The ascent of Mike Golding in Vendee Globe

8:27 AM Mon 24 Nov 2008 GMT

'Ecover ? JEAN MARIE LIOT / DPPI / Vend?e Globe' Jean-Marie Liot / DPPI / Vend?e Globe &copy

The ascent of Mike Golding, GBR (Ecover 3) up the Vend?e Globe leader board continues as he moves up to sixth place, less than two miles adrift of fifth placed Armel Le Cl?ac'h (Brit Air).

Lo?ck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) has lead of just less than 30 miles, his 11th day at the top of the fleet.

Brian Thompson, GBR, (Bahrain Team Pindar) now lies tenth.

Tenth on Friday evening, Mike Golding, the British solo skipper has made steady gains over the weekend, showing good speed, to rise to sixth in this morning's Vend?e Globe rankings, seemingly poised to attack the elite group of top five which has been established for five days.

Making a net gain of nearly 14 miles on leader Lo?ck Peyron, Golding's position slightly west of the leading pack and speed helped him rise to within two miles this morning of Armel Le Cl?ac'h (Brit Air). Golding has again been quickest over the last 24 hours and since the last rankings were published at 19h GMT last night.

After passing Dominique Wavre, SUI, (Temenos II) yesterday evening, Brian Thompson, GBR (Bahrain Team Pindar) moves into the top 10, partly due to the detour of J?r?mie Beyou to Salvador de Bahia due to damage to his spreaders.

Wavre is increasingly under threat from the progress of Marc Guillemot (Safran) who has been second quickest overnight, and is 12 miles behind the Swiss skipper.

In pursuit, Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) is 404 miles behind the leader Gitana Eighty and has a course which is 50 miles inshore, to the west of that taken by Thompson and Wavre, and is still 128 miles behind 13th placed Sam Davies, GBR, (ROXY).

Steve White, GBR, (Toe in the Water) should have crossed the Equator early this morning, the eighteenth skipper to do so. He lies 19th on the rankings but was about 120 miles closer to the border to the Southern Hemisphere than 18th placed Unai Basurko, ESP, (Pakea Bizkaia) who is computed to have a more favourable easterly position.

0500 HRS GMT. Rankings, (FRA, unless stated)
1- Lo?ck Peyron (Gitana Eighty) 20686.1 miles to the finish
2- Seb Josse (BT) at + 29.6 miles to leader
3- Jean-Pierre Dick (Paprec-Virbac 2) at + 40.2 miles to leader
4- Vincent Riou (PRB) at + 59.9 miles to leader
5-Armel Le Cl?ac'h (Brit Air) at + 62.4 miles r

Selected International
6- Mike Golding, GBR, (ECOVER 3) at + 64.2 miles
10- Brian Thompson, GBR, (Bahrain Team Pindar) at + 220.6 miles
11- Dominique Wavre, SUI, (Temenos 2) at + 221.8 miles
13- Sam Davies, GBR,(ROXY) at + 276.7 miles
16- Dee Caffari, GBR, (AVIVA) at + 453.5 miles
18- Unai Basurko, ESP, (Pakea Bizkaia) at + 570.9 miles
19- Steve White, GBR, (Toe in the Water) at + 617.2 miles
20- Johnny Malbon, GBR, (Artemis) at + 638.1 miles
21- Rich Wilson, USA, (Great America III) at + 702.7 miles
23- Bernard Stamm, SUI, (Chemin?es Poujoulat) at + 913.3 miles
24- Norbert Sedlacek, AUT, (Nauticsport-Kapsch) at + 1045.8 miles
25- Derek Hatfield, CAN, (Algimouss Spirit of Canada) at + 1447.8 miles

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