With 6 IMOCA running the Vendée Globe this year (over a total of 20 units), the view of these well known designers bring interesting light and perspective on the future of those racing beasts.
Continue Reading ...VPLP Enters the World of Class’40: The first monohulls could be launched this summer; the moulds are already under construction. It is the start of a new adventure for VPLP, Van Peteghem-Lauriot Prévost…
Continue Reading ...05/2009 – The 80′ reflects the willingness of well known naval architects and multihull specialists VPLP to return to the source that first nourished our dreams of far flung voyages: a yacht that is comfortable, fast, hands on, simple to sail and to maintain, capable of welcoming the owner, his family and friends for expeditions […]
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The question of how Vendée Globe sailors deal with boredom is almost ignored these days, as people focus more on the competitive aspects of the race, but each of the skippers still had to face nearly three months alone and it’s not easy.
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On 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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When you are the performance manager for Alex Thomson Racing’s Vendée Globe campaign, all you can do now is sit at home and check the updates on the computer and hope all is well on the high seas for the British sailor who is continuing to lead the Vendée Globe after 12 days at sea.
Continue Reading ...11/2009 – VPLP are celebrating a victorious Transat Jacques Vabre this year, with Franck Yves Escoffier driving their Formula 50′ trimaran Crêpes Wahou! to cross the finish line first after 15 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes and 50 seconds. He was followed soon after by the first of the monohull fleet: theVPLP / Verdier IMOCA […]
Lire plus ...25 candles and challenges The naval architects Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost are celebrating a 25-years collaboration. Started in 1983, this firm has now 25 employees working on 2 differents sites and 2 different concepts: racing and cruising. Well-known since the mutlihull Pierre 1er, the winner of the Route du Rhum in 1990, and […]
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With measured steps, Boris Herrmann (SeaExplorer – Yacht Club de Monaco) crossed the South Seas by hand, without causing fortune. Here he is, perched on a boat he announces in perfect working order, equipped with latest generation foils, in third place in the Vendée Globe behind Charlie Dalin (Apivia), leader full of authority and Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée 2 ).
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Unable 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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