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

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 ...

Organisers outline qualification, sustainability measures and new challenges for the 2028 Vendée Globe round-the-world race.

There are so many things that can go wrong over the nearly 30,000 miles of the Vendée Globe: routing and tactical errors, boat breakages, collisions, sheer bad luck—you name it. And that’s why ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Last edition's bronze winner Louis Burton has pulled out of the Vendee Globe more than three weeks into the race due to serious damage to his boat, organisers of the solo, non-stop ...

Charlie Dalin completes race in under 65 days Dalin breaks record by over nine days Yoann Richomme set to finish second LES SABLES-D'OLONNE, France, Jan 14 (Reuters) - France's Charlie Dalin completed ...

A new winner has just crossed the finishing line of the Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop, unassisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years. The next edition, in 2028, will be ...

LES-SABLES-D’OLONNE, France — 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 enthusiastic ...

**The Vendée Globe, the only non-stop, solo, around-the-world-race, could be sailed in a 60-foot one-design for the 2016 edition. **After a long history as a crucible of offshore innovation and ...

It is tough enough for any sailor just to complete the non-stop round-the-world Vendee Globe, let alone win it but winning it while battling cancer, as French skipper Charlie Dalin did in January, is ...

Dec 16 - The shattered mast of British sailor PipHare has ended his bid to complete a second Vendee Globe, a 24,000-mile race. The 50-year old woman dismasted the 60ft boat Medallia, about 800 ...

LES SABLES D’OLONNE, France (AP) — French sailor Charlie Dalin won the around-the-world race Vendee Globe in record time on Tuesday, completing his solo journey in less than 65 days — nearly 10 days ...