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Monsters. INC.
The Indian Ocean has a fearsome reputation among sailing’s ocean racers and the Vendée Globe leaders are set to deal with their first monster. Longtime pacemaker Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance) and second placed Seb Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) are set for a difficult 24 hours which will test…
I built a tool last night during the bigger repair I had to do since the start. My foil rake ram ripped off the foil on the port side. I managed to fix it on a fixed rake now. Naturally, it felt as good as seeing the Albatross just after. To sum up, fixed rake on port is a small handicap now but we can continue.
Clarisse Crémer: "That’s the way the cookie crumbles"
The Vendée Globe watched over from space with CLS
As the skippers race in the sometimes ferocious Southern Ocean close to Antarctica, the Vendée Globe is paying extra attention to look after the sailors’ safety. A virtual zone called the Antarctic Exclusion Zone (ZEA) has been set up around Antarctica, prohibiting skippers from getting too close…
The biggest test so far
Whilst the group consisting of Justine Mettraux (TeamWork Team Snef), Sam Davies (Initiatives Coeur), Boris Herrmann (Malizia Seaexplorer), Benjamin Dutreux (Guyot Environnement), Clarisse Crémer (L’Occitaine en Provence) are enduring the most unpleasant conditions at the back of a big low pressure…
Double indemnity or double jeopardy?
At the head of the Vendée Globe fleet it looks very much like the two leading skipper Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil) and Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prevoyance) are following suit, progressively repositioning to the north away from the path of a malicious Southern Ocean low pressure system which…
Good health makes a key contribution to performance on the Vendée Globe
Since its very beginnings ocean racing has always been a story of men or women and their sailing machines, but the way we look at the balance between the performance of the boat and that of the sailor has definitely evolved. Initially attention was focused almost solely on the performance and…
