BUREAU VALLE OUT of Vendee Globe, Day 24. Onboard CHARAL, DUBREIUL, MALIZIA, BEST WESTERN, HUBLOT

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The Indian Ocean has a fearsome reputation among sailing’s ocean racers and the Vondée Globe leaders are set to deal with their first monster. Longtime pacemaker Charlie Dalin, (MACIF Santé Prévoyance), and second placed Seb Simon, (Groupe Dubreuil, are set for a difficult 24 hours which will test their resolve and that of their boats to the full.

Although the forecasts for the low which has threatened the top boats for a few days now are showing a little more manageable conditions, winds are still going to be more than 40 knots with big seas. But increasingly it seems like, If Dalin and Simon can outrun the worst of the system, and not be swallowed by it, they might pull off a minor coup and gain somewhere around 200 miles on the chasing peloton who are now well to their northwest.