Sam Goodchild (Vulnerable) continues to lead the Vendee Globe Race for the second successive day.
He appears to be clear of the Doldrums which have concertinaed over the past 24 hours and how seem to be much more extensive than over the past 24 hours when there were pathways through the normally windless zone.
On the Predictwind weather routing, Goodchild is showing some low windspeeds, but not less than 5kts.
His colleague in TS Racing Thomas Rouyant (Vulnerable) is 2° of longitude to the west of Goodchild, putting him further away under the distance to sail to the finish method of running the event leaderboard, favoured by the Vendee Globe organisers. However using Predictwind's weather routing facility, Rouyant and Goodchild are predicted to arrive in about 8.5days at the virtual way point set between the Cape of Good Hope and the virtue Ice Gate surrounding Antarctica.
Both are calculated by Predictwind to have some firehose sailing coming up, with Goodchild forecasted to spend 83% of the route reaching, with winds in the 8-20kts range for 49% of the route, and 20-30kts for 51% of the remainder of the leg to the Southern Ocean.
Vendee Globe organisers have announced that Fabrice Amedeo racing in 34th place due west of the Cape Verde Islands has been sailing in safe mode at a reduced speed since yesterday evening after developing a keel problem. He is actively looking for a solution to resolve his problems. More information is expected when Race Control staff arrive later today.
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