Vendée Globe
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Gitana Team
To modify and adapt a monohull from the current generation or design and build a new craft, such was the first question Sébastien Josse and the Gitana Team needed to answer. The choice is made. It will be a new monohull designed by Guillaume Verdier Architecture Navale and VPLP Yacht Design Yacht Design #YachtDesign (Marc Van Peteghem and (...)
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Gitana Team
The 2014 season promises to be equally thrilling with the major Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum meeting, whose fleet will set sail from Saint Malo on 2 November. Above all though it marks the start of a five-year campaign packed with surprises, which kicks off with the arrival of a new craft within the Gitana Team and Sébastien (...)
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IMOCA
"IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA is moving forward, respecting its history, and preparing for its future." The class of monohulls entering the Vendée Globe and Barcelona World race Barcelona World Race #barcelonaworldrace a published the changes skippers and yacht designers were working for a long months. the main conclusion is that "the keel and the (...)
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Vendée Globe
While the awards ceremony approaches (May 11 in Les Sables d’Olonne with all the skippers) and will close this wonderful 2012-2013 Vendée Globe, the 7th edition of the round the world race, nonstop and unassisted generated benefits never reached before. Bruno Retailleau, President of the SAEM Vendée, presented them on Monday afternoon (...)
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Vendée Globe
Arnaud Boissières on Akéna Vérandas set in motion a fantastic afternoon of celebrations when he finished the Vendée Globe solo non-stop round the world race in eighth place. He crossed the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at 13h11m02s UTC ready to make his way into his home port, the home of his sponsors and to berth at the Port Olona (...)
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Vendée Globe
Dominique Wavre crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe at 15 :16 :42hrs (UTC). He takes seventh place in the race behind Mike Golding. His elapsed time is 90 days 3hours 14minutes 42 seconds. His average speed Speed #speedsailing on the course is 11.3 knots. He has sailed 27,395.82 miles on the water at an average speed Speed (...)
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Vendée Globe
C’est à 19 heures 38 minutes et 26 secondes, ce mercredi 6 février 2013, que Mike Golding a coupé le ligne d’arrivée du Vendée Globe, au large des Sables d’Olonne. 6è de cette édition 2012-2013 du tour du monde en solitaire, sans escale et sans assistance, le Britannique devient le premier skipper à terminer, en 24 ans (...)
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Vendée Globe
French skipper Jean-Pierre Dick crossed the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne this afternoon at 15hrs 5mins and 40 seconds UTC/GMT to finish fourth in the Vendée Globe, the famous solo nonstop around the world race. His third participation has yielded his best ever result, despite having to race the final 2 650 miles without a keel on (...)
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Vendée Globe
This Sunday morning 3rd February around 1049hrs UTC two distress beacons of ACCIONA 100% EcoPowered, skippered by Spanish solo sailor Javier Sanso which is racing in the Vendée Globe non stop solo round the world race were triggered. The alarms were received at 1052hrs (...)
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Vendée Globe
Alex Thomson sailed into the legendary canal, the artery into the heart of Les Sables d’Olonne this morning at typically breakneck speed Speed #speedsailing . With more than 30 kts of wind and mountainous seas Thomson was in no mood to hang around.