Samantha Davis is dismaster in 40 knots of wind overnight 130 miles North-East of Madu=iera. Only 16 boats ,eft as 20% of the fleet have retired in week 1. Armel Le Cléac'h of Banque Popilaire now passes Macif and leads by 30 miles.
The first week has been one of carnage for this years Vendee Globe fleet. Day 6 and anothe fishing boat collision puts another competitor out of the race.
The 0800hrs UTC position report show that most of the fleet are now going mainly westwards. Furthest west, 150 miles to the NW of leader Macif, PRB are already into the light stuff associated with the ridge of high pressure making 4.6kts this morning, as a...
Arnaud is funny, nice and open which, along with his availability, is appealing and comes as a reminder that you can be a very serious skipper without taking yourself too seriously. Reproduces with permission with www.sailinganarchy.com Copyright 2012.
Following Acciona skipper Javier "Bubi" Sanso out through the channel in Les Sables d'Olonne, France at the start of the 2012 Vendee Globe race. This video is from the Team Acciona RIB. Thanks to Team Acciona Sailing for the hospitality. Reproduced with pe...
In 1993, for the first Transat Jacques Vabre solo race; Parlier, Peyron and Gautier were among the starting monohull skippers. And so was a young yachtsman sporting a classic haircut who, at the age of 21, was sailing across the Atlantic for the first time...
Video boat tour of Vincent Riou's VPLP-designed "PRB". Riou's yacht "PRB" is by far the lightest, most extreme boat on the pontoon in Les Sables d'Olonne. Reproduced with permission of www.sailinganarchy.com Copyright 2012.
Tour the only Juan K designed IMOCA 60 in the 2012 Vendee Globe fleet with Sailing Anarchy. See the fantastic Nav Table set-up and more.It is skippered by veteran Swiss skipper Bernard Stamm, Reproduced with permission of www.sailinganarchy.com Copyright 2...
In the case of catastrophe on their AC72 best safety practice more often than not goes out the window and instinct kicks in. ETNZ Team marine safety and medic officer Calvin Hicks put together a training course to get the sailing team an idea of what it wi...
The gentleman skipper, as Loïck Peyron calls him, comes from Nice. Trained as a veterinary surgeon JP, 36, decided to change his life and devote himself to his passion for offshore sailing. Jean-Pierre Dick is a man of challenges. Reproduced with permissi...
Jean combed the regattas in the Bay of Concarneau on centreboarders and on the family Armagnac, Mervent. From 1982 he built an exceptional career as a top-level sailor, as much on monohulls as on multihulls. Reproduded with permission from www.sailinganarc...
Computer generation of the Vendee Globe IMOCA 60 yacht.
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