Vendée Globe: good bonuses – Liberation
Yes it is cruel. Sweating blood and salt water and seeing yourself demoted behind a competitor who finished on your heels, there is enough to … Read more
Cap Horn
Vendée Globe: who is on course to cross the Horn?
What a contrast this week between the fourteen sailors who finally crossed Cape Horn after more than 18,000 miles (33,000 km), and the fourteen others … Read more
Vendée Globe: we would hate the South
Too much wind or too little. Clearly, the 28 sailors in this ninth Vendée Globe are hardly spoiled. The tauliers who know this corner of … Read more
Vendée Globe: it’s the Christmas train
For a European circumnavigator, the passage of the antimerid is more than a symbol. It’s the end of the world, the exact opposite of the … Read more