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Five contenders for the next Vendee Globe have been training since Monday at the French training centre in Port-la-Forêt in S.W. Brittany. Present were Sam Davies (Roxy), Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia), Armel Le Cleac´h (Brit Air), Yann Elies (Generali) and Vincent Riou (PRB). They have been going through some sessions in single-handed manoeuvre training around the Glenan Islands.
* The young skipper and designer from Normandy, Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty has become the seventeenth person to register officially for the Vendee Globe. His monohull, Maisonneuve, is currently undergoing a winter refit, which should finish shortly in Lorient, with the help of the round the world yachtsman, Herve Laurent. Jean-Baptiste will just be thirty years old this year.
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