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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…

Vendée Globe: the threat Boris Herrmann

January 19, 2021

The seas are deceptive, so are the Vendée Globe rankings. The unspectacular sixth place of the German Boris Herrmann, Tuesday, January 19 in the…

Samantha Davies, the more than solitary of the Vendée Globe

January 8, 2021

The worst day of her life, when she thought she would lose it. On December 2, Samantha Davies, 46, heroine of the Vendée Globe…

Vendée Globe: these foils that can turn against their skippers

December 21, 2020

The six boats that left the Vendée Globe until Sunday December 20 were all equipped with the latest generation foils. This is a statistic…

Vendée Globe: please draw me a boat

December 15, 2020

Not long ago, the blue of “LinkedOut” helmed by Thomas Rettant, long second, overtook the yellow of “Apivia” driven by Charlie Dalin, delicately with…

In the Vendée Globe, icebergs are sailors’ deadly enemies

December 7, 2020

Geographers call them tabulars, but they have won since 1er February 1990 the nickname of “sinful” in the marine world, so much they are…

Vendée Globe: Kevin Escoffier recovered by the French Navy

December 6, 2020

French skipper Kevin Escoffier (PRB), who had to abandon the Vendée Globe and who had been rescued by Jean Le Cam aboard “Yes We…

Charlie Dalin, the Vendée Globe sailor-pilot-architect

December 1, 2020

The star of the Vendée Globe is not yet him, first in the class, but Jean Le Cam, dean of the race and lifeguard,…

Vendée Globe: Kevin Escoffier rescued by Jean Le Cam, the castaway rescuer