Les Sables d Olonne at 10:52:58hrs UTC this Thursday 11th February to take 16th place in the Vendée Globe and in so doing become the first ever Asian skipper to complete the famous non-stop solo race around the world. Shiraishi s elapsed time for his race is 94d 21hrs 32mins and he finishes 14d 17hrs 48m 10s behind Yannick Bestaven and 2hrs 56mins behind Arnaud Boissieres. Completing the course is the culmination of a 34-year dream, a major triumph for Shiraishi who spent more than seven days completing major repair to a potentially race ending tear in his mainsail which occurred just six days after the start on November 8th. Since then, the Japanese skipper has had to sail cautiously to look after his fragile mainsail, always sailing with one reef in the

Boris Herrmann and Team Malizia racing to save the world s oceans

As you read this sentence, German yachtsman and Team Malizia co-founder Boris Herrmann will have traversed hundreds of meters through Southern Ocean waters on his Seaexplorer yacht, part of a journey he began on November 8, 2020. That is when Herrmann set off to compete in one of the toughest solo, non-stop sailing races in the world the Vendee Globe.  Starting and finishing in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, Herrmann will spend over 75 days at sea, traveling down the Atlantic Ocean toward the Cape of Good Hope, then around Antarctica with Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn on the port side, before heading back to France. 

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