The Everest Of The Seas, Vendée Globe, starts in Les Sables d'Olonne, France. It's time to find out why this is regarded as the greatest sailing race round the world. Solo, non-stop and without assistance - a record 33 skippers, including 6 women, representing nine countries, take to the water for their epic vogage competing against each other, their inner demons and the elements. Certainly an extreme way to get out of a Covid lockdown. Footage ©Vendée Globe
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Vendée Globe 2020 - The Start
The start of the Vendée Globe - near perfect 10 knots SE breeze and flat seas at the gun - sending the lone 27 men and 6 women off on their gruelling 24,296 nautical mile round the world challenge. Footage ©Vendée Globe / Nefertiti Production
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Vendée Globe 2020 - Day Fifty Four
Happy New Year and welcome to 2021 from the Vendée Globe and VRsportTV! It's a new dawn for all of us and plenty of messages from the fleet. Bestaven is in the wind and starting his dash for Cape Horn widening the gap from Dalin. Footage ©Vendée Globe / Nefertiti Production
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Vendée Globe 2020 - Day Fifty Three
Charlie Dalin knows he needs to keep close to the leader, Yannick Bestaven, or the gap is going to become a crevasse. Clarisse Cremer, in 12th, celebrates her 31st birthday - enjoying her cake and presents especially the wind. Footage ©Vendée Globe / Nefertiti Production
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