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On ne lâche rien ! | Daily Recap | Vendée Globe 2024
Appel VHF entre le sémaphore du Cap Horn et Yannick Bestaven | Vendée Globe 2024
TIERRA DEL FUEGO, DECEMBER 30, 2024 : Photo of the boat Maître CoQ V skipper Yannick Bestaven (FRA) in Beagle Channel, after retiring from the Vendee Globe sailing race for a technical problem on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Brice Monegier Du Sorbier)

Pain and poker in the South Atlantic

On the 50th day of the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe Yannick Bestaven, the winner of the 2020-2021 race is trying to get used to the harsh reality that his race is over. He was this morning heading into Ushuaia where he will meet his technical team to effect the various repairs required to his…

Water bottles Gobi

Weather report #50 - December 30 | Vendée Globe 2024
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The sea is green and pleasant for Boris Herrmann | Vendée Globe 2024
COURSE, 29 DÉCEMBRE 2024 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau GUYOT Environnement - Water Family lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 29 décembre 2024. (Photo du skipper Benjamin Dutreux) travaux
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RACE, DECEMBER 29, 2024 : Photo sent from the boat MACIF Santé Prévoyance during the Vendee Globe sailing race on December 29, 2024. (Photo by skipper Charlie Dalin)

Leaders locked together off Rio, Goodchild recovers miles

Four hundred or so miles to the southeast of Rio de Janeiro the Vendée Globe leaders are back together again, just six miles separating Yoann Richomme (PAPREC ARKÉA) and Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) as they climb slowly through the light winds zone caused by the semi stationery cold front…

Sam Goodchild : « I was totally glued to the bed »

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Forced to stopover in Ushuaïa the defending champion Yannick Bestaven announces his withdrawal from the Vendée Globe

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A succession of technical problems as well as foil damage for Isabelle Joschke on MACSF

Bricolage à tous les étages | Daily Recap | Vendée Globe 2024
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Hook problem and sail lost on Alan Roura's Hublot

RACE, DECEMBER 29, 2024 : Photo sent from the boat Freelance.com during the Vendee Globe sailing race on December 29, 2024. (Photo by skipper Guirec Soudée)

Regatta mode for yesterday’s Cape Horners, Goodchild attacks!

After rounding Cape Horn in quick succession yesterday the second group in the Vendée Globe, the peloton, have broken up slightly as they negotiate an upwind phase in light winds caused by a cell of high pressure. From deep ocean racing mode, dealing with the constant stress of the Southern Ocean,…

Weather report #49 - December 29 | Vendée Globe 2024
LES SABLES D'OLONNE, FRANCE - OCTOBER 26, 2024: Cape Horners association new members introduction is photographed with Loïck Peyron talking, at prestart of the Vendee Globe, on October 26, 2024 in Les Sables d'Olonne, France - (Photo by Olivier Blanchet / Alea)

Loïck Peyron: "Skippers are the stuff of our dreams. We need to say 'thank you' as well as 'bravo"

SUNDAY ANALYSIS. Loïck Peyron is an iconic figure of French sailing, a sailor whose talent and charismatic personality have won over people far beyond the world of sailing fans. Second in the very first edition of the Vendée Globe in 1989, he made his mark on the history of this legendary race…

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Pip Hare arrived in Melbourne

Sunday, December 29 | Vendée Live