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Yachting world vendee globe. 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. The simple fact that Moitessier and Joshua kept sailing East after rounding Cape Horn to save his soul rather than hanging a left and. The 20202021 edition of the Vendée Globe ended with the most exciting series of final days in the races history.

For details see Around the World in 80 Daunting Days of Deprivation. 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.

Heres what theyll take and how they decide on what to carry in their quiver. Vendée Globe skipper and holder of 26 world sailing records shares his tips for super-hot helming. 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.

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. A problem with his rudder bearings forces Bernard Stamm into port with unfortunate consequences. 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.

In the May 2021 issue of Yachting World. 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. 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.

Chris Tibbs outlines the tactical challenges on a run across the Atlantic to St Lucia. December 2 2020 Inside the Dramatic Rescue of a Sailor in the Grueling Around-the-World Vendée Globe Race Tuesday mornings rescue of Vendée Globe sailor. To date the Vendée Globe is the greatest sailing race round the world solo non-stop and without assistance.