IMOCA Open 60 - Vendée Globe 2016/17 - Day 44

No position changes during the last 24 hours: Armel Le Cléac'h FRA remains on top and will probably round Cape Horn before Christmas. Alex Thompson GBR has finally touched a fresher breeze and kept the backlog on the Frenchman at 510 nm. Paul Meilhat FRA and Jérémy Béyou FRA on the ranks 3 and 4 are still sailing jointly, separated by 8 nm only. Two retirements are expected in the coming hours. Stéphane Diraison FRA with a broken mast is heading for Australia under jury rig and Thomas Ruyant FRA, whose Open 60 is about to break apart after a heavy crash with flotsam. Here the onboard video. Rich Wilson USA, still positioned as 16th, will move up on rank 14 after the expected abandonments.
The race tracker, the report of this morning and the videos.