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This morning (Thursday), as he was working on the bow of Generali, Yann Eliès was was thrown along the deck and sustained a fracture to his thighbone.
While he waits to be evacutated from his boat, following a request from the race directors, Marc Guillemot has changed course to help offer the injured skipper psychological support. Guillemot's Safran less than one hundred miles from Generali at the time and is expected to there in six or seven hours time.
Over the past 24 hours life on board has all been about tacking and stacking as the fleet makes its way to the nearest treasure chest – the scoring waypoint of Pulau We, at the entrance to the Malacca Strait, 500 miles away.
Telefonica Blue, having invested heavily in the southern-most route on the race track, continues to head the leaderboard.
The lateral separation between Bouwe Bekking’s men and the rest has grown to over 110 miles.
On 17th December 2007 (2220hrs GMT) Jourdain and Jean Luc Nelias were forced out of the Barcelona World Race when their mast broke.
Dehler Yachts, Germany's third-largest boatbuilder, went into administration today. A recent bank guarantee by the government of the state of North Rhine-Westfalia did not succeed in preventing the company from going under.
Propositions that Michel Desjoyeaux might somehow ease off on the pedal now that he has seized the lead of the Vendée Globe seem empty rhetoric for the moment.
He is taking on the role of the locomotive engine pulling the other competitors along at speed. Roland Jourdain issued a call for reason yesterday, but it has fallen on deaf ears.
Day four and everywhere on board the conversation for the past 48 hours has focussed on current affairs. And top of the news agenda are the tidal gluepots which have tested the patience of navigators to the full.
The progress has been painful with up to 3.5 knots of adverse current off the southern tip of Sri Lanka.
The fleet has been in the grip of the tidal clutches owing to the two waypoints positioned to keep them a safe distance from the Sri Lankan coast – pirate territory.
Hybrid Marine Ltd collaborates with E.P. Barrus Ltd for the final development, testing and marketing of a Parallel Hybrid Saildrive system based on the Yanmar range of marine engines.
Hybrid Marine a leading developer of Hybrid Electric drive systems, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with E.P. Barrus Ltd, the UK distributor for Yanmar engines UK in the final development, assembly, testing and marketing of what will be the most technically advanced and cost effective Parallel Hybrid Saildrive solution available to the market.
Premier Shipping & Packing (PSP), one of the UK's leading freight companies, is to return as title sponsor of the 2009 Southampton International Boat Show for the second year running. PSP, which was founded in 1998, is one of the UK's leading logistics companies specialising in boat transportation, marine spares and international express couriers. The company is headquartered in Hampshire, with offices in London, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong.
Having only just taken the overall lead in the Vendée Globe British solo skipper Mike Golding was cruelly dismasted in the Indian Ocean this morning at 0647 hrs GMT reporting to Race HQ shortly afterwards that the rig of Ecover 3 had collapsed when he was caught in winds of over 55 knots. Golding is about 940 miles SW of Perth, Australia.
“I was just getting into my jacket when the boat rounded up and then heeled right over. I heard a bang and immediately went back below deck and waited until the noise had stopped.”
The British solo skipper has a lead of just 30 miles over the compromised Paprec-Virbac 2, but is facing an onslaught from behind as his pursuing French rivals tease the 2003 record 468.72 miles of Golding’s compatriot Alex Thomson.