Route du Café : Apivia flying away as Charal counts the losses
— 7 November 2019Samantha Davies in the podium hunt Goodchild closes in Class40 First Multi50 expected in early hours.
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Route du Café : Hugo Boss decides to cut keel as Doldrums loom for leaders
— 4 November 2019Hugo Boss said today (Monday) that after exhausting all the options, they had decided to cut the keel off their 60ft monohull after damage forced them to withdraw from the 14 edition of the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre on Sunday.
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Route du café : Westerners feeling low before the high
— 1 November 2019Entering day six, the leading duos in the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre are now a third of the way through this 4,350-mile biennial double-handed race from Le Havre, France to Salvador de Bahia.
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Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2018 : Thomson “I do not deserve to win the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe”
— 16 November 2018The British yachtsman Alex Thomson stood on board his damaged yacht, Hugo Boss, moored to the quayside in Guadeloupe this morning and told the assembled media that he did not deserve to win the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe.
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Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2018 : Tripon wants to be the third finisher in Guadeloupe
— 13 November 2018Armel Tripon, the runaway leader in the Multi50 class, is hoping to be the third skipper to finish the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean.
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Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2018 : Sunshine and shorts time as Thomson looks to capitalize
— 9 November 2018After five days of tough racing in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean, Britain’s Alex Thomson is in good spirits and looking to put the hammer down on Hugo Boss.
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Route du Café : Hugo Boss planning safe withdrawal as leaders reach halfway
— 3 November 2019Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald are working on the safest place to navigate their damaged 60ft monohull, Hugo Boss, after announcing their withdrawal from the 14th edition the Transat Jacque Vabre.
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Breakages shake up 10-day countdown to start of Route du Café in Le Havre
— 19 October 2019The countdown to the start of the 14th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre – the world’s longest and toughest two-handed transatlantic sailing race – officially started on Friday with all bar one of the 60 boats entered having moored safely in the Bassin Paul Vatine by the 2pm deadline.
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Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe : today’s analysis by Alain Gautier
— 14 November 2018It will soon be coming to an end for the leading IMOCA. Ruling supreme, Alex Thomson has kept a good lead over his closest rivals. Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès are fighting it out to make it to the podium, while aiming to be ready to pounce should the British leader show the slightest weakness.
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Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2018 : Gabart on course to smash the Route du Rhum record
— 10 November 2018With less than 800 nautical miles to sail to the finish of the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race – from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe – the French sailor François Gabart is on course not only to win the ULTIME class but to smash the outright race record.
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