PRB 5 is launched

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March 12. 2010 at 17:43

Winner of the 2004 Vendée Globe, Vincent Riou launched his new monohull on Thursday in the presence of her designers and Jean-Jacques Laurent, CEO of PRB. She is the very first new 60’ IMOCA to be completed for the next Vendée Globe.

The Vendée Globe on Facebook

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March 10. 2010 at 11:21
The Vendée Globe on Facebook
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The Vendée Globe made its appearance a few weeks ago on the social networking site Facebook and already has around a thousand fans.

Pascal Conq on the question of power vs the lightweight approach

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February 10. 2010 at 14:49
Pascal Conq on the question of power vs the lightweight approach
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The Finot-Conq design team had three new boats at the start of the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. Armel Le Cléac’h’s second place on Brit Air shows that the designers remain a reference after adding another place on the podium following on from four consecutive wins in previous races. ...

A new video round-up on the Vendée Globe website

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February 03. 2010 at 16:16
A new video round-up on the Vendée Globe website

The official Vendée Globe website will now be offering you a video round-up every two months. Quite simply because the next Vendée Globe (2012) is already being prepared today by some competitors we have seen before and by some newcomers.