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Offshore racing
Swiss skipper Bernard Stamm will be everywhere from 2010. He will enter for the first time in the solo Figaro-Bénéteau circuit and will comptete in the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum in the Class40 Class40 #Class40 division. At the same time, his third IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA boat, a new Kouyoumdjian designed Open 60 will be (...)
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Monohull PRB
The hull of the new PRB designed by Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost and Verdier joined Port-La-Forêt in the south of Brittany (France) yesterday. The new monohull built for Vincent Riou had left Arcachon on Monday under police escort. Built by the shipyard of Larros, managed by Thierry Eluère, she was conceived in the mould of Safran (Marc (...)
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IMOCA
The decisions taken in the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA AGM have been taken with the aim of ensuring reliability of the boats, skipper safety and maintaining a competitive level within the older generation of boats. There was a noticeable and general consensus that these were the priorities facing the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA (...)
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Vendée Globe
March 16. 2009 at 17:22 © Jacques Vapillon / DPPI / Vendée Globe From 9th November 2008 to the 15th March 2009 - here is a brief summary of the major events in this sixth Vendée Globe, which was won by Michel Desjoyeaux on Foncia on 1st February. The Austrian, Norbert Sedlacek brought the race to an end 42 days later by completing his round (...)
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Vendee Globe
Austrian sailors have made their mark in Olympic sailing in recent years, winning medals in the Tornado, windsurfer and Laser classes but Norbert Sedlacek set a new ocean racing record Record #sailingrecord for landlocked nation when he became the first Austrian to complete a solo non stop round the world passage when he finished the epic (...)
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Vendée Globe
Crossing the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne at 12h43min19sec GMT, Rich Wilson completed the 28 590.2, miles Vendée Globe solo non stop round the world race in ninth place, completing a highly creditable result which is testament to his excellent seamanship skills, deep determination, careful planning and prudent execution, staying (...)
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Vendée Globe
Finally triumphing after a frustrating duel with the prolonged easterly headwinds in the Bay of Biscay, British solo skipper Steve White sailed his Open 60 Toe in the Water across the finish line at Les Sables d’Olonne’s South Nouch mark this afternoon at 12 H 38 MN 55 SEC GMT to take a commendable eighth place in the Vendée Globe (...)
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Vendée Globe • D 105
A teenage dream came true today when Arnaud Boissières finished seventh this afternoon in his first Vendée Globe. At the age of seventeen, when he was ill with leukemia he was brought by with his father to see the first Vendée Globe heroes and to try and forget fro a few days his illness which had been discovered six months (...)
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Vendée Globe
Dee Caffari made history today when she became the first woman to sail around twice around the world in different directions, both against and now with the prevailing winds and currents.
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Vendée Globe
Brian Thompson, GBR, (Bahrain Team Pindar) crossed the Vendée Globe finish line of Les Sables d’Olonne this morning at 8 hrs31min55sec GMT to secure a very creditable fifth place in the solo non stop around the world race which started on Sunday November 9th . Thompson, who fought to contain a keel problem through the final hours of his (...)