Cat and mouse towards the doldrums
It's a game of inches as the fleet works southwest towards the equator
•••It's a game of inches as the fleet works southwest towards the equator
•••The five IMOCA teams in The Ocean Race face a contrasting second leg, after the brutal upwind and fast downwind conditions of Leg 1.
•••The IMOCA crews on the five entries in The Ocean Race are stuffed full of some of the most…
•••The new campaign builds on a winning French-German collaboration from The Ocean Race Europ…
•••As Sebastien looks ahead to the Vendée Globe 2024, he can only be content with this excell…
•••The IMOCA Class has enjoyed a vintage and innovative year in 2021 and now it is time for t…
•••Martin Viezzer, mediaman, boarded the IMOCA ARKÉA PAPREC and brought back some great pictu…
•••Once the multihulls have set off at 11:10 (BST), the 13 IMOCA boats will enter the race at…
•••Yes, it is indeed on the British side of the Channel that the traditional canons of the Ro…
•••The IMOCA Class is taking on this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race in force, with up to 15 boats …
•••The team at ARKEA PAPREC and French skipper Sébastien Simon have confirmed he has abandone…
•••At 0820hrs UTC this morning, ARKEA PAPREC hit an unidentified floating object. The collisi…
•••First storm of this round-the-world trip and the day dawns on a slightly groggy fleet.
•••Today Tuesday, Yves Auvinet, President of the SAEM Vendée, which organises the Vendée Glob…
•••After the damage caused to the starboard foil at the start of the race yesterday, Sébastie…
•••Today at precisely 7.55pm, only a few into the race, Sébastien Simon warned his shore team…
•••The conditions were ideal this afternoon off Lorient to open the Défi Azimut 2019 with a s…
•••After Jérémie Beyou’s Charal, the first new generation monohull launched a year ago, thing…
•••The 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race start will bring together no fewer than twenty IMOCA monohulls…
•••The summer news is rolling in off the presses for the IMOCA skippers, some of whom are pre…
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