Vendée Globe Saturday 1st February Update - Why do they do the Vendée Globe?
by Mark Jardine 31 Jan 2025 23:57 PST
1 February 2025
Antoine Cornic is the latest skipper to return to the Northern Hemisphere in the Vendée Globe, and he gives a tribute to Neptune.
Today Conrad Colman shows us how he puts a reef in his mainsail, Jingkun Xu tries to answer why he does races like this, and we hear from Benjamin Dutreux, who finished 10th but had to take shelter in La Rochelle, has made his way round to Les Sables d'Olonne.
We then look at the Tracker, Leaderboard and finish with an update from Oliver Heer.
Find out more...