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Over a 30 years history standards and safety features on the Vendée Globe have significantly increased and improved. Some of these positive changes are directly as the result of dramatic incidents, others are the product of the combined experience and ideas of skippers and race managers.

At 1950hrs UTC this evening while racing in third place, some 90 miles from the Vendée Globe finish line off Les Sables d'Olonne German skipper Boris HERRMANN (Seaexplorer-Yacht Club de Monaco) was in collision with a fishing boat.

Kevin ESCOFFIER, 40, who is racing in third place in the Vendée Globe solo non-stop around the world race, positioned some 550 nautical miles SW of Cape Town, has triggered his distress beacon. He was racing in a strong SW'ly air stream on starboard tack behind a weather front.

While Jean LE CAM was involved in the rescue of Kevin ESCOFFIER 840 miles to the southwest of South Africa Vendée Globe leader Charlie DALIN passed the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope on Monday at 2311hrs UTC after 22d 9hrs 51mins since the start in Les Sables d'Olonne on Sunday 8th November

Transporting Sailboats Under Sail.