retirement for Maxime Sorel, skipper of the IMOCA V and B - Monbana - Mayenne
Maxime Sorel retires
Maxime Sorel the skipper of V and B - Monbana - Mayenne has taken the tough decision to retire from the Vendée Globe this Friday at midday. Since the second day, his ankle had been badly swollen following a shock to sustained when he was trying to repair his hook and mainsail track problems. His…
Sliding south to the roadblock
Having passed west of the Canaries now the Vendée Globe leaders are set to really come into much lighter winds as they negotiate the east side of an anticyclone which will impede their course south.
22:00 UTC : Sam Goodchild is leading the fleet !
Four days, four leaders Lunven on top
Day four of the Vendée Globe solo non-stop race around the world brings another new leader. As the leaders pass the latitude of the Canary Islands, where they might normally find the trade winds blowing to carry them down towards the Cape Verdes and the Equator beyond, the breeze is lightening and…
Mast Climb by Skipper Szabolcs WEORES on NEW EUROPE
Discover the official water bottle
Yoann Richomme : "It was a surprise this morning to lead the fleet"
Sam Goodchild : "I have just stopped in a raincloud for 25 minutes"
Madeira's cloud conundrum
As the Vendée Globe leaders have passed Maderia there has been a bit of a compression as the pacemakers run first into the more complicated, slower conditions while those behind them retain the breeze. Leader Yoann Richomme (Paprec Arkéa) seems to have profited and moved out to a 16 nautical miles…
