The IMOCA fleet is now split into two distinct groups as they approach the Cape of Good Hope. At the front, the leading group is navigating under the influence of a particularly intense depression.
•••Like everyone else who has been gripped by what has been an extraordinary 10th edition of …
•••Still propelled by a fast moving depression the six leading boats continue at record speed…
•••| 1st |   | 400 pts | |||
| 2nd |   | 391 pts | |||
| 3rd |  | 355 pts | |||
| 4 |   | 331 pts | |||
| 5 |   | 263 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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