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Sailing / racing around the world single handed - Nov 2024

domlouis said:

November 26 radio session with Pip Hare | Vendée Globe 2024

All the information you need about the Vendée Globe 2024: skippers, rankings, maps and news about this solo, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world race.
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Pip was live video on the daily update the other day. The team also organised a lovely surprise for her - linking up Mrs GrizZ with her . Sadly she has suffered a back injury and we couldn’t travel out to the start - gutting for both sisters . So emotions were high bless them ❤️

From about 5.15 in the video

 
Incredible really that we can talk in real time with double video while she’s so far away. I’m dazzled by the technology because my mind is still stuck in the olden days - being born about 25 years before the internet was started, I still remember being dazzled by a wireless laptop in about 2003 (my friend pretended to be Paul Daniels and moved around an imaginary metal ring to prove there were no wires attached).
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Go Team Pip!
 
cooldan said:
Incredible really that we can talk in real time with double video while she’s so far away. I’m dazzled by the technology because my mind is still stuck in the olden days - being born about 25 years before the internet was started, I still remember being dazzled by a wireless laptop in about 2003 (my friend pretended to be Paul Daniels and moved around an imaginary metal ring to prove there were no wires attached).
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Yeah - they will soon be a long long way from home. Comes a point in the Southern Ocean when the closest other humans to them are onboard the Int. Space Station as it passes above them.
 
domlouis said:
Sounds like today hasn't been good 😕
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Tough day for her , but the sh*t hits the fan for all of them at some point . Stuff breaks ! Lots of repairs going on across the fleet. And Louis Burton who was racing very close with Pip has retired with mechanical issues he can’t resolve.

She is flying again last night though with a much happier update 😁 Broke the speed record on that boat 🙌 What a rollercoaster ride!
 
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This one is petrifying:
To be walking on the roof of your cabin, with no one anywhere near you to rescue you in the event anything goes wrong, while travelling at speed on rough sea. You have to have guts to do so. Well done to all of them.
 
domlouis said:
This one is petrifying:
To be walking on the roof of your cabin, with no one anywhere near you to rescue you in the event anything goes wrong, while travelling at speed on rough sea. You have to have guts to do so. Well done to all of them.
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Yep. Balls of steel . It’s tough stuff 🙌 Hope they all get through the Southern Ocean safely. Testing conditions to say the least.
 
Oh no. Completely missed this update. Hope she is fine. What happens next?
 
The map shows her going to Australia. She was literally the furthest she could be from here.
 
domlouis said:
Oh no. Completely missed this update. Hope she is fine. What happens next?
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She is devastated at this turn of events but is ok and picking herself up after the shock of it all .
Heading slowly to Melbourne to assess the damage and figure out the next move for getting the boat back to the UK.
She put up a much cheerier post yesterday , good to see her smiling and joking again after an awful 24 hours. She’s a fighter.

 
That's good to hear. A cheery update.

The race is amazing: the front three are within 1 mile of each other (land mile) after 38 days of racing, having covered 16,200 miles.
 
Happy to report Pip is safe on land again, reaching Melbourne yesterday after 800 miles on her ‘jury rigged slow boat ‘.

Great response from the Aussie sailing community giving support and help on her arrival .

She was interviewed live on BBC Breakfast earlier this morning.

1 hour 26mins into the broadcast (7.26 am)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026f67/breakfast-29122024

She was on Sky News, and 5Live also .
 
Right so we have a winner as of this morning. Charlie Dalin crossed the finishing line in 64 days and 19 hrs.
The last sailer in the race is not expected to cross the line for another 2-3 months.
The scale of this race is gigantic.
Disappointingly, not a single word on the BBC website. It's like it hasn't happened.
Anyway, where is Pip now? Is she back in the uk? And where is her boat?
 
domlouis said:
Right so we have a winner as of this morning. Charlie Dalin crossed the finishing line in 64 days and 19 hrs.
The last sailer in the race is not expected to cross the line for another 2-3 months.
The scale of this race is gigantic.
Disappointingly, not a single word on the BBC website. It's like it hasn't happened.
Anyway, where is Pip now? Is she back in the uk? And where is her boat?
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Incredible race by Charlie . Really showing how the new generation of boats are capable of performing .

Pip still in Oz sorting stuff.
I believe the boat will be getting transported back to base via ship , time / logistics and all the associated costs make it unviable to fit a new mast , all the repair needed and sail it all the way back.
 
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