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The 2024–2025 Vendée Globe is a non-stop round the world yacht race for IMOCA 60 class yachts crewed by only one person. It is the tenth edition of the race; it started (on 10 November 2024), and will finish, in Les Sables-d'Olonne , France .
Time, Notes Ref Round the World Races; 1 2023: The Ocean Race: IMOCA 60: 11th Hour Racing - Mālama Charlie Enright (USA) Crewed first overall and in in-port-series Transatlantic Races; 10 2024 The Transat: IMOCA 60: Groupe Dubreuil Sébastien Simon (FRA) 9d 20h 02m 35s [5] 13 2021 Transat Jacques-Vabre: IMOCA 60: 11th Hour Racing - Mālama
The first edition of the transat brings together fourteen skippers, of which it is the last major confrontation before the start of the 2016–2017 Vendée Globe. [1] A fifteenth competitor, Finn Ari Huusela, could not make the start following the damage of Finnair on 13 May 2016 by Richard Tolkien, who was on board for The Transat.
Alongside the race for the fourth time a web based online routing game mirroring the race ran by Virtual Regatta this was the largest ever online sailing game with 1,000,000 unique users. It was won by French sailor Jean-Claude Goudon, whose user name was “tigrou26120,” finished in a time of 68 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes and 4 seconds.
MacArthur's second place in the 2000–2001 edition of the Vendée Globe, with a time of 94 days, 4 hours and 25 minutes, was the world record for a single-handed, non-stop, monohull circumnavigation by a woman. [15] The record stood for 20 years until Clarisse Crémer beat it in 2020-2021 edition of the Vendée Globe. [16]
The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop, unassisted round the world yacht race. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, [ 3 ] and since 1992 has taken place every four years.
In May 2021 Pip Hare purchased the IMOCA 60 Banque Populaire 8 which had raced in the two previous editions of the Vendee Globe (2016/17 as Banque Populaire and 2020/21 as Bureau Vallée) and based in Poole to compete in the 2024–2025 Vendée Globe. In 2023 the Pip Hare Ocean Racing team underwent an extensive refit to adapt the boat to ...
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