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Team Sanya, le retour - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Le sixième concurrent de la Volvo Ocean Race a annoncé hier qu'il allait boucler à la voile la première partie de l'étape 2. Team Sanya avait cassé un hauban dans l'océan Indien et est en escale technique à Madagascar.
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#sport #sailing - @CharlieDalin, @ThomasRuyant Out Of The Worst of The Indian Ocean And... - 0 views

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    Worst Of The Storm Passed for RUYANT and DALIN, Golden Ticket for Armel TRIPON. BEYOU Making Inroads. For the meantime the worst of the Indian Ocean is behind them and Vendée Globe leaders Charlie DALIN and Thomas RUYANT can contemplate a relatively smooth ride to Australia's Cape LEEUWIN, now 1250 nautical miles, or about three days, ahead of DALIN.
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Indian Ocean contingent grows to nine - @VendeeGlobe - 0 views

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    The number of Vendee Globe skippers now in the Indian Ocean grew to nine overnight as French sailors Thomas RUYANT and Jean LE CAM passed the Cape of Good Hope. Race first-timer RUYANT, skipper of Le Souffle du Nord pour le Projet Imagine, and veteran LE CAM on Finistère Mer Vent, were just under four hours apart from one another passing the magical longitude of 018°29.85'E.
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Safety first - @VendeeGlobe - 0 views

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    The three skippers in the Vendee Globe solo round the world race who are having to avoid the worst of the violent Southern Ocean storm all are deploying different strategies. Two, Jean LE CAM in eighth and seventh placed Jean-Pierre DICK are headed in different directions as they outrun the worst of the winds nearest the centre of the low, while Yann ELIES in sixth has hove to and slowed right down - to just two or three knots at times - to hold a position which should ensure the strongest winds pass to his north.
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Pacific compression - @VendeeGlobe - 0 views

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    Persistent light winds in the middle of the Pacific, nearly half way between New Zealand and Cape Horn means the chasing pack, led by rookie Paul MEILHAT (SMA), are slashing their distance to the two Vendée Globe leaders Alex THOMSON (Hugo BOSS) and Armel LE CLEAC'H (Banque Populaire VIII).
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A scary moment for Sébastien DESTREMAU - @VendeeGlobe - 0 views

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    This afternoon at 0330hrs UTC and whilst TechnoFirst-faceOcean was sailing in a strong 30 knots of wind with three reefs in the mainsail and the J3, with her skipper inside, a rogue wave put the boat on her side, mast in the water.
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CAMPER up the ante to steal the lead - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    CAMPER have snatched the lead from Groupama and PUMA have slipped into second place as a high intensity and high stakes game of cat and mouse is unfolding as the fleet edge towards the Indian Ocean.
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Avarie de gréement sur Team Sanya qui se déroute pour réparer - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Tôt ce lundi, Team Sanya a constaté une avarie sur son gréement et fait route vers un port au sud de Madagascar pour évaluer les dommages et élaborer un plan de secours. Personne n'a été blessé à bord et les équipiers sont sains et saufs.
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Team Sanya suffer rigging damage, head to port for repair - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Team Sanya suffered damage to part of their rigging early on Monday and are heading to a port in southern Madagascar in order to assess the damage and make a repair plan. No one has been injured and the crew are all safe.
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Telefónica take the lead as fleet fractures - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    It is a nervous time for Team Telefónica's navigator Andrew CAPE having "rolled the dice" and laid his bet on a course that has placed his team in the lead, but also at one end of a major split in the fleet.
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The race to the front - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    After a hideous night bashing across the Agulhas Current, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet has now reached a road block. It is the windless trough between the two low-pressure systems, which have threatened, but not yet evolved into one. It is now a race to get through the light and fluky airs of the trough and reach the new northerly breeze of the second front.
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Faites vos jeux ! - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Nuit agitée sur l'eau, journée agitée dans la tête des navigateurs. Après un passage nocturne mouvementé à travers le courant des Aiguilles, différentes options se dessinent dans l'Indien.
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Spreadeagled teams seek decisive edge - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    It has been a case of go, stop, go, stop for the frustrated fleet overnight as all six teams race to chase down the same high speed front, but on varied courses now stretching 200 miles across the Indian Ocean.
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Des nouvelles de Yann : par où la sortie ? - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Groupama et ses cinq concurrents se bagarrent avec un Indien compliqué : un creux barométrique leur barre le chemin. « Les routages s'affolent, » écrit ce matin Yann RIOU, l'équipier média.
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Frustration as fleet waits for moment to pounce - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Frustration is the feeling pulsing through the Volvo Ocean Race fleet this morning as the crews search desperately for a way through a weather front that currently blocks their path.
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PUMA nurse slim lead on first night - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    PUMA's Mar Mostro held the slimmest of leads on the first night of Leg 3 Stage 2 on Sunday with the entire fleet split by just 2.90 nautical miles.
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Battered but unbowed, Team Sanya vow to complete Leg 2 first stage - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Team Sanya aim to complete the first stage of Leg 2 after being forced to take refuge in Madagascar due to a rigging failure, they announced today.
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Do Groupama have Doldrums timing right? - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    As one by one the boats disappear into the anti-piracy stealth zone, the skippers and navigators have been finalising their Doldrums strategies.
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Fleet closing in on Groupama by stealth - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    Team Telefónica have jumped to second place and more than halved Groupama sailing team's lead overnight, as the entire racing fleet vanished into the anti-piracy stealth zone.
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Jingle all the way - Volvo Ocean Race - 0 views

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    The spirit of Christmas has caught up with the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, prompting the merry sailors to break into an original rendition of the classic carol Jingle Bells.
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