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Vendée Globe Thursday 16th January Update - Storms, Plum Seeds, Mazu and Ropes!

by Mark Jardine 16 Jan 08:23 GMT 16 January 2025

Two skippers have finished, but the Vendée Globe is as exciting as ever!

Antoine Cornic has rounded Cape Horn, we have an update on Yoann Richomme after he finished in second place on PAPREC ARKÉA, then Sam Goodchild looks at the North Atlantic storm that the next group are going to have to navigate before finishing, followed by updates from Kojiro Shiraishi and Jingkun Zu.

We then latest analyse the Tracker and Leaderboard, followed by looking at the PredictWind routing options for Sam Goodchild in 5th.

We close with a superb update from Conrad Colman where he explains all the ropes on board his IMOCA yacht.

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