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Vendée Globe Wednesday 29th January Update - Final miles for Boris Herrmann and Sam Davies

by Mark Jardine 29 Jan 08:39 GMT 28 January 2025

Both Boris Herrmann and Sam Davies have made it round Cape Finisterre, and are now negotiating a tricky Bay of Biscay to make it to the Vendée Globe finish line in Les Sables d'Olonne.

We hear from Boris Herrmann, Kojiro Shiraishi, Jingkun Xu about his red socks and a visitor aboard Violette Dorange's IMOCA.

We then look at the Tracker, Leaderboard and PredictWind routing options for Kojiro Shiraishi in the North Atlantic.

We conclude with updates from Conrad Colman and Oliver Heer.

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