And after the breakaway…. the comeback. As is very often the case in the Southern Ocean, big breakaways caused by one weather system are rarely maintained on the Vendée Globe and today the tables have turned a little more in the favour of those immediately behind the top two skippers, leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) and Seb Simon (Groupe Dubreuil).
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Today, Tuesday 10 December, at 8 hours, 23 minutes and 48 seconds, the ‘Maxicat Victoria’ arrived in San Salvador, Bahamas. They have beaten the record by completing it in 9 days, 17 hours, 41 minutes and 41 seconds. Congratulations to Alex Pella and the whole team!
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Today, Monday 2nd December, ‘at 9 hours, 23 minutes and 48 seconds, the “Maxicat Victoria” left La Gomera for San Salvador in the Bahamas, thus beginning the second leg of the Route of Discovery. Good luck and let’s go for the record!
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It is only a few weeks since the book “Magallanes frente a Elcano” (El Juicio de la Historia) ‘Magellan versus Elcano (The Trial of History)’ was published. The book, published by the Asociación Cultural y Científica Iberoamericana, recounts the most important maritime feat carried out by mankind, the first circumnavigation of the Earth, and is the result of five years of research by the author, Mr. Sabino Laucirica.
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The “Maxicat Victoria” is still moored at the Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, waiting for a good starting window for the second leg of the Discovery Route, the one between La Gomera and San Salvador, in the Bahamas. Alex Pella tells us about the weather situation in a video (in spanish).
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