The Vendée Globe has long since proven to be much more than a solo race around the world. It is a human adventure which shapes lives and which very often develops destinies. On this edition one of the ...

After a career of over 20 years in ocean racing, including two Vendée Globe races with MACSF as a partner (finishing out of the race in the 2020 edition and 19th in the 2024 edition), Isabelle Joschke ...

More than half of the skippers who are about to take on the tenth Vendée Globe has a scientific collaboration project. They will sail with scientific measuring apparatus which will allow them to take ...

The last three skippers competing in the Vendée Globe are into their last days racing. Manuel Cousin (Coup de Pouce, 31st) is expected to finish on Friday. Getting closer to land he now has to be ...

The 10th edition of the Vendée Globe ends on an exceptional note, from a sporting, popular and media point of view. The level of competition has never been so high: Charlie Dalin, the great winner of ...

Consider Cape Horn, an imposing black coloured lonely lump of rock. 425 metres high, 12 km² at the end of the world, swept by violent storms. All in all a very hostile, lonely area to work at. Welcome ...

This morning, at 0830 UTC the halyard of the code 0 (largest headsail) of the IMOCA Freelance.com broke. The 200m2 sail ended up in the water, dangerously tangling in the keel. Guirec had no choice ...

After one long, cold final night fighting through light winds off the Brittany coast, Charlie Dalin, the French skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance crossed the Vendée Globe finish line this Tuesday ...

The Marion Dufresne provides two main functions, oceanographic research for the French Oceanographic Fleet under the responsibility of Ifremer, and logistics for the French sub-Antarctic islands - ...

In rough seas and big winds off Les Sables d’Olonne, German solo racer Boris Herrmann (Malizia - Seaexplorer) completed the Vendée Globe tonight (Wednesday) at 2218hrs (UTC) to take 12th place. For ...

After a truly unforgettable weekend during which five skippers finished their Vendée Globes and enjoyed their welcome back into the Les Sables d’Olonne channel, there are six racers still out on the ...

La 10e édition, celle de tous les records, a déjà son livre officiel, édité par les éditions Hugo Sport (19,95 €). L’occasion de revivre au fil d’un récit richement illustré cette incroyable aventure ...