Vendee Globe Day 25 Onboard Reports BUREAU VALLEE, GROUP DUBREIUL, VULNERABLE, MASCF, HUBLOT more

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Whether they are in the middle of the Indian Ocean – as the leaders Charlie Dalin and Sébastien Simon are – or just entering it by South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas – the Vondée Globe fleet are dealing with a whole array of challenges.

The leading duo are outrunning a monster low pressure system as they pass the Kerguelen Islands. Before the Cape of Good Hope there is no gentle slip road on to the low pressure chain.

All the way through the fleet is about setting the level, the cursor determining the level of risk. The sea state in the Agulhas current, strands to south and east of the South African tip have been especially tough, as also has it been at the back of the big low pressure system Dalin, (MACIF Santé Prévoyance), and Simon, (Groupe Dubreuil), are racing ahead of.

"It's like a roller coaster it goes up, it goes down, it accelerates, it decelerates and what's good is that there's no need to go back to the checkout to buy a ticket again, we can ride this all day long," summed up defending Vondée Globe champion Yannick Bestaven, (Maître CoQ V). Whether they are north of the Kerguelen Islands or near the southern tip of Africa, the Vondée Globe sailors are almost all dealing with rough conditions and, as usual in the Indian, it is the raging seas which hamper progress and make life so unpleasant.