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Objective Jules Verne Trophy
A crewed Drheam Cup to kick off the 2020 season

Lorient, Friday, July 10, 2020 - After a start to the season that was completely turned on its head by the global COVID-19 health crisis, offshore racing’s protagonists are gradually returning to the ‘school benches’. In this way, on 4 July, the Vendée Globe’s Imocas set sail from Les Sables d’Olonne for a unique warm-up lap ...

This Thursday, at noon, a sailboat has parked up on the rock Roc h Kranked, in Loguivy de la Mer. The boat then failed to negotiate between the tag " La Old de Loguivy ...

Groupe Beneteau reveals full impact of Covid as it reports 2019-20 nine month revenues; announces new strategic plan
July 09, 2020

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Boat business down 43.3% - new strategy in place to cope with Covid aftermath with cuts in production planned

Groupe Beneteau has revealed it latest financials and a new strategy to cope with the ‘new normal’ in an investors call this evening.

Following first-half growth ...

A good dose of light winds, a long lift, a change of leader and another epic battle within the match for 4th place… This fifth day of the Vendée – Arctique – Les Sables d’Olonne has reshuffled the cards once again. As per usual… or almost.

Charlie Dalin (Apivia) and Jérémie Beyou (Charal) are continuing their ascent of the north face, foil against foil. After 98 hours of traversing the weather systems, 0.6 miles separates them tonight. They are now just ...

IMOCA Open 60 – Vendée-Arctique-Les Sables – Day 3


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In fresh winds around 25kn West of Ireland, the fleet is heading North this morning with Thomas Ruyant FRA on his Open 60 LinkedOut increasing the advantage continuously. He was 16nm ahead of Jérémy Beyou FRA (Charal) at the last checkpoint. One mile farther behind followed Charlie Dalin FRA (APIVIA) on rank 3. Boris Herrmann GER (SeaExplorer) moved up on ...

LIA IS OK!
Hi all, just a short post to let you all know that Lia is ok. Some of you will have seen her tracker blog about being capsized by a giant wave, you may also have noticed that her blog cut-off before the end and we know that some of you were very concerned.

The good news is that Lia is basically ...

Covid 19 coronavirus: American family quits cold NZ, sails into Pacific navy blockade



The Whitaker family from Texas on board their catamaran Zatara anchored off New Zealand during their voyage around the world.

An American sailing family who left New Zealand last week to winter in warmer South Pacific climes have been barred from entering Tonga by a navy vessel.

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[Damaged aboard L ' Occitane in Provence - the boat goes to Brittany]

This Monday, July 6th, at 13 pm Armel Tripon found a damage on his IMOCA, L ' Occitane in Provence. Nantes skipper advanced southwest, at a speed of 12 knots in a north-west wind.

At 14 p. m Armel Tripon contacted his team to declare a problem; two longitudinal smooth on the starboard side of the fixed area following the collision with a ofni on the weekend of June 21 are; We are at this stage, we are unable to evaluate more precisely the cause of this new incident, even though we seriously believe that it is the security damage related to this collision in an area that we had planned to strengthen upon the return of the Vendée Arctic race. ...

All images © Eloi Stichelbaut

The start of the Vendée-Arctique-Les Sables d’Olonne Race saw a fleet of 20 IMOCAs foiling away from the start box outside Les Sables d’Olonne after the most unusual build-up in racing history.

There was no dock-out surrounded by thousands of fans and only a small spectator fleet as the IMOCA class got down to business for the first time this year with its unique “warm-up” race for the 2020 ...