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At 1545 UTC on Sunday, the 60-foot monohull, Le Souffle du Nord pour Le Projet Imagine skippered by Thomas Ruyant, currently taking part in the eighth Vendée Globe, collided with a UFO. Thomas then discovered an ingress of water in […]

French skipper Stéphane Le Diraison became the third Vendée Globe skipper to have to withdraw from the solo round the world race due to mast or rig problems when his mast snapped into two pieces on Saturday evening. Le Diraison’s […]

It’s fiercely battling within the Virtual Vendée Globe leaders’ group in this 42nd day of race. Some changes have occurred but as it’s getting closer to the ice limit, the fleet will definitely get compressed and this will reshuffle the […]

Banque Populaire VIII and Hugo Boss are now sailing in two different weather systems. They have a high pressure ridge between them. Hugo Boss should finally get rid at the end of the day of the small low pressure system […]

French skipper Stephane Le Diraison, who was lying in 10th place in the Vendée Globe solo round with world race, is making a course for Melbourne, Australia 950 nautical miles away, after his IMOCA 60 Compagnie du Lit / Ville […]

At 1742 UTC on Saturday 17th December, Stéphane Le Diraison informed the Vendée Globe Race Directors that his Imoca Compagnie du Lit / Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt had dismasted. The skipper was not injured and sounded in good health on the […]

The sailing conditions in the Pacific Ocean are not easy to handle with several low pressure systems north of the Antarctic exclusion zone. The Pacific Ocean is not simple to negotiate. All the boats were welcomed in the biggest Ocean […]

Sometimes one has to gain a bit of altitude to get a better vision upon the things. Gaining height to discover that, wherever your are on the big planetary chessboard, this ultimate kind of e-venture has to be lived, shared […]

Hungarian skipper Nandor Fa (Spirit of Hungary) crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, the second Great Cape of the Vendee Globe solo round the world race at 1910hrs UTC last night in 11th position. In fact the 62 years old […]

British skipper Mike Golding completed the 2004-2005 Vendée Globe race after 88 days to finish in third place, while in the 2012-2013 edition, Alex Thomson achieved the same placing after 80 days of racing. Today the two came together, although […]

There won’t be any rest in the next days for the Virtual Vendée Globe players, being they in front, in the middle or in the back. The weather forecast should indeed make the strategy tortuous. Which route to take in […]

Whether we are talking about the Indian or the Pacific, there is hardly ever any colour in the Southern Ocean, which is misty for the leaders, very windy for the pack east of the Kerguelens, rainy for the chasing boats […]

Vendée Globe pacemaker Armel Le Cleac’h anticipates rounding Cape Horn sometime after December 22nd but, now with a lead of 360 miles over Briton Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) the solo skipper of Banque Populaire VIII reflected early this morning on […]

Persistent light winds in the middle of the Pacific, nearly half way between New Zealand and Cape Horn means the chasing pack, led by rookie Paul Meilhat (SMA), are slashing their distance to the two Vendée Globe leaders Alex Thomson […]

You’ve been sailing so fast that we haven’t noticed that the Virtual Vendée Globe forerunners are now sailing in the West. 10,200 of you have nowadays crossed the antemeridian. This 180° longitude, opposite to the Greenwich Meridian, marks the coming […]

Long thought of as the unknown continent, the Antarctic remains practically uninhabited, with the exception of a few thousand scientists and millions of penguins. 25x the surface area of France, 14,000 sq km of land covered in ice averaging 1.6km […]

At the front of the fleet, the Pacific is not being very helpful to the two leaders, with Armel Le Cléac’h some 300 miles ahead of Alex Thomson. In light airs, the pair are finding it hard to get out […]

The last 24 hours have been the slowest yet during this Vendee Globe solo round the world race. The only British skipper in the race, who on 21 November sailed 535.34 nautical miles to surpass François Gabart’s 24 hour record, […]

Today for Vendée Live in English, New Zealander Mike Sanderson was present in the studio and was able to talk to Britain’s Alex Thomson racing aboard his black Hugo Boss and fellow Kiwi, Conrad Colman. Mike Sanderson: The whole of […]

If British skipper Alex Thomson aged 42 ¾ , the second placed Vendée Globe skipper, wrote to Santa Claus?…… According to the current weather models, and as also supported today by the British skipper Alex Thomson in his Vendée LIVE […]

There is a fair chance that within the 438,000 virtual Vendée Globe players, your rank does not answer your expectations. They are however other ways to refine and consider it. Anyone has alternative rankings, being at local, regional, national or […]

The two pairs of racers out in front avoided the hammering from the big blow in the Southern Ocean, while the three skippers chasing them had to deal with the heavy weather for two days with winds in excess of […]

After spending some of yesterday during the day and evening hove to, slowed to speeds of just two or three knots as he sought to reduce the level of danger he faces negotiating a violent storm, Yann Eliès, the fifth […]

At 0930 UTC this morning (Monday), while he was sailing 600 miles west of the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, Sébastien Josse contacted his shore team to inform them that he had suffered major damage to the port foil on Edmond […]

Unprecedented footage of the Vendée Globe frontrunners smashing through the Southern Ocean has been captured on camera for the first time in the solo round the world yacht race’s 27-year history. The stunning images of French sailor Armel Le Cléac’h […]