2009.01.28 - 3.2 knots. That was the meagre speed recorded during the night by Veolia Environnement. The red boat is suffering in the Azores high, with her sails flapping ...

2009.01.27 - It is Roland Jourdain’s turn to endure the slow going round the Azores High pressure system and as Michel Desjoyeaux’s ...

2009.01.27 - For the top six or seven skippers of the Vendée Globe fleet these are the days to savour and to remember after their return to Les Sable d’Olonne, ...

2009.01.27 - Some 900 miles to the west of Madeira, Michel Desjoyeaux is taking the safe option. After hitching north last night he is moving ...

2009.01.27 - Bouncing back after a long week in very light, unsettled and – more importantly – unpredictable winds, Sam Davies, GBR, (Roxy) is firmly on the comeback ...

2009.01.26 - Rich Wilson is highly adept at crunching numbers, a highly skilled mathematician who loves the cerebral challenge of this Vendée Globe, working the weather ...

2009.01.26 - Rich Wilson should reach Cape Horn around 1330hrs GMT and while it will be a big moment for the American skipper who at 57 years is the oldest in the race, he ...

2009.01.26 - Discovered by an Arab serving King Roger II of Sicily in 1154, the Azores were colonised by the Portuguese in 15th Century, after they had been visited by the ...

2009.01.26 - It was the one uncertainty that remained in this final stretch: how long would Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) get held up in the ridge of high pressure extending ...

2009.01.25 - Slowdown. It is for Michel Desjoyeaux, for Brian Thompson and Dee Caffari this evening as they light winds.