2009.01.06 - Huge relief all round as Vincent Riou made contact with missing skipper Jean Le Cam this afternoon...

2009.01.06 - Another special radio broadcast today, but for much less welcome reasons. Attended by Alain Gautier, safety consultant for the Vendée Globe, today’s ...

2009.01.06 - The Chilean search and rescue plane deployed to assist VM Matériaux, following Jean Le Cam’s distress call at 0140 (GMT), this morning flew ...

2009.01.06 - Those called to assist Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) are rushing to the location as quickly as possible, whilst the leaders who have rounded Cape Horn are ...

2009.01.06 - Following Jean Le Cam's (VM Matériaux) distress call to his shore team this morning at 00h26 GMT  the Chilean and French MRCC have been ...

2009.01.06 - At 00h26 GMT Jean Le Cam informed his shore team that he was in distress two hundred miles west of Cape Horn.  

2009.01.05 - Foncia has rounded the Horn, but is it a one-horse race, a three-horse race, or could any of the top five still win it? Roland Jourdain chases him around the ...

2009.01.05 - Well, if there’s one happy man in the fleet – judging from this photo at least — it’s Bilou. Roland Jourdain become the second boat ...

2009.01.05 - Leader Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) heading north after hugging close to the South American coast - chasing four gain miles on the leader as they prepare ...

2009.01.05 - There are those who have been there, and those that merely dream of it. In any case, Cape Horn continues to fascinate readers and writers. Fictional and factual ...