Extensive repair going on aboard Alex Thomson's HUGO BOSS in the Vendee Globe. The breakage in the bow area was major. HB did not hit anything. It was an engineering and/or operator error failure caused by either falling off a wave while foiling at 30 knots, or over tensioning the halyard on a masthead jib that caused the longitudinal support to break in many places. Fortunately the breakage was discovered before HB came apart and sank.
https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/news/...oss-in-a-video
Good news is though he dropped from 1st to now 400 miles behind the leaders, the major part of the repair is complete and AT is back in the race while he finishes the repair and clean up. Good going!
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/ind...-2020/&page=44