Vendée Globe Day 3: Wild west or safer south?
![Vendée Globe Day 3: Wild west or safer south?](http://yandy.co.uk/photos/open60/350/yysw300410.jpg)
Heading west this afternoon and encountering building winds, skippers of the many of the faster foiling IMOCAs are preparing themselves for an overnight pounding, set to last five or six hours, when they punch through an active weather front.