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Vendée Globe Tuesday 21st January Update - Sam Goodchild Begins Mainsail Repair

by Mark Jardine 21 Jan 09:18 GMT 21 January 2025

Sam Goodchild has begun the messy job of gluing together his mainsail, which is currently in two parts, as he races to get back up to speed in the Vendée Globe. We get an update from him, then Conrad Colman goes for a swim to check the underside of his IMOCA yacht, and Jingkun Xu enjoys the sunshine!

We then look at the Tracker, Leaderboard and PredictWind routing options for Jérémie Beyou in 4th and Romain Attanasio in 14th.

We conclude with Andi Robertson chatting with Boris Herrmann, Alan Roura and Oliver Heer.

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