The last three skippers competing in the Vendée Globe are into their last days racing. Manuel Cousin (Coup de Pouce, 31st) is expected to finish on Friday. Getting closer to land he now has to be ...

Consider Cape Horn, an imposing black coloured lonely lump of rock. 425 metres high, 12 km² at the end of the world, swept by violent storms. All in all a very hostile, lonely area to work at. Welcome ...

Now, just these past days having turned 46, Eric Bellion - who was one of the best rookies of the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe - is is off and running again. Always a skipper to champion diversity and ...

Now that the skippers are well into their circumnavigation of Antarctic it’s a good time to learn about the polar scientific stations which are situated in some of the most remote, hostile parts of ...

Arnaud Boissières, skipper of the recently dismasted La Mie Câline has been forced to retire from the race in the end. He took this decision on Sunday and officialised it with race management. The ...

All the sailors in the Vendée Globe could make their own a slogan for a brand of cheese that has stuck in the collective memory: "Eating well is the beginning of happiness"! A statement that takes on ...

At 23h 27min 20sec (UTC) Yoann Richomme passed the last of the three major capes of the solo non-stop race around the world, the infamous Cape Horn, in the lead of the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe ...

The almost perfect conditions, riding ahead of the low pressure in still relatively flat water, has seen a memorable evening and night for the fast moving lead group on the Vendée Globe who ...

For almost two years, the Les P'tits Doudous team has been working tirelessly to build a more environmentally-friendly monohull. Reused carbon from Airbus, titanium screws collected by caregivers... A ...

THE SKIPPERS SAID (11/40). Eight years ago he enchantedrace followers when he finished his race under jury rig after being dismaster 15 days before the line. Courageous, talented and tenacious, Conrad ...

The circumpolar current goes around Antarctica and carries the Vendée Globe skippers in their race around the South Pole. "It is the strongest of all ocean currents because no land obstacle stops it", ...

COURSE, 08 FÉVRIER 2024 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau Singchain Team Haikou lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 08 février 2024. (Photo du skipper Jingkun Xu) ...