Vendée Globe : The Adventures Of…..
— 3 November 2016Many of the current crop of Vendée Globe skippers making final preparations to start Sunday are racers at heart but from almost all of them the refrain is universal.
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Vendée Globe : evolutions for a revolution?
— 20 October 2016This is the great debate in this eighth edition of the Vendée Globe. To foil or not to foil, that is the question… On paper, these appendages which we saw in the America’s Cup allow the boat to be lifted up, as if the boat was lighter, meaning that the top speed increases significantly with a bonus of 10-15% with the wind on the beam.
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Jules Verne Trophy: the long story of Banque Populaire V
— 10 January 2012The genius of Maxi Banque Populaire is rooted in twenty years of reflection starting as far back as Lyonnaise des Eaux Dumez which VPLP designed for Olivier de Kersauson in 1993…
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The Transat bakerly 2016 sets sail on one of the greatest race courses of them all
— 2 May 2016The 25 boats in The Transat bakerly 2016 fleet set sail today on one of the great races in solo sailing, the 3,050-nautical mile passage across the north Atlantic from Plymouth to New York.
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