Official website of the Vendée Globe 2024
3 days ago · The Vendée Globe is a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years. It is contested on IMOCA monohulls, which are 18 metres long. The skippers set off from Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée and sail around 45,000 kilometres around the globe, rounding the three legendary capes (Good Hope ...
Start | Vendée Globe 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · Follow the start from home. Two live start programmes will be produced by the organisation, the first from 7:30 am to 10:30 am (local times) for the dock out from the pontoon, then from 12:15 pm to 2 pm (local times) for the start on the water and the first few miles of the course. Thanks to advanced techniques, real-time data and new graphical ...
Site Officiel du Vendée Globe 2024
3 days ago · Toutes les informations sur le Vendée Globe 2024 : les skippers, le classement, la cartographie et les actualités de ce tour du monde à la voile en solitaire, sans escale et sans assistance.
Breaking records and unlucky breaks | Vendée Globe 2024
1 day ago · Breaking records and unlucky breaks. The Portuguese islands of Madeira will be passed later today by the leaders of the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe but while the top boats are looking to stay clear and avoid the substantial lee of the island group, the windbreak effect of the high jagged Picos is set to be used by several skippers who ...
And breathe...after Finisterre it is time to find the race rhythm
2 days ago · For more than half of the Vendée Globe fleet Cape Finisterre is now behind them and with it the first big weather test of their solo round the world race . Leader Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé et Prévoyance) passed the Cape around 1845hrs UTC last night, inside the TSS, and early this morning is passing the latitude of Porto in a good 15kts of NE’ly breeze.
10th Edition: And they're off for the ultimate voyage!
4 days ago · The official start of the Vendée Globe took place today at 13:02. The skippers have now set off on the most famous and challenging of circumnavigations, with more than 24,000 nautical miles (45,000 km) to cover solo, non-stop, and without assistance. Only one boat, Conrad Colman (MS Amlin), was not able to cross the line on schedule, due to a technical problem (more details to follow).
News & media | Vendée Globe 2024
4 days ago · The record sized fleet of 40 solo sailors enjoyed a gentle opening to the Vendée Globe this afternoon off Les Sables d’Olonne on the French Atlantic coast, crossing the start line of the mythical solo non-stop race around the world at 1302hrs (local time/1202hrs UTC) in a very modest 5-6kts of…. Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 16:25.
The 10th edition of the Vendée Globe already shows notable …
Nov 5, 2024 · The broadcast of the live start of the Vendée Globe 2024 is seeing a significant increase, with 60 broadcasters planned to transmit the live TV signal, compared to 41 during the previous edition, an increase of 46%. Among them, 19 French broadcasters (13 in 2020) and 41 international broadcasters (28 in 2020), proof that the event is becoming ...
HOW TO FOLLOW THE START | Vendée Globe 2024
Nov 2, 2024 · Next Sunday, that is the 10th of November, the 40 skippers of the Vendée Globe will start the 10th edition of the legendary solo non stop round the world race. From 8 a.m. (local time France, +1hr UTC) , the boats will cast off from the race pontoon one by one, every three minutes. The first to leave the dock will be Charlie Dalin (MACIF ...
What is the Vendée Globe? | Vendée Globe 2024
To date, the Vendée Globe is the greatest sailing race round the world, solo, non-stop and without assistance. The event followed in the wake of the Golden Globe which had initiated the first circumnavigation of this type via the three capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn) in 1968. Only one out of the nine pioneers who had set off in 1968 ...