[Source: Vende Globe] At around 13h00 (UTC) this afternoon, Lock Peyron's IMOCA Open 60 racing in the Vende Globe dismasted while sailing 180 miles south of the Crozet Islands and 650 miles from the Kerguelen Islands. Peyron, the only skipper in the solo round the world race to have competed in the first edition of the race in 1989 , was in third place around fifteen miles from the new leader, Sbastien Josse (BT), Early this afternoon Lock Peyron (Gitana Eighty) informed the Race Directors that his boat had been dismasted. He was sailing at the time under Solent with one reef in the main in thirty knot winds. At the time of the incident he was inside his boat. The skipper was not injured and is in good health.  read more »