The author Jonathan McKee explores his favorite twists and turns of the 2020-21 Vendee Globe.
Yachting world vendee globe. Forbes The Insanity And Elegance Of The Vendée Globe Sailing Race. The world of singlehanded offshore racing has always drawn a certain kind of adventure-orientated sailor starting with legends like Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Bernard Moitessier - the two sailors who dominated the 1968-1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. However Herrmanns chances of becoming the first non-French skipper to win the Vendee Globe dissipated just minutes after Dalins victory.
Frances Yannick Bestaven won the Vendee Globe round-the-world solo yacht race on Thursday after a dramatic finish when one of his rivals hit a fishing trawler in the home stretch. She went on to complete the Vendee Globe course to carry on fundraising for her supporting partner Initiatives Couer. Heres what theyll take and how they decide on what to carry in their quiver.
In the May 2021 issue of Yachting World. Chris Tibbs outlines the tactical challenges on a run across the Atlantic to St Lucia. For details see Around the World in 80 Daunting Days of Deprivation.
Each solo sailor is allowed to carry 9 sails around the world. The Vendée Globe is the only sailing race round the world thats solo non-stop and without assistance and it is all systems go for the 9th edition on November 8 2020. British solo sailor and Yachting World correspondent Pip Hare is competing in the Vendee Globe in November 2020 aboard Medallia the oldest IMOCA 60 taking p.
Alex Thomson has just passed north of the Kerguelen Islands a remote archipelago of islands in the southern Indian Ocean known as the desolate islands and. 208449 likes 6515 talking about this. Yannick Bestaven won the Vendée Globe solo round the world sailing race after he was handed a time bonus of more than 10 hours for his role in rescuing a.
Pace notes for the ARC 2009. Yachting World February 22 With her Vendée Globe now complete Pip Hare Ocean Racing gives a walk around of her boat Medallia and relives the highs and lows of her solo unassisted race around the world. The 20202021 edition of the Vendée Globe ended with the most exciting series of final days in the races history.