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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).
Oliver Heer learned on Tuesday that SAEM Vendée had decided to award him the only wild card available to him for the Vendée Globe 2024 (see above). The 36-year-old Swiss skipper welcomed the news with relief, as he tells Tip & Shaft.
On Tuesday 2nd July, SAEM Vendée announced the list of the 40 sailors who will be taking part in the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe. The wild card available to the organiser has been awarded to the best-placed skipper in the race for miles, with Oliver Heer, James Harayda and François Guiffant remaining alongside. This has led Imoca skippers to mobilise on their behalf, to no avail for the time being.
Already second a month ago on The Transat CIC, Boris Herrmann confirmed his position on the New York Vendée, taking second place once again last Sunday, 17 hours after the winner, Charlie Dalin. With five months to go before the start of his second Vendée Globe, the German skipper took time out to answer Tip & Shaft’s questions.
The race to qualify and be selected for the Vendée Globe 2024 came to an end on last Thursday evening with the arrival of the 27th and final competitor in the New York Vendée, Denis Van Weynbergh. Of the 42 candidates, 2 will not be on the starting line on November 10, unless an exemption is granted. The final list will be announced on July 2. Tip & Shaft tells you more.
The international jury set up to rule on Clarisse Crémer ‘s suspected routing by her companion Tanguy Le Turquais in the last Vendée Globe delivered its verdict on Monday: it is “entirely convinced that there was no misconduct from either Clarisse Crémer or Tanguy Le Turquais.” Relieved by this decision, the two sailors agreed to talk to Tip & Shaft about the story .
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