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July 24, 2008Results of the Vendée Globe competition in Les Sables d´Olonne

The results of the first draw for the Vendée Globe competition organised by shopkeepers in Les Sables d´Olonne are now available at the foot of the official website homepage.
For this first week, Madame Suzanne Bondou has won a trip on a passenger boat to watch the start of the race on 9th November.
All of the results and prizes are available at the Vendée Globe shop on the seafront, 21 promenade de l´Amiral Lafargue in Les Sables d´Olonne.

July 02, 2008Dee Caffari, 24th name on the list!

Dee Caffari has fulfilled all the requirements and has thus become the 24th sailor to register officially for the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. At the age of 35, the British yachtswoman will be competing in the Everest of the seas for the first time on board her new Owen-Clarke design, Aviva. However, this will of course not be the first round the world voyage for this former sports teacher and marathon runner, as back in 2006, she became the first woman to sail around the world alone “the wrong way”, against the prevailing winds and currents in a voyage that took her 178 days.

July 01, 2008Raphaël Dinelli’s monohull relaunched

Raphaël Dinelli’s boat "Fondation Océan Vital" was relaunched on Monday 30th June 2008 in Les Sables d´Olonne. For his fourth attempt at the Vendée Globe, the skipper from Les Sables is committed to a citizen project, where renewable energy is a major feature. "I’m really attached to this project. After a few months of work, it’s always a great pleasure to relaunch the boat. Of course, there is all the enjoyment of sailing, but this time we will be able to launch our campaign based around the technologies we have been working on for several years." Raphaël Dinelli is thus back at sea with his old boat, which has been refitted to be able to use the new technologies developed in the framework of his work with the "Océan Vital" Foundation: "I’m not taking any fossil fuel on board for the Vendée Globe. The electrical power on board will originate uniquely from the new solar panels and a wind turbine."

June 30, 2008Maisonneuve ready to go around the world

The monohull Maisonneuve was relaunched in Lorient on Thursday 26th June. With four and a half months to go before the start, Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty now has a boat that is fine-tuned for the Vendée Globe. «After six months of hard work, this is a great time for the whole team.» Taken out of the water back in January, after two consecutive transatlantic crossings (Jacques Vabre and B to B), the Maisonneuve monohull has undergone a complete overhaul to switch to “round the world” mode: firstly, the whole of the boat was given a complete check-up from the keel to the top of the mast; in particular, the deck fittings, electronics and hydraulics. Then a series of improvements were carried out to make Jean-Baptiste’s life at sea more comfortable: storage space, improvements to the ballast, fittings to make the living quarters more pleasant… The skipper now has the whole summer ahead of him to try out his machine and spend the summer training aboard her.

June 26, 2008Sébastien Josse, 23rd to register

After finishing fifth in the last edition, Sébastien Josse has now satisfied all the requirements to become the 23rd person to register officially for the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe. This will be the third round the world voyage, the second sailing alone, for the young Frenchman, who has joined Ellen MacArthur’s team. On BT, his new Farr designed boat, « Jojo » will be in it to win. There is not the slightest doubt about that...

June 22, 2008Marc Thiercelin’s qualifying passage

Marc Thiercelin has set sail on a 2500 mile solo voyage to enable his DCNS monohull to qualify for the Vendée Globe. Marc is heading towards Saint Pierre and Miquelon and plans to return via the Azores. Since her launch three weeks ago, the technical team has been hard at work ensuring the boat passed the compulsory stability tests, before she sailed off Lorient. «I’m very happy about the way DCNS sails,» declared Marc Thiercelin at the conclusion of these first trials.