François Guiffant – a solo sailor waiting for his ticket to the Vendée Globe
One thing that can be said with certainty about François Guiffant is that he knows the IMOCA game and its boats as well as anyone.
•••One thing that can be said with certainty about François Guiffant is that he knows the IMOCA game and its boats as well as anyone.
•••Awareness and progress towards finding solutions to the problem of boats hitting marine ma…
•••Once again La Base marina in Lorient, Brittany – the main home of the IMOCA fleet – is a h…
•••1st | 425 pts | ||||
2nd | 417 pts | ||||
3rd | 384 pts | ||||
4 | 371 pts | ||||
5 | 334 pts |
On day four of the Transat Jacques Vabre race on board Malizia - Seaexplorer, Boris Herrmann and Will Harris deployed a scientific instrument called a drifter buoy off the coast of Portugal at 37 degrees North.
•••With just over a week to go to the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre, the IMOCA Class has re-affirmed its ban on introducing T-foils on its boat’s rudders, and voted overwhelmingly in favour of introd…
•••Now well into its first season – having been introduced in January this year – IMOCA’s successful environmentally-responsible Green Sail Rule is set to be expanded and made more stringent, as it moves ahead from the firs…
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