Sail with New Freebooters

At the start of this leg:

Team Russia was out, still hoping to find a new sponsor
Delta Lloyd and Telefonica Black will undergo major repairs and turn up for Leg 6
Ericsson 3 had not quite finished Leg 4
Telefonica Blue had grounded hard and decided to take the boat out to check for damage

The wind died, and [...]

Batteries aren’t a limitless source of power
Batteries are storage devices, and you shouldn’t even use more than half what they store if you want them to keep working for more than a few cycles.
There are three ways you can refill (i.e. recharge) them:

by plugging into the electrical system supplied in a marina berth
by using a [...]

… except waiting for Jan to be rescued. I really believe she means it.
At 01:41:01 this morning in a freezing cold, brisk breeze, Sam crossed the finishing line of the Vendée Globe. Third to finish, she now has to wait to see if Marc Guillemot can finish inside the time allotted to him for his [...]

A lot of the current Vendée Globe’s competitors have hit submerged objects, and in quite a few cases the collision has caused enough damage to force them to retire - thousands of miles later, if not immediately.
Sometimes these objects were inanimate and probably man-made, but quite a few seem to have been large marine mammals. [...]

I have to believe that professional yachtsmen don’t get seasick under anything but extreme conditions, and I’ve sailed with people who quite happily went below when we had three reefs in, and fried the mackerel we had just caught.
I’m unlucky. I even felt twinges of nausea once in a dinghy - in zero wind and [...]