Britain’s Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) took the lead today in the Vendée Globe solo race around the world as the leaders of the 40 boat fleet descend south down the Iberian peninsula. Passing the length ...

There are so many things that can go wrong over the nearly 30,000 miles of the Vendée Globe: routing and tactical errors, boat breakages, collisions, sheer bad luck—you name it. And that’s why ...

In early December 2024, 40-year-old French sailor Charlie Dalin had Antarctica and icebergs to starboard, and behind him lurked a monstrous storm, barreling across the great swath of the Southern ...

The Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race is known as the “Everest of the Seas” for good reason. Requiring competitors to sail alone for months on end, in isolated seas, performing all boat repairs ...

LES-SABLES-D'OLONNE, France (AP) — Anyone watching the celebrations at the end of Violette Dorange’s solo circumnavigation would have thought she won the Vendee Globe. Tens of thousands of ...

DEAD HORSE BAY — One of the many races to take place before the Vendée Globe (a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race) is the Transat CIC, which involves a 3,500-mile ...