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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 .
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.
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 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.
Charlie Dalin at the Solitaire du Figaro 2012 Paimpol (23 June 2012) Charlie Dalin (born 10 May 1984) is a French offshore sailor. He placed first in the 10th edition of the quadrennial Vendée Globe race around the world that took place in 2024–2025 completing the race within a time of 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds, smashing the previous record by 9 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes ...
2024 Transat New York Vendée: IMOCA 60: Malizia-Seaexplorer Boris Herrmann (GER) 10d 20h 52m 32s [22] 2 2024 The Transat: IMOCA 60: Malizia-Seaexplorer Boris Herrmann (GER) 8d 9h 12m 31s [23] 4 2023 Retour à la base: IMOCA 60: Malizia-Seaexplorer Boris Herrmann (GER) Single handed 9d 20h 02m 41s [19] 7 2023: Transat Jaques Vabre: IMOCA 60 ...
Samantha Davies came into the limelight with her 2008-2009 single-handed world circumnavigation in the Vendée Globe race, where she placed fourth. She was the third to cross the finish line, but owed a time allowance of 50 Hr to competitor Marc Guillemot, who crossed the line 48:40' after her.