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Vendée Globe Wednesday 22nd January Update - Leaders Approach Cape Finisterre

by Mark Jardine 22 Jan 08:29 UTC 22 January 2025

Sam Goodchild has been working incredibly hard to fix his mainsail in the Vendée Globe as the leaders on the water approach Cape Finisterre. We get an update from him, together with glue and patches, then receive updates from Alan Roura and Kojiro Shiraishi, while Conrad Colman runs through what he does for power generation when the sun isn't shining.

We then look at the Tracker, Leaderboard and PredictWind routing options for Jérémie Beyou in 4th and Benjamin Dutreux in 10th.

We conclude with an update from Oliver Heer.

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