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Sailing: Violette Dorange, the offshore princess of the Apprentis d’Auteuil

May 9, 2021

To become the youngest sailor in history at the start of the Vendée Globe in 2024. Violette Dorange does not hide her ambition. She…

When sailing, large multihulls look for air

April 25, 2021

A new boat for Armel Le Cléac’h, thirty months after the sinking of 2018 which had pulverized the previous one. A new youth and…

Damien Seguin : « Sur les bateaux du Vendée Globe, nous sommes tous des handicapés »

April 6, 2021

La Croix L’Hebdo : On dit souvent qu’un Vendée Globe est une expérience qui change un homme. Êtes-vous le même qu’avant le départ ?…

Vendée Globe, two “anachronistic” heroines

February 23, 2021

Seized on the phone between two maneuvers, in the middle of a last weather depression, the voice cracked, while their arrival became clearer, on…

Vendée Globe: Clarisse Crémer, the young woman and the sea

February 3, 2021

The rare spectators on the parapet of the Sables d’Olonne channel, mainly volunteers from the organization, must attend a show early in the afternoon…

Vendée Globe, the road is still long for some

January 29, 2021

The arrival in February 2001 of Michel Desjoyeaux in Les Sables d’Olonne as the winner of the Vendée Globe, Catherine Chabaud is not about…

Vendée Globe: Yannick Bestaven winner at the end of the night

January 28, 2021

Thirteen years that Yannick Bestaven, 47, was waiting to see the tide turn in his favor. Exactly since that day in November 2008, when…

Vendée Globe: Charlie Dalin first in Les Sables d’Olonne but perhaps not the winner

January 28, 2021

A crazy and new scenario. Charlie Dalin, aboard his monohull Apivia, was the first to cross the finish line of the 9eVendée Globe Wednesday…

Vendée Globe: at the finish, a race always driven by the spirit of adventure

January 27, 2021

The first sailor to go under the hundred days during the 2000-2001 edition, Michel Desjoyeaux inaugurated a line of records set to fall every…

Vendée Globe: victory will be played in the minds

January 21, 2021

Never had we known such a crowd approaching the line. Since the creation of the race in 1989, only three editions had seen two…