Racing
Vendée Globe obsession
Addicted skippers of the forthcoming Vendée Globe are scourgingly honest about this brutal race This morning in Paris the preliminaries of the Vendée Globe solo round the world race began with a packed press conference. This hardest, cruellest of races, …
The final Leg from Les Sables to Dieppe
The final leg is an epic coastal challenge which takes the fleet from Les Sables d’Olonne around the Brittany coast, through the Alderney Race and east to Dieppe. Both Ille de Yeu and Belle Isle must be left to port …
A closer look at Leg 3 of the Solitaire
Leg 3 starts tomorrow at 11am local time and after a short windward-leeward infront of the harbour, we will head south following the mountainous eastern edge of Ireland. The forecast at the start is for a light westerly wind and …
Why the Solitaire is a key element for future Vendee Globe success
Leg 2 finished under a dramatic skyline, with the Irish mountains looming under some incredible lenticular clouds and gusts of 40knts roaring down the valleys. What a brilliant last 24 hours, firstly sailing delicately around the high pressure ridge, tacking …
470 miles to Dùn Laoghaire for Figaro sailors
The second leg of the four stage La Solitaire du Figaro race starts tomorrow from Caen in Normandy to Dùn Laoghaire harbour just outside Dublin in Ireland. The 47 solo sailors will set off at 16:00 local French time on …
A closer look at Leg 2 of La Solitaire
This morning we have been looking at the likely weather conditions for Leg 2 of La solitaire du Figaro which starts at 1400UT on Sunday 7th August. The leg is one of the longest of this year’s Solitaire and takes …
Fabien Delahaye (Port de Caen Ouistreham) wins 1st leg of La Solitaire
At 13:14:36 on Tuesday 2nd of August, Fabien Delahaye crossed the finish line of the first leg of La Solitaire du Figaro between Perros-Guirec and Caen in first place. The young skipper sailing on Port Caen Ouistreham took 2 days, …
Conrad finishes 10th in the Eric Bompard Cashmere Prologue race
A last opportunity to warm up ahead of the 42nd classic French “La Solitaire du Figaro” race was taken by the 47 solo sailors when they took part in the Eric Bompard Cashmere Prologue race in Perros Guirec yesterday evening. …
A closer look at La Solitaire 2011, Leg 1
This week I will be working on the Roadbook for each leg of the 2011 Solitaire. The overall race is 1675 miles broken into 4 stages. The first stage starts in Perros Gruiec, in Northern Brittany on the 31st July …
Next event… La Solitaire du Figaro
La Solitaire du Figaro, sponsored by Eric Bompard Cashmere is the “unofficial world championship of single-handed offshore racing”. It comprises a multi stage race of four legs encompassing the English Channel and Irish Sea covering nearly 1,695 nautical miles. Identical …
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