Alex Thomson departs Cape Town and ‘heads for home’ onboard HUGO BOSS
Alex Thomson today departed from Cape Town, South Africa to begin the 6,500nm journey back to the UK onboard his HUGO BOSS boat.
•••Alex Thomson today departed from Cape Town, South Africa to begin the 6,500nm journey back to the UK onboard his HUGO BOSS boat.
•••The Franco-German skipper Isabelle Joschke has been forced to abandon her Vendée Globe on the 62nd day of racing after a further failure of the keel canting system on board her IMOCA MACSF.
•••Succcess! Pip Hare has replaced her port rudder in the depths of the South Pacific....she …
•••The British sailor, who left with the firm intention of completing her circumnavigation of…
•••Britain’s Pip Hare is looking for a benevolent small weather window in the depths of the S…
•••The ninth edition of the Vendée Globe is far from over but, with the leaders now at Cape H…
•••Alone, surfing north eastwards in the grip of stormy winds and seas, passing 85 miles sout…
•••Fiercely independent, completely at home on the water alone and utterly determined to achi…
•••Mike Golding has sailed past Cape Horn enough times to know what it feels like better than…
•••Soon I will have made it across the Indian Ocean! It seems like a long time ago that I lef…
•••If you were lucky enough to speak to Armel Tripon during this Vendée Globe, you would come…
•••Charlie Dalin (APIVIA) goes on the record as the Christmas Number 1 on the Vendée Globe ra…
•••I see jean le roi on the ais. We make the Christmas dance together. Hold the sails to the …
•••In this holiday season, there is no respite for the Vendée Globe sailors. At the head of t…
•••The first boats are now crossing the International Date Line, the imaginary line at a long…
•••Anyone who has followed Isabelle Joschke’s progress from Figaro racing to Class 40s and th…
•••The sailor left Cape Town on December 14th, out of the race, on board her IMOCA Initiative…
•••Charles Darbyshire is steeped in solo ocean racing, having run the Artemis Offshore Academ…
•••After Thomas Ruyant suffered water ingress into his bow compartment and had to stop Linked…
•••Back on course after a scare which required him to stop his LinkedOut last night Thomas Ru…
•••The International Jury of the 2020 Vendée Globe have published their decisions for time co…
•••If everything had gone according to plan and his dreams had come true, Jack Bouttell would…
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