On November 12, 2028, from Les Sables d'Olonne (France), a new generation of sailors will set out to take on the most extreme ...

Organised by the Vendée Globe team and starting from Les Sables d'Olonne, the Vendée Arctique 2026 will be the first solo ...

To compete in the 2028 Vendée Globe, each skipper must have proven their experience by completing at least one Grade 2 solo race on the IMOCA 2025-2028 calendar on the boat they will be racing in the ...

A date with the oceans awaits. At 13:02 on Sunday 10 th November, Alan Roura will officially be setting off on his third consecutive Vendée Globe aboard the IMOCA Hublot, adding his name and that of ...

Sailing on Marc Guillemot’s IMOCA-class Safran was exceptionally calm the other day in the bay near Trinitié-sur-Mer along the Brittany coast of France. With a 10-knot warm wind over water that was as ...

LES-SABLES-D’OLONNE, France (AP) — Anyone watching the celebrations at the end of Violette Dorange’s solo circumnavigation would have thought she won the Vendee Globe. Tens of thousands of ...

DEAD HORSE BAY — One of the many races to take place before the Vendée Globe (a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race) is the Transat CIC, which involves a 3,500-mile ...

World Sailing has crowned two offshore sailing stars as its top achievers, with French cancer survivor Charlie Dalin and Swiss record-breaker Justine Mettraux taking the prestigious Rolex World Sailor ...