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Vendée skipper rescued by rival

rench solo skipper Kevin Escoffier has said he had no doubt that he’d be rescued after his IMOCA 60 broke in two during the Vendée Globe. The 40-year-old, who’d been in third place in the round the world yacht race, had just minutes to put sank around 840 miles south-west of Cape Town.

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