In common with most of the major IMOCA races in recent years, skippers taking part in the Vendée Arctique, which set sail on Sunday, June,7, will be deploying weather and climate data-collecting buoys near the Arctic Cir…
•••Whether you’re in Les Sables d’Olonne or watching from home, you won’t miss a thing! The skippers will arrive at the race village at 09:30, leave the pontoons from 10:30 and cross the start line at 13:02. Here’s your gui…
•••The Vendée Arctique-Les Sables d’Olonne, which sets sail tomorrow, is going to test the meteorological and strategic skills of the nine skippers taking part like no other.
•••Nico d’Estais has been waiting all his life to sail solo in an IMOCA race and this weekend, when the Vendée Arctique leaves Les Sables D’Olonne for the Arctic Circle, he will be on Cloud 9.
•••The third edition of the Vendée Arctique-Les Sables D’Olonne race, which sets sail on Sunday, includes two of IMOCA’s great characters among its fleet of nine, in the form of the Italian sailor Ambrogio Beccaria and the …
•••With four wins in the last five races, just about everything Sam Goodchild touches in sailing right now turns to gold.
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Four years. One epic journey.
•••It has been another year full of emotions, discoveries, sailing, but above all joy, the joy of seeing more and more IMOCA sailors on the seas who share their extraordinary adventures with us. Relive the last twelve month…
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Sam GOODCHILD
Ambrogio BECCARIA
Francesca CLAPCICH
