Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss crosses the Equator in the Vendée Globe

© Alex Thomson Racing / #VG2020 Vendée Globe Day 11: Thomson first across the Equator
The complicated weather patterns of the first week, not least the high proportion of upwind sailing and multiple frontal systems, put to rest any hopes of the Vendée Globe's 9 days 7 hours and 02 minutes passage to the Equator being broken.