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ETA for the next boats

COURSE, 20 JANVIER 2025 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau La Mie Caline lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 20 janvier 2025. (Photo du skipper Arnaud Boissières)
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Sam Goodchild attempts to repair his mainsail | Vendée Globe 2024
RACE, JANUARY 20, 2025 : Photo sent from the boat VULNERABLE SG during the Vendee Globe sailing race on January 20, 2025. (Photo by skipper Sam Goodchild)

The final miles feel the hardest

The lead group on the water are dealing with the strong winds near the centre of the low pressure system, trying as best as possible to keep their boats under control, reined back. Following Sam Goodchild’s mainsail tear on Vulnerable the British skipper remains on a more open, downwind angle and…

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Equator crossing times (return)

Mer de contrastes | Daily recap | Vendée Globe 2024
RACE, JANUARY 20, 2025 : Photo sent from the boat VULNERABLE SG during the Vendee Globe sailing race on January 20, 2025. (Photo by skipper Sam Goodchild)

Adapting to broken dreams

With less than 1200 miles or about three days of racing left to the Les Sables d’Olonne finish line of his first Vendée Globe, British skipper Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) had his best chances of finishing in fourth place ripped from his grasp in a few seconds when his IMOCA made a pair of…

Sam Davies : "the wind's going to be changing"

Weather report #71 - January 20 | Vendée Globe 2024
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Sam Goodchild tears his mainsail | Vendée Globe 2024
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Sam Goodchild has torn his mainsail

COURSE, 20 JANVIER 2025 : Photo envoyée depuis le bateau Groupe APICIL lors de la course à la voile du Vendée Globe le 20 janvier 2025. (Photo du skipper Damien Seguin)
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Audacity and mastery of one's environment are the keys to overcoming isolation

While the first skippers are finishing their round-the-world races, the back of the Vendée Globe fleet is finishing its round-the-Antarctic after more than two months at sea. Morale is tested in the headwinds, but these audacious people keep their goal in mind: Les Sables d'Olonne.

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RACE, JANUARY 19, 2025 : Photo sent from the boat VULNERABLE SG during the Vendee Globe sailing race on January 19, 2025. (Photo by skipper Sam Goodchild)

Getting into it

Some 150 miles south of the Azores Jérémie Beyou (Charal) and Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) are now getting into the low pressure area and the progressively strengthening winds. The French skipper has taken a few miles of a lead. As they pass the island archipelago today the winds look set to be…

Vertigo | Daily Recap | Vendée Globe 2024
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