Find all the Tip & Shaft information about the Vendée Globe here. Latest news, information on the IMOCA skippers, teams, yards and decision-makers of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft is carrying out the survey in the field.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Loïs Berrehar is at the helm this Friday.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Gaston Morvan is at the helm this Friday.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Loïs Berrehar is at the helm this Friday.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Gaston Morvan is at the helm this Friday.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Gaston Morvan is at the helm this Friday to look back on the first few days of the race.
For the duration of the Vendée Globe, Tip & Shaft will be decoding the weather and the trajectories of the 40 solo sailors, with Loïs Berrehar and Gaston Morvan, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec 2024, taking turns every other Friday. Gaston Morvan is at the helm this Friday to look back on the first few days of the race.
40 skippers set sail on Sunday for the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe. Tip & Shaft has enlisted the help of four of the event’s winners, Michel Desjoyeaux (2000 and 2008), Vincent Riou (2004), François Gabart (2012) and Armel Le Cléac’h (2016), as well as sailors Christopher Pratt and Franck Cammas, to assess the field.
With the start of the Vendée Globe 2024 set for November 10, the next cycle is already underway for many skippers and teams, with boat building already underway and the second-hand market coming to life. Tip & Shaft takes stock.
At 34, Sam Goodchild is about to take part in his first Vendée Globe aboard Vulnerable, the Verdier design launched in 2019 on which Thomas Ruyant raced in the last edition. Having just arrived on the Vendée Globe pontoon in Les Sables d’Olonne on Thursday, the Briton spoke to Tip & Shaft.
At just 31 years of age, Alan Roura is about to take part in his third Vendée Globe (12th in 2016, 17th in 2020). With an Imoca boat, Hublot, Alex Thomson’s former Hugo Boss, which he has taken a long time to get to grips with and optimise, and with his sporting ambitions on the up. The Swiss sailor spoke to Tip & Shaft.
The press conference of the Vendée Globe 2024 took place on Thursday at the Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt. It was an opportunity to present the 40 skippers who will be setting off from Les Sables d’Olonne on 10 November and for Tip & Shaft to glean some information.
Doyle Sails have not traditionally been linked to the IMOCA class but with more Doyle-powered high performance Grand Prix yachts around the world than ever before the success and performance of Doyle Sails is hard to ignore, especially amongst French skippers. After contributing to Alex Thomson’s second place in the 2016-17 Vendée Globe and before that to his third place in 2012-13, Doyle Sails’ long and fruitful collaboration with the British skipper and his team continues, as they are the chosen sailmakers for Clarisse Crémer’s L’Occitane en Provence Vendée Globe challenge which is managed by Alex Thomson Racing (ATR).
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