2009.01.10 - Mich Desj on Foncia gained again this morning since the last ranking. He is further out from the centre of the high pressure and has a little better breeze than ...

2009.01.10 - Struggling at times to make ten knots in a fading breeze when Michel Desjoyeaux departed the so called Roaring Forties ...

2009.01.09 - Roland Jourdain’s Veolia Environnement team have just reported that he believes he hit a sea mammal early yesterday evening while racing some 800 miles ...

2009.01.09 - With 12 boats left on the race course, Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) continues to increase his lead to 178 miles as ...

2009.01.09 - Following a request from the Vendée Globe Race Directors, Vincent Riou changed course and, as laid down in rule 1.1 of the Race Rules ( «A boat ...

2009.01.09 - Michel Desjoyeaux is still quicker than Roland Jourdain but they have both slowed again Foncia making 12.7 knots to Bilou’s 11. Jourdain’s gain is ...

2009.01.09 - After sailing around the Antarctic, the competitors in the Vendée Globe have to round Cape Horn and then a few miles further on, pass the tip of Patagonia, ...

2009.01.09 - It's the final day of the year 2000. On board PRB, sailing in the South Pacific at the front of the Vendée Globe fleet, Michel Desjoyeaux starts the new ...

2009.01.09 - The forecasts have been predicting lighter conditions for the two front-runners from this weekend with a high developing ...

2009.01.08 - The passage round the St Helena high pressure system may yet prove decisive in this Vendée ...