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Vendée Globe Day 67: A drag race to Recife... and beyond!


Didac Costa at Cape Horn in the Vendée Globe © Didac Costa #VG2020
With nothing more than a handful of small miles separating them, 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 of a fully functioning latest generation foil package.
In what is likely to be a close reaching then reaching drag race up the Brazilian coast past Recife, 600 miles to the north of leader Charlie Dalin (Apivia), the actual speed potential - the combination of a working foil and J2 headsail - could deliver the key advantage which might then be carried into a North Atlantic sprint finish that presently looks relatively fast and straightforward. ....

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