Duo Max
— 20 May 2019Place : Marseille – France Details : www.cntl-marseille.com Marseille > Barcelona > Rosas
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VG2020 : expected arrivals and a new start
— 5 February 2021While Jérémie Beyou and Romain Attanasio are due to cross the finish line tomorrow, Isabelle Joschke (out of the race) left the port of Salvador de Bahia to reach Les Sables d’Olonne. In the rest of the fleet, a match between six skippers, who rounded the high pressure, promises to be particularly breathless. After 89 days at sea, the voyage up the Atlantic has not finished revealing all its secrets.
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VG2020 : The crowing of Maître Coq
— 16 December 2020On the morning of this 39th day of racing, Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ IV) took the lead in the Vendée Globe. By succeeding Thomas Rettant (LinkedOut), the Rochelais becomes the 8th leader of this Vendée Globe which, this afternoon, experienced the compensation awarded by the race jury to the baffled solo sailors to assist Kevin Escoffier on November 30.
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Route du Café : Groupe GCA – Mille et un sourires wins the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre Multi50
— 8 November 2019Gilles Lamiré and Antoine Carpentier on their 50ft trimaran, Groupe GCA – Mille et un sourires, have won the 14thedition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre after crossing the line in the Bay of All Saints in Salvador de Bahia on Friday, November 8, 2019 at 04:49:41 (UTC ), 11 days 16 hours 34 minutes and 41 seconds after leaving Le Havre, France on Sunday, October 27 at 12:15 (UTC)
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Sodebo Ultim’ smashes record to win Transat Jacques Vabre
— 13 November 2017Thomas Colville and Jean-Luc Nélias on their maxi trimaran, Sodebo Ultim’ have won the Ultime class of the 13th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre after crossing the finish line in the Bay of All Saints in Salvador de Bahia on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 10:42:27 (UTC), 7 days 22 hours 7 minutes and 27 seconds after leaving Le Havre, Normandy France. Sodebo Ultim’ sailed 4,742 nautical miles at an average speed of 24.94 knots.
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Transat Jacques Vabre : Favourites, Underdogs and Uncertainty
— 23 October 2015Look back to the pre-start period of the last edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre, the two handed Transatlantic race from Le Havre to Brazil two years ago, and there were clear favourites in most classes. But, as the sages constantly remind us, ocean racing is a mechanical sport which is entirely reliant on what the weather and sea conditions deliver. And so there may be pre-race race favourites but there is no such thing as a certainty.
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VG2020 : skippers’ happiness
— 19 January 2021Same actors, same uncertainties and same fierce battle. Nine skippers are leading the race, with a slight advantage for two men: Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton. While the second continues on a westerly route, all eyes are on the weather files.
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VG2020 : Alex Thomson gives up
— 28 November 2020Unable to repair the starboard rudder, damaged on Friday evening, Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) decided to give up completing the 9th Vendée Globe.
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Record-breaking Arkema wins Transat Jacque Vabre Multi50 as Prince de Bretagne rescued after dismast
— 16 November 2017There was joy unconfined in a glorious sunrise in the Bay of All Saints as the Franco-Spanish duo of Lalou Roucayrol and Alex Pella crossed line the on their foiling 50ft trimaran, Arkema to win the Transat Jacques Vabre Multi50 class.
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Vendée Globe : Romain Attanasio takes fifteenth place, Conrad Colman sixteenth
— 24 February 2017French skipper Romain Attanasio, sailing Famille Mary-Etamine du Lys, took 15th place in the Vendee Globe non stop solo race around the world this morning (Friday 24th February) when he crossed the finish line at 1006hrs UTC.
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