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One of the latest generation of IMOCA 60s with foils, British sailor Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss is looking a potent contender for line honours in the next Vendée Globe solo round the world race. James Boyd reports Could 2017 be the year that finally a...

With three racing yachts at the Vendée Globe Stuttgart/Les Sables d’Olonne.  November 6 marks the start of the world’s toughest single-handed race in Les Sables d’Olonne on the French Atlantic coast: the Vendée Globe. Mercedes‑Benz is represented for...

IDEC SPORT Builds Lead on Rival: (January 9, 2016; Day 24) – Francis Joyon (FRA) and his five crew on the 31.5m VPLP-designed trimaran IDEC SPORT continue to improve in their bid win the Jules Verne Trophy for fastest outright time around the world...

(January 9, 2017; Day 65) – As the solo non-stop round the world race enters its final 3,000 nautical miles, Vendée Globe leader Frenchman Armel Le Cléac’h’s Banque Populaire VIII is hunkering down for an epic battle in the North Atlantic with Alex Thomson...

(November 22, 2016; Day 17) – Vincent Riou, the skipper of PRB, has become the second entrant to officially retired from the eighth edition of the Vendée Globe. PRB hit a UFO on Sunday morning (Nov 20) while speeding along with the frontrunners on his...